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12:50 AM ET, March 17, 2019

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News' ‘Judge Jeanine’ Won't Air This Saturday  —  “Judge Jeanine” isn't holding court Saturday night.  —  Fox News Channel replaced tonight's broadcast of Jeanine Pirro's weekly program with a repeat episode of its documentary series “Scandalous,” just days after the 21st Century Fox …
Zak Cheney-Rice / New York Magazine:
The Endgame of White Supremacy Is Always Death  —  At least 49 people were killed on Friday in an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, by a man whose name — by his own admission — is irrelevant.  It is irrelevant, according to a 74-page manifesto he allegedly wrote …
Discussion: TheBlaze, Slate and National Observer
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Associated Press:   The Latest: Death toll in mosque attacks rises to 50
Bevan Shields / Sydney Morning Herald:
Morrison government bans Milo Yiannopoulos in wake of Christchurch massacre
Discussion: Splinter and The Root
ZB:
Attorney General: NZ will ban semi-automatic weapons
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Breitbart
Tom Kington / The Times & The Sunday Times:
Witness in Berlusconi's bunga-bunga trial ‘poisoned’  —  A Moroccan-born model who attended Silvio Berlusconi's bunga-bunga dinners has died in hospital, allegedly killed by radioactive poisoning.  —  Magistrates opened a murder investigation after the death this month of Iman Fadil, 34 …
Paul Sakkal / The Age:
Fraser Anning lashes out after he was egged by teenager  —  Queensland senator Fraser Anning struck out twice with an open hand at a teenager who smashed an egg on the back of his head during a media conference at a right-wing rally in Melbourne on Saturday.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Splinter
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Jane Lee / Reuters:
Backstory: How Reuters uncovered Beto O'Rourke's teenage hacking days  —  (Reuters) - Reuters reporter Joseph Menn exclusively revealed on Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke belonged to one of the best-known groups of computer hackers as a teenager.
New York Times:
She Extols Trump, Guns and the Chinese Communist Party Line  —  JUPITER, Fla. — The Republican National Committee promised an “evening reception with Donald J. Trump” last March at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.  —  A contribution of $2,700 toward the president's re-election would get you in the door.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
He's running — almost.  Joe Biden gets ahead of himself in Saturday speech, to cheers from the crowd.  —  DOVER, Del. — Former vice president Joe Biden is expected to announce soon whether he will seek the White House in 2020.  On Saturday night, he seemed — for a moment — to get ahead of himself.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
John Bowden / The Hill:
Buttigieg says campaign gained enough donors to be on debate stage  —  South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said Saturday that his campaign raised enough individual donors to guarantee a spot at the first Democratic Party debate of the 2020 cycle.  —  Buttigieg, who is exploring a White House bid …
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Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg, the young and openly gay Midwest mayor, finds a voice in crowded Democratic presidential field
Discussion: UPROXX
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Facebook faces fresh questions over when it knew of data harvesting  —  Allegations come as US prosecutors investigate claims of cover-up  —  Facebook is facing explosive new questions about when senior executives knew of Cambridge Analytica's abuse of users' data, one year on from when the scandal …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump says he told House GOP to ‘play along’ on Mueller report vote  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday said he encouraged House Republicans to vote in favor of a resolution calling on the Justice Department to make Robert Mueller's final report public — despite tweeting a day earlier …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, CNN, Mediaite and Slate
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The House voted 420 to 0 to release the Mueller report. So why is Lindsey Graham blocking the bill?
Discussion: RedState
Team Warren:
My Housing Plan for America  —  In the middle of the 2008 housing crisis, I traveled to Nevada to hear from people who had lost their homes.  One of the people who spoke that day was Mr. Estrada.  He wore a jacket over his T-shirt and had on a red U.S. Marine Corps baseball cap.
Khaled Diab / Washington Post:
White supremacists and radical Islamists sound exactly alike  —  Two hateful ideologies mirror each other's paranoia and scorn.  —  If a terrorist were to claim that their attack was intended to “add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society …
Discussion: Observer+, Breitbart and The Atlantic
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
New Zealand attack exposes how little the U.S. and its allies share intelligence on domestic terrorism threats  —  The United States and its closest allies have spent nearly two decades building an elaborate system to share intelligence about international terrorist groups …
Stuart E. Eizenstat / Politico:
I've Seen Civil War Destroy the Democrats Before.  We Can't Let it Happen Again.  —  Maximalist ideology is a prescription for division and defeat. … I've lived through a Democratic Civil War before.  In fact, I've been in the middle of two of them.  The first was in 1968 …
David Gelles / New York Times:
Wall Street Has Been Unscathed by MeToo.  Until Now.  —  On Dec. 14, 2017, Sara Tirschwell was called into an unscheduled meeting with the general counsel and chief compliance officer of her employer, the giant asset-management firm TCW.  Ms. Tirschwell, 53, was an experienced investor …
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Trump's Phone Friends May Be More Important Than His Staff.  So Who's He Calling?  —  Shortly after news broke this month that Bill Shine would resign as the White House communications director and deputy chief of staff, a person knowledgeable about his decision told me the former Fox News …
New York Times:
Beto O'Rourke is 46.  Bernie Sanders is 77.  Does Age Matter Anymore for Democrats?  —  KEOKUK, Iowa — Diana Martinez, 70, looked at Beto O'Rourke, 46, and made her choice: It was time for Generation X to fix this country.  —  “Doesn't he remind you of Kennedy?”
Discussion: Politico and Althouse
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Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
O'Rourke apologizes for teen writings, rhetoric toward wife
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Axios
 
 
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
How to Talk About the New Zealand Massacre: More Sunlight, Less Oxygen
Discussion: RedState
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
As the Democratic field grows, Stacey Abrams weighs a presidential race
Washington Post:
The Trump administration is opening millions of new acres to drilling — and that's just the start
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Terrorist Suspect Traced His Radicalization to a Visit to France
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Phil Prazan / KXAN-TV:
Castro releases 33 Texas endorsements the morning O'Rourke announces
Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Exclusive: Washington Autopsy Files Reveal Lesin Sustained Broken Bone In Neck
 

 
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