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8:40 PM ET, March 17, 2019

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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
RNC links ‘noted Irishman’ Beto O'Rourke's heritage to 1998 DWI arrest  —  The Republican National Committee on Sunday sent out a tweet linking Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's Irish heritage to his 1998 drunken-driving arrest, in an attack that a scholar said raises questions …
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
From an emphatic no to an enthusiastic yes: How Beto O'Rourke decided to run for president
Discussion: New York Post and twitchy.com
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Other 2020 Dems begin sharpening criticism of Beto O'Rourke
Discussion: Axios
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke acknowledges ‘privileges’ afforded to him because of race and gender
Discussion: The Root
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Beto O'Rourke would likely pick a woman for vice president: ‘That would be my preference’
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Ruben Navarrette Jr. / USA Today:
For Latinos, ‘Beto’ O'Rourke is just another privileged white guy trying to manipulate them
Discussion: The Guardian
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Weak’ Lindsey Graham destroyed for staying silent about Trump's ugly attacks on his friend John McCain (Updated)  —  President Donald Trump has spent two days attacking the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) but there has not been a peep of defense coming from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) …
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New York Times:
It Wasn't Just Khashoggi: A Saudi Prince's Brutal Drive to Crush Dissent  —  WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters — which included the surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudi citizens …
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
As the New Zealand mosque attacks unfolded, the youngest victim — a 3-year-old boy — ran toward the gunman  —  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Mucad Ibrahim was wearing little white socks, the type with grips on the bottom so that ­toddlers don't slip, when he was carried out of the Al Noor mosque in this city.
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Washington Post:
'Let's get this party started': New Zealand shooting suspect narrated his chilling rampage
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Rudy's vanishing act  —  Rudy Giuliani has vanished from your television.  The last time the president's once-ubiquitous attack dog did a major TV appearance was on Sunday, Jan. 20, when he went on NBC's “Meet the Press” and CNN's “State of the Union.”
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times:
Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing and FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system  —  Federal Aviation Administration managers pushed its engineers to delegate wide responsibility for assessing the safety of the 737 MAX to Boeing itself.
Axios:
Scoop: Trump hates “crazy” driverless cars  —  In President Trump's view, self-driving cars are a menace to society.  A skeptic of cutting-edge technology — as his tweets about Boeing's “complex” planes emphasized — Trump has privately said he thinks the autonomous vehicle (AV) revolution is …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's 2020 map from hell  —  Recent polling in a slew of states that carried President Trump to his thin win in 2016 show him starting 2020 in a deep hole.  —  What's new: Based on demographic changes, Republicans for the first time have authentic worries about Arizona, Georgia, Texas and other states they once took for granted.
Discussion: Raw Story
Elliot Hannon / Slate:
Fox News Pulls Host Jeanine Pirro's Show From Air Following Anti-Islam Remarks  —  Fox News commentator and host Jeanine Pirro was pulled from the air by the network this weekend in an apparent rebuke of her week-old Islamophobic comments about Democratic congresswoman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) …
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Trump defends Fox News' Jeanine Pirro after Islamophobic comments
Washington Post:
Mulvaney says it's ‘absurd’ to link New Zealand mosque attacks to Trump's rhetoric
Discussion: Axios, Splinter and Politico
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Jeanine Pirro's Show Is Bumped by Fox, to the President's Chagrin
BuzzFeed News:
We Confronted Chelsea Clinton At The Christchurch Vigil.  Here's Why.  —  Yesterday we posted a video of Leen confronting Chelsea Clinton at a vigil for the victims of the white supremacist New Zealand mosque massacre.  Today, we woke up to over 100,000 people talking about it on Twitter.
John Bowden / The Hill:
Washington Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns  —  Washington's state Senate passed a bill this week that would drop President Trump from the state's 2020 presidential ballot until he releases his tax returns.
Discussion: Townhall
Alex Koppelman / CNN:
The internet is radicalizing white men.  Big tech could be doing more  —  New York (CNN Business)Among the many tragedies of the massacre at two New Zealand mosques on Friday is a bitter irony: The terrorist who killed at least 50 people in an Islamophobic attack resembled in many ways a member of ISIS.
The Times of Israel:
7 reporters held, ‘brutally beaten’ by Hamas for covering Gaza protests  —  UN envoy strongly condemns terror group over violent treatment of Palestinian reporters and rights activists, four of whom were hospitalized  —  Seven Palestinian journalists in Gaza were being held in custody …
Nicholas Casey / New York Times:
‘It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters  —  Yansnier Arias knew it was wrong.  It violated the Constitution, not to mention the oath he took as a doctor in Cuba.  —  He had been sent to Venezuela by the Cuban government, one of thousands of doctors deployed …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Military Now Preparing to Leave as Many as 1,000 Troops in Syria  —  The policy shift comes three months after President Trump ordered a complete withdrawal and is far more than the White House originally intended.
Discussion: CNN, Splinter and New York Post
 
 
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Brynn Anderson / Post and Courier:
SC sheriffs fly first class, bully employees and line their pockets with taxpayer money
Paul Specht / @politifact:
NC GOP falsely says Democrats ‘forced’ a special election
New York Times:
U.S. Campaign to Ban Huawei Overseas Stumbles as Allies Resist
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
The rich buying names on college buildings is ‘legal bribery,’ Gov. Gavin Newsom says
Michael Corkery / New York Times:
As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
Discussion: The Resurgent and Reason
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
This 8-Year-Old Chess Champion Will Make You Smile
Wichita Eagle:
‘The Lord will get me to the right place’: Pompeo opens door to future Kansas run
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:
It's Time to Attack White Nationalism for the Terror Group It Is
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Senator Gillibrand formally launches presidential campaign
Martin Matishak / Politico:
Trump spy agency nominee marooned in Senate standoff
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
John Bowden / The Hill:
Missouri lawmaker files bills requiring some residents to own AR-15s, handguns
Discussion: KTLA and Political Wire
New York Times:
How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood
Discussion: Althouse
Khaled Diab / Washington Post:
White supremacists and radical Islamists sound exactly alike
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 

 
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New York Times:
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