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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems rip Nunes' plan for private huddle with Barr to discuss criminal allegations  —  House Democrats are crying foul over a plan by the Intelligence Committee's top Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes, to meet privately with Attorney General William Barr to push the Justice Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Stone cites Barr, Kavanaugh writings in last-ditch effort to dismiss Mueller indictment  —  Roger Stone, the longtime political ally and confidant of President Donald Trump, issued a series of Hail Mary legal arguments late Friday to dismiss the indictment against him from special counsel Robert Mueller …
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Roger Stone connected to matters still under investigation, Justice Dept. says
Discussion: Raw Story
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
How to Resist Validating President Trump's View of Sanctuary Cities  —  On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the Trump Administration has tried to pressure Immigration and Customs Enforcement to transport detained immigrants to sanctuary cities and release them there.
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Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Trump's plan to send migrant detainees to sanctuary cities draws concerns about cost, legality  —  Should President Trump follow through on a proposal to release migrants in U.S. “sanctuary cities,” it would be a major departure from the way federal agencies are handling detainees.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump thinks sending migrants to immigrant-heavy, immigrant-friendly cities is a punishment
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
House Democrats give IRS hard deadline of April 23 to turn over Trump tax returns, say administration's concerns ‘lack merit’  —  House Democrats are giving the Trump administration a hard-deadline of April 23 to turn over President Trump's tax returns, pushing back against Treasury Secretary …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
House Dems Give IRS Until April 23 to Hand Over Trump Taxes  —  The House Ways and Means Committee set a new deadline on Saturday for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over six years of President Donald Trump's personal and business tax returns, according to Reuters.
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Now Outraged, Trump Boasted On 9/11 That His Building Was Tallest After Attack  —  Appallingly insensitive — and false, Democratic strategist Paul Begala recalls after the president tries to bash Rep. Ilhan Omar using images of the terrorist strike.  —  President Donald Trump is expressing outrage …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Ilhan Omar Falls Victim to the Outrage Exhibitionists  —  When the ideological left engages in what is variously denigrated as “political correctness,” virtue-signaling, performative wokeness, or “social-justice warrior” cry-bullying, many on the right find it easy to spot the flaws in those modes of discourse.
Victor Garcia / Fox News:
Geraldo on ‘The Five’: Give Rep. Omar ‘a break’
Discussion: One America News Network and Axios
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The Many Reasons to Run for President When You Probably Don't Stand a Chance  —  There is no discernible mass groundswell for an Eric Swalwell presidential campaign.  —  The case against: He is a 38-year-old California congressman of little legislative distinction.
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Democrats, Please Take Whatever Precautions Are Necessary To Prevent This Terrible Disaster  —  All of this has happened before.  —  I'm a Republican and I'm here to help.  —  I want to help because we live in the same country and while our politics may diverge, our future is inextricably bound together.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / New York Times:
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police  —  The tech giant records people's locations worldwide.  Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.  —  When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents  —  A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers, TechCrunch has learned.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump and the Annihilation of Shame  —  Charles Van Doren's death marks the end of an era.  —  I had never heard of Charles Van Doren until, in college, I saw the movie “Quiz Show,” and I probably never thought of him again until I read his obituary this week in The Times.
New York Times:
As Ecuador Harbored Assange, It Was Subjected to Threats and Leaks  —  The secrets came directly from the phones of President Lenín Moreno of Ecuador: intimate pictures of him and his family on vacation, text messages from his wife, even a photograph of the president himself in a posh bedroom, eating a lobster in bed.
The Babylon Bee:
Ocasio-Cortez Appears On ‘The Price Is Right,’ Guesses Everything Is Free  —  HOLLYWOOD, CA—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pumped to attend a taping of The Price Is Right in Hollywood this week.  The special guest introduced herself as a U.S. representative and rising star of the Democratic Party.
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Radio Free Asia:
North Korea Stages Public Executions to Strengthen ‘Social Order’  —  North Korean authorities staged a public trial and shot two female fortune tellers to death last month, forcing tens of thousands of people to watch, in what appeared to be a resumption of public executions.
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment.  It's Showing Promise.  —  The inaugural class of third and fourth graders at the school has posted extraordinary results on its first set of test scores.  —  AKRON, Ohio — The students paraded through hugs and high-fives from staff …
Discussion: fox8.com, USA Today, The Root and TMZ.com
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Biden's bulldogs give him an edge in 2020  —  When Joe Biden was embroiled in controversy over his “tactile” politics, he didn't have to lift a finger before Sen. Chris Coons rushed to his defense.  —  “I didn't need to,” said his fellow Delaware Democrat when asked if he spoke to Biden …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Tax Day Update: Americans Still Not Seeing Tax Cut Benefit  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans file their 2018 income taxes, they are now able to evaluate whether they benefited from the sweeping Republican-sponsored tax overhaul, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law in December 2017.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
Bernie Sanders Imagines a Progressive New Approach to Foreign Policy  —  In the early summer of 2017, a little less than a year after his Presidential campaign had ended, Bernie Sanders spent a few days on a speaking tour in England, to promote the European version of his book “Our Revolution.”
Ileana Najarro / Houston Chronicle:
Eleven-year-old ordered deported without her family  —  Dora Alvarado felt something was off when she arrived at immigration court in Houston March 12 with her two daughters.  A court translator told her that she and her 15-year-old, Adamaris Alvarado, were listed on the docket that day.
Theodore Dalrymple / City Journal:
Sacking Scruton  —  All too predictably, the British government dismisses the distinguished philosopher from an architecture commission.  —  Arts and Culture  —  When the British government appointed Sir Roger Scruton, the recently knighted philosopher, as unpaid chairman …
Discussion: RedState and Quadrant Online
Tom Jones / Poynter:
There are a lot of great journalism movies.  Here are our top 25.  —  There a lot of movies about journalism.  A lot more than you might think.  And most of them, actually, are quite good.  —  It's not like sports.  For every sports classic such as “Hoosiers” or “Raging Bull” or …
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Trump told CBP head he'd pardon him if he were sent to jail for violating immigration law  —  Washington (CNN)During President Donald Trump's visit to the border at Calexico, California, a week ago, where he told border agents to block asylum seekers from entering the US contrary to US law …
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New York Times:
Trump Urged Homeland Security Official to Close Border Despite an Earlier Promise of a Delay
 
 
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Darren Sands / BuzzFeed News:
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NBC News:
Trump advisers discussed whether military could build and run migrant detention camps
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Natalie Gontcharova / Refinery29:
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Mark Joyella / Forbes:
MSNBC Cements Its Lead Over CNN: 'We Couldn't Be More Proud'
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
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Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
Company led by Trump nominee was rife with harassment, including groping and kissing, report says
Karol Markowicz / Washington Examiner:
Mike Pence's nonexistent homophobia
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Renato Mariotti / Politico:
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Over 3 A.M. Dissent, Supreme Court Says Alabama Execution May Proceed
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