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1:55 PM ET, March 24, 2019

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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Mueller fallout ... All eyes on Barr  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW: THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK: Monday: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will take a photo with the NHL's Washington Capitals.  Tuesday: Trump will host …
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Abigail Abrams / TIME:
These Are All of the Other Investigations Donald Trump Faces  —  While Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his confidential report to the Justice Department on Friday, the investigations surrounding President Donald Trump and his associates are far from over.
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
It's Mueller time but don't forget: Trump has undermined the very idea of America  —  Partisan fury over the special counsel's report may obscure the ways the president has damaged our democracy  —  We may never know for sure whether Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to obtain Russia's help …
Discussion: Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Nadler: Executive privilege can't be used to ‘hide wrongdoing’ in Mueller report
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Trump projects calm as White House waits for Mueller findings
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Nadler to DOJ: Don't hide evidence of Trump wrongdoing
Discussion: Breitbart
Monique O. Madan / miamiherald:
Second Parkland shooting survivor kills himself, police confirm  —  A second Parkland shooting survivor has killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed on Sunday.  —  Investigators told the Miami Herald that a current Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student died in “an apparent suicide” on Saturday night.
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Ilhan Omar tells California audience that Trump's anti-Islam remarks inspire attacks like New Zealand shooting  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, accused President Trump on Saturday of inciting hatred of Islam and inspiring attacks like the killing …
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Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders decries anti-Muslim violence in mosque visit and downtown L.A. rally  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont called on Americans to “stand up to hatred of all kinds” on Saturday as he paid a visit to a Koreatown mosque to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting in New Zealand.
Discussion: Common Dreams, Fox News and Axios
Associated Press:
AP PHOTOS: Mueller flashes smile as world awaits his report  —  WASHINGTON — As the world anxiously awaits the findings of the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller flashed a smile Sunday after going to church with his wife in Washington.  —  Mueller and his wife, Ann …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:   After Mueller's Exoneration of Trump, Full Disclosure
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election has failed
Discussion: RedState
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FLASHBACK: John Brennan Predicted Additional Mueller Indictments Just Two Weeks Ago
NBC News:
Why some Democrats say: Don't sleep on ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg  —  The South Bend mayor is having a moment with Democrats, from the blue-checkmark salons of Twitter to the house parties of the early-voting states.  —  WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg just might be the anti-Trump.
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Dan Merica / CNN:   Pete Buttigieg is having a moment
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good  —  Screens used to be for the elite.  Now avoiding them is a status symbol.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Langlois has a new best friend.  She is a cat named Sox.  She lives on a tablet, and she makes him so happy that when he talks about her arrival in his life, he begins to cry.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How to Understand the End of the Mueller Investigation (Hint: You Can't Yet)  —  I have a confession: I don't understand the reaction to the news of the Mueller investigation's end.  I don't understand the evident glee among some of the president's defenders.  I don't understand the gloom among some of the president's critics.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Bulwark
Arthur Allen / Politico:
The Most Powerful Activist in America Is Dying  —  The last few times Ady Barkan got arrested in the U.S. Capitol building, the routine had a few new twists.  Officers no longer handcuffed him, since he had lost nearly all his capacity for movement.  They just put a bracelet on one of his wrists to show he was in custody.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It's not the Democrats who'll have a problem addressing impeachment  —  We do not know the underlying contents or even the barest conclusions of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's final report as of this writing.  The range of outcomes for President Trump run from a declaration by Mueller that …
The Guardian:
Palestinian writer has fingers smashed in Gaza beating  —  Publisher says Atef Abu Saif, also a spokesperson for Fatah, almost killed by masked men  —  Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Hazem Balousha in Gaza  —  A UK publisher has condemned an attack by masked men in Gaza on a Palestinian writer …
Ethan Winter / Data For Progress:
The Fox News Bubble  —  There is a growing body of evidence suggesting Fox News viewers are uniquely conservative compared to the general American electorate.  Recent research has indicated that Fox News played a causal role in the rightward lurch of the Republican Party.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Booker wrestles with primary field lurching left  —  At the end of January, Cory Booker was emphatic in his defense of the filibuster.  “We should not be doing anything to mess” with it, he said.  —  By springtime, the New Jersey Democrat had softened his stance considerably: “That door is not closed.”
Hate Inc.:
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD  —  The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press.  Russiagate just destroyed it  —  Note to readers: in light of news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation is complete, I'm releasing this chapter of Hate Inc. early, with a few new details added up top.
NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke could be a threat — to Biden on his right and Sanders on his left  —  The Texas Democrat sent a message by campaigning this week in midwestern states that cost Democrats the White House in 2016.  —  CLEVELAND — By the time Beto O'Rourke arrived at Gino's Cento Anno …
 
 
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Dana Goodyear / New Yorker:
Trump's Potty Obsession, and the Streets of San Francisco
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: 3-24-19: Rep. Adam Schiff and Jim Jordan
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Pelosi, Schumer to speak at AIPAC amid progressive pushback
Discussion: Breitbart
Damien Cave / New York Times:
New Zealand Bans the Christchurch Suspect's Manifesto
Lauren Gardner / Politico:
Trump's U.N. pick showered key GOP senators with donations
Discussion: Raw Story
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Democrat Gillibrand to deliver 2020 White House launch speech outside NY Trump hotel
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
David Nather / Axios:
The great political parachute
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
‘A punch in the gut’: Farmers hit by tariffs see crops swept away by flood
Discussion: Econbrowser
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Islamophobic incidents rocket by 600% in UK during week after New Zealand terror attack
Joseph Berger / New York Times:
Rafi Eitan, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead at 92
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Ocasio-Cortez still hasn't paid tax bill from failed business venture
Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Kamala Harris makes a point in Houston: It's not just O'Rourke and Sanders who can draw crowds
Discussion: Axios
Trevor Aaronson / The Intercept:
Violent Far-Right Extremists Are Rarely Prosecuted as Terrorists
Stars & Stripes:
Defense Department identifies two soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Discussion: Townhall and Task & Purpose
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Prosecutors suggest Paul Manafort may be trying to get $1 million out of his forfeiture
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Variety:
AMC Networks acquires full control of BBC America, after BBC Studios sold its remaining 50.1% interest in the channel to AMC Networks for $42M in cash

Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
News Corp's HarperCollins reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $546M, led by a 15% YoY gain in digital sales; JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy led titles with ~1.5M copies

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
CNN must face Project Veritas' defamation lawsuit after a federal appeals court finds that Project Veritas plausibly alleged that CNN acted with actual malice

 
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