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1:05 AM ET, March 31, 2019

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Gavin de Becker / The Daily Beast:
Bezos Investigation Finds the Saudis Obtained His Private Data  —  The National Enquirer's lawyer tried to get me to say there was no hacking.  —  For 40 years, I've advised at-risk public figures and government agencies on high-stakes security matters.  My career has included working with the CIA …
Gavin Newsham / New York Post:
Trump is the world's worst cheat at golf, players and celebs say  —  Sixteen of the last 19 US presidents have played golf — and now, in Donald John Trump, the nation can finally boast the very best of them all.  —  Well, that's what he'd like you to believe.
Elisabeth Malkin / New York Times:
Trump Turns U.S. Policy in Central America on its Head  —  MEXICO CITY — President Trump's plan to cut off aid to three Central American countries for failing to stop the flow of migrants toward the United States breaks with years of conventional wisdom in Washington that the best way to halt migration is to attack its root causes.
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Greg Clary / CNN:
State Department says US cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras  —  (CNN)The United States is cutting off aid to the Northern Triangle, otherwise known as the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the State Department told CNN Saturday …
KABE-LP:   Trump cuts off aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Joe Biden's Campaign-in-Waiting Isn't Ready for #MeToo Accusations  —  Politics abhors a vacuum, and Joe Biden has left one for months.  So it's getting filled without him—and not in a way that is likely to help if he decides to run for president.  —  Biden has teased and toyed with the idea, in public and in private.
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Jasmine Wright / CNN:   Elizabeth Warren says Joe Biden needs to give an answer for allegation of inappropriate touching
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
When is a summary not a summary?  —  For a week, criticism rained down on Attorney General William P. Barr.  Why did his letter advising Congress of the end of the probe contain his own opinion on obstruction of justice?  Why did he not lay out basic information such as the size of the report …
Discussion: CNBC
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Washington Post:
Mueller report findings upend partisan views of probe, poll finds  —  Americans are split over whether House Democrats should continue to investigate President Trump after special counsel Robert S. Mueller III made no determination about whether he attempted to obstruct justice during the inquiry …
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David Siders / Politico:   O'Rourke rails against ‘unprecedented concentration of wealth and power’ at kickoff rally
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Beto O'Rourke's presidential campaign can't be like his Senate campaign
Discussion: Axios
Alexi McCammond / Axios:   The Beto effect": Republicans starting to lose their grip in Texas
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:   AP FACT CHECK: Trump twists facts of a migrant girl's death
Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
The Internet needs new rules.  Let's start in these four areas.  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook.  —  Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities.  Every day, we make decisions about what speech is harmful …
The Guardian:
Trump Fed pick was held in contempt for failing to pay ex-wife over $300,000  —  Records obtained by Guardian show Stephen Moore reprimanded by judge for not paying alimony, child support and other debts  —  Stephen Moore, the economics commentator chosen by Donald Trump for a seat …
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump's Order to Open Arctic Waters to Drilling Was Unlawful, Federal Judge Finds  —  WASHINGTON — In a legal blow to President Trump's push to expand offshore oil and gas development, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by Mr. Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was unlawful.
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash.  Now There's No Sign of It.  —  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The Louvre Abu Dhabi might seem to have all you could ask for in a world-class museum.  Its acclaimed design shades its galleries under a vast dome that appears to hover over the waters of the Persian Gulf.
John Sexton / Hot Air:
AOC: Our Side Doesn't Name-Call Like Those Xenophobic, White Supremacists On The Right  —  MSNBC hosted a town hall event Friday night with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discussing her Green New Deal.  During a discussion in the second segment of the event, former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis suggested …
Andy Ngo / New York Post:
Inside the suspicious rise of gay hate crimes in Portland  —  Last month, Sophia Gabrielle Stanford was at the center of a fundraising campaign.  The GoFundMe page described the trans activist as a victim of a “brutal and aggressively blatant hate crime” in which assailants had beaten her unconscious with a bat in southeast Portland.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Siegfried Mortkowitz / Politico:
Political outsider wins Slovakia's presidential election  —  PRAGUE — Political novice and activist Zuzana Čaputová is on course to became the first female president of Slovakia, swept into office by public outrage at the 2018 killings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée.
Washington Post:
For Trump's ‘Party of Healthcare,’ there is no health-care plan  —  Republicans have no intention of heeding President Trump's urgent demands for a new health-care plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, fearing the potential political damage that such a proposal could cause in 2020 and hoping …
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
All About Pete  —  Only accept politicians who have proved they actually care about people other than themselves...  Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is being hyped as the “Democratic celebrity” of the moment.  Buttigieg has been the subject of buzz since 2014 …
 
 
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Alex N. Press / jacobinmag.com:
Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams
Reuters:
Exclusive: With a piece of paper, Trump called on Kim to hand over nuclear weapons
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News' Chris Wallace Sets Record Straight: Russia Investigation Did Not Start With Trump Dossier
Discussion: Contemptor
Foreign Policy:
Arab Regimes Are the World's Most Powerful Islamophobes
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Forget any major legislation. Anything Trump wants done this term, he will do unilaterally
Discussion: Raw Story
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Growing student debt crisis: Candidates say cancel it, free college, refinance
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump's NAFTA 2.0 Puts Big Pharma First, America Second
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Emmons / The Intercept:
In Leaked Recording, Cory Booker Says He and AIPAC President “Text Message Back and Forth Like Teenagers”
Emily Shugerman / The Daily Beast:
Heartbeat Abortion Bills Were Once a Fringe Idea. Could They Overturn Roe v. Wade?
New York Times:
2020 Democrats Love Small Donors. But Some Really Love Big Donors, Too.
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
N.Y. Had a Plan for a ‘Pied-à-Terre’ Tax on Expensive Homes. The Real Estate Industry Stopped It.
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
White House Blames Fed for Slowing Economic Growth
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The Foreign Policy Fiasco That Wasn't
James Arkin / Politico:
Stacey Abrams builds massive political network ahead of 2020 decision
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