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Trump vs. NRA. The president’s call to ban rifle sales to those under 21 puts him at odds with the National Rifle Association.

■ HBO’s John Oliver last night on the NRA’s support for Trump’s suggestion teachers be armed: “It involves buying hundreds of thousands of guns, and that’s their solution to everything. They probably deal with climate change by pointing a Glock at the ocean and daring that motherf__ker to rise.”
■ The Washington Post: “Trump is driving a surge in public support for stricter gun laws.”
■ Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg on his generation’s push for gun control: “We’re gonna have to outlive the NRA. And we will.”
■ … and he’s calling for a spring break boycott of Florida until the state does something about guns.
■ Florida’s governor has ordered an investigation of the police response to the Parkland, Fla., shooting.
■ The New York Times: A Congress under pressure and gridlocked may give gun control its moment.
■ Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy and Congressman Danny Davis are pushing a bill that would raise taxes on guns and bullets.
■ Have a 401(k) plan? Odds are good you’re an investor in the gun biz.

‘They tried to bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.’ In an essay for Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinski Lewinsky, whose affair with then-President Bill Clinton was central to the investigation that almost brought down his presidency, cites a proverb as she reflects on her place in the arc of the #MeToo movement. (2014 photo: Mingle Media TV.)
■ Presidential “senior adviser” Ivanka Trump rejects a reporter’s question about sexual harassment charges against her dad: “It’s …inappropriate … to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father.”
■ Republican-led investigations of the Trump administration are pointedly looking away from the first family’s personal finances.
■ Meet the New York congressman who could lead impeachment proceedings against the president.

‘They hate because they’re cowards.’ The Sun-Times’ Neil Steinberg analyzes the discriminatory views of Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives and her supporters.
■ The man she’s challenging, Gov. Bruce Rauner, is making his first official visit to Washington today—to hear Supreme Court arguments on an anti-union case he launched.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to speed up consideration of the president’s plan to end protection for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids.
■ A candidate for the Cook County Board—the mayor of a Chicago suburb—owes the government tens of thousands of dollars.

O’Hare’s big deal. The Tribune says Chicago’s close to sealing an $8.5 billion plan to expand the airport—with a state-of-the-art global terminal, dozens of new gates and several additional concourses. (Photo: Nicola on Flickr.)
■ Commentary from a Tribune editor: The CTA’s Blue Line to O’Hare has a big problem.
■ The Monroe Street bridge over the Kennedy will be closed for a year-and-a-half reconstruction project.

A health-care revolution? USA Today analyzes the way a new Amazon-led initiative could transform the American medical landscape.
■ Partner Warren Buffett says the goal is more than just shaving costs.

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