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6:20 PM ET, February 13, 2017

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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
Here's a Video of Trump Crashing a Wedding Right After Giving His North Korea Statement  —  On Saturday, as President Donald Trump was hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, news broke that North Korea had launched a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.
Discussion: New York Times, Daily Kos and Mediaite
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Mar-a-Lago guest takes picture with nuclear ‘football’ briefcase  —  A visitor to President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida posted a Facebook photo with a person he says is responsible for carrying the black bag that contains the nuclear launch codes for the president of the United States.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump ran a campaign based on intelligence security.  That's not how he's governing.  —  Close observers of the 2016 election will remember that, on occasion, President Trump liked to draw attention to his opponent's security practices as a way of criticism.  There was, you may recall, something about an email server.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump turns Mar-a-Lago Club terrace into open-air situation room  —  Richard DeAgazio was already seated for dinner, on the Mar-a-Lago Club's terrace, when President Trump entered with the prime minister of Japan on Saturday night.  The crowd — mostly paying members of Trump's private oceanfront club …
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Trump returning to Mar-a-Lago for third straight weekend
Discussion: Mother Jones and Post On Politics
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ignorance Is Strength  —  When I travel to Asia, I'm fairly often met …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump tackles crisis diplomacy at close range
USA Today:
Flynn apologizes after admitting he may have discussed sanctions with Russia  —  WASHINGTON — National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has apologized amid reports that Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with the Russian ambassador in the days before President Trump's inauguration, a White House official said.
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Flynn seen as standing on thin ice  —  Michael Flynn's position as President Trump's national security adviser appeared to be in peril on Monday as Democrats stepped up their attacks and the White House remained stonily silent.  —  President Trump was not asked about Flynn at a joint press conference …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Mike Allen / Axios:
Priebus, Flynn, others on thin ice  —  Imagine you're Reince Priebus.  Every day, you hear speculation that your days as White House chief of staff are numbered.  You wake up on a Sunday and read that colleague Kellyanne Conway's dream job is, well, yours.
Washington Times:   Mainstream media whines as Trump calls on less established news outlets
Paul Rogers / Mercury News:
Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago  —  More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California's largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting …
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Anna M. Phillips / Los Angeles Times:
Evacuations ordered below Oroville Dam; failure of emergency spillway ‘expected’
Los Angeles Times:
Live updates: Mass evacuation below Oroville Dam as officials frantically try to make repairs before new storms
Discussion: naked capitalism and The Week
Washington Post:
188,000 evacuated, emergency declared as California's massive Oroville Dam threatens floods
Jordan Smith / The Intercept:
Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men to Approve All Abortions  —  Something unexpected happened in the Oklahoma Legislature on February 8 that had Karo Chowning feeling pretty optimistic.  That morning, lawmakers in the House Public Health Committee blocked one anti-abortion bill and a second was tabled without discussion.
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Emily Crockett / Vox:
Oklahoma lawmaker: pregnant women's bodies aren't their own, because they are “hosts”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
Immigration Agents Arrest 600 People Across U.S. in One Week  —  Federal immigration officials arrested more than 600 people across at least 11 states last week, detaining 40 people in the New York City area, law enforcement officials said on Sunday.  —  It remained unclear whether the actions …
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Geneva Sands / ABC News:
Homeland Security chief Kelly responds after immigration raids spark outrage
Discussion: Politico
Heather Caygle / Politico:   Hispanic lawmakers to meet with ICE official over raids
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scarborough gives brutal review of Trump aide's Sunday show performance … MSNBC's Joe Scarborough is giving a brutal review of White House policy adviser Stephen Miller's performance on the Sunday morning talk show circuit.  —  “Oh my god.  It was so much worse than I ever thought,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.”
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Media Matters for America:
A Dangerous Troll Is Now Reporting From The White House  —  The internet's most hapless political blogger now has his own White House correspondent — a regular contributor with little reporting experience but ample ties to “alt-right” harassment — sitting in the White House press briefing room.
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
N.Y. Times reprimands reporter for sharing ‘unfounded rumor’ about Melania Trump  —  Editors at the New York Times have reprimanded a reporter for referring to first lady Melania Trump as a “hooker” at an event Sunday night, calling the remarks “completely inappropriate.”
US News:
CARTOON GALLERY … It was a brilliant play.  No one had dared be so brazen.  Hillary was crooked and stamina-less.  Jeb was low energy.  Little Marco was little and Lying Ted lied.  But we are about to see the cost of such daring.  If Trump's main selling point was his strength …
John King / CNN:
Labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder in jeopardy  —  Washington (CNN)Four Republican senators have told GOP leadership they are withholding support for President Donald Trump's choice for labor secretary, setting off an intense effort by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and business groups …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
At least four GOP senators are on the fence about Labor Dept. nominee Andrew Puzder
Discussion: Politico
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Police Officers: “We Didn't Vote Republican To Get Stabbed In The Back”  —  In the highly contentious battle to extinguish public worker rights, Iowa Republicans have attempted a divide-and-conquer approach to pit unions against each other.  Their legislation splits public workers into two groups …
Discussion: Mother Jones
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Police: KKK leader shot and killed while asleep by stepson  —  James Russell, 58, points to blood spots on the sidewalk that he says police investigated in front of Frank Ancona's house on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Leadwood, Mo. Russell, who lives next door, said he has been friends with Ancona for five years.
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story, AOL and Washington Post
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Playboy is featuring naked women again  —  No-nudes were apparently not good news at Playboy magazine.  —  The 63-year-old legendary men's magazine is bringing back nude models in its upcoming issue — one year after banning naked photos in an effort to boost circulation and attract more mainstream advertisers.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Wire
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Gerry Baker to staff: Criticism of Wall Street Journal's Trump coverage is ‘fake news’  —  Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerry Baker on Monday mounted a vigorous defense of his newspaper's Donald Trump coverage, pushing back aggressively on months of internal criticism that the venerable broadsheet …
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
More mainstream media mess-ups: The Muslim Olympian 'detained because of President Trump's travel ban' was detained under Obama  —  Reporters are at it again - and again, and again and again.  —  The latest spun-up, anti-President Trump story involves Ibtihaj Muhammad …
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age  —  Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent.  —  The Tesla and SpaceX CEO …
Toronto Sun:
Black Lives Matter co-founder appears to label white people ‘defects’  —  TORONTO -  —  A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are “recessive genetic defects” and purportedly mused about how the race could be “wiped out” according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Justice Department Appears To Rule Out Seeking Immediate Supreme Court Review In Travel Ban Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration appears to have decided to allow things to play out at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for now in litigation over President Trump's refugee …
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Beast
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Jake Tapper writing debut novel, scheduled for 2018  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Tapper is working on a book that you could call fake news: It's his debut novel.  —  The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent has a thriller scheduled to come out in the summer of 2018, Little, Brown and Company told The Associated Press on Monday.
Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:
President Donald Trump cancels planned visit to Northeast Ohio  —  President Donald Trump waves as he walks on the South Lawn upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, from a trip to Florida.  (Manuel Balce Ceneta, Associated Press)
 
 
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Republican lawmakers grow wary of ‘town hall’ events
Discussion: Post On Politics
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Federal Voting Agency Republicans Want to Kill
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
The White House still isn't open for tours — and Congress is getting annoyed
Discussion: DCist and Mediaite
Andrew Tavani / New York Times:
Journalist facing ‘riot’ and ‘trespassing’ charges for covering Dakota Access Pipeline protests
Discussion: FOX40
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
White House Strategists Are People, Too
Stephanie Merry / Washington Post:
John Oliver returns with ‘Last Week Tonight’ and a clever plan to get through to Donald Trump
 Earlier Items: 
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
Disappointment: Trump rumored to be preparing to resurrect the Ex-Im Bank
Jennifer G. Hickey / Fox News:
Libertarians split with Trump over controversial police tactic
Discussion: The Daily Signal and Instapundit
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
How Trump can be held accountable for violating the Constitution, even if Congress doesn't care
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Focus, People  —  There's a side conversation occurring among …
Discussion: Borderline
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Power of Disruption  —  The Trump resistance movement …
Dana Nuccitelli / The Guardian:
Debunked David Rose doubles down, goes full Trump
Discussion: Daily Wire and Daily Mail
Wall Street Journal:
Commerce Nominee Wilbur Ross Will Keep His Stake in Chinese-Government-Backed Company
 

 
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens up its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties and says Asus and Lenovo will release Horizon OS-compatible devices; Xbox plans a branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
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James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
Source: UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare was compromised on February 12, nine days before the ransomware attack; the company paid a ransom to the hackers

 
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