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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Kellyanne Conway sidelined from TV after Flynn debacle  —  Kellyanne Conway, once the most visible spokesperson for the Trump White House, has been sidelined from television appearances for making statements that were at odds with the administration's official stance, White House sources told CNNMoney on Wednesday.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Media more trustworthy than Trump, poll finds  —  Republicans trust Donald Trump.  Everyone else trusts the media.  —  That is the finding of a Quinnipiac University poll which shows a dramatic split between Republicans and other Americans when it comes to matters of trust.
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
White House Pushes Back On Report That Conway Is ‘Sidelined’ From TV
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Report: Conway sidelined after going ‘off message’
Discussion: RedState
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Pence filling out voter fraud task force
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Fight Erupts in Trump Administration Over Transgender Students' Rights  —  WASHINGTON — A fight over a draft order that would rescind protections for transgender students in public schools has erupted inside the Trump administration, pitting Attorney General Jeff Sessions against the secretary of education, Betsy DeVos.
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Trump administration rolls back protections for transgender students
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
How Trump's campaign staffers tried to keep him off Twitter  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign staffers claim they cracked the code for tamping down his most inflammatory tweets, and they say the current West Wing staff would do well to take note.  —  The key to keeping Trump's …
Pamela Engel / Business Insider:
Sebastian Gorka, Trump's combative new national security aide, is widely disdained within his own field  —  It was May 2016 and Sebastian Gorka, a former editor at Breitbart News who is now a senior official in President Donald Trump's White House, had been invited to speak at a Defense Intelligence Agency conference.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Conservative provocateur targets CNN with secret recordings  —  Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe is setting his sights on CNN.  —  O'Keefe said in a telephone interview with CNN on Wednesday that he has “a few hundred hours” of “secretly recorded material” from inside the network.
Dustin Racioppi / NorthJersey.com:
Christie among candidates for sports radio job  —  After spending the better part of the last three years competing for a future life in politics - president, vice president or a senior role in the White House - Gov. Chris Christie could soon be in contention for a job that would keep …
kansascity:
Cowardly members of Congress should show up and face the public at town-hall meetings  —  By The Kansas City Star editorial board  —  If you're a member of Congress, Facebook is no longer about your “friends.”  —  Not this week.  —  Posts lately are testy, leveled at senators and representatives who are dodging constituents.
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Lea Speyer / Algemeiner.com:
Texas Pre-School Teacher Removed From Classroom After Twitter Calls to ‘Kill Some Jews’ Come to Light  —  A pre-school teacher in Texas has been suspended from the classroom pending an investigation into her encouraging social media followers to “kill some Jews,” The Algemeiner has learned.
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Dallas Morning News:   Arlington preschool teacher fired over ‘Kill some Jews’ tweet, other anti-Semitic posts
John Harwood / CNBC:
Congressional Republicans don't expect Trump to offer his own health or tax plans  —  Last year, candidate Donald Trump promised to repeal Obamacare and give Americans a better, cheaper replacement.  Last month, President-elect Trump vowed, “we'll be filing a plan” as soon as the Senate confirmed his Health secretary.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Axios
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP to bury House resolution on Trump conflicts
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
The Pruitt Emails: E.P.A. Chief Was Arm in Arm With Industry  —  WASHINGTON — During his tenure as attorney general of Oklahoma, Scott Pruitt, now the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, closely coordinated with major oil and gas producers, electric utilities and political groups …
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Tegna / KHOU-TV:
Man kicked off flight to Houston for racist remarks  —  HOUSTON- A man was taken off a United flight headed to Houston after making racist remarks towards passengers on Saturday. … HOUSTON- A man was taken off a United flight headed to Houston after making racist remarks towards passengers on Saturday.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Inside Uber's Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture  —  SAN FRANCISCO — When new employees join Uber, they are asked to subscribe to 14 core company values, including making bold bets, being “obsessed” with the customer, and “always be hustlin'.”  The ride-hailing service particularly emphasizes …
Will Oremus / Slate:
15 Metal Albums Whose Titles Are Less Dark Than the Washington Post's New Motto  —  The Washington Post unveiled a cheery new motto this week: “Democracy dies in darkness.”  The phrase now appears beneath the newspaper's name on its website and Snapchat Discover page, although it has yet to make its way into the print edition.
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
The Washington Post forgets that American democracy was born in the darkness
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
DNC race remains tight as energized Democrats combat Trump  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Just days before Democratic activists pick a new party chair, the contest to head the Democratic National Committee remains fluid, as national leaders grapple with how to turn an outpouring of liberal protest …
Discussion: Washington Post and NPR
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The Hill:
Ellison holds edge in DNC race
Eric Goodman / Daily Texan:
McRaven backs journalists, stresses value of communication in Moody talk  —  Retired U.S. Admiral and UT System Chancellor William H. McRaven spoke at the Belo Media Center Tuesday evening.  —  TAGS  —  William H. McRaven, retired U.S. Admiral and UT System Chancellor …
CBS News:
Woman's warning about shirt wrapped around car windshield goes viral  —  While getting into her car after work at Genesee Valley Mall in Flint, Michigan, Thursday night, Ashley Hardacre spotted a piece of bunched-up clothing sitting on her windshield.  Someone had draped a blue flannel shirt …
Discussion: IJR, Snopes.com, KTLA, AOL, WAVY-TV and FOX31 Denver
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why chaotic town halls mean less than you think  —  President Trump and the Obama administration share a stance toward protests at town halls: Meh.  —  Here's Trump on Tuesday evening in response to flare-ups at GOP town halls in recent days. … And here's White House press secretary Robert Gibbs …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:   Here you go: Pick a politician, watch them get yelled at
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Chief digital officer steps down from White House job over background check  —  White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable to pass an FBI background check, according to sources.
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Bill Maher, Faulted for Booking Milo Yiannopoulos, Takes Credit for His Fall  —  If you were disappointed that Bill Maher brought Milo Yiannopoulos onto his HBO show “Real Time” last week, Mr. Maher is not especially bothered.  —  In a telephone interview on Tuesday night …
Shannon Najmabadi / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Meet the Math Professor Who's Fighting Gerrymandering With Geometry  —  A Tufts University professor has a proposal to combat gerrymandering: give more geometry experts a day in court.  —  Moon Duchin is an associate professor of math and director of the Science, Technology and Society program at Tufts.
John Gramlich / Pew Research Center:
5 facts about crime in the U.S.  —  Donald Trump made crime-fighting an important focus of his campaign for president, and he cited it again during his inaugural address in January.  With the White House and Justice Department announcing steps to address violence in American communities …
Discussion: Washington Post and Wonk Wire
Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times:
Mexican migrant dies minutes after deportation in possible border suicide  —  The bridge where Guadalupe Olives Valencia, 44, fell to his death near the Tijuana-San Diego border crossing.  (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union-Tribune)  —  A Mexican man who had just been deported …
Discussion: AOL and The Guardian
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Joe Biden Campaigns for Delaware Candidate in Crucial State Race  —  NEWARK, Del. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. is pleading again with the voters of Delaware.  His brow furrowed and his voice urgent, he urges them in a new television commercial to rouse themselves to the polls.
Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
GOP congressman worries about terrorists using bales of marijuana to smuggle nukes into the U.S.  —  Rep. Trent Frank's claim is dubious.  —  While defending the need to build a costly wall along the southern U.S. border, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) claimed on Wednesday that nuclear bombs …
USA Today:
Police start arresting Dakota Pipeline protesters as camp deadline passes … Police on Thursday started arresting protesters who refused to leave the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp by Wednesday's deadline, according to reports by The Associated Press and NBC News.
 
 
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Appeals Court Says AR-15s Are Not Constitutionally Protected
Discussion: Daily Kos
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge blocks California law limiting publication of actors' ages
Discussion: Washington Post
Rachel Bishop / Mirror.co.uk:
FARM SPARKS FURY FOR FEEDING A HORSE IN A HIGHCHAIR
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
George Neumayr / The American Spectator:
Trump Is Beating the Media at Its Own Game
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Meet the 5 Trump Administrations
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The Media Do Battle With a Pragmatic New President
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pence makes surprise visit to vandalized Jewish cemetery
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Leslie Patton / Bloomberg:
McDonald's to Cut Prices on Drinks as Industry Slumps
Discussion: AOL
Ed Klein / Townhall.com:
When It Comes to Chaos, Trump Has Nothing on Previous Presidents
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Undocumented Woman With a Brain Tumor Locked Up by ICE
Discussion: The Hill
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
‘Demonic activity was palpable’ at Trump's rally, pastor says
Discussion: Instapundit and Raw Story
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
I Ignored Trump News for a Week. Here's What I Learned.
Discussion: Liberal Values