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4:55 PM ET, February 5, 2018

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Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Dow falls over 1,000 points  —  The Dow had its worst week in two years.  Why?  —  The markets plunged Monday, with the Dow falling nearly 1,600 points in the largest intraday point decline ever.  —  The selloff knocked the Dow down as much as 6.3%.  —  At its worst levels …
Discussion: CBS Denver
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
White House says it's ‘concerned’ about stock market drop  — The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 400 points Monday afternoon and the S&P 500 traded more than 1 percent lower, extending last week's plunge.  — President Donald Trump has touted the strong stock market performance since …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:   Dow Falls More Than 600 Points Amid Inflation Fears
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Dow and S.&P. Drop by More Than 4%, Extending Stock Sell-Off
Discussion: The Stranger … and Reuters
Adam Shell / USA Today:
Gyrating Dow, after brief rebound, down 400 pts
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump touts economy, tax break as market tanks
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Week
Ben White / Politico:
‘The president clearly set himself up’: Trump's stock market miscalculation
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
The Times Asks Court to Unseal Documents on Surveillance of Carter Page  —  WASHINGTON — The New York Times notified the Justice Department on Monday that it is asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to unseal secret documents related to the wiretapping of Carter Page …
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Week, Mediaite and Althouse
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dossier author Steele wrote another anti-Trump memo; was fed info by Clinton-connected contact, Obama State Department … A newly released document from the Senate Judiciary Committee says Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier, wrote an additional memo …
Associated Press:
Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw GOP-favored district map  —  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let a court-ordered redrawing of congressional districts in Pennsylvania proceed, denying a plea from Republicans legislative leaders to block it.
Discussion: IJR
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't block Pa. ruling that state redraw congressional boundaries immediately …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Pennsylvania's Republican gerrymander is finally dead
Discussion: Mother Jones
Khorri Atkinson / Axios:
Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to redraw congressional map
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out  —  Employees at Newsweek have been told that editor-in-chief Bob Roe and executive editor Ken Li have been fired, sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.  —  A reporter, Celeste Katz, who had written articles about financial issues …
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Newsweek Guts Its Top Edit Staff Amid Legal Turmoil … Newsweek on Monday fired all of its top staff amid turmoil that has upended the newsroom.  —  In a company meeting, news director Christina Silvia announced that the outlet had fired Editor in Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li …
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Eagles 1st Super Bowl Win Draws 103.4M Viewers, Smallest Audience In Nine Years - Update  —  UPDATE, 1:13 PM: As late as it went and as rowdy as it got, the City of Brotherly Love made pretty swift progress this morning picking up the debris of last night's victory celebrations for the Philadelphia Eagles' first Super Bowl win ever.
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Deena Zaru / CNN:
Some Philadelphia Eagles players skipping White House visit over Trump
Jonathan Rauch / The Atlantic:
Boycott the Republican Party  —  A few days after the Democratic electoral sweep this past November in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere, The Washington Post asked a random Virginia man to explain his vote.  The man, a marketing executive named Toren Beasley, replied that his calculus was simply to refuse to calculate.
Justin L. Mack / Indianapolis Star:
Driver accused of killing Colts player Edwin Jackson is undocumented immigrant, has been deported twice  —  Police have confirmed that the driver who is held in the death of Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe was an undocumented immigrant who used …
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Think California politics is on the far-left fringe?  Just wait for the next elections. … SACRAMENTO — For those who think California politics is on the far-left fringe of the national spectrum, stand by.  The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
California's Future Looks Depressingly Clear
Alayna Treene / Axios:
White House: Trump lawyers in favor of appointing second special counsel  —  Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah told reporters on Air Force One Monday that President Trump's attorneys have already approved the idea of appointing a second special counsel to investigate the FBI …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Trump ambassador nominee promoted fringe conspiracy theories on Twitter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's nominee to be the ambassador to Barbados and several other Caribbean countries spread fringe conspiracy theories and unfounded attacks about Trump's political opponents on Twitter …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
CNN:
Super Bowl anti-terrorism documents left on plane  —  (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security documents critiquing the response to a simulated anthrax attack on Super Bowl Sunday were marked “For Official Use Only” and “important for national security.”  —  Recipients of the draft …
Patrick Rucker / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
An Actual Nazi Is About To Be The Only GOP Candidate In A Congressional Race  —  The Holocaust denier has no primary opponents.  —  A former leader in the American Nazi Party is about to be the only Republican on the ticket for a congressional race in Illinois.
Emma Cott / New York Times:
How Our Reporter Uncovered a Lie That Propelled an Alt-Right Extremist's Rise  —  Covering white supremacists poses difficult challenges for Times journalists.  Are we simply providing a platform for them to recruit followers and spread hate?  Are we casting a sympathetic light on people who should only be condemned?
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Post:
Doritos to make ‘lady-friendly’ chips that don't crunch for women  —  Bosses at Doritos have revealed they are to launch a new “lady-friendly” version of the snack which are quieter to eat and a lot less messy.  —  Food and drinks giant PepsiCo — which owns Doritos …
Bryan Bender / Politico:
Exclusive: Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars  —  One of the Pentagon's largest agencies can't account for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of spending, a leading accounting firm says in an internal audit obtained by POLITICO that arrives …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Scott Pruitt called Trump an ‘empty vessel’ on ‘the Constitution and rule of law’ in another 2016 interview  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Pruitt called Trump an “empty vessel” on the Constitution and rule of law in a February 2016 interview with a local Oklahoma radio show
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Las Vegas Review-Journal killed story in 1998 about Steve Wynn sex misconduct claims  —  Cocktail waitresses at The Mirage sued over sexual discrimination in the 1990's.  Jim Laurie Las Vegas Review-Journal  —  A 1998 fax.  —  The Mirage in Las Vegas on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018.
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
Nunes memo raises question: Did FBI violate Woods Procedures?  —  BY SHARYL ATTKISSON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/04/18 01:05 PM EST THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  For all the debate over the House Republican memo pointing to alleged misconduct …
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Southern Poverty Law Center:
The Alt-Right is Killing People  —  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called “alt-right” — a movement that continues to access the mainstream and reach young recruits.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
 
 
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Stan Collender / Forbes:
This Is The Real Reason The GOP Doesn't Want To Do A Budget This Year
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Velshi/Ruhle roasts GOP memo truthers with hilarious supercut of Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
Trump calls black lawmakers “treasonous” and “un-American” for not applauding him
Arthur Schaper / Townhall.com:
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CBS News:
Natalie Wood death investigation: Sheriff's officials discuss new details
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
‘The Memo’ Follows the Republican Plan to Destroy Neutral Authority
Discussion: Hit & Run
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Calling the Trump Era by Its Proper Name
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: Meghan McCain gets schooled with her father's own words after pushing bogus claims about the Nunes memo
Felice J. Freyer / Association of Health Care …:
CMS threatens to bar Modern Healthcare from press calls after reporter refuses to alter story
Discussion: Washington Post and ACA Signups
Bloomberg:
Here's the Trump Tax Loophole Your Accountant Can Blow Wide Open
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Constitutional Crisis in Slow Motion
Discussion: NewsBusters
Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Trump thought the British were protesting their health service. They weren't.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Panic time: Democratic cash swamps House Republicans
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Daily Caller