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1:15 PM ET, February 6, 2018

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New York Times:
FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans.  50,000 Were Delivered.  —  The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food.  Thirty million meals needed to be delivered as soon as possible.
New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere  —  President Trump, in his State of the Union address last week, boasted to the nation about stock market gains: “The stock market has smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion and more in value in just this short period of time.”
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New York Times:
Live by the Dow, Die by the Dow?  Trump Is Quiet on Market  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump boasted about the economy during a speech on Monday, he left out one of his favorite lines.  Nowhere did he mention the skyrocketing stock market.  —  Viewers at home understood why.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Mnuchin: Trump will ‘still claim credit’ for market's strength
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
White House Chief of Staff: Trump not expected to extend DACA deadline … White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump is not expected to extend the March 5 deadline when work permits will begin to expire for young immigrants known as “dreamers.”
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Quentin Tarantino Explains Everything: Uma Thurman, The ‘Kill Bill’ Crash & Harvey Weinstein  —  EXCLUSIVE: Since Saturday morning when The New York Times published Uma Thurman's depiction of assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, the writer/director most closely associated with her biggest successes …
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Madeleine Davies / Jezebel:
Here's Audio of Quentin Tarantino Defending Roman Polanski: 13-Year-Old Girl ‘Wanted to Have It’
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Nunes: Fine, the FBI Didn't Lie, But Its Font Was Too Small  —  The central, and most damaging, accusation in the memo published Friday by House Republicans is that the FBI failed to disclose the bias of one of its sources when it applied to wiretap Carter Page.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   The FISA-Gate Boomerangs  —  Many questions remain, but Democrats …
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Sessions calls for ‘fresh start’ at FBI  —  Sessions: Rosenstein is leadership we want  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he believes the FBI needs a “fresh start” following FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's decision to step down.  —  “Well, I have believed …
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Jeff Sessions: FBI needs ‘to have a fresh start’
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway's ‘opioid cabinet’ sidelines drug czar's experts  —  President Donald Trump's war on opioids is beginning to look more like a war on his drug policy office.  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken control of the opioids agenda, quietly freezing out drug policy professionals …
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
US trade gap hits $566 billion in 2017, highest since 2008  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit hit the highest level in nine years in 2017, defying President Donald Trump's efforts to bring more balance to America's trade relationships.  —  The Commerce Department said Tuesday …
Discussion: Reuters and Axios
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Doug Palmer / Politico:
Trade ‘disaster’ worsens under Trump
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Pennsylvania Republican launches effort to impeach state supreme court to save GOP gerrymander  —  In a direct attack on the rule of law, Pennsylvania state Rep. Cris Dush (R) sent a memo to his colleagues Monday evening asking them to cosponsor articles of impeachment against five of the state's seven supreme court justices.
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Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Denies Bid to Keep GOP-Friendly Districts in Pennsylvania
Matt O'Brien / Washington Post:   Don't kid yourself. The future is bleak.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Bob Mueller's Investigation Is Larger—and Further Along—Than You Think  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED in a tweet over the weekend that the controversial Nunes memo “totally vindicates” him, clearing him of the cloud of the Russia investigation that has hung over his administration for a year now.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Daily Beast and CNBC
Kimberly Hutcherson / CNN:
Driver who hit Colts linebacker was an undocumented immigrant, police say  —  NFL player killed in drunk driving accident  —  (CNN)Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and another man were struck and killed in a suspected drunken driving accident early Sunday morning.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
White House Official Called Trump a ‘Deplorable’  —  Before joining the Trump administration, the White House principal deputy press secretary, Raj Shah, called President Donald Trump “a deplorable” and referred to the release of the Access Hollywood tape as “some justice,” …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Trump Evangelical Adviser Says You Don't Need Flu Shots When You Have Jesus  —  “Inoculate yourself with the word of God,” says Gloria Copeland.  —  A controversial minister linked to President Donald Trump said flu shots aren't necessary when you have Jesus.
Discussion: thecut, Jezebel and AOL
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Is Trump Serious About “Treasonous” Democrats?  —  By now, we're all familiar with President Trump's remarkable gift for saying outrageous things that create controversy entirely for its own sake.  These controversies generally feature his liberal critics overreacting by many orders of magnitude …
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Rachel Crooks, who accused Trump of sexual harassment, is running for office … Last December, as the Trump presidency chugged toward the close of its first year, a woman from western Ohio named Rachel Crooks appeared on CNN.  —  More than a year earlier, Crooks had been one of a handful …
Lexi / The Real Deal New York:
Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2 billion  —  Jamestown in contract to sell the 1.2M sf office-and-retail property at 75 Ninth Avenue  —  Google did not have to search far and wide for results.  —  The tech giant is close to acquiring the Chelsea Market building …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Sound the alarm: National GOP breaks glass in Pennsylvania race  —  BETHEL PARK, Pa. — The day after Conor Lamb won the Democratic nomination to run in this very pro-Donald Trump House district, Republican strategist Corry Bliss knew his party had another special election problem on its hands.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Cracks the Seal on Talk of Treason … You may have noticed by now, but I'm not one to pull any punches on Donald Trump.  As a conservative, I see him as a statist abomination, a plump, be-wattled authoritarian-wannabe man-baby with the intellectual horsepower of a toaster oven.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
No One Is Silencing Katie Roiphe #MeToo has started a robust, complicated conversation — whether or not she's listening.  —  This weekend, the much-ballyhooed piece about the #MeToo movement by Katie Roiphe was finally published by Harper's, and as Irin Carmon observed on Twitter …
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After approving Medicaid work requirements, Trump's HHS aims for lifetime coverage limits  —  WASHINGTON  —  After allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid enrollees, the Trump administration is now pondering lifetime limits on adults' access to coverage.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It's Taking Over Europe  —  Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center, studies the six-inch-long marbled crayfish.  Finding specimens is easy: Dr. Lyko can buy the crayfish at pet stores in Germany, or he can head with colleagues to a nearby lake.
Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Tied to Trump, these two California Republican congressmen lag in poll  —  California Republicans' hopes for re-election in 2018 may rest on separating themselves from the unpopular President Trump.  A new poll shows that's not happening as the year begins, at least in two of the state's most competitive congressional districts.
Discussion: Political Wire
National Journal:
The GOP's Misguided Midterm Optimism  —  Recent polls have made some Republicans feel better about November.  They shouldn't.  —  All of our national elections are important, but there is always a special significance to the last midterm elections before the congressional and state-legislative redistricting processes take place.
Discussion: NBC News
Danielle Furfaro / New York Post:
Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph  —  A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday, sources told The Post.  —  The 2150 Acela was traveling from Washington D.C. to the Big Apple when the incident happened at about 11:20 a.m …
Haris Alic / Washington Free Beacon:
Julian Castro Heads to New Hampshire to Test 2020 Presidential Run  —  Julian Castro, secretary of housing and urban development under President Barack Obama, will take an apparent step toward a 2020 presidential run when he addresses the New Hampshire Young Democrats Granite Slate Awards dinner next Friday, Feb. 16.
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today  —  Elon Musk has disrupted the business of sending rockets into space, and hopes to achieve a milestone by testing the most powerful rocket currently operating in the world today.  —  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — After facing early failures …
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
'I wasn't hearing any call from God': Michele Bachmann opts out of running for Al Franken's Senate seat … Former U.S. representative Michele Bachmann has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by Al Franken, just weeks after she told a televangelist she was mulling the decision.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and Raw Story
Alvin Chang / Vox:
ReleaseTheMemo succeeded.  Here's how the mainstream media helped.  —  The Nunes memo was insulting to journalism.  —  #ReleaseTheMemo won.  —  Sean Hannity, king of conspiracy theories, won.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Congress member who orchestrated this drama, won.
CNBC:
Dow turns positive as stocks try to recover from steep sell-off  —  U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Tuesday as the major indexes headed for their third straight day of steep losses.  —  The Dow Jones industrial average fell 250 points, pushing its three-day points losses above 2,000 points.
 
 
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories
John Parkinson / ABC News:
Shutdown looms as Congress initiates legislative ping pong
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Saudi Suspected of Trying to Join Qaeda Camp Is Arrested in Oklahoma
Sally Goldenberg / Politico:
De Blasio official calls Council members ‘not that smart’ in affordable housing deposition
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Why Democrats probably won't shut down the government again
Discussion: Politico
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
‘Junk’ political news shared more widely by Trump backers, study finds
Discussion: Political Wire and Common Dreams
Solomon Messing / Pew Research Center:
Use of election forecasts in campaign coverage can confuse voters and may lower turnout
The White House:
Remarks by President Trump on Tax Reform
Discussion: The Atlantic, Speaker.gov and The Week
 Earlier Items: 
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
North Korean State Media: ‘Old Lunatic’ Trump ‘Cannot Deodorize Nasty Smell From His Dirty Body’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lee DeVito / Detroit Metro Times:
Rashida Tlaib is now running for John Conyers' seat
Joshua Keating / Slate:
What if the Iran Deal Was a Mistake?
New York Times:
The Dating Blues? #MeToo