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2:00 AM ET, February 7, 2018

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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade … President Trump's vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump's Parade: Greatest Troll Ever?  —  What a great headline: Trump's ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade.  It is almost too good to be true: … President Trump has a unique ability to make liberal heads explode.  You can see this one coming …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:   The military parade that Trump envisions was more common in another era
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Meets Rosenstein About Democratic Surveillance Memo  —  White House must decide whether to allow release of rebuttal to GOP document  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump met Tuesday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to discuss a classified Democratic memo rebutting GOP allegations …
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Fox News:
Dems set Trump trap?  Source says FISA rebuttal memo loaded with sensitive details  —  The Democratic rebuttal to a highly publicized GOP memo alleging government surveillance abuse is filled with sensitive details, a source told Fox News - claiming this was done intentionally to pressure …
Discussion: bizpacreview.com
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Devin Nunes' Trumpian media strategy
Washington Post:
Speak up, Paul Ryan
Discussion: Shareblue Media
CNN:
House GOP gives Trump leeway over whether to block Schiff memo
Discussion: RedState and Splinter
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump  — Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intel Committee was recorded speaking to Russian pranksters who spun elaborate ‘kompromat’ tale
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Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Schiff apparently pranked by Russian radio hosts who promised ‘naked Trump’ photos
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Biden: Trump should avoid Mueller interview, has ‘difficulty with precision’  —  Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that if he were one of President Donald Trump's attorneys, he would suggest Trump not consent to a special counsel interview for fear of being caught misleading investigators.
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Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Trump After Dark: Shutdown Maybe Shutdown edition
Discussion: ABC News and Raw Story
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship … The Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce it is selling the newspaper, according to people familiar with the company's plans, in a surprise move that likely spells the end …
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary … It was Christmastime in Washington, and Ben Carson couldn't stop talking about the apocalypse.  —  “Did you know,” the secretary of housing and urban development asked his acting chief of staff, Deana Bass …
Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
The Happy Martyrdom of Carter Page  —  On Monday night, Carter Page was finally ready for his Fox News close-up.  It had been nearly a year since he began his one-man public-relations offensive to rebut accusations that, as a Trump campaign adviser, he colluded with Russia.
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Ex-RNC chairman Steele: Carter Page still talking to the media 'because he's stupid'
Discussion: RedState
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Wants a Killer”: Post-Bannon, Post-Nunes, Post-Kelly Friction, a Frustrated Trump Searches for a West Wing Reset  —  He pines for old campaign hands Jason Miller, Corey Lewandowski, and David Bossie—but will Ivanka have the final say?  —  After the much-hyped Nunes memo failed to deliver …
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and AOL
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.
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Bianca Padró Ocasio / Orlando Sentinel:   Rat infestation spoils food, donated supplies never sent to Puerto Rico
Lanny J. Davis / Kirkus Reviews:
Kirkus Review  —  The former special counsel to former President Bill Clinton takes on the 2016 election and James Comey's effect on the outcome.  —  According to Davis (Close-Up: Twelve Months at Yale, 2017, etc.), the negative effect is indisputable, and he has the data …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Steve Wynn is out as CEO of Wynn Resorts  — In a January report, the Wall Street Journal detailed allegations of decades of sexual misconduct by the gambling mogul.  — Wynn had earlier stepped down from his post as the Republican National Committee's finance chief.
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Mike James / USA Today:
Casino tycoon Steve Wynn resigns, citing ‘avalanche’ of bad publicity amid sex misconduct claims
Discussion: Washington Post
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Chief of staff Kelly suggests undocumented immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy’  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff John Kelly suggested Tuesday that some undocumented immigrants were “too afraid” or “too lazy” to sign up for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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Erica Werner / Washington Post:
White House Chief of Staff: Trump not expected to extend DACA deadline
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump Threatens Shutdown as Negotiators Close In on Budget Deal
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Kim Reynolds leads all Democratic challengers in 2018 race for governor  —  Copyright Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. 2018  —  If the election for Iowa governor were held today, incumbent Republican Kim Reynolds would defeat all five of the leading Democrats trying to succeed her as the state's chief executive.
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Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:   Democrats Brave Blizzard For Off-Year Caucus - How Things Played Out
Howard Berkes / NPR:
Black Lung Study Finds Biggest Cluster Ever Of Fatal Coal Miners' Disease  —  Epidemiologists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health say they've identified the largest cluster of advanced black lung disease ever reported, a cluster that was first uncovered by NPR 14 months ago.
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Cowboys rule a lot of land, but they're not unambiguously “America's Team.”  —  The New York Times called the baseball version of the map “unprecedented,” arguing that, for questions like this, there's no superior data set: “Fans may not list which team they favor on the census …
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
Performers And Staffers At “Sleep No More” Say Audience Members Have Sexually Assaulted Them  —  Former performers and staff at the wildly popular immersive theater production say the show's fantasy environment emboldens some audience members to commit sexual misconduct.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jezebel
StarWars.com:
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Write and Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films  —  David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.  —  It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit …
Washington Post:
Hero or hired gun?  How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation. … In the fall of 2016, a little more than a month before Donald Trump was elected president, Christopher Steele had the undivided attention of the FBI.  —  For months, the British former spy …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump immigration plan could keep whites in U.S. majority for up to five more years … President Trump's proposal to cut legal immigration rates would delay the date that white Americans become a minority of the population by as few as one or as many as five additional years, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Can You Still Date a Co-Worker?  Well, It's Complicated  —  Some employers are starting to review their rules and are now ‘drawing a hard line in the sand’  —  Is it still OK to date someone you work with?  —  Yes.  —  Well, actually, it depends.  —  You might need to disclose it.
 
 
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Iran Returns Ailing U.S. Citizen to Prison in New Sign of Tension
David Caplan / ABC News:
Trump Jr. on charges his father is racist: 'All the rappers, all his African-American friends …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Democratic Group Targets All-G.O.P. States to Attack Gerrymandering
Adam SchefterESPN Senior / ESPN:
Josh McDaniels changes mind, jilting Colts to stay with Pats
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Washington Post:
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John Gehring / Religion News Service:
Paul Ryan faces an urgent moral challenge
Eli Clifton / LobeLog:
Gorka Joins Outlet That Published “Ten Things I Hate About Jews”
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John McWhorter / New York Times:
What Trump's Speech Says About His Mental Fitness
Discussion: Althouse
Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:
Exclusive: Russian Gun Group With Ties To NRA Backed By Right-Wing Extremists
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
The Republican Fiscal Stimulus Could Be Bigger Than Obama's
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook hired a full-time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg's approval ratings
Danielle Furfaro / New York Post:
Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph
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