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5:50 PM ET, February 11, 2018

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Axios:
Scoop: Rob Porter telling different story than John Kelly  —  White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter is telling associates that some senior White House officials strongly encouraged him to “stay and fight,” and claims he “never misrepresented anything” to Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Twisted: Trump says Porter sick, guilty; defends him publicly  —  President Trump is defending Rob Porter even though, privately, he says he's guilty.  —  Behind closed doors: The president has told multiple people that he believes the accusations about Porter, and finds him “sick.”
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House can't gets its story straight on Rob Porter exit  —  Consider this: It's been five days since domestic violence allegations toward Rob Porter surfaced.  Within 24 hours, Porter was out of a job.  The scandal has rocked the White House and one of its most astonishing components …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro blames Barack Obama for Rob Porter wife-beating scandal  —  Fox News host Jeanine Pirro suggested that former President Barack Obama was to blame for the scandal surrounding ex-Trump aide Rob Porter.  —  Porter never received full security clearance and was ousted …
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Kelly under pressure to defend handling of Porter abuse allegations
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:   White House On Defense Amid Fallout Over Rob Porter
New York Times:
Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns on the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — When the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, decided to send a large delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea this month, the world feared he might steal the show.
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Reuters:
North Korea judged winner of diplomatic gold at Olympics  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - North Korea has emerged as the early favorite to grab one of the Winter Olympics' most important medals: the diplomatic gold.  —  That is the assessment of a former South Korean government minister …
Discussion: Axios, CNN and twitchy.com
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
North Korea's 200-plus cheerleaders command spotlight at 2018 Winter Olympics with synchronized chants  —  Clad in coordinated outfits of red with white and blue accents, North Korea's throng of more than 200 cheerleaders are stealing the spotlight at the 23rd Winter Olympic Games in South Korea as they chant, sway and dance in unison.
David Siders / Politico:
Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site  —  LOS ANGELES — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump Shows Us the Way  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump slipped into the Oval Office through a wormhole of confusion about the American identity.  —  We weren't winning wars anymore.  They just went on and on and on, with inexplicable and deceptive aims and so many lives and limbs and trillions lost.
Discussion: Power Line
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:   Let's Ban Porn
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Corporations Will Inherit the Earth
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:   New York Faces an Easy Test on Voting
CNN:
Sen. Bob Corker's second thoughts on retiring  —  John King, CNN Chief National Correspondent and Rebecca Schatz, CNN  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — CNN has learned Sen. Bob Corker is mulling over changing his mind on retirement and running for re-election  —  Washington (CNN) …
Discussion: Tennessean.com
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a commercially run venture, NASA document shows. … The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry.
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Is California Starting to Circle the Drain?  —  I recently became a crime victim for one of the few times in my life.  My car was burgled while I was up in the Bay Area on my weekly sojourn to the Peoples Republic of Berkeley.  I say “burgled” rather than “broken into,” …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Squirms as Trump Veers Off Script With Abuse Remarks  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's approval ratings have been nudging upward and his party's political standing is improving, but the president's unceasing habit of making inflammatory and insensitive remarks is galvanizing opposition against him …
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Christine Emba / Washington Post:
Due process hasn't changed. Donald Trump should.
CNN:
Senator seeking admin records on Trump's sale of Palm Beach mansion to Russian  —  (CNN)A senator is asking the Treasury Department to turn over records of a lucrative real estate sale Donald Trump made to a Russian billionaire as the Senate Finance Committee looks into Trump's ties to Russians.
Discussion: AOL
Frederick Melo / Twin Cities:
Will luxury housing boom help stabilize rents — or drive them higher?  —  As a public school tutor and recent college graduate, Forrester Pack can't afford many of the rents advertised for the new housing being built around him.  —  Pack, who shares a house rental with friends …
 
 
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