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8:35 AM ET, February 16, 2018

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New Yorker:
Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity  —  One woman's account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.  —  In June, 2006, Donald Trump taped an episode of his reality-television show, “The Apprentice …
CNN:
Exclusive: A top Trump campaign adviser close to plea deal with Mueller  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates is finalizing a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller's office, indicating he's poised to cooperate in the investigation, according to sources familiar with the case.
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Hallie Jackson / NBC News:
Steve Bannon met with Mueller multiple times over the past week  —  WASHINGTON — Steve Bannon, who served as President Donald Trump's chief strategist, was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller over multiple days this week, NBC News has learned from two sources familiar with the proceedings.
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Bannon Stays Mostly Mum in House Hearing, Prompting Bipartisan Ire  —  Continued refusal to provide full testimony comes amid Trump administration concerns of privacy and executive privilege  —  WASHINGTON—Former White House adviser Steve Bannon drew bipartisan ire on Capitol Hill Thursday …
Washington Post:
No, there haven't been 18 school shootings in 2018.  That number is flat wrong. … The stunning number swept across the Internet within minutes of the news Wednesday that, yet again, another young man with another semi-automatic rifle had rampaged through a school, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in South Florida.
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miamiherald:
The victims of the Douglas High mass shooting  —  The Broward County Sheriff's Office has not yet released the names of the 17 people killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday.  But relatives and friends of the victims took to social media on Thursday to mourn and honor the people they lost.
New York Times:
The N.R.A. Can Be Beat  —  It's time to vote the gun lobby out of office.  —  Parents throughout the country live with the dread that the next lockdown at their child's school won't be a drill and that screams like those we heard on cellphones from classrooms at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
A loud, new voice after the latest school shooting: Kids wanting to know why adults hadn't done more
Discussion: ABC News
Karl Etters / Tallahassee Democrat:
Local law enforcement: No ties between militia and school shooter  —  Jordan Jereb, local leader for the Republic of Florida, a separatist group on the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Watch  —  Local law enforcement sources have so far not found a connection between accused Parkland …
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New York Times:
Flashes of Rage.  Family Loss.  Nikolas Cruz's Lifetime of Trouble.  —  PARKLAND, Fla. — Before he was hauled into a jailhouse hearing room on Thursday, head bowed and shackled at the wrists and ankles, Nikolas Cruz had been causing trouble as long as anyone here could remember.
Anti-Defamation League:
Florida White Supremacist Group Admits Ties to Alleged Parkland School Shooter Nikolas Cruz  —  A spokesperson for the white supremacist group Republic of Florida (ROF) told the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday, February 15, that Nikolas Cruz, the man charged with the previous day's deadly shooting spree …
The Daily Beast:
White Supremacists Claim Nikolas Cruz Trained With Them; Students Say He Wore Trump Hat in School
CBS News:
White House refuses to release photo of Trump signing bill to weaken gun law  —  A little over a month after his inauguration, on Feb. 28, 2017, President Trump signed HJ Resolution 40, a bill that made it easier for people with mental illness to obtain guns.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Why Trump drags his feet on guns
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
James Risen / The Intercept:
Is Donald Trump a Traitor?  —  I find it hard to write about Donald Trump.  —  It is not that he is a complicated subject.  Quite the opposite.  It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious.  He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist.
CNN:
Ex-wife's photos raise questions about McGahn's role in Porter scandal  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI obtained photos of the bruised face of Colbie Holderness seven days after President Donald Trump's inauguration last year, according to emails obtained by CNN, raising questions …
Discussion: The Week and Axios
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
White House left feeling rudderless as Trump hangs back in crisis  —  President Donald Trump has cast himself as a master brander and dealmaker, but rarely talks much about his crisis management style.  —  The past week has, however, put that style on clear display.
Alex Guillén / Politico:
Pruitt's security threat?  A passenger shouting, 'You're f—ing up the environment'  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's security team decided last year he should fly first class to avoid confrontations with angry individuals on planes and in airports, an agency official said Thursday …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
EPA: Pruitt faced profanities from fellow passengers when he flew coach
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More than 40 percent of Trump's Cabinet-level picks have faced ethical or other controversies  —  President Trump came to Washington promising to “drain the swamp.”  But after less than 13 months, more than 40 percent of the people he originally picked for Cabinet-level jobs have faced ethical or other controversies.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Washington Post:
VA chief fights for his political future amid internal strife and allegations of subterfuge
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Don't Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria  —  Mattis gave Putin “plausible deniability” for a military assault that went badly awry.  —  If you've been listening just to the Kremlin and the Pentagon, you probably didn't know that Russia attacked American forces and their allies …
Discussion: Defense One
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Wall Street Journal:
Tillerson Meets Turkey's Erdogan in Bid to Defuse an Emerging Crisis
Discussion: CNN and Just Security
Elana Schor / Politico:
Inside the Senate's ugly immigration breakdown  —  If the Senate was ever going to pass a bill to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, it needed James Lankford.  —  A conservative senator from Oklahoma with a youthful visage, Lankford had been working since September to help so-called Dreamers.
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CNN:
Bipartisan DACA, border security deal fails in Senate, putting immigration bill's future in doubt
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Has Landed The Big Comey Interview  —  Stephanopoulos will interview Comey in mid-April ahead of the release of his highly-anticipated book.  —  ABC has landed one of the most sought-after interviews of the year: former FBI Director James Comey.
Discussion: Political Wire
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Facebook complies with Russia's request to take down an Instagram post linked to Putin's rival  — Facebook-owned Instagram has taken down posts related to bribery allegations made by Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny against prominent figures in a YouTube video.
Erin Griffith / Wired:
Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting  —  EACH NEW BREAKING news situation is an opportunity for trolls to grab attention, provoke emotions, and spread propaganda.  The Russian government knows this.  Fake-news manufacturing teenagers in Macedonia know this.  Twitter bot creators know this.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Sen. Jeff Flake: President Donald Trump shouldn't be impeached, but his behavior is bad for national security  — When he announced his retirement from the Senate last fall, Jeff Flake of Arizona become one of the strongest Republican critics of President Donald Trump.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Rules News Publishers Violated Copyright by Embedding Tweets of Tom Brady Photo  —  The defendants, including Breitbart, Time, Vox and The Boston Globe, warned a loss would “cause a tremendous chilling effect on the core functionality of the web.”  —  In a huge surprise …
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Memo: NY Times Editor Explains Why Everyone Hates His ‘Rich And Searching’ Op-Ed Section  —  He would also like you to leave the question of whether it's OK to hire friends of Nazis to history.  —  In a long memo to his staff, New York Times editor James Bennet defended his embattled editorial page …
 
 
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ProPublica:
Congressman Calls For Investigation Of Conservative Think Tank
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
On Venezuela, Where Are Liberals?
Wall Street Journal:
Cohn Downplays Concerns Over Rising Inflation, Bond Yields
Discussion: Reuters and CNBC
Peter Dockrill / ScienceAlert:
Biologist Gets a Fake Star Trek Paper Accepted by 4 Dodgy Science Journals
Discussion: Gizmodo
Dan McLaughlin / Los Angeles Times:
Every solution to mass shootings inevitably involves a serious trade-off
Erick W. Erickson / Weekly Standard:
The Apotheosis of Donald J. Trump
Discussion: Erick on the Radio
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
What Did Comey Tell President Trump about the Steele Dossier?
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
It's time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say
Discussion: Washington Press and Breitbart
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Truth About the Florida School Shooting
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
Watch: Ted Cruz laughs at suggestion of doing anything about gun violence
Lawrence Bonk / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Calls Fight For Gun Control ‘Class War’ and Says the ‘Left Hates Rural America’
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Jeffrey Tambor Officially Fired From ‘Transparent’ in Wake of Harassment Claims
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How I Cracked Facebook's New Algorithm And Tortured My Friends
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