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5:55 PM ET, February 27, 2018

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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence  —  Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access.  —  Kushner is not alone.
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Washington Post:
Kushner's overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage … Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements …
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and Mediaite
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Josh Raffel leaving White House  —  Senior communications official Josh Raffel is leaving the White House, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: Raffel, a former Hollywood PR executive, was originally brought in early last year to run communications for the Office of American Innovation …
CNN:
Kushner security clearance is downgraded  —  Sources: 30-40 WH officials lack full security clearance  —  (CNN)Interim security clearances for White House aides, including Jared Kushner, were downgraded last week after chief of staff John Kelly stipulated new changes to how officials access …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Scaramucci says White House morale very low, Kelly should resign  —  Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci reiterated his call for the ouster of Chief of Staff John Kelly, citing low White House morale.  —  “He's lost the locker room,” Scaramucci said at the NewCo Shift Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday.
New York Times:
Jared Kushner's Security Clearance Downgraded
Discussion: NPR
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Jared Kushner's security clearance has been downgraded
Discussion: Breitbart and Mediaite
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Russia-Trump Probe Boasted To His Girlfriend In Ukraine That He Was Friends With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov  —  A Ukrainian woman named Anna says Joseph Mifsud asked her to marry him in a restaurant overlooking the Kremlin.
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
DCCC Advised Candidates Not To Discuss Gun Control Policy Right After Vegas Shooting  —  The campaign organization said Democrats should focus on offering thoughts and prayers.  —  The morning after the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign …
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Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
DCCC Internal Polling Presented to Members of Congress Panned Single Payer Health Care
Discussion: ThinkProgress
The Guardian:
US official: I was demoted for rejecting Ben Carson's costly office revamp  —  Exclusive: Senior housing officer says she was replaced by a Trump appointee and told ‘$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair’ … A senior career official in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development …
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Rene Marsh / CNN:
‘$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair’: HUD staffer files complaint over Ben Carson office redecoration  —  Washington (CNN)The former chief administrative officer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development says she was demoted in part for refusing to spend more than was legally allowed …
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Roger Stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks  —  On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Donald Trump.  In his interview with the House Intelligence Committee last September, Stone …
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The Smoking Gun:   Roger Stone's Russian Hacking “Hero”
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely  —  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond hearings.  —  It's a profound loss for those immigrants appealing …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out ruling that said detained immigrants deserve bond hearings
Discussion: Politico, RedState, Breitbart and Axios
Adam Liptak / New York Times:   No Bail Hearings for Detained Immigrants, Justices Rule
CBS Miami:
Sources: Carnage Could Have Been Far Worse In Florida School Massacre  —  PARKLAND - CBS4 News has obtained new information in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre which left 17 people dead.  —  An official briefed on the shooting investigation tells CBS4 News that the carnage could have been far worse.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:   White House promises to outline gun safety proposals ‘by the end of the week’
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat  —  NSA chief: Need authority to stop Russian cyber threat  —  Washington (CNN)US Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not been granted the authority by President Donald Trump …
Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
A self-described sex expert says she will spill information on Trump and Russia to get out of a Thai jail … MOSCOW — A self-described sex expert whose videos highlighted the ties between one of Russia's richest men and the Kremlin has been jailed in Thailand and is calling for U.S. help …
Discussion: New York Times
Sean Illing / Vox:
How Trump's 2020 campaign manager is connected to the Russia scandal  —  Parscale is linked to Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that has become a focus of the Trump-Russia investigation.  —  President Donald Trump has named Brad Parscale to be his 2020 campaign manager.
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
America's top diplomat to North Korea joins mass exodus from State Department  —  The Trump administration's disregard for diplomacy is driving career diplomats to flee.  —  The State Department's top diplomat on North Korea is resigning this week, reflecting ongoing frustration with the Trump administration's disregard for diplomacy.
Discussion: CNN
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
State Department point man on North Korea, Joe Yun, to retire Friday
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Infowars one strike away from YouTube ban  —  Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube.  —  The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla. …
Jackie Wang / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Democrats' early voting totals should ‘shock every conservative to their core,’ Abbott email says  —  AUSTIN — Early voting for the March primary is more than half over, and Democrats have outpaced Republicans at the polls on each day.  —  Through Sunday in the 15 Texas counties …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
How Republicans Can Win the Midterms
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Gates  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his legal team has moved to drop charges that were brought last week in an expansive superseding indictment against Rick Gates.  The 32-count indictment issued in the Eastern District of Virginia accused Gates of tax and bank fraud.
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Antisemitic incidents in US soar to highest level in two decades  —  Largest year-on-year increase since 1979 comes as Trump administration is accused of failing to condemn bigotry … Antisemitic incidents in the US surged 57% in 2017, the Anti-Defamation League said on Tuesday …
Discussion: NPR, Vox and CBS Los Angeles
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Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Far-Right Troll Chuck Johnson Tried Out for ‘Survivor.’ Here's His Audition Tape.  —  CBS' mistake is the world's loss.  —  The 36th season of “Survivor,” the reality TV show that ushered America into an era of turbo-capitalized narcissism and celebrity worship that helped get Donald Trump elected president, will premiere Wednesday.
WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
Man armed with AR-15 stops attack by neighbor in Oswego  —  Share Update: … OSWEGO, Ill. — A man armed with an AR-15 rifle stopped an attack by one of his neighbors and held him until police arrived.  —  It happened Monday at an apartment building on Harbor Drive in Oswego Township.
Quinn Norton / The Atlantic:
The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger  —  The day before Valentine's Day, social media created a bizarro-world version of me.  I have seen strange ideas about me online before, but this doppelgänger was so far from resembling me that I told friends and loved ones I didn't want to even try to rebut it.
Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Trump's Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages  —  President Trump promised that his tax cut would encourage companies to invest in factories, workers and wages, setting off a spending spree that would reinvigorate the American economy.  —  Companies have announced plans for some of those investments.
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Leak: How NYT Editor James Bennet Justifies The Op-Ed Page To His Own Paper  —  “The world needs this from us right now.”  —  In December, New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet met with a group of Times employees to answer questions about his much-questioned opinion section.
Krista Smith / Vanity Fair:
Jennifer Lawrence, a New Light … It is nearing dinnertime as I wind through the streets of Beverly Hills, passing the storied haunts Craig's and Tower Bar on my way to the home of Jennifer Lawrence.  She has offered to host, and who would turn down an invitation to hang out with this supernova?
 
 
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
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Charlie Cooper / Politico:
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Dave McMenaminESPN / ESPN:
LeBron James calls NCAA ‘corrupt’ in wake of scandals
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Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
How Russian trolls smeared Sen. John McCain as ‘traitor’ on social media
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
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Discussion: Salon and New York Times
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Frequent Trump critic, potential 2020 contender, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake headed to NH
Discussion: Political Wire
Business Insider:
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement