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12:25 PM ET, February 27, 2018

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CNN:
Ivanka Trump's South Korea trip fuels White House tension  —  Washington (CNN)She's a policy adviser bearing sensitive new details on sanctions to the South Koreans.  She's a loyal family member who won't entertain questions about her father's purported infidelities.
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
State Department point man on North Korea, Joe Yun, to retire Friday … SEOUL — The State Department's point-man on North Korea, Joseph Yun, will leave his post on Friday, even as there are glimmers of hope that Pyongyang might finally be willing to sit down for talks with Washington.
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
U.N. Links North Korea to Syria's Chemical Weapon Program
Discussion: IJR
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 …
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
How Republicans Can Win the Midterms
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Democrats marshal a strike force to counter Trump on national security in 2018, 2020 elections
John DiStaso / WMUR:
WMUR first: Levi Sanders makes it official, he's a candidate for NH's 1st District House seat  —  Bernie Sanders' son, a Claremont resident, running for Shea-Porter seat  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. —  It's official.  An eighth Democrat has entered …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Bernie Sanders struggles to address Russian support after Mueller indictment
Discussion: twitchy.com
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   The Real Russian Disaster
Dana Bash / CNN:
Trump taps Brad Parscale to run his 2020 re-election campaign  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has hired Brad Parscale, the digital media director of his 2016 campaign, to run his re-election bid, the campaign announced on Tuesday.  —  The announcement was initially hyped by The Drudge Report …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump campaign's digital director will manage 2020 reelection efforts
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
The Guardian:
Housing official says she was replaced for rejecting Carson's costly office redecoration  —  Department's ex-chief administrative 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 …
New York Times:
Georgia Republicans Vow to Kill Airline Tax-Cut Bill After Delta Ends N.R.A. Discount  —  The lieutenant governor in Georgia threatened on Monday to kill a proposed lucrative tax cut for Delta Air Lines after the company eliminated a discount fare program for the National Rifle Association over the weekend.
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
More than a dozen businesses ran away from the NRA. How it went down
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.
Discussion: Axios, Daily Kos and Mother Jones
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.
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 …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:   Anti-Semitic Incidents Surged 57 Percent in 2017, Report Finds
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement  —  Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) will not run for reelection after reconsidering his decision last fall to retire, his chief of staff said Tuesday.  —  After listening to some Tennessee Republicans and GOP senators who were privately urging …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
5 Things Barack Obama Said in His Weirdly Off-the-Record MIT Speech  —  On Friday, former President Barack Obama spoke for an hour to an audience of hundreds of people at a major sports policy conference at MIT, but his remarks were off-the-record and kept completely secret by virtually all attendees …
CNN:
Sheriff says he got 23 calls about shooter's family, but records show more  —  Washington (CNN)As critics have taken aim at law enforcement for missing warning signs about South Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, public records have emerged that conflict with Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel's statements …
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Rich Lowry / National Review:   The Broward County Sheriff Is Everything That's Wrong with American Authority
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 …
Miranda Green / The Hill:
Major EPA reorganization will end science research program  —  A federal environmental program that distributes grants to test the effects of chemical exposure on adults and children is being shuttered amidst a major organization consolidation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Trump said he would charge a gunman.  Here's what he's actually done in the face of danger. … President Trump's assertion that he would have run toward the Parkland, Fla., gunman had he been near the school would have been a bold claim for just about anybody to make.
New York Times:
We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell's Proudest Moment  —  Remember when the Senate confirmed Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, the veteran federal appeals court judge, to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly two years ago this month?
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“The Newsroom Feels Embarrassed”: Backfires and Explosions at The New York Times as a Possible Future Chief Re-Invents the Paper's Opinion Pages  —  A yoga-pants refusenik, a climate science skeptic, and a tech writer with a neo-Nazi pal, among other offenders, have put James Bennet in the crosshairs.
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:   Leak: How NYT Editor James Bennet Justifies The Op-Ed Page To His Own Paper
Marc Berman / New York Post:
Warriors have their plans in place for skipping White House visit  —  The Warriors head to Washington on Tuesday but will not visit the White House.  Instead, they will take a side trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.  President Trump uninvited them to the White House …
Discussion: Politico, CNN and KTLA
CNN:
CNN Poll: 6 in 10 concerned Trump isn't doing enough to protect US elections  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — A majority (55%) say Trump has attempted to interfere with the Russia investigation, up from 51% in January  —  Washington (CNN)About 6 in 10 Americans say Donald Trump …
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?
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Speaker Paul Ryan says GOP will look at “system failures,” not gun control, in wake of Florida shooting  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that House Republicans would focus on law enforcement failures, not tighter gun control, in the wake of the latest mass shooting …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Hope Hicks to testify in House Russia probe  —  Top White House aide Hope Hicks will appear before House investigators Tuesday, and lawmakers say they haven't been told to expect any restrictions on her testimony in the intelligence panel's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
A ‘Deeply Libertarian’ Plan to Restrict Gun Sales  —  What if you could volunteer for a “No Gun” registry?  Would that prevent more deaths?  —  After this month's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, support for restricting access to firearms has seen a sharp rise.
Discussion: Instapundit
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Ryan Seacrest's E! Stylist Reveals Abuse and Harassment Allegations (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Suzie Hardy was a single mother with a preschool-age daughter when she landed a job as Ryan Seacrest's personal stylist for “E! News” in 2006.  The position provided good pay and a schedule that would allow …
Max Smith / WTOP:
DC considers plan to replace streetcar fleet, still has no plans to make riders pay  —  WASHINGTON — Only two years after the D.C. Streetcar launched, the District is already seriously considering a plan to replace its vehicles.  —  In responses prepared for a D.C. Council hearing Tuesday …
Daniel Treisman / Washington Post:
Why the poor don't vote to soak the rich  —  In a democracy, income inequality should in theory correct itself.  The poor majority should vote to tax the rich and divide the proceeds among themselves.  But that's not happening in the United States.  In fact, inequality has been rising for decades.
 
 
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Tennessean.com:
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Melissa Quinn / Washington Examiner:
House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump College Group Won't Tell the Feds What the Hell It's Doing
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Bizarre legal brawl intensifies at Trump hotel in Panama
Discussion: Politico
Emily Goldberg / Politico:
Global health organizations condemn State Department directive
Kurt Erickson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
JEFFERSON CITY  • In a historic decision, the Missouri House formally launched …
Jason Stein / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Eric Holder's group sues Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over not calling special elections
Discussion: The Nation and Political Wire