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1:35 PM ET, February 27, 2018

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Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
DCCC Internal Polling Presented to Members of Congress Panned Single Payer Health Care  —  For Democrats in Washington, the question of how to talk to voters about health care is a vexing one.  —  In the wake of the election, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee …
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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 …
Discussion: Politico
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
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 …
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: Axios
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
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
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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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump names ‘digital guru’ Brad Parscale campaign manager for 2020 re-election bid
Donald J Trump:
President Trump Announces 2020 Campaign Manager
Discussion: VICE News
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: Instapundit and twitchy.com
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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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.
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 …
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 analytics* conference at MIT, but his remarks were off-the-record and kept completely secret by virtually all attendees …
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 …
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?
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.
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: CNN, Politico and KTLA
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.
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.
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Generation Emerging From the Wreckage  —  I've been going around to campuses asking undergraduate and graduate students how they see the world.  Most of the students I've met with so far are at super-competitive schools — Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago and Davidson — so this is a tiny slice of the rising generation.
WSOC-TV:
Facebook Live shooting: Suspect in custody after killing caught on video  —  WINGATE, N.C. - Police said the suspect they were searching for has turned himself in after a man was shot to death Monday morning in Wingate while streaming on Facebook Live.  —  Officials with Union County Emergency …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Parkland students are first glimpse of post-millennial wave that will change the country  —  (CNN)Don't look now, but here comes the post-millennial generation.  —  Americans are just growing accustomed to the impact of the massive millennial generation as consumers, workers and voters.
Discussion: New York Times
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
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Charles E. Schumer / Wired:
Senate Democrats Have a Plan to Save Net Neutrality
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton:
AG Paxton and Wisconsin AG File 20-State Lawsuit to End the Grip of Obamacare on Texas and the Nation
Discussion: National Review and IJR
Business Insider:
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Paul Wiseman / USA Today:
U.S. consumer confidence rises to highest level since November 2000
Ina Fried / Axios:
Scaramucci says White House morale very low, Kelly should resign
Alyssa Newcomb / NBC News:
Silicon Valley faces make or break moment amid big tech backlash
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Gates
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's sneaky backdoor Obamacare repeal is working
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Max Smith / WTOP:
DC considers plan to replace streetcar fleet, still has no plans to make riders pay
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan's Move To Replace Election Commissioner Worries State Officials
Daniel Treisman / Washington Post:
Why the poor don't vote to soak the rich
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
Daniel Holloway / Variety:
Ryan Seacrest's E! Stylist Reveals Abuse and Harassment Allegations (EXCLUSIVE)