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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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Politico and Daily Wire
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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 …
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 …
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.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
America's top diplomat to North Korea joins mass exodus from State Department
Discussion: CNN
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
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Democrats marshal strike force to counter Trump on national security in 2018, 2020 elections
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 and Breitbart
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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Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:   Anti-Semitic incidents soared in 2017, marking nation's largest single-year increase, report finds
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: Vox, IJR and VICE News
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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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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.
Discussion: Political Wire and CNBC
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).
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 …
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?
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.
Charles E. Schumer / Wired:
Senate Democrats Have a Plan to Save Net Neutrality  —  LAST THURSDAY, THE Republican-led Federal Communications Commission formally published a rule reversing long-standing and vital protections of the internet known as net neutrality.  The FCC's new rule would let big corporations restrict …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Verge
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.
Business Insider:
Meet Trump's favorite senator — the man he calls before dawn and after midnight and has given one of his ‘highest accolades’  — David Perdue never held political office prior to becoming a senator from Georgia, serving as a CEO of major companies like Reebok.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
John DiStaso / WMUR:
Frequent Trump critic, potential 2020 contender, Republican Sen. Jeff Flake headed to NH  —  Arizona Republican to appear at traditional ‘Politics and Eggs’ event  —  U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican and frequent harsh critic of President Donald Trump, will visit New Hampshire on March 16.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Quinn Norton / The Atlantic:
The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Patton Oswalt on ‘The View’: Trump Is the ‘Final Boss’ of #MeToo Video Game
Discussion: Vox
Alyssa Newcomb / NBC News:
Silicon Valley faces make or break moment amid big tech backlash
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today:
Speaker Paul Ryan says GOP will look at “system failures,” not gun control, in wake of Florida shooting
Discussion: Daily Kos
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Generation Emerging From the Wreckage
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Parkland students are first glimpse of post-millennial wave that will change the country
Discussion: New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Max Smith / WTOP:
DC considers plan to replace streetcar fleet, still has no plans to make riders pay
Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
A ‘Deeply Libertarian’ Plan to Restrict Gun Sales
Discussion: Instapundit
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan's Move To Replace Election Commissioner Worries State Officials
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
U.N. Links North Korea to Syria's Chemical Weapon Program
Discussion: VICE News and IJR
Daniel Treisman / Washington Post:
Why the poor don't vote to soak the rich