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4:10 PM ET, February 27, 2018

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Politico:
Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence  —  A memo sent Friday downgraded the presidential son-in-law and adviser and other White House aides who had been working on interim clearances.  —  Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded …
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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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Deadline
CNN:
Ivanka Trump's South Korea trip fuels White House tension
Ina Fried / Axios:
Scaramucci says White House morale very low, Kelly should resign
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and New York Times
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
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: RedState, Breitbart and Axios
Adam Liptak / New York Times:   No Bail Hearings for Detained Immigrants, Justices Rule
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 …
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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
NSA Boss Suggests Trump Lets Putin Think ‘Little Price to Pay’ for Messing With U.S.
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Parkland Massacre Thrusts Guns into the Midterm Spotlight  —  WASHINGTON — In Minnesota, a Democratic candidate for governor with rural roots is running from his past affiliation with the National Rifle Association.  In South Florida, endangered House Republicans are embracing an assault weapons ban.
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New York Times:
Georgia Republicans Vow to Kill Airline Tax-Cut Bill After Delta Ends N.R.A. Discount
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.
Discussion: CNBC, Axios, Daily Kos and The Root
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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
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
U.N. Links North Korea to Syria's Chemical Weapon Program
Discussion: Shakesville, VICE News and IJR
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.
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Dean Baker / cepr.net:
Hey Folks, Looks Like Corporate America Hasn't Heard About the Trump Tax Cuts
Discussion: Mother Jones
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.
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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.
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.
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
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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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.
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 …
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?
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.
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 …
 
 
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Trump Losing College-Educated Whites? He Never Won Them in the First Place
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CNN
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Preparing for a New Cold War
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
Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters:
Big Corn says ‘no deal’ after White House biofuels meeting
Discussion: Axios
Charles E. Schumer / Wired:
Senate Democrats Have a Plan to Save Net Neutrality
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Verge
Business Insider:
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Silicon Valley faces make or break moment amid big tech backlash
 Earlier Items: 
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A Generation Emerging From the Wreckage
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Parkland students are first glimpse of post-millennial wave that will change the country
Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
A ‘Deeply Libertarian’ Plan to Restrict Gun Sales
Discussion: Instapundit
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Trump said he would charge a gunman. Here's what he's actually done in the face of danger.