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New York Times:
Kushner's Business Got Loans from Companies After White House Meetings  —  Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, President Trump's senior adviser.  —  Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.
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Washington Post:
Mueller investigation examining Trump's apparent efforts to oust Sessions in July … Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been investigating a period of time last summer when President Trump seemed determined to drive Attorney General Jeff Sessions from his job, according to people familiar …
Axios:
The wild wars within the Trump White House  —  After a crazy 24 hours, sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling.  —  The big picture: Hope Hicks leaving is obviously a huge blow to him.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The White House Didn't Break Hope Hicks Overnight  —  Hope Hicks entered American politics at its fringes, in the early stages of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a grinning 26-year-old member of the Trump Organization's public-relations team who'd been rerouted from her task of helping Ivanka Trump develop a lifestyle brand.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hope Hicks to Resign as White House Communications Director  —  Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump's longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she was resigning.  —  Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign without …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
A telling anecdote about Trump and the opioid abuse crisis  —  Fail as deputy chief of staff?  You're the next drug czar!  —  Drug overdose deaths — originally from prescription opioids but increasingly now from heroin and fentanyl — have emerged as an increasingly grave social issue …
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Axios:
Scoop: Besieged Sessions dines with Rosenstein in show of solidarity  —  If Donald Trump finally follows through on his rage and fires Jeff Sessions, the image with this story will be printed in history books.  —  Tonight at 7:35pm, the Attorney General strode into a high-end Washington restaurant …
CNN:
White House furious at embarrassing stories about HUD, Secretary Ben Carson  —  Complaint filed over Carson's office expenses  —  Washington (CNN)Senior White House aides are furious about a series of negative stories about frivolous spending at the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Trump reportedly berated Hope Hicks over her testimony to the House Intel Committee
CNN:
What Hope Hicks meant about white lies
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNNMoney:
The unseen power of Hope Hicks
Discussion: CNN
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Who would want to be White House communications director, and who is in the running?
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator's Texts  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel's top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer …
Discussion: RedState, Axios and Raw Story
CBS News:
Hope Hicks' “white lies” testimony becomes a flashpoint for House Intel Committee  —  In a rare, on-the-record accounting of some of the House Intelligence committee's secret, closed-door proceedings, two members of the House Intelligence Committee explained to CBS News what led White House …
CNN:
See HUD's $31,000 mahogany dining set  —  Washington (CNN)A $31,000 dining set the Department of Housing and Urban Development purchased, which raised eyebrows when first reported Tuesday, includes a table, sideboard, breakfront — all in mahogany — and 10 mahogany chairs with a blue velvet finish …
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
HUD: Carson Directs Agency To Cancel Order For $30,000 Dining Set
Discussion: CNN and Joe.My.God.
news.walmart.com:
Walmart Statement on Firearms Policy  —  In light of recent events, we've taken an opportunity to review our policy on firearm sales.  Going forward, we are raising the age restriction for purchase of firearms and ammunition to 21 years of age.  We will update our processes as quickly as possible to implement this change.
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Robert Ferris / CNBC:
Kroger stops selling guns to buyers under 21 at Fred Meyer stores
Discussion: IJR
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Kroger to Stop Selling Guns to Buyers Under 21
Discussion: Politico, Axios and twitchy.com
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored ‘the Einstein visa’  —  In 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles declaration  —  President says Russia has new line of nuclear-capable weapons that can breach US defences … Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a new line of strategic, nuclear-capable weapons that would be able …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Imports  —  President Donald Trump, in a meeting at the White House with company leaders, said Thursday he will impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum—10% for aluminum, 25% for steel—and will sign the measure next week.
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Washington Post:
White House planning major trade announcement Thursday on steel and aluminum imports
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to Quit Amid Tense Relations Under Trump  —  MEXICO CITY — The United States ambassador to Mexico plans to resign from her post in May, according to a memo circulated on Thursday to embassy staff, the latest in a string of senior diplomatic departures from the region …
Associated Press:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen charged over IS photos  —  PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism.
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Most Americans say Trump is racist  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of Americans, including large majorities of blacks and Hispanics, think President Donald Trump is a racist.  More than half think his policies have made things worse for Hispanics and Muslims …
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
EU Warns Tech Giants to Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour—or Else  —  EU lays out rules for firms to fight online illegal material  —  Facebook, Google among tech firms under pressure to react  —  The European Union issued internet giants an ultimatum to remove illegal online terrorist content within …
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Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook, Google Get One Hour From EU to Scrub Terror Content
Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Shelby says he'd leave Trump if he were Sessions: 'I wouldn't be anybody's whipping boy'  —  U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said Wednesday he would not stick around and be President Trump's “whipping boy” if he was in the position of his former colleague, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump vs. Jeff Sessions
Discussion: Just Security
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Fights Worth Having  —  For my money, the best op-ed published in The Times this week was Mona Charen's Feb. 25 barn-burner, “I'm Glad I Got Booed at CPAC.”  Charen is a movement conservative who worked for Nancy and Ronald Reagan and is a longtime contributor to National Review.
Discussion: Vox and Weekly Standard
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's corruption deserves to be a central issue in the 2018 midterms  —  Democrats need to shine a spotlight on conflicts of interest.  —  Democrats are still licking their wounds from the presidential election, afraid to return to a strategy that many believe cost Hillary Clinton the White House …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
First on CNN: Planned Parenthood to target 8 states, spend $20 million as part of midterm battle plan  —  Pro-choice activist: White women can do better  —  Washington (CNN)Planned Parenthood's political arm is targeting eight states with competitive Senate and governor's races in its largest-ever midterm election campaign.
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Official Who Blocked Undocumented Teens From Getting Abortions Said He Doesn't Believe They Have The Constitutional Right To The Procedure  —  Scott Lloyd, the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, is a central figure in several lawsuits over the Trump administration blocking …
Discussion: Vox
Politico:
Pruitt says he will start flying coach  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt will start flying coach instead of first class at least part of the time, he told CBS News' Major Garrett Wednesday.  —  Pruitt had been flying first or business class consistently because his security detail was alarmed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Some NBA teams played ‘negro national anthem’ at games  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Several NBA teams have played what is known as the “negro national anthem” at games during Black History Month thanks in part to the urging of a retired Howard University professor.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CNN vs. Fox: Why these two cable networks can't stop talking about each other
Discussion: TVNewser
Walter Shaub / Los Angeles Times:
In any other presidency, our ‘insufficiently accurate’ secretary of Veterans Affairs would be gone
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Gorilla Statue Removed After Complaints It Was ‘Racially Insensitive’
Discussion: Daily Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Is Jared Kushner using the White House as his own personal boardroom?
Ashley Kirzinger / The Henry J. Kaiser Family …:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - February 2018: Health Care and the 2018 Midterms, Attitudes Towards …
RealClearInvestigations:
Behind Cruz's Rampage: Obama's School-Leniency Policy
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
They Don't Hate The NRA. They Hate You.
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Demonization Crisis  —  Hostility to the opposition party …
Astead W. Herndon / BostonGlobe.com:
Republicans are not just attached to Trump — they're his customers, too
Associated Press:
Hundreds gather at church for blessing ceremony featuring AR-15s
Tara Copp / Military Times:
Wife of 7th Special Forces Group vet faces deportation under tighter immigration rules
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

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New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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