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NBC News:
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
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Tom Llamas / ABC News:
Michael Cohen dismisses claims of email as proof that Trump knew about payment to porn star to buy her silence  —  The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says emails show President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen was using his Trump Organization email just days before the 2016 election …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The President and the Porn Star: A Story's Slow Rise Above the Din  —  WASHINGTON — If a porn-tinged hush payment falls in a news din already torqued to maximum volume, does it make a sound?  —  It seems to be getting there, despite North Korean intervention.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Stormy Daniels Scandal Gets Serious  —  In January we learned, thanks to The Wall Street Journal, that Michael Cohen, a lawyer for Donald Trump, arranged a $130,000 hush money payment to the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels in the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels Absolutely Slays Trump Trolls on Twitter
Discussion: The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Stormy Daniels Lawsuit Opens Door to Further Trouble for Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Pro-Trump pastor: Stormy Daniels allegations ‘totally irrelevant’ to evangelical support for Trump
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Seek Deal With Mueller to Speed End of Russia Probe  —  Legal team seek to use interview with president as leverage in negotiations  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to negotiate a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset”: Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA  —  The president will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend.  McMaster is likely next to go.  Then Jivanka.
Steve Bousquet / Tampa Bay Times:
Gov. Rick Scott signs gun, school security legislation over NRA opposition  —  Parkland parents attend bill signing ceremony at Capitol in Tallahassee.  —  After extensive discussions with the families of victims, Gov. Rick Scott signed new gun restrictions Friday in response to last month's massacre …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott breaks with NRA to sign new gun regulation
Victor Cha / New York Times:
What Will Trump Give Up for Peace with North Korea?  —  The announcement at the White House on Thursday evening that President Trump will meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, within two months raises more questions than it answers.  While the unpredictability of a meeting between …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: Elizabeth Warren goes after Kushner Companies loans
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli sentenced to 7 years in prison — says, ‘This is my fault’  — Convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli is sentenced for securities fraud related to two hedge funds he ran and to his former drug company Retrophin.  — The notorious “pharma bro” …
Discussion: NPR, TheBlaze, Dealbreaker and The Verge
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Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Martin Shkreli sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding investors
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's hotel group wrote $151,470 check to the U.S. Treasury as it handed over all 2017 profits from business with foreign governments  — Trump Organization wrote the check on Feb. 22, representing all the hotel and related profits from foreign governments that it could account for
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him  —  Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country.  But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.  —  “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP senator: Justice Kennedy is going to retire this summer
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Leslie Dyste / KTVU-TV:
3 hostages taken, shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home  —  Woman on lockdown at Yountville Veterans Home speaks with KTVU  —  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - Three people were taken as hostages and shots were fired at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville — the largest in the United States …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump pardons sailor in submarine photos case  —  President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy submariner sentenced to prison for taking photos inside the classified engine room of a nuclear submarine, the White House announced on Friday.  —  Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier pleaded guilty …
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Trump pardons former Navy sailor imprisoned for taking photos on nuclear submarine, White House says  —  Kristian Saucier, the former U.S. Navy sailor who served a year behind bars for taking photos of classified areas in a nuclear submarine, has been pardoned, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Friday.
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
John D. Feeley / Washington Post:
Why I could no longer serve this president  —  John D. Feeley, who retired this week as a U.S. diplomat, will soon be working with Univision and the Fusion Media Group on immigration-themed content.  —  Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate.  Trump's Chief of Staff Stopped Him.  —  Want the latest climate news in your inbox?  You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter.  —  John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head …
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Why Is Louis Farrakhan Back in the News?  —  Louis Farrakhan, the 84-year-old head of the Nation of Islam, has been back in the headlines after a previously unreleased photo of him with President Barack Obama was published in January, and Mr. Farrakhan gave an anti-Semitic speech at his organization's annual convention last month.
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Haris Alic / Washington Free Beacon:
McCain Blasts Jarrett for Comparing Meeting With Louis Farrakhan to Meeting the Koch Brothers
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
The Sam Nunberg exit interview: 'Now the game's over'  —  WASHINGTON — We in the media might not have Sam Nunberg to kick around anymore.  Then again, who knows for sure?  —  Late Thursday evening, hours before he appeared before a grand jury hearing as part of special counsel
Discussion: Raw Story
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Nunberg arrives at Mueller grand jury
Discussion: ABC News and Mediaite
Yahoo:
‘Stand down’: How the Obama team blew the response to Russian meddling  —  Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books) by Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Quiet Exodus: Why Blacks Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches  —  FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag.  It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend.
Katherine Mangu-Ward / New York Times:
When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls  —  It's hard to tell who started it.  —  Was it the populist right, reared in the meme swamps of Reddit and 4chan, who emerged blinking into the daylight of politics and set about baiting anyone who disagreed with their chosen Republican king?
Sean McElwee / The Nation:
IT'S TIME TO ABOLISH ICE  —  A mass deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights.  —  Dan Canon is running for Congress in Indiana's ninth district this year.  A career civil rights lawyer, Canon filed one of the cases against gay marriage bans that eventually became …
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
ACLU accuses US of broadly separating immigrant families  —  HOUSTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the U.S. government of broadly separating immigrant families seeking asylum.  —  The lawsuit follows action the ACLU took in the case …
Discussion: Common Dreams and Daily Kos
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
Here's How The Trump Administration Has Been Quietly Dismantling Obama's Family Planning Policy  —  Over the past few months, HHS has taken quiet steps to move the agency toward supporting abstinence and “natural family planning” methods over contraception access.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
 
 
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Ralph Vartabedian / Los Angeles Times:
Cost for California bullet train system rises to $77.3 billion
Eric M. Fraser / SCOTUSblog:
Antitrust state-action immunity argument postponed because of possible settlement
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Startups, Deals, Parties And Pals: Will News Exec Levinsohn Repeat The Past?
Peter Coy / Bloomberg:
After Defeating Cohn, Trump's Trade Warrior Is on the Rise Again
Kristina Sgueglia / CNN:
Rand Paul attacker pleads guilty
The Guardian:
Russian spy attack: focus falls on Salisbury cemetery
The Hill:
Scott Pruitt is leading the EPA toward greatness
Discussion: New Republic and US EPA
 Earlier Items: 
BuzzFeed:
There's A Serious Divide Over Gun Policy Between Gun Owners Who Are And Aren't NRA Members
Washington Post:
After a worried Howard student emailed her president about housing, he replied about her ‘tone’
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Mike Pence urged ABC News star Joy Behar to apologize to Christians she offended - she didn't listen
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Disgraced Parkland deputy heard shots inside school building, told cops to stay away
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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