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12:55 PM ET, February 14, 2019

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Andrew G. McCabe / The Atlantic:
Every Day Is a New Low in Trump's White House  —  The president steps over bright ethical and moral lines wherever he encounters them.  Everyone in America saw it when he fired my boss.  But I saw it firsthand time and time again. … On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, my first full day on the job …
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CBS News:
McCabe says he ordered the obstruction of justice probe of President Trump  —  The former FBI acting director tells 60 Minutes about the measures taken to ensure investigations into President Trump wouldn't “vanish.”  See the full story Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS
New York Times:
McCabe Says Justice Officials Discussed Recruiting Cabinet Members to Push Trump Out of Office  —  WASHINGTON — Andrew G. McCabe, the former deputy F.B.I. director, said in an interview aired on Thursday that top Justice Department officials were so alarmed by President Trump's decision …
The Daily Beast:
Trump's DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling  —  “It's very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,” one DHS official tells The Daily Beast.  —  Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference …
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New York Times:
Trump Puts Best Face on Border Deal, as Aides Try to Assuage an Angry Right  —  WASHINGTON — In pursuit of a wall, President Trump ran into one.  A single-minded drive to force Congress to finance his signature campaign promise has left Mr. Trump right back where he started …
CNN:
Trump privately gripes that GOP was outplayed by Democrats  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump appears to be moving — unhappily — closer to signing a bipartisan agreement that provides only a fraction of the money he demanded for a border wall.  But in conversations with allies …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Congress gets ready to vote to keep the government open
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  Amazon said on Thursday that it was canceling plans to build a corporate campus in New York City.  The company had planned to build a sprawling complex …
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The Amazon Blog:
Update on plans for New York City headquarters  —  After much thought and deliberation, we've decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens.  For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
The Ocasio-Cortez Effect: Wave of Challenges Hits Entrenched N.Y. Democrats  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be just the beginning.  —  Less than eight months after Ms. Ocasio-Cortez stunned the political world by unseating a powerful Democratic congressman, her home state is emerging …
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
'Here's the system, it sucks': Meet the Hill staffers hired by Ocasio-Cortez to upend Washington  —  One is the daughter of an immigrant from Nigeria who wanted to understand the causes of her mom's plight, starting a search that would lead her to Spelman, Oxford, Harvard, Georgetown …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP wants to pit Ocasio-Cortez against Democrats in the Senate
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Manafort Keeps Lying About Russia Collusion.  Is It to Protect Donald Trump?  —  Last night, a federal judge ruled that Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement by lying repeatedly to federal prosecutors about the Russia investigation.  Some of Manafort's lies go …
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Manafort Lied After Plea Deal, Judge Says
Discussion: Just Security and NPR
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Isn't Looking to Retire Yet, But Is Another Supreme Court Justice Ready to Go?  —  No one tells a Supreme Court Justice when to retire.  But there are currently two retirement dramas under way at the Court—one semi-public and the other semi-private …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Vaccine Facebook Ads Target Women in Measles-Stricken States  —  Nearly 150 spots are targeting women over the age of 25—the group most likely to include mothers of children who might need to be vaccinated.  —  BEAST INSIDE … Facebook's advertising platform is being used …
Moritz Rakuszitzky / bellingcat:
Third Suspect in Skripal Poisoning Identified as Denis Sergeev, High-Ranking GRU Officer  —  Bellingcat previously confirmed that a third GRU officer was present in the UK during the time Sergey and Yulia Skripal fell into a coma, after what the UK authorities said was a deliberate poisoning with Novichok.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The three 2020 Democrats Trump's campaign is watching most closely  —  Donald Trump's political advisers are homing in on three declared Democratic candidates who they believe are the most viable at this early stage of the campaign.  —  The reelection campaign has begun compiling opposition research …
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh:
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh eyewitness accounts of the incident involving Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher John Robinson Block  —  After much careful consideration, the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has decided to release some of the eyewitness accounts of the incident involving Pittsburgh …
Andrea Drusch / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Worried Texas Republicans call for more national help in 2020  —  Texas Republicans have long coasted to re-election while ignoring their Democratic opponents.  Not anymore.  —  For 2020, GOP incumbents in what has historically been one of the most solidly red states in the union …
Laura Strickler / NBC News:
‘Whistleblower’ seeks protection after sounding alarm over White House security clearances  —  Tricia Newbold says her supervisor “repeatedly mishandled security files and has approved unwarranted security clearances.”  —  Specialist in White House security clearance office suspended without pay
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Silicon Valley Index shows the misery and triumph of the world's tech capital … Living at the center of the tech universe?  Well, I have some good news and some bad news.  —  The good news is that Silicon Valley is thriving economically, generating new technology and good jobs.
Liel Leibovitz / Tablet Magazine:
Virginia Democratic Candidate Apologizes to Jewish Community for Past Statements  —  Coming on the heels of Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) anti-Semitic statements and subsequent apology, another Democratic politician was forced to apologize for vitriolic statements about Israel.
miamiherald:
A remembrance of the victims from the Parkland shooting — as told by their classmates  —  BY STUDENTS OF MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD  —  Twelve months ago, 14 students and three adults were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland.  On Valentine's Day.
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Rejects National Ad For Oscar-Nominated Anti-Nazi Documentary (Exclusive)  —  The 30-second ad is called “It Can Happen Here,” and was to be targeted at Sean Hannity's viewers.  —  Fox News has rejected a national advertising buy for a 30-second spot that warns viewers …
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Trump Looks to Uproot Numbers-Only Bias Test Widely Used in U.S.  —  In what would be one of the Trump administration's most far-reaching moves regarding race relations, top White House officials are planning a sharp pullback from federal efforts to correct imbalances in outcomes for minorities in everything from housing to hiring.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Jussie Smollett Goes There: If I Said My Attackers Were Muslim or Mexican, Doubters Would Support Me  —  In his Thursday interview with Good Morning America, Empire actor Jussie Smollett struck back at those who have doubted his story of an alleged hate crime attack in Chicago.
Mike Allen / Axios:
House Democrats may target Ivanka Trump in their Russia probe  —  Outlining a blueprint for the vast Russia probe planned by the new House majority, a Democratic member of Congress suggested at a roundtable with reporters this week that lawmakers may seek testimony from Ivanka Trump.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly half of Republicans think God wanted Trump to be president  —  More than half of white evangelical Protestants agree  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders kicked up a bit of dust recently when she told the Christian television network CBN that she believed that God wanted Donald Trump to be president.
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Michael Avenatti accused of hiding millions of dollars from bankruptcy court  —  Michael Avenatti hid millions of dollars from the court overseeing his law firm's bankruptcy and used much of the money for personal compensation, a former partner alleges in new court records.
Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
It's true, Trump really did start building more wall in Texas  —  When President Trump said Monday at a campaign rally in El Paso that, “We've actually started a big, big portion of the wall today at a very important location, and it's going to go up pretty quickly over the next nine months …
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
In bid to avoid shutdown, spending deal drops Violence Against Women Act extension, other contentious provisions  —  As negotiators were finalizing a final fiscal 2019 funding package highlighted by border security spending Wednesday evening, it became clear that an extension of the Violence Against Women Act wouldn't make the cut.
Discussion: Vox and Daily Kos
Ron Synovitz / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Are Russian Trolls Saving Measles From Extinction?  —  Scientific researchers say Russian social-media trolls who spread discord before the 2016 U.S. presidential election may also have played an unintended role in a developing global health crisis.  —  They say the trolls may have contributed …
Discussion: Slate and ThinkProgress
Wichita Eagle:
Kansas lawmakers sponsor bill calling same-sex marriages ‘parody’  —  The House chamber at the Statehouse in Topeka  —  A handful of Kansas lawmakers are backing a bill that labels same-sex marriages “parody marriages” and seeks to stop the state from recognizing them.
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
 
 
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Derek Kravitz / ProPublica:
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: A Year After Parkland, Urgency For New Gun Restrictions Declines
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Jack Detsch / Al-Monitor:
Trump blows off congressionally mandated Yemen certification
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Republicans back Senate rule change to speed confirmations of Trump nominees
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 Earlier Items: 
Alex Daugherty / miamiherald:
How Parkland parents and lawmakers built relationships to help prevent school violence
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Has Trump wrecked our sex life? “Post-Trump Sex Disorder” is real, says sex therapist
Kayla Goggin / courthousenews.com:
Bill Would Make Online Access to Federal Court Records Free
CNN:
Daughter and son-in-law of AG nominee leaving the Justice Department
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Malooley / Rolling Stone:
Jill Abramson Plagiarized My Writing. So I Interviewed Her About It
New York Times:
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