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11:25 AM 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
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Congress gets ready to vote to keep the government open
Discussion: Political Wire, CNN and Raw Story
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP wants to pit Ocasio-Cortez against Democrats in the Senate
Discussion: Washington Post and Climate Depot
Jedidiah Britton-Purdy / New York Times:
The Green New Deal Is What Realistic Environmental Policy Looks Like
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: New York Times and Crooked Media
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 …
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Amanda Becker / Reuters:   Democrats swear off big money, but will it hurt their 2020 White House chances?
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Mueller just caught a fourth Trump aide lying about contact with the Russians  —  This post has been updated.  —  We don't know whether special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has found evidence of collusion or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Manafort Lied After Plea Deal, Judge Says
Discussion: Just Security and NPR
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.
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 …
Jack Detsch / Al-Monitor:
Trump blows off congressionally mandated Yemen certification  —  A boy walks at the site of a Saudi-led airstrike in the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, Yemen, Jan. 20, 2019.  —  The Donald Trump administration won't certify to Congress that the Saudi-led force fighting in Yemen is attempting …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘He was in his face’: Trump fumes over abortion, courts evangelicals  —  The night before last week's National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump was hosting religious leaders and lawmakers for dinner at the White House when he spotted Democratic Senator Chris Coons — and pounced.
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 …
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
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
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: Raw Story
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.
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: Raw Story
New York Times:
Ryan Adams Dangled Success.  Women Say They Paid a Price.  —  Several women say Adams offered to jumpstart their music careers, then pursued them sexually and in some cases retaliated when they spurned him.  He denies the claims.  —  For nearly two decades, Ryan Adams …
CNN:
Daughter and son-in-law of AG nominee leaving the Justice Department  —  Washington (CNN)The Barr family business is breaking up.  —  As William Barr, President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, awaits a Senate vote to confirm his move to the top of the Justice Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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.
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Mark Kelly's Senate campaign reports raising $1.1 million since announcing launch  —  Mark Kelly's campaign for Arizona's U.S. Senate seat in 2020 reported raising more than $1.1 million in individual contributions since announcing his candidacy Tuesday.  —  The retired astronaut …
Jake Malooley / Rolling Stone:
Jill Abramson Plagiarized My Writing.  So I Interviewed Her About It  —  When journalist Jake Malooley talked to the former New York Times executive editor, she admitted only to minor mistakes — but her responses were revealing  —  Last Wednesday, I was on assignment at a high school basketball game …
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.
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Has Trump wrecked our sex life?  “Post-Trump Sex Disorder” is real, says sex therapist  —  “Big Mean Sexy Daddy”?  Salon turns to Dr. Susan Block for answers to questions you didn't want to ask  —  Donald Trump has made America's mental health crisis much worse.
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 …
Derek Kravitz / ProPublica:
The Lobbying Swamp Is Flourishing in Trump's Washington  —  At least 33 former officials — including ex-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — have found ways to sidestep the administration's ethics pledge.  Of those, at least 18 are now registered federal lobbyists and the rest work in jobs that closely resemble lobbying.
Discussion: The Week
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
 
 
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Iran's 40 Years of Darkness
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
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Timothy R. Smith / Washington Post:
Lyndon LaRouche Jr., conspiracy theorist and presidential candidate, dies at 96
Discussion: NPR
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Republicans back Senate rule change to speed confirmations of Trump nominees
Discussion: Politico and Townhall
Rebecca Klein / HuffPost:
What Howard Schultz Means When He Says He Grew Up In The Projects
Alex Daugherty / miamiherald:
How Parkland parents and lawmakers built relationships to help prevent school violence
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Democrats hope for a nationalized Virginia election this fall
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Jonathan Williams / The Hill:
Americans continue their march to low-tax states
Discussion: Daily Wire
Kayla Goggin / courthousenews.com:
Bill Would Make Online Access to Federal Court Records Free
Tom O'Connor / Newsweek:
Israel Says It Wants ‘War with Iran’ and Is Meeting with Arab Countries to ‘Advance’ It
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
Laura Wilson / KOAA-TV:
Prime Time Sports forced to close, after removing Nike apparel from store