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7:00 PM ET, February 18, 2019

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CBS Chicago:
Jussie Smollett Case: Clues Into Potential Motive Behind The Attack  —  (CBS) -"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show's studio didn't get a “bigger reaction,” is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Did the Media Jump the Gun on the Jussie Smollett Story?
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Washington Post:
Roger Stone deletes photo of judge presiding over his case, says he didn't mean to threaten her
Discussion: Political Wire
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Autopsy of a Dead Coup  —  The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign's use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.
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Jacob Solis / The Nevada Independent:
Warren: If officials believe Trump cannot fulfill duties, they must invoke 25th Amendment
FiveThirtyEight:
Could Congress Block Trump's Emergency Declaration?  —  President Trump has declared a national emergency in order to pay for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but will Congress block it?  That's a long shot — but we can't rule it out either.
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:   California AG: At least 13 states suing over Trump's national emergency
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Elizabeth Warren To Unveil Sweeping Plan For Universal Child Care  —  The proposal could put the issue on top of the 2020 campaign agenda.  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will unveil a major new initiative on Tuesday designed to make sure every family can afford high-quality child care …
Brennan Weiss / Business Insider:
RANKED: The greatest US presidents, according to political scientists  — Nearly 200 political scientists ranked the presidents by order of greatness in a survey, and President Donald Trump came in last.  — President Abraham Lincoln was first.  — Members of the American Political …
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Hans von der Burchard / Politico:
Juncker: Trump ‘gave me his word’ not to impose car tariffs
Dennis Wagner / Arizona Republic:
Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says  —  For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by three paint buckets stored in the National Park's museum collection building, unaware that they were being exposed to radiation.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Considering Powell, Craft, Grenell, James for UN Job, Sources Say  — Ivanka Trump may also be considered, person familiar says  — State Department spokeswoman Nauert withdrew nomination  —  President Donald Trump is considering four people to be his next UN ambassador …
David French / National Review:
Stephen Miller's Own Words Show the Weakness of the Trump Legal Argument on the Wall  —  One of the first rules of effective litigation is that you don't want your client to make statements out loud that reveal the weakness of your legal case.  On Sunday morning, Trump adviser Stephen Miller violated that rule.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Florida sixth-grader charged with misdemeanor after refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance  —  A Florida student is facing misdemeanor charges after a confrontation with his teacher that began with his refusal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and escalated into what officials described as disruptive behavior.
BBC:
Seven MPs leave Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership  —  Seven MPs have resigned from the Labour Party in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit and anti-Semitism.  —  They are: Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker and Ann Coffey.
Discussion: NPR, Breitbart, Axios, Mediaite and Mashable
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Stephen Castle / New York Times:
7 Labour Lawmakers Resign in U.K., in Rebuke of Jeremy Corbyn
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump can't run the Mueller playbook on New York feds  —  Even as speculation mounts that special counsel Robert Mueller might be winding down his investigation, a parallel threat to President Donald Trump only seems to be growing within his own Justice Department: the Southern District of New York.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Obama Quietly Gives Advice to 2020 Democrats, but No Endorsement  —  A secret meeting of former President Barack Obama's financial backers convened in Washington early this month: Organized by David Jacobson and John Phillips, Mr. Obama's former ambassadors to Canada and Italy …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
How Mitch McConnell Enables Trump  —  He's not an institutionalist.  He's the man who surrendered the Senate to the president.  —  Mr. Jentleson is a former deputy chief of staff to retired Senator Harry Reid.  —  Among the casualties of President Trump's declaration of a national emergency …
Darby Beane / WBKO-TV:
Man accused of pulling gun on victim wearing MAGA hat  —  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) — A Tennessee man is in jail after being accused of pulling a gun on a Sam's Club customer Saturday.  —  According to the police report, officers were called to Sam's Club due to a person with a gun.
Meredith Watson / Washington Post:
I'm willing to testify in public.  Justin Fairfax should, too.  —  Meredith Watson lives in Maryland.  —  When I came forward to report that Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax raped me when we were both Duke University students in 2000, I did so to support another victim of sexual assault …
Discussion: National Review and Mediaite
Miles Parks / NPR:
Officials Describe ‘Coordinated, Unlawful’ Scheme In Disputed N.C. Election  —  Three months after the midterm elections, North Carolina officials are publicly laying out their evidence for the first time that the outcome in the state's 9th Congressional District may have been tainted by election fraud.
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Tells New Hampshire: ‘I Am Not a Democratic Socialist’  —  CONCORD, N.H. — Senator Kamala Harris, visiting New Hampshire for the first time in her life, distanced herself on Monday from the last candidate to win this state's Democratic presidential primary, saying she was …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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The Babylon Bee:
Nation's Liberals Devastated After Learning Hate Crime Didn't Actually Happen
Erica Byfield / NBC New York:
Window of Brooklyn Synagogue Smashed on Sabbath: Rabbi
John Dickerson / The Atlantic:
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5Stars' Salvini prosecution dilemma
Leslie Hook / Financial Times:
Surge in US economists' support for carbon tax to tackle emissions
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Bernie Sanders might launch presidential bid at Brooklyn College
Discussion: NY State of Politics
 Earlier Items: 
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Hurd says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump's border wall
Discussion: Arizona Republic and ThinkProgress
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Chinese and Iranian Hackers Renew Their Attacks on U.S. Companies
Discussion: The Week and Bloomberg
Gallup:
Record High Name Government as Most Important Problem
Discussion: TheBlaze
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Biden's polling lead shaky ahead of 2020 decision
Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press:
DC's many prankster activists turn anger into street theater
Discussion: Axios