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Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner Shows There's a Shady-Yet-Legal Way to Get Rich Kids Into College  —  Today's news of a massive college admissions scam that has ensnared at least 40 people, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, has a lot of people asking the same question …
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Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
Alleged perils of crossing White House power couple, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, detailed in new book  —  When Mark Corallo, then the spokesman for President Donald Trump's legal team, declined an offer to take over as the White House communications director in the summer of 2017 …
Discussion: Raw Story
United States Senator Mike Lee:
Sen. Lee Introduces ARTICLE ONE Act to Reclaim Congressional Power  —  WASHINGTON - Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the ARTICLE ONE Act today, a bill that would take back significant legislative powers given to the executive branch by the National Emergencies Act of 1976.
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Sophia Bollag / Sacramento Bee:
Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop death penalty in California, giving reprieves to 737 death row inmates
NBC Southern California:
Governor Expected to Announce Executive Action to Reduce Use of Death Penalty
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Cary Aspinwall / Dallas Morning News:
Boeing 737 Max 8 pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw  —  Pilots repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the Boeing 737 Max 8 to federal authorities, with one captain calling the flight manual “inadequate and almost criminally insufficient” several months …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Trump budget guts White House drug control office — again
Discussion: BBC, New York Times and USA Today
Kathryn A. Wolfe / Politico:
Pilots complained at least 5 times about Boeing 737 MAX problems, records show
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Georgetown Rich Kid ‘Gloated’ After Allegedly Cheating SATs  —  Isabelle Henriquez is one of the only students accused of willingly participating in the fraud—and now her degree may be in jeopardy.  —  Scott Bixby  —  According to her LinkedIn page, Isabelle Henriquez is “a rapid learner” …
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
New York Times:
College Admissions Scandal: Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged  —  Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
All College Admissions Are a Pay-to-Play Scandal
Discussion: New York Times, The Atlantic and Vox
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Massive college admissions cheating scandal snares Hollywood stars Lori Laughlin, Felicity Huffman
Associated Press:
Trump appreciates Pelosi's ‘statement against impeachment’  —  President Donald Trump and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (puh-LOH'-see) agree: He shouldn't be impeached.  —  Trump tweeted Wednesday he greatly appreciates Pelosi's “statement against impeachment” but says …
Discussion: Politico
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John Bresnahan / Politico:   ‘Absolutely, dramatically different’: House Democrats struggle with breakneck pace of Trump era
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Felicity Huffman awoke to FBI agents with guns drawn at her L.A. home in college cheating raid  —  When Felicity Huffman opened the door to her Los Angeles home at 6 a.m. Tuesday, she was met by FBI agents with their guns drawn, according a source familiar with the incident.
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Wall Street Journal:
DOJ Probes Whether Fugitive Financier Supplied Donation to Trump Re-Election Effort  —  The Justice Department is investigating whether $100,000 donated to a Trump-related political fundraising committee came from a fugitive Malaysian businessman alleged to be at the center of a global financial scandal.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders aide apologizes for questioning American Jews' ‘dual allegiance’ to Israel  —  A spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign apologized Tuesday after questioning whether the “American-Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the state of Israel” — a comment condemned …
Washington Post:
THE FENTANYL FAILURE  —  Despite mounting deaths and warnings, the Obama administration did not take extraordinary measures to confront an extraordinary crisis, experts say.  —  SCROLL DOWN  —  In May 2016, a group of national health experts issued an urgent plea in a private letter …
Discussion: Political Wire
Susan Davis / NPR:
Speaker Pelosi Revokes Vice President Pence's House Office Space  —  The speaker giveth, and the speaker taketh away.  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has reclaimed office space her predecessor, Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., awarded to Vice President Pence.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Wacky Tale of Paul Manafort, Anne Hathaway's Fraudster Ex-Boyfriend, and a Vatican Land Scam  —  Manafort and his then-partner talked about their plans to do business with the Italian who lured in investors with phony claims about sweetheart deals on the church's real estate.  —  Betsy Woodruff
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Exclusive: Excerpt from “Kushner Inc” details Comey firing  —  Here's a sneak peek for Axios readers at “Kushner, Inc.,” by investigative reporter Vicky Ward, out next Tuesday from St. Martin's Press:
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Media Matters President Wrote Blog Posts About ‘Japs,’ ‘Jewry’ And ‘Trannies’  —  Media Matters President Angelo Carusone is currently leading a boycott campaign against Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of The Daily Caller News Foundation, in an attempt to get him fired.
Scott Bullock / The Atlantic:
The Supreme Court Resuscitates the Eighth Amendment  —  Tyson Timbs's story starts, as so many stories do today, with opioids.  Following a workplace injury in Ohio, Timbs developed a painkiller addiction, which led him to heroin.  When his aunt in Indiana needed help due to illness …
Eline Schaart / Politico:
Theresa May confirms she will vote to rule out a no-deal Brexit  —  The prime minister said she understands ‘the voice of the country’ and people's desire to leave the EU.  —  Theresa May confirmed that she will vote to rule out a no-deal Brexit during the vote in the House of Commons Wednesday evening.
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GOV.UK:
Temporary tariff regime for no deal Brexit published
Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico and The Guardian
Allison Pecorin / ABC News:
Looking at 47 months in jail in Virginia case, Paul Manafort faces 2nd sentencing in DC case  —  Paul Manafort is expected to be sentenced in the District of Columbia Wednesday morning, marking the likely conclusion of the former Trump campaign chairman's year-and-a-half long legal battle.
Discussion: ABC7, The Daily Beast and The Week
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge Amy Berman Jackson returns to the spotlight with Manafort, Stone hearings
Discussion: News Agency UNIAN
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Howard Schultz to outline how he'd make presidential appointments  —  Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is set to outline how a centrist independent like himself might staff a Cabinet and select U.S. Supreme Court justices as president, arguing that the changes he's proposing could help cure the nation's “crisis of division.”
Discussion: The Week
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:   Senate Advances Trump Court Pick Who Blamed Women For Date Rape
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Lisa Page transcripts reveal details of anti-Trump ‘insurance policy,’ concerns over full-blown probe  —  House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Tuesday released hundreds of pages of transcripts from last year's closed-door interview with ex-FBI attorney Lisa Page, revealing new details …
YouTube:
Mitt Romney Explains His Candle Technique |  TMZ … We just got Mitt in D.C. who offered up an explanation as to why he plucked the candles off one by one — and it's a legit reason — dude just wanted to keep his staff healthy.  —  About TMZ:  —  TMZ has consistently been credited …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
No Hate Left Behind  —  Lethal partisanship is taking us into dangerous territory.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  A recent survey asked Republicans and Democrats whether they agreed with the statement that members …
Gigi Sukin / Axios:
Defense Department's new transgender policy outlines harsh limits for troops  —  The Defense Department approved a new policy on Tuesday after a prolonged legal conflict that dramatically limits transgender troops and military recruits from transitioning to another sex, ordering members …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
New Pentagon transgender rule sets limits for troops
Discussion: Advocate, Splinter and PinkNews
 
 
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Joe Biden's and Bernie Sanders's Support Isn't Just About Name Recognition
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org and New York Times
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Myth of Joe Biden's Working-Class Support
Washington Post:
VA chief Robert Wilkie has pushed to be the next Pentagon chief
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Mueller says Flynn's cooperation ‘complete’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dan Merica / CNN:
John Hickenlooper didn't mean to forget who you are: How face blindness has affected his political career
Discussion: Political Wire
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Umair Irfan / Vox:
We need to talk about the ethics of having children in a warming world
Discussion: The Week