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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Inside Ivanka's Dreamworld  —  You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me.  Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump.  “Oh!” the president said.  “Ivanka!”  —  Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished.
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James Politi / Financial Times:   Trump considered daughter Ivanka for World Bank post
Washington Post:
White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes  —  White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump's political adversaries …
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NBC News:
Trump advisers discussed whether military could build and run migrant detention camps  —  Top Trump advisers met at the White House Tuesday to talk about increasing military involvement at the border, including building tent cities for migrants.  —  WASHINGTON — When some of President …
CNN:
Trump confirms he's looking at releasing detained immigrants into so-called sanctuary cities
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
Pence says Buttigieg bringing ‘attacks on my Christian faith’  —  Pence: Trump is expressing frustration of Americans  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence hopes South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will offer more than attacks on his religious faith or the character …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Pence says he considered Buttigieg ‘a friend’ who now is making ‘attacks on my Christian faith’  —  The week-long back and forth between Vice President Pence and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg over their past working relationship in Indiana and their differing views of religion in politics continued into Friday.
John Harwood / CNBC:   2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg on taxing the rich and the future of American capitalism
Catherine Garcia / The Week:   Sean Hannity seems to have deleted all references to Julian Assange, WikiLeaks on his Twitter
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: This is Elizabeth Warren's Catch-22
Associated Press:
Buttigieg goes from cordial to critical of Pence on campaign
Discussion: Axios
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
W. Samuel Patten sentenced to probation after steering Ukrainian money to Trump inaugural  —  An American political consultant whose guilty plea marked the first confirmation that illegal foreign money was used to help fund Donald Trump's inaugural committee was sentenced to probation Friday …
Discussion: Axios, Bloomberg and The Week
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Patten escapes jail time in Mueller-related foreign lobbying case
David Cay Johnston / The Daily Beast:
Here's the Law That Requires Mnuchin to Turn Over Trump's Taxes, or Lose His Office and Go to Prison  —  The law is clear, and it leaves no wiggle room.  The consequences for breaking it include removal from public office and up to five years in prison.  —  Donald Trump and his top White …
Kriston Capps / CityLab:
The Hidden Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed  —  Since its official unveiling last month, critics have been teeing off on Hudson Yards, the $25 billion office-and-apartment megaproject on Manhattan's West Side.  The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright calls it “bargain-basement building …
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Elizabeth Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic party  —  It may well not be Warren who wins the Democratic nomination, but whoever does will be campaigning on her ideas  —  There's still nearly a year to go before the Iowa caucuses, the first contest of the Democratic presidential primary …
Discussion: Vox
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘Liz Was a Diehard Conservative’
Discussion: Jezebel and Boston Globe
Joe Walsh / The Bulwark:
What We Already Know About the Mueller Report Should Scare Us  —  And Congress has a duty to push forward from here.  —  The Russia probe is too big and too important to be judged by a highlight reel.  Yes, there are some clear takeaways from Attorney General William Barr's summary of the report's conclusions.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Post-Mueller Report, Trump Approval Back at 45% High
Discussion: Washington Post and Opinion Today
Tal Kopan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Trump's new attorney general launches fresh changes to immigration courts  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is making his first major moves on immigration policy since his confirmation, setting up big changes for the courts that decide whether immigrants will stay in the U.S. or be deported.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lulu Ramadan / Palm Beach Post:
Undisclosed cash flowed at Trump inaugural ball with ties to China, embattled Saipan casino  —  Thousands of dollars in donations flowed to an undisclosed source at a Trump inaugural ball with links to China and dubious donors, but no financial records.  —  In the decked-out ballroom …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump  —  After Bernie Sanders lost his primary campaign for president against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election.
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying  —  Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
A column suggested waiters could ‘tamper’ with Trump officials' food.  Amid backlash, the Boston Globe pulled it.  —  The roughly 1,200-word op-ed that appeared on the Boston Globe's website Wednesday began with the author looking back on one of his “biggest regrets” in life — “not pissing in Bill Kristol's salmon.”
Discussion: The Week
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David Limbaugh / Townhall:
Leftists Whipping Themselves Into a Jacobin Frenzy
Discussion: Instapundit
Michael Weiss / The Atlantic:
Julian Assange Got What He Deserved  —  In the end, the man who reportedly smeared feces on the walls of his lodgings, mistreated his kitten, and variously blamed the ills of the world on feminists and bespectacled Jewish writers was pulled from the Ecuadorian embassy looking every inch …
Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia Promised Support to Libyan Warlord in Push to Seize Tripoli  —  Days before Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to seize the capital and attempt to unite the divided country under his rule, Saudi Arabia promised tens of millions of dollars to help pay for the operation …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans are anti-voting and anti-democratic  —  By definition, you get a more robust democracy and leaders more reflective of the population as a whole when more people vote.  Democracy has little meaning if it doesn't rest on the broadest possible franchise.
Discussion: Feeds and NPR
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012.  He Makes About $40,000 a Year.  —  COTATI, Calif. — Uber's public stock offering next month will make a bunch of people remarkably rich.  Peter Ashlock is not one of them, although he has toiled for the ride-hailing company almost since the beginning.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
With Polls and Private Meetings, Republicans Craft Blunt Messaging to Paint Democrats as Extreme  —  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are sharpening and poll-testing lines of attack that portray Democratic policies on health care, the environment and abortion as far outside the norm …
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Luke O'Neil / The Guardian:
‘Fox News brain’: meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news  —  Fox News built a wall between Luke O'Neil and his mother, and he's just one of many families split by its viral ideology  —  I love my mother.  She is one of the kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet and I would be nothing without her.
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Barr Brings Accountability  —  Trump's foes call it ‘stunning and scary.’ Here's what they have to be scared about.
Discussion: Instapundit and Power Line
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Trump's transgender military ban now in effect  —  The Pentagon initiated Friday the transgender military ban in accordance with Trump administration plans for the policy, returning the U.S. military to restrictions on LGBT service that harken to the days of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”
Daily Wire:
WATCH: Daily Wire's Knowles Sprayed With Bleach-Like Substance By SJW Protester During Speech At University of Missouri-KC  —  Speaking at the University of Missouri-Kansas City on Thursday night, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles was attacked by a masked protester who used a super soaker …
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“They Just Had an Unbelievable String of Assholes Running the Place”: The L.A. Times, Once a Print-Media Tragedy, Is Rising from the Near-Dead  —  Having survived a foul-mouthed owner, frat boys, and new-media loopiness, L.A.'s paper of record is now journalism happy-news …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
A Federal Judge Compared Trump's Criticism Of The Courts To The KKK And Segregationists  —  WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual public rebuke against President Donald Trump by a sitting member of the federal judiciary, US District Judge Carlton Reeves delivered a speech Thursday calling …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
'We've done a lot more than you would think': How the health-insurance industry is working to pull Democrats away from Medicare-for-all  —  At a company town hall meeting in late February, a UnitedHealthcare executive assured employees that the private health insurance giant was indeed working …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
For Democrats, Twitter Is Not Real Life.  But It Could Be.  —  Democrats on Twitter are weirder than they appear.  The small slice of blue America that's visible on social media is much more ideological, progressive, white, college-educated — and, above all, interested in politics — than the Democratic coalition writ large.
Discussion: The Federalist
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Former White House aide who mocked McCain as ‘dying anyway’ joining pro-Trump PAC  —  Washington (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the former White House aide who was let go after she mocked the late Sen. John McCain, is joining the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action to handle communications, CNN has learned.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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The Guardian:
US urges Saudi prince to ditch aide linked to Khashoggi killing
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Cory Booker's not surging in the 2020 race. His campaign says that's just fine
Discussion: Washington Post
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Dem challenges JPMorgan CEO to try and budget employee's low salary
Discussion: Morning Consult, The Week and CNN
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Trolls hijacked a scientist's image to attack Katie Bouman. They picked the wrong astrophysicist.
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Roger Stone's woes: He's broke. Donald Trump doesn't call. And his wife broke her ankle.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Take These Early Poll Results With a Grain of Salt
Discussion: National Review
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Andrew Yang unveils 3D hologram to be used for virtual campaigning
New York Times:
A Charred Gas Can, a Receipt and an Arrest in Fires of 3 Black Churches
 Earlier Items: 
Nicky Woolf / The Atlantic:
The Implosion of Jeremy Corbyn
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
FDNY firefighter who survived 9/11 says Republican criticizing Ilhan Omar told him he was 'too busy …
Chris McGonigal / HuffPost:
Viral Photo Of Crying Girl At The Border Wins 2019 World Press Photo Awards
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
You Say Democracy, I Say Republic