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8:55 PM ET, February 28, 2020

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Washington Post:
A second case of coronavirus found through spread in California  —  California has a second case of community transmission of the coronavirus, a 65-year-old resident of Santa Clara County who has no known history of travel to countries hit hard by the outbreak, people familiar with the case said Friday.
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Washington Post:
Trump officials discuss tax cuts, other emergency measures in hopes of tackling coronavirus fallout  —  The proposals would do little to stop the virus's spread, but would aim to arrest economic fears  —  Trump administration officials are holding preliminary conversations about economic responses …
Thomas Franck / CNBC:   Trump says the coronavirus is the Democrats' ‘new hoax’
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
With coronavirus, Trump's lies and his reassurances backfire
Discussion: Daily Kos and Reuters
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Who is strongest against Trump?  Must-win states and swing voters show Biden holds edge over Sanders  —  Is Bernie Sanders “electable”?  It's a question that's been troubling many Democrats, who fear that despite his strong showings in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada …
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Anthony Brooks / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Sanders Opens Substantial Lead In Mass., Challenging Warren On Her Home Turf
CNN:   CNN polls: Bernie Sanders holds big leads in California and Texas ahead of critical Super Tuesday vote
HuffPost:
Devastating Court Ruling Allows White House To Block Testimony From Former Counsel Don McGahn  —  The ruling “all but assures future Presidential stonewalling of Congress,” a dissenting judge wrote.  —  A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from House Democrats …
Discussion: The Week
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Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:   Appeals Court Won't Force Ex-Trump Counsel to Comply With House Subpoena
Brian Faler / Politico:
Trump wants to cut corporate rate again, Mulvaney says  —  A top administration official said today that President Donald Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate again, to 20 percent from the current 21 percent.  —  Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney also said a proposal …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Media Covering Coronavirus to ‘Bring Down the President,’ Mulvaney Claims
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Trump Thinks Corporations Could Use More Tax Cuts
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Has Won Black Activists.  She's Losing the Black Vote.  —  She earned coveted endorsements and released racial justice plans that scholars agree could make a real difference.  That hasn't meant much on the ground.  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — The crowd at a music venue here was energized …
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Brian Rosenwald / The Week:
The feeble rise of the elderly candidate
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Trump nominates John Ratcliffe for top intelligence post  —  President Trump on Friday said he is nominating Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe to serve as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), months after the Republican congressman abruptly withdrew his name for the post.
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill and The Daily Beast
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Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:   Trump picks Ratcliffe as top intelligence official, again
Politico:
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe again as intel chief
Discussion: The Hill
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Stephen Miller's new wife is in charge of approving all coronavirus communications  —  Texas cops ask local addicts to bring in their meth so it can be purportedly tested for coronavirus  —  Police in Texas are trying to scare local addicts into bringing their drug stashes …
Discussion: KCRG-TV
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Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
US to sign historic deal with Taliban, Trump announces, beginning end of US war in Afghanistan and withdrawal of American troops  —  The deal is also supposed to lead to Afghan negotiations with the Taliban.  —  After a week-long deal to reduce violence across Afghanistan …
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Amber Athey / Spectator USA:   BREAKING: Pompeo to sign historic peace agreement with Taliban
The Guardian:
Naomi Seibt: ‘anti-Greta’ activist called white nationalist an inspiration  —  German teenager spoke at an event at US rightwing conference CPAC  —  A young campaigner who has been hailed by climate sceptics as the right's answer to Greta Thunberg has previously described a white nationalist …
Discussion: Byline Times and American Thinker
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HuffPost:
‘Anti-Greta’ Activist Naomi Seibt Praises White Nationalist At CPAC
Discussion: New York Times
Bud Kennedy / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
A paranoid militia infiltrating Texas police is bent on rebellion, ‘ready to rise up’  —  A revolution-minded, conspiracy-bent militia group named the Oath Keepers is recruiting law officers in Hood County to take up arms in what the founder predicts will be a “bloody civil war” against the U.S. government.
Discussion: Raw Story
PR Newswire:
5WPR Survey Reveals 38% of Beer-Drinking Americans Wouldn't Buy Corona Now  —  Corona's buzz score has fallen from 75 to 51 in 2020  —  5W Public Relations, one of the top 15 independently-owned PR agencies in the U.S., has conducted a survey via phone of 737 American beer drinkers over the age …
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It  —  Quarantines and restrictive measures served a purpose in the old days.  They can now, too.  —  There are two ways to fight epidemics: the medieval and the modern.  —  The modern way is to surrender to the power of the pathogens …
Laura Bassett / GQ:
Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews  —  The Hardball anchor frequently demeans women guests, with objectifying and belittling comments, both on and off air.  —  MSNBC host Chris Matthews, whose long history of sexist comments and behavior have somehow not yet gotten him fired …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Rep. Garamendi: NIH official canceled on five Sunday talk shows after Pence's office ‘took over’  —  Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) on Friday said the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was told to “stand down” and not appear on five Sunday morning talk shows to discuss the coronavirus.
Anna Merlan / VICE:
Here's the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too  —  After a recent, extensive, and rather withering bout of bad press, the facial recognition company Clearview AI has changed its homepage, which now touts all the things it says its technology can do, and a few things it can't.
NBC News:
U.S. postpones Asian summit in Las Vegas amid coronavirus fears  —  A White House visit by Austria's chancellor scheduled for March 3, was also postponed on Friday,  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has called off a major summit of Asian leaders next month in Las Vegas amid growing alarm …
Michael Harriot / The Root:
Every Democratic Candidates' ‘Black Agenda,’ Ranked  —  On Saturday, voters in South Carolina will sound the starting gun for the race to the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.  After giving white America a head start on selecting the party's nominee, the Democratic Party now turns to South Carolina.
Discussion: American Prospect
Rachel Paula Abrahamson / TODAY.com:
School policy forbids kids from saying ‘no’ when asked to dance  —  One mom is fighting back on behalf of her 11-year-old daughter.  —  Alicia Hobson's 11-year-old daughter, Azlyn, was counting down the days until the Valentine's Day dance at her Utah middle school.
Discussion: TheBlaze and Joanne Jacobs
Mark McLaughlin / The Times:
Donald Trump's son denies claim over cash for Turnberry  —  Donald Trump's purchase of a Scottish golf course was part of his “huge cash spending spree in the midst of a global financial crisis, while his son was bragging about ‘money pouring in from Russia’,” it was claimed yesterday.
Amy Spiro / Jewish Insider:
Sanders would easily beat Trump among Jewish voters, poll shows  —  SURVEY SAYS  —  Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would beat President Donald Trump 65-30% among Jewish voters, according to a new poll of 1,001 American Jews conducted by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Associates …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
For the first time, there are fewer registered Republicans than independents  —  For the first time in history, there are more registered independents in the United States than there are registered Republicans.  —  It may not be for the reason you think, though.
Carl Goldman / Washington Post:
I have the coronavirus.  So far, it isn't that bad.  —  My treatment has largely consisted of drinking gallons and gallons of Gatorade  —  I have the coronavirus.  And it hasn't been that bad.  —  I am in my late 60s, and the sickest I've ever been was when I had bronchitis several years ago.
Discussion: Twitchy
CNBC:
Dow falls 350 points Friday to cap the worst week for Wall Street since the financial crisis  —  Stuart Frankel's Steve Grasso explains his investment strategy amid sell-off  —  Stocks tumbled once again on Friday, capping off their worst week since the financial crisis …
BBC:
ویرو س کر;ونا در ایرا ن جان ‘دست کم ۲۱۰ نفر’ را گرفت ه است
Discussion: Townhall
Stephanie Hegarty / BBC:
The boss who put everyone on 70K  —  In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m.  Five years later he's still on the minimum salary, and says the gamble has paid off.
Discussion: kottke.org
Ben Jacobs / GEN:
Michael Bloomberg's North Carolina Game Is Seriously Unlike Anything Else  —  The Super Tuesday state is the former New York mayor's best shot at primary delegates — and he knows it  —  eeing the Bloomberg presidential campaign up close, there is no easy way to describe it.
Discussion: NBC News, NewNowNext and Fox News
 
 
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CREW:
A Disgraceful Milestone: Trump's 3,000 Conflicts of Interest
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Judge voids nearly 1 million acres of oil and gas leases, saying Trump policy undercut public input
Nihar Kabinittal / ABC News:
Amid coronavirus threat, Trump heads to South Carolina for latest effort to disrupt Democratic primary
Discussion: Associated Press
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Conservative pundits blame a grab bag of supposed villains amid the coronavirus outbreak
Discussion: GQ, New York Times and Slate
Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Sanders Pretty Much Tells Rust Belt Workers He's Ready to Brutalize Them
Discussion: Redstate
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Can Bernie Sanders Get Away With Hiding His Medical Records?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin appeals court rules voters targeted for purge will remain on the rolls
Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
How Will Trump's Supreme Court Remake America?
ProPublica:
The RNC Stopped Paying a Data Firm After A Serious Breach.  Then It Paid A Mysterious LLC With the Same Address.
Associated Press:
Sanders-linked group entered into racial discrimination NDA
Discussion: Twitchy
 

 
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