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7:30 PM ET, February 6, 2018

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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade … President Trump's vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan …
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
White House Chief of Staff: Trump not expected to extend DACA deadline … White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump is not expected to extend the March 5 deadline when work permits will begin to expire for young immigrants known as “dreamers.”
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Chief of staff Kelly suggests undocumented immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy’  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff John Kelly suggested Tuesday that some undocumented immigrants were “too afraid” or “too lazy” to sign up for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
CNN:
Trump: 'I'd love to see a shutdown' over immigration
Discussion: Vox, Mediaite and Joe.My.God.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trump Threatens Shutdown as Negotiators Close in on Budget Deal
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Kelsey Snell / NPR:
House Passes Funding Extension After Trump Says 'I'd Love To See A Shutdown'
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans.  50,000 Were Delivered.  —  The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food.  Thirty million meals needed to be delivered as soon as possible.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship … The Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce it is selling the newspaper, according to people familiar with the company's plans, in a surprise move that likely spells the end …
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump  — Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intel Committee was recorded speaking to Russian pranksters who spun elaborate ‘kompromat’ tale
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary … It was Christmastime in Washington, and Ben Carson couldn't stop talking about the apocalypse.  —  “Did you know,” the secretary of housing and urban development asked his acting chief of staff, Deana Bass …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
7 reasons not to completely lose it over the stock market's huge swings  —  Hopefully you didn't buy peak Bitcoin.  —  The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 666 points on Friday and another 1,175 points on Monday.  On Tuesday, it took a sharp dive early in the day and then bounced between positive …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
Performers And Staffers At “Sleep No More” Say Audience Members Have Sexually Assaulted Them  —  Former performers and staff at the wildly popular immersive theater production say the show's fantasy environment emboldens some audience members to commit sexual misconduct.
Discussion: Jezebel and The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Can You Still Date a Co-Worker?  Well, It's Complicated  —  Some employers are starting to review their rules and are now ‘drawing a hard line in the sand’  —  Is it still OK to date someone you work with?  —  Yes.  —  Well, actually, it depends.  —  You might need to disclose it.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The cowardice among Republicans is staggering  —  According to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the declassified Devin Nunes memo — alleging FBI misconduct in the Russia investigation — is “not an indictment of the FBI, of the Department of Justice.”  According to President Trump …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Biden: Trump should avoid Mueller interview, has ‘difficulty with precision’  —  Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that if he were one of President Donald Trump's attorneys, he would suggest Trump not consent to a special counsel interview for fear of being caught misleading investigators.
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
After approving Medicaid work requirements, Trump's HHS aims for lifetime coverage limits  —  WASHINGTON  —  After allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid enrollees, the Trump administration is now pondering lifetime limits on adults' access to coverage.
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway's ‘opioid cabinet’ sidelines drug czar's experts  —  President Donald Trump's war on opioids is beginning to look more like a war on his drug policy office.  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken control of the opioids agenda, quietly freezing out drug policy professionals …
Danielle Furfaro / New York Post:
Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph  —  A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday, sources told The Post.  —  The 2150 Acela was traveling from Washington D.C. to the Big Apple when the incident happened at about 11:20 a.m …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He Wants a Killer”: Post-Bannon, Post-Nunes, Post-Kelly Friction, a Frustrated Trump Searches for a West Wing Reset  —  He pines for old campaign hands Jason Miller, Corey Lewandowski, and David Bossie—but will Ivanka have the final say?  —  After the much-hyped Nunes memo failed to deliver …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
The Republican Fiscal Stimulus Could Be Bigger Than Obama's  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are pouring government stimulus into a steadily strengthening economy, adding economic fuel at a moment when unemployment is at a 16-year low and wages are beginning to rise, a combination that is stoking fears …
Washington Post:
Trump immigration plan could keep whites in U.S. majority for up to five more years … President Trump's proposal to cut legal immigration rates would delay the date that white Americans become a minority of the population by as few as one or as many as five additional years, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Breitbart
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
Sessions calls for ‘fresh start’ at FBI  —  Sessions: Rosenstein is leadership we want  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he believes the FBI needs a “fresh start” following FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's decision to step down.  —  “Well, I have believed …
John McWhorter / New York Times:
What Trump's Speech Says About His Mental Fitness  —  As part of the discussion about Donald Trump's lack of fitness for the presidency, some have argued that his linguistic capacities have worsened, suggesting significant cognitive decline.  —  In interviews in the 1980s and 1990s …
Discussion: Althouse
Mark Maurer / The Real Deal New York:
Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2 billion  —  Jamestown in contract to sell the 1.2M sf office-and-retail property at 75 Ninth Avenue  —  Google did not have to search far and wide for results.  —  The tech giant is close to acquiring the Chelsea Market building …
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It's Taking Over Europe  —  Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center, studies the six-inch-long marbled crayfish.  Finding specimens is easy: Dr. Lyko can buy the crayfish at pet stores in Germany, or he can head with colleagues to a nearby lake.
StarWars.com:
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Write and Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films  —  David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.  —  It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit …
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Facebook hired a full-time pollster to monitor Zuckerberg's approval ratings  —  Why Tavis McGinn quit after six months  —  Tavis McGinn applied for a job at Facebook last year hoping to work in market research.  He had previously spent three years at Google, where he helped large advertisers refine …
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Is Trump Serious about ‘Treasonous’ Democrats?  —  By now, we're all familiar with President Trump's remarkable gift for saying outrageous things that create controversy entirely for its own sake.  These controversies generally feature his liberal critics overreacting by many orders of magnitude …
John Gehring / Religion News Service:
Paul Ryan faces an urgent moral challenge  —  (RNS) — Blues legend Robert Johnson, the story goes, made a deal with the devil and sold his soul on a Mississippi highway to play virtuoso guitar.  House Speaker Paul Ryan's musical tastes reportedly lean more toward Metallica than the Delta blues …
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public.  She refuses. … The winning numbers triple-checked and the lottery ticket signed, the New Hampshire woman knew her life was about to change in a very positive way — except for one petrifying thing.
Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Rick Perlstein Becomes Twitter Hero After Speaking Up For Mika  —  This was revealing.  In a segment about fake news and modern technology that can create fake videos that was actually pretty interesting, historian Rick Perlstein politely asked to hear what Mika Brzezinski was trying to say …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
A flat-earther finally tried to fly away.  His rocket didn't even ignite. … A man who claims that Earth is flat tried to leave it in a homemade rocket Saturday but failed to overcome the gravitational force of a 13,166,800,000,000,000,000,000,000- pound sphere directly beneath him.
Washington Post:
Hero or hired gun?  How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation. … In the fall of 2016, a little more than a month before Donald Trump was elected president, Christopher Steele had the undivided attention of the FBI.  —  For months, the British former spy …
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
The Latest: Pritzker apologizes for comments on race  —  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on newly released FBI wiretaps of Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (all times local):  —  Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker is apologizing …
Anita Wadhwani / Tennessean.com:
Mayor Barry recommended city job for daughter of officer with whom she had affair  —  Nashville Mayor Megan Barry addresses the media on news of her affair Michael Schwab  —  Within months of taking office, Mayor Megan Barry recommended the adult daughter of the head of her security detail …
Kimberly Hutcherson / CNN:
Driver who hit Colts linebacker was an undocumented immigrant, police say  —  NFL player killed in drunk driving accident  —  (CNN)Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and another man were struck and killed in a suspected drunken driving accident early Sunday morning.
John Herrman / New York Times:
What I Learned from Watching My iPad's Slow Death  —  My old iPad just turned five, and it's starting to die.  If it could wonder about such things, it might question this prognosis.  Its memory, after all, still retrieves information as quickly as it ever did.
Eli Clifton / LobeLog:
Gorka Joins Outlet That Published “Ten Things I Hate About Jews”  —  Sebastian Gorka's role as a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump ended in August 2017.  A series of investigative articles tied him to Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group the State Department characterized as collaborating with the Nazis.
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX's Ambition Into Orbit  —  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Sign up for the Science Times newsletter and sync your calendar with the solar system.  —  From the same pad where NASA launched rockets that carried astronauts to the moon, a big, new American rocket arced into space on Tuesday.
 
 
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Christopher Haxel / Lansing State Journal:
In wake of Larry Nassar sentencing, John Geddert faces criminal investigation
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Ex-RNC chairman Steele: Carter Page still talking to the media 'because he's stupid'
Discussion: RedState
BostonGlobe.com:
Gronkowski's home robbed; ‘multiple safes and possible guns’ reportedly stolen
Joe Perticone / Business Insider:
One of Congress' most prolific tweeters and frequent Trump critics tell us why he quit Twitter
Ben Hall / WTVF-TV:
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Stephen J. Dubner / Freakonomics:
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 Earlier Items: 
Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:
Exclusive: Russian Gun Group With Ties To NRA Backed By Right-Wing Extremists
KERO-TV:
Judge rules in favor of Bakersfield baker who refused to design wedding cake for same-sex couple
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court rejects challenge to Trump University settlement
Nathan McDermott / CNN:
GOP Senate office rips Trump nominee: ‘Cynics and nuts’ will have hard time securing confirmation
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Icahn: The market will one day ‘implode’ because of these wacky funds using so much leverage
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Axios and Eschaton
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
No One Is Silencing Katie Roiphe #MeToo has started a robust, complicated conversation …
Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Tied to Trump, these two California Republican congressmen lag in poll