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11:30 AM ET, February 21, 2017

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Roxane Gay is Spelled With One “N”:
All I really need to say:  —  In canceling Milo's book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place.  When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized …
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
USA Today:
Could Milo Yiannopoulos now lose his lucrative book deal?
Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources  —  In the week before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Brussels and pledged America's “steadfast and enduring” commitment to the European Union, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with a German diplomat …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls anti-Semitism ‘horrible’  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitism, calling recent threats against Jewish community centers “horrible” and a “reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”
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Washington Post:
Jewish cemetery vandalized. Jewish centers threatened. ADL calls on Trump to ‘step forward’.
Simon Carraud / Reuters:
France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf  —  French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
The arrogant thinking of liberal sports writers  —  “Today, sports writing is basically a liberal profession, practiced by liberals who enforce an unapologetically liberal code,” writes Bryan Curtis at The Ringer.  He's right.  —  You can see it in the way sportswriters police a consensus …
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  In a blistering piece written for the Washington Post — with accompanying video — a CIA veteran went public with his resignation from the agency saying …
Discussion: alan.com
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Edward Price / Washington Post:
I didn't think I'd ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit.
Discussion: Business Insider and TalkLeft
New York Daily News:
TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened  —  No lines.  No waiting.  And no TSA screeners.  —  Eleven passengers strolled through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday after Transportation Security …
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New York Post:
Eleven travelers breeze through JFK Airport in security lapse
Discussion: TheBlaze and New York Magazine
Christina Dugan / People.com:
David Cassidy Reveals He Is Battling Dementia: ‘A Part of Me Always Knew This Was Coming’  —  David Cassidy is battling dementia.  —  The 66-year-old actor, widely known for his starring role as Keith Partridge on the 1970s series The Partridge Family, reveals to PEOPLE that he is fighting the memory loss disease.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Ohio's Trump country, a House conservative gets an earful  —  MARION, Ohio — It was Rep. Jim Jordan's second Presidents' Day visit to the home of Warren G. Harding, but it was the first to be surrounded by protesters.  Nearly 200 people had swarmed the building, their signs accusing …
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New York Times:
What to Watch: Republicans Return to Town Halls, and Protesters Follow
Discussion: Axios and Tampa Bay Times
David Brooks / New York Times:
This Century Is Broken  —  Most of us came of age in the last half of the 20th century and had our perceptions of “normal” formed in that era.  It was, all things considered, an unusually happy period.  No world wars, no Great Depressions, fewer civil wars, fewer plagues.
Discussion: US Macmillan
Ashley Lisenby / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Up to 200 headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery, director says … People walk through toppled graves at Chesed She Emeth Cemetery in University City on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 where almost 200 gravestones were vandalized over the weekend.  Photo by Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
Discussion: FOX2now.com
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CNN:
Mar-a-Lago: Trump's Winter White House takes over Palm Beach  —  Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, a newcomer to the White House, is still developing his relationship with the people of Washington.  But that's far from the case with the people of Palm Beach …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump's aides don't want to admit the President is golfing
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas  —  AUSTIN — The group of 40 people gathered at a popular burger and fish taco restaurant in San Antonio listened eagerly to the latest news about the anti-vaccine fight taking place in the Texas legislature.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For a Trump adviser, an odyssey from the fringes of Washington to the center of power  —  Sebastian Gorka at the International Special Training Center's Military Assistance Course in Germany.  For him, the terror threat is rooted in Islam and “martial” parts of the Koran that he says predispose some Muslims to acts of terror.
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago 3, Camp David 0.  With Trump as president, is the rustic Md. retreat doomed?  —  THURMONT, Md. — Dwayne Snurr, a janitor and lifelong resident of this rural, working-class town 60 miles from the White House, was eating chicken wings in a cafe off Main Street last week …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency exists in a bubble  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  President Trump's speech over the weekend along Florida's Space Coast — effectively a campaign rally staged just one month into his term — served, more than anything else, as an illustration …
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's nominees gripe the White House isn't protecting them  —  Candidates for top jobs in President Donald Trump's administration are getting spooked after Andrew Puzder's nomination was scuttled, and they fear the White House isn't doing enough to protect them from grueling confirmations …
Discussion: Political Wire
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Top lawmaker: Pushing ‘inner city’ kids to college is a waste  —  Suddenly in the winter of 2017, politician town halls are a thing.  The simmering anger from the divisive 2016 election now has hundreds of people crowding meeting rooms for the handful of Congress members …
Discussion: Eschaton
Clarisse Loughrey / The Independent:
Independent cinemas in the US to show 1984 as Trump protest  —  90 cinemas - including leading US locations Alamo Drafthouse, IFC Center, and Film Society of Lincoln Center - will screen the film on 4 April  —  Breitbart ‘plans to fire senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos’
Discussion: The Guardian and Instapundit
Brandon Morse / TheBlaze:
New study shows 75 percent of Venezuelans losing dangerous amounts of weight due to starvation  —  The South American country of Venezuela, infamously known for its wide reaching socialist policies that have left the country devastated, has reached a point where its citizens are losing almost 20 pounds due to their lack of food.
Discussion: Hot Air and Infowars
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Fox News:
Study: Venezuelans lost 19 lbs. on average over past year due to lack of food
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 
 
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
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These Republicans didn't like Trump at first. They do now.
Amy Graff / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. rainfall has now exceeded normal for a full season: Here are the numbers
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Trump's first month of travel expenses cost taxpayers just less than what Obama spent in a year
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Steven Overly / Washington Post:
Uber hires Eric Holder to investigate sexual harassment claims
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Venezuela Is a Ticking Time Bomb
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The Trump White House is already cooking the books
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Seven Days in February
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Lawmakers to Trump: End unchecked war powers
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump to roll back Obama's climate, water rules through executive action
Steven Morris / The Guardian:
British Muslim teacher denied entry to US on school trip
Discussion: Raw Story
Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:
Pope says texting at the dinner table could lead to war
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Trump admin to rescind trans student protections: source
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Obama pollster Cornell Belcher on the failures that led to President Trump: “What happens …
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
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