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3:45 PM ET, March 3, 2017

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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Man accused of making threats against Jewish community centers arrested in St. Louis  —  A man accused of making at least eight threats against Jewish Community Centers was arrested by the FBI in St. Louis, Missouri, this morning.  —  The suspect, 31-year-old Juan Thompson …
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Former journalist arrested, charged with threats against Jewish facilities
Justice News:
Cyberstalking Charge Brought In Manhattan Federal Court Against Missouri Man For A Pattern …
The Intercept:
Statement on the Arrest of Former Intercept Reporter Juan Thompson
Discussion: NBC News
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Suspect Who Phoned 8 Bomb Threats To Jewish Community Centers Arrested...And He's A Left-Wing Fake News Reporter
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
Trump Can't Accept That His Allies Are Targeting Jews — So He Blames His Opponents
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Dienst / NBC New York:
Man Arrested in Threats Against ADL, 7 Other Jewish Centers
Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Sessions Used Political Funds for Republican Convention Expenses  —  Records show attorney general used campaign account for travel expenses to Cleveland, where he met Russian envoy  —  The Trump administration says Attorney General Jeff Sessions was acting as a then-U.S. senator …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story about the GOP's dramatic shift on Ukraine  —  The Trump campaign's national-security policy representative for the Republican National Convention, J.D. Gordon, told CNN on Thursday that he pushed to alter an amendment to the GOP's draft policy …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was being resisted by law enforcement, or in some instances, had been outright banned.
Discussion: The Verge, The Week and Axios
James Dyer / Empire:
Schwarzenegger Fires The Apprentice  —  Fans of Celebrity Apprentice are about to lose the show's biggest asset as Arnold Schwarzenegger will not be returning to host another season of the show.  “I learned a lot, I had a great time, it was a really great opportunity,” Schwarzenegger said, speaking exclusively to Empire.
Kaitlan Collins / The Daily Caller:
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak Appeared As Obama White House Visitor At Least 22 Times  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions came under fire this week for meeting with him  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions Just Made A Major Announcement About His Future  —  POLITICS |  KAITLAN COLLINS
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak is Washington's most dangerous diplomat
Amy Krouse Rosenthal / New York Times:
You May Want to Marry My Husband  —  I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers (what has it been now, five weeks without real food?) have drained my energy and interfered with whatever prose prowess remains.
Discussion: NBC New York, KFOR-TV, Mashable and Mediaite
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump aides' bid to plug leaks creates unease among some civil servants  —  President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used his first senior staff meeting last month to tell his new aides he would not tolerate leaks to the news media, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Under Trump, an Already Depleted I.R.S. Could Face Deep Cuts
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Did the Obama Administration Try Stacking the Deck Against Trump at the Justice Department?  —  Amid Thursday's over-hyped brouhaha about Jeff Sessions meeting with the Russian ambassador, a curious detail emerged.  In Sessions's recusal memo, it was explained who at the Justice Department …
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Hans A. von Spakovsky / Fox News:
Get real, Democrats, there is no good reason for Sessions to resign
Lev Facher / STAT:
Two months ago, this doctor was delivering babies.  Now he's at the nexus of the Obamacare fight  —  ASHINGTON — Dr. Roger Marshall was delivering babies in December.  By January, he found himself across a breakfast table from Tom Price, offering emotional support to the Georgia congressman …
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Bryce Covert / New York Times:   Paul Ryan's Misguided Sense of Freedom
Tony Cook / Indianapolis Star:
Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked  —  Vice President Mike Pence routinely used a private email account to conduct public business as governor of Indiana, at times discussing sensitive matters and homeland security issues.  —  Emails released to IndyStar in response …
Felicia Gans / BostonGlobe.com:
Hillary Clinton speaks at Wellesley College in a private, closed-to-the-press program  —  Hillary Clinton appeared at a private event at Wellesley College Thursday night, speaking to students at her alma mater about the presidential election and her time at the college.
Washington Post:
Garfield's a boy ... right?  How a cartoon cat's gender identity launched a Wikipedia war.  —  Garfield is lazy; Garfield is a cat; Garfield likes lasagna.  —  Is there really much more to say about Garfield?  The character is not complicated.  Since the comic debuted in 1978 …
Discussion: Fox17 and Hit & Run
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Why Does Everybody Seem to Hate Omarosa Manigault?  —  When the unnerving sight of Kellyanne Conway digging her bent knees and shoe heels into the fabric of one of the yellow sofas inside the Oval Office disturbed the fabric of the internet, the images sidelined what was supposed …
Fox News:
San Francisco's withdrawal from national terror intelligence network hikes risks, officials say  —  San Francisco has taken its defiance of the feds to a new level, ending its cooperation with the FBI in an anti-terror initiative begun after 9/11 - a move crtitics say could get innocent people killed.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Hot Air
myfox8.com:
NC man accused of committing anti-gay attack: ‘You live in Trump country now’  —  RICHLANDS, N.C. — A North Carolina man was arrested after police in Florida say he yelled anti-gay slurs and threats at a couple last month.  —  Around 1 a.m. on Feb. 23, Kevin Seymour and Kevin Price …
Discussion: Raw Story
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WNCT-TV:
Police: Richlands man arrested for hate crime in Key West
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dana Hull / Bloomberg:
At Tesla, Departures Mount at a Critical Time  —  Mission creep, Musk's drive said to exhaust former executives  —  CFO's exit is latest ahead of the run-up to Model 3's arrival  —  Tesla Inc. is losing key personnel as it races to bring the Model 3 — its most critical electric sedan yet — to market later this year.
Discussion: Electrek
Raf Sanchez / Telegraph:
The Walled Off Hotel: Banksy opens dystopian tourist attraction in Bethlehem  —  The Presidential Suite boasts “the worst view of any hotel in the world”.  The piano lounge is decorated with mounted CCTV cameras.  And the doorman in the top hat at the front stands just feet from one of the Middle East's most-reviled structures.
Discussion: Business Insider
Kyle Scott Clauss / Boston Magazine:
Curt Schilling Backs Shiva Ayyadurai to Challenge Elizabeth Warren in 2018  —  Schilling offered his support for the MIT alum on Twitter.  —  Curt Schilling's interest in a 2018 run for Senate appears to be waning, after the former Red Sox pitcher threw his weight behind Shiva Ayyadurai's bid to unseat Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Mediaite and twitchy.com
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Goodbye Spin, Hello Raw Dishonesty  —  The latest big buzz is about Jeff Sessions, the attorney general.  It turns out that he lied during his confirmation hearings, denying that he had met with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign.  In fact, he met twice with the Russian ambassador …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Wilbur Ross: We're ‘up to our eyeballs’ finding regulations to nix  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Friday that he and others on the economic team of President Donald Trump “are up to our eyeballs” in their search for government regulations to be undone.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
In leaked document, the case for Trump's ‘Muslim ban’ takes another huge hit
Discussion: Reuters, Common Dreams and Daily Kos
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Trump Takes on The Blob
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Can Breitbart News Go Legit on Capitol Hill?
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Surprising Show of Confidence
Discussion: The Concourse
Rob Tracinski / RealClearFuture:
Isaac Newton Says You Can't Have a Flying Car
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
 Earlier Items: 
Donald Woolley / The Hill:
Why so many evangelicals support Trump
Discussion: RedState
New York Post:
Fire erupts inside Trump International Hotel
Discussion: Mediaite, Western Journalism and IJR
CNN:
Sebastian Gorka, now a fierce defender of Trump, once said he had ‘no depth’ and was ‘full of bluster’
Discussion: Mediaite
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Two Republicans sign onto effort demanding Trump's tax returns
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Sorry Liberals, Ellison and DWS Remained Seated During Roughy Two-Minute Standing Ovation …
Discussion: twitchy.com, The Daily Caller and AOL
James McAuley / Washington Post:
European Parliament lifts Marine Le Pen's immunity for tweeting gruesome images of violence
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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