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Washington Post:
Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel  —  The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish …
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NBC News:
Blackwater Founder Repped Trump at Secret Meeting Overseas: Sources
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel  —  White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …
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Adam Housley / Fox News:
Susan Rice requested to unmask names of Trump transition officials, sources say  —  Multiple sources tell Fox News that Susan Rice, former national security adviser under then-President Barack Obama, requested to unmask the names of Trump transition officials caught up in surveillance.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Susan Rice In Crosshairs as Potential Felon
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's risk of impeachment rises
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times
Circa:   Watch |  Circa's Sara Carter reports on Susan Rice and her involvement in unmasking intel on Trump associates.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Russiagate Scam Will Blow Up In The Democrats' Smug Faces
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger  —  In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senators fear fallout of nuclear option  —  Senators in both parties are speculating that a blowup over President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court could lead not only to the end of the filibuster for such nominations, but for controversial legislation as well.  —  While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Patrick Leahy / U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont:
Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Nomination Of Neil Gorsuch To Be An Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘Far from idle speculation’: Dem. senator says ‘looming’ impeachment is reason to filibuster Gorsuch
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Bloomberg:
Democrats Choose Path on Gorsuch That Could Change Washington
Ali Watkins / BuzzFeed:
A Former Trump Adviser Met With A Russian Spy  —  Carter Page told BuzzFeed News that he had been in contact with at least one Russian spy working undercover out of Moscow's UN office in 2013.  —  NEW YORK — A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents …
Lili Bayer / The Forward:
EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia  —  As a Hungarian political leader in 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militia that was later banned …
Los Angeles Times:
Why Trump lies … Donald Trump did not invent the lie and is not even its master.  Lies have oozed out of the White House for more than two centuries and out of politicians' mouths — out of all people's mouths — likely as long as there has been human speech.
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Los Angeles Times:
Our Dishonest President … It was no secret during the campaign …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House, conservatives mull deal to revive Obamacare repeal  —  House conservatives and the White House are mulling a potential agreement to revive the GOP Obamacare replacement bill that was pulled from the House floor just over a week ago, POLITICO has learned.
Discussion: Axios
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:   A New Tribalism Spreads in Donald Trump's Washington
Wall Street Journal:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Rent in Washington: $15,000 a Month  —  Owner is a Chilean magnate who bought house for $5.5 million  —  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's daughter and her White House adviser husband, are paying $15,000 a month to rent their new home …
Discussion: AOL
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jared Kushner Visits Iraq on Invitation From Joint Chiefs Chairman
ProPublica:
Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us  —  When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:   Spicer Contradicts Trump Trust Docs, Says The Trust Didn't Change
Business Insider:
AOL and Yahoo plan to call themselves by a new name after the Verizon deal closes: Oath  —  When Verizon merges Yahoo with AOL after its acquisition of Yahoo closes, the newly created division will get a new name.  —  That new name is Oath, sources tell Business Insider.
NBC News:
North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.  —  Thae Yong Ho is the most high …
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Financial Times:
Trump ready to tackle North Korea alone — FT exclusive
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Mercedes-Benz pulls ads from 'The O'Reilly Factor' — will others follow?  —  O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’  —  Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on “The O'Reilly Factor” following a report about five settlements with women who alleged sexual harassment …
Discussion: TVNewser, Raw Story, Mediaite and Axios
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives  —  Whatever the truth about Trump and Russia, the speculation surrounding it has become a dangerous case of mass hysteria  —  So Michael Flynn, who was Donald Trump's national security adviser before he got busted talking out of school to Russia's ambassador …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The big Russia questions loom even larger  —  Following his extraordinary testimony last week, former FBI special agent Clint Watts appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.  This exchange, in which he explained Russia's “active measures” during the 2016 campaign, was eye-popping:
Susan Bordo / The Guardian:
The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists  —  In this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election  —  any books have been written about the way racial differences …
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Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:   Why Isn't Hillary Clinton in Jail?
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Trump donates first-quarter salary to National Park Service  —  President Trump will donate his first three months of salary to the National Park Service, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Monday.  —  “The president has spoken with counsel and made the decision to donate …
Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Amid the storm, Devin Nunes' two worlds render vastly different judgments of him  —  At home, Devin Nunes remains what he has always been, an auspiciously successful man who rose swiftly to unexpected heights, a man high school teachers point to when they tell kids in this often-overlooked place what is possible in this world.
Discussion: Raw Story
Douglas Perry / Oregonian:
The secret to Donald Trump's success might be his physical attractiveness, study concludes  —  President Donald Trump has insisted the mainstream media is pushing “FAKE NEWS!” and has called journalists the “enemy of the people.”  —  What follows might give him a reason to rethink that opinion.
 
 
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John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
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Discussion: The Hill and Politicus USA
Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the turmoil over staff shake-ups, blocked travel bans and the Russia …
Michael Bastasch / The Daily Caller:
The Southern Hemisphere Sees Its ‘Quietest’ Hurricane Season On Record
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Black Lives Matter Philly Bans White People From Its Meetings
Dan Walters / Sacramento Bee:
California GOP continues its plunge into irrelevance
Bloomberg:
Musk Trolls Shorts as Tesla's Value Hits Record, Passes Ford
Discussion: CleanTechnica
South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Woman accused of threatening Sandy Hook parent jailed after she was a no-show for court
Discussion: Raw Story
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Ben Taub / New Yorker:
The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl
Discussion: NPR
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Comedy Central Unveils ‘The President Show’ Weekly Series Starring Anthony Atamanuik As Donald Trump
Discussion: Occupy Democrats and Daily Wire
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Trump administration cracks down on visas for computer programmers
Discussion: RedState
Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
The Rising Retirement Perils of 401(k) ‘Leakage’
Discussion: Mother Jones and naked capitalism
Kelefa Sanneh / New Yorker:
Tucker Carlson's Fighting Words
Discussion: The Week and Axios
 

 
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UK mobile operator Virgin Media O2 creates Daisy, an AI-generated “scambaiter” tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman to waste scammers' time

Financial Times:
Sources: xAI raised $5B at a $45B valuation, almost double its valuation a few months ago; SpaceX prepares a tender offer that would value the company at $250B+
 
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