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David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Column United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for ‘higher-priority’ traveler  —  Geoff Fearns, an Irvine investment manager, was threatened with being handcuffed when he refused to vacate his first-class seat on a United flight to Los Angeles.  (Valerie Fearns)
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
United passenger David Dao says he's still in the hospital  —  This image made from a video provided by Audra D. Bridges shows David Dao, the passenger who was forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago on Sunday.  (Associated Press)  —  David Dao, a Kentucky physician …
USA Today:
United Airlines CEO doubles down, says employees followed procedures, flier was ‘belligerent’
Max Nesterak / PBS NewsHour:
How Delta masters the game of overbooking flights
Discussion: Mother Jones, New York Times and AOL
Daily Mail:
PICTURED: The internal medicine specialist father-of-five who was beaten and dragged off …
Washington Post:
United Airlines CEO apologizes for ‘horrific event,’ promises review of policies after passenger violently deplaned
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page  —  The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.
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Reuters:
FBI got court order to monitor ex-Trump adviser in Russia probe: Washington Post
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say  — Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides have so far found no evidence that Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal  — Their private assessment contradicts …
New York Times:
Live Results: Republicans Defend House Seat in Kansas Special Election  —  Candidate Party Votes Pct.  —  Dem.  —  28,646  —  Ron Estes  —  Rep.  —  27,105  —  Lib.  —  32% reporting (199 of 620 precincts)  —  Republicans are wary of a close race to fill the seat of the new C …
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Live results: Kansas special election  —  The first general election contest since President Trump took office kicks off in Kansas, with what was once expected to be an easy win for Republicans turning unexpectedly fierce.  —  Republican Ron Estes, a two-term state treasurer …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Vox
Ron Estes / Decision Desk HQ:
Kansas 4th Congressional District Special Election  —  Candidate Percent Votes  —  53.3%  —  60,504  —  45.0%  —  51,090  —  1.7%  —  1,952  —  Write In (Unaffiliated)  —  0.1%  —  Sedgwick is all in, and Estes almost won despite losing the early vote by a big margin.
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
Does Kansas Special Election Signal Trouble for GOP?
Discussion: NPR, Wichita Eagle and Raw Story
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Bill O'Reilly Is Going on Vacation.  Will His Show Return?  —  Embattled Fox News host Bill O'Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation.  O'Reilly's decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Spicer apologizes for claiming Hitler didn't use chemical weapons  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer had to do something Tuesday night his boss deeply dislikes: He apologized.  —  Hours after seemingly minimizing the Holocaust in an attempt to explain the atrocities of chemical attacks …
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CNN:
Spicer: Hitler ‘was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing’
John Bowden / The Hill:
Alex Jones knocks Sean Spicer for ‘ignorant’ Holocaust comments
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Anne Frank Center calls for Spicer to be fired
Discussion: CNN, FOX6Now.com, Washington Times and IJR
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Putin: US plans to fake chemical weapons in Syria
Discussion: CNN, Reuters, RedState, Politico and ABC News
Alexander Smith / NBC News:
Eric Trump Says Syria Strike Was Swayed By ‘Heartbroken’ Ivanka
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: 'We're not going into Syria'
Discussion: The Hill
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Trump won't definitively say he still backs Bannon  —  MORE FROM: … Washington's rumor mill is working overtime on the fate of aide Steve Bannon, who is said to be at the center of the rampant White House in-fighting.  When I asked the President Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon …
Fox News Insider:
Watch Maria Bartiromo's Must-See Interview With President Trump on Fox Business Network  —  President Donald Trump will sit down with Maria Bartiromo for an interview that will air Wednesday at 7:00 a.m. ET on Fox Business Network.  —  It will be Trump's first Fox Business interview since he's taken office.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump: I want to pass health care before doing tax reform  —  President Donald Trump still wants to pass a health care bill before he turns to tax reform.  —  “We're going to have a phenomenal tax reform, but I have to do health care first,” Trump said, according to an excerpt of an interview …
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Sessions Announces Illegal Aliens Who Illegally Re-Enter The U.S. Will Be Charged With a Felony  —  Speaking from the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced major changes to Justice Department protocol when it comes to charging and prosecuting illegal aliens.
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Ted Hesson / Politico:
Sessions signals immigration crackdown: ‘This is the Trump era’
Bloomberg:
Tillerson Asks Why U.S. Taxpayers Should Care About Ukraine  —  Offhand remark an unexpected moment as foreign ministers meet  —  Top diplomat still finding footing in protocol-rich meetings  —  With one offhand remark, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left European diplomats befuddled at a gathering in Italy.
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House to lift federal hiring freeze  —  The White House will lift President Trump's federal hiring freeze on Wednesday, following fire from critics who said it hampered the government from carrying out core functions.  —  The end of the freeze is part of guidance ordering federal departments …
Discussion: Politico
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
What Rick Perlstein's Embarrassing New York Times Essay Gets Wrong  —  Perlstein's essay offers a really good insight into how the Times has jettisoned so much credibility in the age of Trump.  —  If you'll forgive the self-indulgence, let me start by sharing a few things …
Discussion: alicublog and New York Times
Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows pursues health care deal with Speaker Ryan  —  HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Rep. Mark Meadows intends to deliver an Obamacare repeal and replacement plan to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Tuesday that would leave in place the existing law's mandates …
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's “Bottom Line”  —  With everyone putting down new and/or revised “red lines”, be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China's turn to reveal its “red” or rather “bottom line”, and in a harshly worded editorial titled …
Daily Mail:
What United claimed: The document attached to his passenger file which claimed Dr David Dao, 69, a grandfather, had tried to strike police officers  —  The father of five, who has won sympathy globally over the incident, was given a suspended jail sentence for illegally obtaining …
Helaine Olen / New York Times:
United Airlines Is Not Alone  —  United Airlines found itself at the center of social media controversy this week, after a horrifying video of a doctor being forcibly removed from a coach class seat on one of its planes went viral.  The man was, according to published reports …
 
 
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Attendees chant ‘you lie’ at U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson during Graniteville town hall