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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.
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 …
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HuffPost:
President Trump Has Convinced His Voters He's Being Persecuted By The FBI
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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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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
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
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 …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere  —  President Trump, in his State of the Union address last week, boasted to the nation about stock market gains: “The stock market has smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion and more in value in just this short period of time.”
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New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter …
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Mike Calia / CNBC:   Steve Bannon is likely to meet with special counsel Robert Mueller next week: NBC News
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.
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Daily Caller
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 …
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Quentin Tarantino Explains Everything: Uma Thurman, The ‘Kill Bill’ Crash & Harvey Weinstein  —  EXCLUSIVE: Since Saturday morning when The New York Times published Uma Thurman's depiction of assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, the writer/director most closely associated with her biggest successes …
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Madeleine Davies / Jezebel:
Here's Audio of Quentin Tarantino Defending Roman Polanski: 13-Year-Old Girl ‘Wanted to Have It’
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
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 …
Discussion: AOL and BloombergQuint
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.
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The FISA-Gate Boomerangs  —  Many questions remain, but Democrats, including Obama, are probably not going to look good when we get the answers.  —  Some things still do not add up about the so-called Steele dossier, FISA warrants, the Nunes memo, and the hysterical Democratic reaction to it.
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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.
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.
Nathan McDermott / CNN:
GOP Senate office rips Trump nominee: ‘Cynics and nuts’ will have hard time securing confirmation  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's nominees is drawing condemnation and mockery from a Republican senator over his past statements pushing conspiracy theories …
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 …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Trump Evangelical Adviser Says You Don't Need Flu Shots When You Have Jesus  —  “Inoculate yourself with the word of God,” says Gloria Copeland.  —  A controversial minister linked to President Donald Trump said flu shots aren't necessary when you have Jesus.
Discussion: Booman Tribune, Jezebel, thecut and AOL
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.
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 …
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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court rejects challenge to Trump University settlement  —  A federal appeals court has upheld the $25 million settlement President Donald Trump agreed to in a bid to resolve long running lawsuits claiming fraud in his Trump University real estate seminar venture.
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 …
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
No One Is Silencing Katie Roiphe #MeToo has started a robust, complicated conversation — whether or not she's listening.  —  This weekend, the much-ballyhooed piece about the #MeToo movement by Katie Roiphe was finally published by Harper's, and as Irin Carmon observed on Twitter …
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 …
Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
I Spent Two Years Trying to Fix the Gender Imbalance in My Stories  —  In December 2015, I wrote a story about the potential uses of the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR.  That piece, based on a conference that I attended in Washington, D.C., quoted six men and one woman.
Discussion: Shakesville
Emily Cadei / Sacramento Bee:
Tied to Trump, these two California Republican congressmen lag in poll  —  California Republicans' hopes for re-election in 2018 may rest on separating themselves from the unpopular President Trump.  A new poll shows that's not happening as the year begins, at least in two of the state's most competitive congressional districts.
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 …
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: Mediaite and Raw Story
KERO-TV:
Judge rules in favor of Bakersfield baker who refused to design wedding cake for same-sex couple  —  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A Kern County judge ruled in favor of a Bakersfield baker who refused to design a wedding cake for an already-married same-sex couple last year.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Icahn: The market will one day ‘implode’ because of these wacky funds using so much leverage  —  Billionaire Carl Icahn told CNBC on Tuesday there are too many exotic, leveraged products for investors to trade and one day these funds are going to blow up the market.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Axios and Eschaton
 
 
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John McWhorter / New York Times:
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
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