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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade … President Trump's vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Meets Rosenstein About Democratic Surveillance Memo — White House must decide whether to allow release of rebuttal to GOP document — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump met Tuesday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to discuss a classified Democratic memo rebutting GOP allegations …
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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.”
Fox News:
Dems set Trump trap? Source says FISA rebuttal memo loaded with sensitive details
Dems set Trump trap? Source says FISA rebuttal memo loaded with sensitive details
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Chief of staff Kelly suggests undocumented immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy’
Chief of staff Kelly suggests undocumented immigrants who didn't sign up for DACA were ‘too afraid’ or ‘too lazy’
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Kelsey Snell / NPR:
House Passes Funding Extension After Trump Says 'I'd Love To See A Shutdown'
House Passes Funding Extension After Trump Says 'I'd Love To See A Shutdown'
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls for shutdown if Congress doesn't pass border-security measures
Trump calls for shutdown if Congress doesn't pass border-security measures
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Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump — Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intel Committee was recorded speaking to Russian pranksters who spun elaborate ‘kompromat’ tale
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.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Los Angeles Times owner will sell paper, ending a long-troubled relationship … The Chicago-based owner of the Los Angeles Times is expected to announce it is selling the newspaper, according to people familiar with the company's plans, in a surprise move that likely spells the end …
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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary … It was Christmastime in Washington, and Ben Carson couldn't stop talking about the apocalypse. — “Did you know,” the secretary of housing and urban development asked his acting chief of staff, Deana Bass …
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Jason Zengerle / New York Times:
The Happy Martyrdom of Carter Page — On Monday night, Carter Page was finally ready for his Fox News close-up. It had been nearly a year since he began his one-man public-relations offensive to rebut accusations that, as a Trump campaign adviser, he colluded with Russia.
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Carrie Cordero / Lawfare:
The Nunes Memo and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The Nunes Memo and the Law of Unintended Consequences
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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.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Biden: Trump should avoid Mueller interview, has ‘difficulty with precision’ — Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that if he were one of President Donald Trump's attorneys, he would suggest Trump not consent to a special counsel interview for fear of being caught misleading investigators.
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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.
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StarWars.com:
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Write and Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films — David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away. — It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit …
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 …
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.
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Kim Reynolds leads all Democratic challengers in 2018 race for governor — Copyright Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. 2018 — If the election for Iowa governor were held today, incumbent Republican Kim Reynolds would defeat all five of the leading Democrats trying to succeed her as the state's chief executive.
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 …
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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.
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX's Ambition Into Orbit — KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Sign up for the Science Times newsletter and sync your calendar with the solar system. — From the same pad where NASA launched rockets that carried astronauts to the moon, a big, new American rocket arced into space on Tuesday.
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Gina Sunseri / ABC News:
SpaceX set to launch massive Falcon Heavy rocket
SpaceX set to launch massive Falcon Heavy rocket
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
7 reasons not to completely lose it over the stock market's huge swings — Hopefully you didn't buy peak Bitcoin. — The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 666 points on Friday and another 1,175 points on Monday. On Tuesday, it took a sharp dive early in the day and then bounced between positive …
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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 …
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Gowdy implies Clinton friend Blumenthal fed information to Steele — Rep. Trey Gowdy implied Tuesday that longtime Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal fed information that was leaked to former British spy Christopher Steele. — During an interview on Fox News' “The Story,” …
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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 …
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 …
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John McWhorter / New York Times:
What Trump's Speech Says About His Mental Fitness — As part of the discussion about Donald Trump's lack of fitness for the presidency, some have argued that his linguistic capacities have worsened, suggesting significant cognitive decline. — In interviews in the 1980s and 1990s …
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Washington Post:
A flat-earther finally tried to fly away. His rocket didn't even ignite. … A man who claims that Earth is flat tried to leave it in a homemade rocket Saturday but failed to overcome the gravitational force of a 13,166,800,000,000,000,000,000,000- pound sphere directly beneath him.
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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives and the Cult of Trump — Before joining the administration, current White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah called Donald Trump “deplorable” and described the leaking of audio of him boasting of sexual assault “some justice,” Olivia Nuzzi reports. Shah is far from alone.
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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.
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon: War in Afghanistan will cost $45 billion in 2018 — The Defense Department's top Asia official on Tuesday told Senate lawmakers that the war in Afghanistan will cost $45 billion this year. — Randall Schriver, the assistant secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs …
Washington Post:
Hero or hired gun? How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation. … In the fall of 2016, a little more than a month before Donald Trump was elected president, Christopher Steele had the undivided attention of the FBI. — For months, the British former spy …
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Eli Clifton / LobeLog:
Gorka Joins Outlet That Published “Ten Things I Hate About Jews” — Sebastian Gorka's role as a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump ended in August 2017. A series of investigative articles tied him to Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group the State Department characterized as collaborating with the Nazis.
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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 …
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