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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 …
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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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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Politico, Washington Post, RedState, Vox, Mother Jones, AOL, The Week, IJR, Business Insider, Axios and KTLA
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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Axios and The Daily Caller
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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Weekly Standard, New York Magazine, Eater, Shareblue Media, Joe.My.God., The Week, Splinter, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Jezebel, New Republic, Politico and Axios
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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NPR, twitchy.com, Splinter and 89.3 KPCC, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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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The Atlantic, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Week
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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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere
Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere
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New Yorker, New York Times and Daily Kos
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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Jezebel and The Daily Caller
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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New York Magazine, Breitbart, The Daily Caller and Gizmodo
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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Business Insider, Raw Story, Mediaite and New York Times
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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Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
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 …
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 …
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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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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Joe.My.God., Gizmodo, Q13 FOX News, Instapundit and BloombergQuint
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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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The Daily Caller, Associated Press, The Stranger … and Mashable
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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The Gateway Pundit
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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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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Atlas Obscura, FiveThirtyEight, AOL, Nature and The Atlantic
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, Shakesville and Mediaite
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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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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Althouse
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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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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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 …
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Power Line, USA Today, Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, RedState, twitchy.com, Common Dreams, Business Insider, Mother Jones and Shakesville
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 …
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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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Breitbart and The Daily Caller
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.
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John Gehring / Religion News Service:
Paul Ryan faces an urgent moral challenge — (RNS) — Blues legend Robert Johnson, the story goes, made a deal with the devil and sold his soul on a Mississippi highway to play virtuoso guitar. House Speaker Paul Ryan's musical tastes reportedly lean more toward Metallica than the Delta blues …
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 …
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 …
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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 …