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9:15 AM ET, February 12, 2018

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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
In big reversal, new Trump budget will give up on longtime Republican goal of eliminating deficit … President Trump on Monday will offer a budget plan that falls far short of eliminating the government's deficit over 10 years, conceding that huge tax cuts and new spending increases …
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Budget Director Warns Interest Rates May ‘Spike’ on Deficit  —  Mulvaney says Trump's economic moves ‘not a sugar high’  —  OMB is adjusting 2018, 2019 budgets after spending bill passed  —  The U.S. will post a larger budget deficit this year and could see a “spike” …
Washington Post:
Trump plan will drop GOP's traditional goal of balancing budget within 10 years … President Trump is remaking the Republican economic playbook in his own image, abandoning ideological consistency in ­favor of a debt-busting strategy that will upend how Washington taxes and spends trillions of dollars each year.
Discussion: Reuters
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Trump to demand tough budget cuts for domestic programs
Discussion: TheBlaze
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Pence: The United States is ready to talk with North Korea  —  Despite the mutual chilliness between U.S. and North Korean officials in South Korea last week, behind the scenes real progress was made toward a new diplomatic opening that could result in direct talks without preconditions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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New York Times:
Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns On the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — When the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, decided to send a large delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea this month, the world feared he might steal the show.
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Kim Jong Un, North Korea's ‘10-Foot-Tall Baby’  —  President Donald Trump, defying his own advisers and intelligence agencies, loves to call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a “madman,” when he isn't taunting Kim about his height, weight and the relative size of his nuclear button.
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Is North Korea really winning the soft power Olympics?
Bloomberg:
Kim's Smiling Sister Exploits Trump-Moon Divide
Discussion: NPR and The Week
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Twisted: Trump says Porter sick, guilty; defends him publicly  —  President Trump is defending Rob Porter even though, privately, he says he's guilty.  —  Behind closed doors: The president has told multiple people that he believes the accusations about Porter, and finds him “sick.”
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Axios:
Trump's real plan for 2018  —  President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that Axios' Jonathan Swan calls “science fiction.”  —  It's the strangest of year-ahead plans for a party that controls …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
A Reckoning with Women Awaits Trump
Discussion: Hullabaloo, The Week and CNN
New York Times:
Abuse Case Exposes Fissures in a White House in Turmoil
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House can't get its story straight on Rob Porter exit
Discussion: The Week, Splinter, Shareblue Media and AOL
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis.  Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.  —  In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an alarm.  A few weeks before the 2016 election …
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
First-class travel distinguishes Scott Pruitt's EPA tenure … Just days after helping orchestrate the United States' exit from a global climate accord last June, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt embarked on a whirlwind tour aimed at championing President Trump's agenda at home and abroad.
Discussion: The Week and Splinter
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
PLAYBOOK SCOOP: PELOSI pulls in nearly 50 million bucks for House Dems in 2017 — EXCERPTS from 'DEVIL'S BARGAIN' paperback edition ... BANNON says OPRAH could win Democrats the House back — BUDGET DAY  —  By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman), ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com …
Discussion: The Week, Mediaite and New York Times
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Exclusive: CIA Ex-Director Brennan's Perjury Peril  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe … A week after he won the election, President Trump promised that his administration would round up millions of immigrant gang members and drug dealers.  And after he took office …
Discussion: The Week
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell's immigration gamble  —  Mitch McConnell is taking the reins of an immigration debate that may prompt a fix for “Dreamers” — or quickly spiral out of control.  —  Usually careful with his every move, the Senate majority leader is taking a gamble this week with his pledge for a free …
Discussion: Bloomberg and ImmigrationProf Blog
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:   Nearly Everyone Loses If Immigration Deal Fails
Wall Street Journal:
Senate Conservatives Offer Immigration Plan Heavy on Border Security, Quick Deportations
Discussion: Splinter and CNN
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton, a favorite GOP foil, plans discreet 2018 strategy  —  There was a long line for selfies with Hillary Clinton last week at a Georgetown soiree for Lanny Davis, a Clinton loyalist whose latest book blames former FBI director James B. Comey for her 2016 presidential defeat.
Fox News Insider:
Doubling Down: Ginsburg Blames ‘Macho Atmosphere’ & ‘Sexism’ for Clinton Loss  —  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doubled down on comments she made last year that sexism “no doubt” played a role in Hillary Clinton's 2016 election defeat.  —  During a Columbia University Women's Conference event …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
MeToo will have staying power, Ruth Bader Ginsburg insists
Discussion: Axios
Russell Mokhiber / Common Dreams:
Woman Dragged Out of West Virginia House Hearing For Listing Oil and Gas Contributions to Members  —  “The people who are going to be speaking in favor of this bill are all going to be paid by the industry.”  —  Lissa Lucas traveled the 100 miles from her home in Cairo …
Discussion: Raw Story
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
GOP candidate and Trump ally faces global backlash for racist attack on Meghan Markle  —  Republican congressional candidate Paul Nehlen's response to the denouncement was just as repugnant as his hateful tweet.  —  Congressional candidate and prominent Trump supporter Paul Nehlen (R-WI) …
Discussion: Daily Mail, Daily Kos and The Guardian
 
 
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Joe Manchin's Growing Peril
Sarah Kleiner / Center for Public Integrity:
Leader of Put Vets First! PAC prioritizing telemarketers, himself
United Nations:
Urgent action needed as violence soars in war-torn Syria
Discussion: Washington Post
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Which is scarier — that Trump doesn't read his daily intel briefing, or that Jared Kushner does?
Johnny Oleksinski / New York Post:
The woke police have ruined entertainment
Discussion: Althouse
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump's Infrastructure Plan: Modest Federal Incentives, Facing Long Odds
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and Axios
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
G.O.P. Visions of Tectonic Realignment
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Alexandra Deabler / Fox News:
‘Mob’ breaks out at Des Moines International Airport after 14-hour delay
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Trump campaign co-chair gets 20 years for sexual abuse and trafficking teens
Discussion: Breitbart
Joel Rose / NPR:
As Congress Debates Immigration, DREAMers Are In Limbo Along With Their Families
Discussion: Washington Post
ABC News:
Johnny Manziel reflects on ‘mistakes’ that got him ‘out of the NFL’
Discussion: fox8.com and The Daily Caller
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Intelligence Shuts Down Damning Report on Whistleblower Retaliation
Nancy Cook / Politico:
The mysterious oppo researcher working in the White House lawyer's office
Discussion: The Week
 

 
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
UMG and Amazon Music strike a new deal to collaborate on audiobooks and livestreams, address unlawful AI-generated content, protect against fraud, and more

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads
 
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