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11:40 AM ET, February 16, 2018

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New Yorker:
Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity  —  One woman's account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.  —  In June, 2006, Donald Trump taped an episode of his reality-television show, “The Apprentice …
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Hot Air:
New Ronan Farrow Expose: How The Enquirer Buried A Playboy Playmate's Story Of An Affair With Trump  —  This is similar to Farrow's blockbuster on Harvey Weinstein last fall in one sense, namely that the bones of the story had already been reported by the time his piece appeared.
James Risen / The Intercept:
Is Donald Trump a Traitor?  —  I find it hard to write about Donald Trump.  —  It is not that he is a complicated subject.  Quite the opposite.  It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious.  He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist.
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Flashes of Rage.  Family Loss.  Nikolas Cruz's Lifetime of Trouble.  —  PARKLAND, Fla. — Before he was hauled into a jailhouse hearing room on Thursday, head bowed and shackled at the wrists and ankles, Nikolas Cruz had been causing trouble as long as anyone here could remember.
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miamiherald:
The victims of the Douglas High mass shooting
Karl Etters / Tallahassee Democrat:
Local law enforcement: No ties between militia and school shooter
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
Sheriff in Florida shooting calls for power to detain over social media
CNN:
Exclusive: A top Trump campaign adviser close to plea deal with Mueller  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign adviser Rick Gates is finalizing a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller's office, indicating he's poised to cooperate in the investigation, according to sources familiar with the case.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:   Mueller Has Interviewed Trump Legal Team's Former Spokesman
Emma Dumain / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
White House, Lindsey Graham go to war over immigration  —  WASHINGTON  —  “Who the hell wrote this?”  —  That's how Sen. Lindsey Graham described his furious reaction to a Department of Homeland Security statement condemning a Senate immigration plan carefully crafted by Republicans and Democrats.
Discussion: Vox and Washington Post
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Bloomberg:   Senate Rejection May Mark End of Chances for Immigration Deal
Elana Schor / Politico:   Inside the Senate's ugly immigration breakdown
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
Bannon Stays Mostly Mum in House Hearing, Prompting Bipartisan Ire
Discussion: VICE News
Washington Post:
No, there haven't been 18 school shootings in 2018.  That number is flat wrong. … The stunning number swept across the Internet within minutes of the news Wednesday that, yet again, another young man with another semi-automatic rifle had rampaged through a school, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in South Florida.
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New York Times:
The N.R.A. Can Be Beat  —  It's time to vote the gun lobby out of office.  —  Parents throughout the country live with the dread that the next lockdown at their child's school won't be a drill and that screams like those we heard on cellphones from classrooms at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:
NRA-backed Marco Rubio says gun control laws alone won't prevent mass shootings  —  Rubio, who earned an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association during his 2016 reelection campaign and who ranks among the top 20 members of Congress in money received — $3.3 million …
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
Pruitt's security threat?  A passenger shouting, 'You're f—ing up the environment'  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's security team decided last year he should fly first class to avoid confrontations with angry individuals on planes and in airports, an agency official said Thursday …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill, AOL and The Week
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Pruitt Started Flying First Class To Avoid People Yelling Profanities At Him
Discussion: Washington Post
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
An unusual turn in the Michael Flynn case?  —  Observers are buzzing about a series of events in the last 60 days in the case of Michael Flynn, the Trump national security adviser who on Dec. 1 pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in the Trump-Russia investigation.
Discussion: Washington Times
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More than 40 percent of Trump's Cabinet-level picks have faced ethical or other controversies  —  President Trump came to Washington promising to “drain the swamp.”  But after less than 13 months, more than 40 percent of the people he originally picked for Cabinet-level jobs have faced ethical or other controversies.
Discussion: Political Wire, CBS Denver and ABC News
Donovan Slack / USA Today:
VA secretary David Shulkin's chief of staff retiring amid travel report findings  —  WASHINGTON — The third most senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs is stepping down amid findings she misled ethics officials to secure approval for VA Secretary David Shulkin's wife to accompany him on taxpayer-funded trip to Europe.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Why Romney Is Running for Senate  —  Mitt Romney launched his long-anticipated campaign on Friday, tweeting, “I am running for United States Senate to serve the people of Utah and bring Utah's values to Washington.”  —  Over recent weeks, much of the national pundit chatter has focused …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mitt Romney announces he's running for U.S. Senate in Utah
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Don't Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria  —  Mattis gave Putin “plausible deniability” for a military assault that went badly awry.  —  If you've been listening just to the Kremlin and the Pentagon, you probably didn't know that Russia attacked American forces and their allies …
Discussion: Defense One
CNN:
Ex-wife's photos raise questions about McGahn's role in Porter scandal  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI obtained photos of the bruised face of Colbie Holderness seven days after President Donald Trump's inauguration last year, according to emails obtained by CNN, raising questions …
Discussion: The Week and Axios
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Maureen Groppe / Indianapolis Star:
After Rippon: Searching for clarity on Mike Pence's stance on gay conversion therapy  —  WASHINGTON — What is Vice President Mike Pence's position on the discredited practice of trying to change a person's gender identity or sexual orientation through “conversion therapy”?
Discussion: PinkNews and twitchy.com
Mark Joyella / Forbes:
Trump Has Abandoned The Press Briefing Room And Reporters Should Too  —  On Thursday morning, Donald Trump wrapped himself in the trappings of the presidency, standing in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room under the steady gaze of George Washington, and plodded his way through …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Has Landed The Big Comey Interview  —  Stephanopoulos will interview Comey in mid-April ahead of the release of his highly-anticipated book.  —  ABC has landed one of the most sought-after interviews of the year: former FBI Director James Comey.
John Harwood / CNBC:
Sen. Jeff Flake: President Donald Trump shouldn't be impeached, but his behavior is bad for national security  — When he announced his retirement from the Senate last fall, Jeff Flake of Arizona become one of the strongest Republican critics of President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Apple's New Spaceship Campus Has One Flaw - and It Hurts
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USA Today:
Trump can't block the Democratic memo on Russia. Here's why.
Pete Thamel / Yahoo Sports:
Sources: College hoops corruption case poised to take down Hall of Fame coaches, top programs, lottery picks
John Fritze / Baltimore Sun:
Is Chelsea Manning's Senate campaign for real?
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Tax cut scoreboard: Workers $6 billion; Shareholders $171 billion
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump tech adviser Reed Cordish is leaving the White House
Dal Kalsi / FOX Carolina 21:
Deputies: Broome High student arrested after Snapchat threat ‘Round 2 of Florida tomorrow’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and AOL
Joe Simonson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Mass Layoffs At IJR, Leaving Future Uncertain
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Washington Post:
A significant minority of Americans say they could support a military takeover of the U.S. government
ProPublica:
Congressman Calls For Investigation Of Conservative Think Tank
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Peter Dockrill / ScienceAlert:
Biologist Gets a Fake Star Trek Paper Accepted by 4 Dodgy Science Journals
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Rules News Publishers Violated Copyright by Embedding Tweets of Tom Brady Photo
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Memo: NY Times Editor Explains Why Everyone Hates His ‘Rich And Searching’ Op-Ed Section
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
It's time to bring back the assault weapons ban, gun violence experts say
 

 
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Michael Kan / PCMag:
OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers

Decrypt:
Eighteen GOP state AGs sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Gary Gensler, alleging crypto regulatory overreach without Congressional authorization

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure
 
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