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12:35 PM 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.
Jennifer Glatz / FOX 61:
Deputies called to Florida high school gunman's home 39 times since 2010  —  PARKLAND Fl.  — Anguish and sorrow are giving way to anger Friday as the families of some of the 17 people killed in a South Florida school prepare to do the unimaginable — bury their children.
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Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
Authorities Were Called To Alleged Florida School Shooter Nikolas Cruz's House More Than 35 Times  —  Years of sheriff's reports detail consistent issues with Nikolas Cruz and his brother, Zachary, describing two erratic, violent, and turbulent boys who repeatedly “threw items,” were “out of control,” and “ran away from home.”
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 …
New York Times:
Flashes of Rage. Family Loss. Nikolas Cruz's Lifetime of Trouble.
CNN:
From ‘broken child’ to mass killer
miamiherald:
The victims of the Douglas High mass shooting
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  —  Mark Corallo, former spokesperson for President Donald Trump's legal team, spoke with Special Counsel Bob Mueller on Thursday for over two hours, two people familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast.
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Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:   NRA-backed Marco Rubio says gun control laws alone won't prevent mass shootings
Alex Pareene / Splinter:   When Prohibition Works  —  One fun fact about America's endless war …
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
Discussion: Splinter
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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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: VICE, 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 and VICE
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.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Apple's New Spaceship Campus Has One Flaw - and It Hurts  —  Some distracted staff are walking into glass panes designed to foster collaboration  —  The centerpiece of Apple Inc.'s new headquarters is a massive, ring-shaped office overflowing with panes of glass, a testament to the company's famed design-obsessed aesthetic.
Discussion: The Verge, East Bay Times and Mashable
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
Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Kushner Quietly Made More Fixes To His Financial Disclosures, May Have More To Come  —  Jared Kushner quietly filed an addendum to his personal financial disclosure adding even more previously undisclosed business interests in recent weeks — and may have even more to disclose …
Discussion: Bloomberg
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 …
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
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
GOP Congresswoman on Rob Porter: 'They're Not Crimes of Character' … U.S. Congresswoman Claudia Tenney—a Republican representing New York's 22nd congressional district—raised questions this week about the media's continued interest in allegations of domestic abuse by former White House staff secretary Rob Porter.
Discussion: TALK! 100.7 FM
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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.
Discussion: Politicus USA
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Sen. Kamala Harris endorsing Gavin Newsom for governor  —  Sen. Kamala Harris plans to endorse Gavin Newsom in the California governor's race Friday, according to a Newsom campaign official.  —  The move is not surprising — the two Democratic politicians share the same political advisors …
Discussion: Political Wire and KTLA
Pete Thamel / Yahoo Sports:
Sources: College hoops corruption case poised to take down Hall of Fame coaches, top programs, lottery picks  —  NEW YORK - It has been five months since  —  the FBI arrested 10 men in a sweeping federal probe into the underbelly of the basketball world.  As the three ongoing criminal cases resulting …
USA Today:
Trump can't block the Democratic memo on Russia.  Here's why.  —  Congress has the power to make this happen three different ways.  Take it from the House rule book and the Supreme Court.  —  If the House of Representatives wants to release the Democratic response to the “Nunes memo,” its members can do so now.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Commerce recommends major tariffs on steel and aluminum  —  The Department of Commerce will recommend tariffs on steel and aluminum that, if applied, would be the first shots in a global trade war, according to two sources briefed on the report.  — Aluminum: 7.7% tariff on all aluminum exports from all countries.
 
 
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David Spicer / ABC:
Australia ‘under attack’ for 15 years from group of Muslim men, judge tells court
Discussion: Breitbart
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott edges closer to Senate bid in talks with GOP donors
Discussion: Political Wire
Connor Radnovich / Statesman Journal:
Domestic violence gun bill passes House, has support in Senate
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Oregonian
John Fritze / Baltimore Sun:
Is Chelsea Manning's Senate campaign for real?
Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Tax cut scoreboard: Workers $6 billion; Shareholders $171 billion
Maureen Groppe / Indianapolis Star:
After Rippon: Searching for clarity on Mike Pence's stance on gay conversion therapy
Discussion: PinkNews and twitchy.com
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump tech adviser Reed Cordish is leaving the White House
 Earlier Items: 
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
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
Discussion: Roll Call
John Harwood / CNBC:
Sen. Jeff Flake: President Donald Trump shouldn't be impeached, but his behavior is bad for national security
Discussion: Political Wire
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Has Landed The Big Comey Interview
 

 
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