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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence — Presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has had his security clearance downgraded — a move that will prevent him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he once had unfettered access. — Kushner is not alone.
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Washington Post:
Kushner's overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage … Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Josh Raffel leaving White House — Senior communications official Josh Raffel is leaving the White House, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: Raffel, a former Hollywood PR executive, was originally brought in early last year to run communications for the Office of American Innovation …
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Scaramucci says White House morale very low, Kelly should resign
Scaramucci says White House morale very low, Kelly should resign
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CNN:
Kushner security clearance is downgraded
Kushner security clearance is downgraded
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Ben Carson's HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for His Office — WASHINGTON — Department of Housing and Urban Development officials spent $31,000 on a new dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson's office in late 2017 — just as the White House circulated its plans …
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The Guardian:
US official: I was demoted for rejecting Ben Carson's costly office revamp — Exclusive: Senior housing officer says she was replaced by a Trump appointee and told ‘$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair’ … A senior career official in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development …
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Rene Marsh / CNN:
‘$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair’: HUD staffer files complaint over Ben Carson office redecoration — Washington (CNN)The former chief administrative officer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development says she was demoted in part for refusing to spend more than was legally allowed …
Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The Professor At The Center Of The Russia-Trump Probe Boasted To His Girlfriend In Ukraine That He Was Friends With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov — A Ukrainian woman named Anna says Joseph Mifsud asked her to marry him in a restaurant overlooking the Kremlin.
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
DCCC Advised Candidates Not To Discuss Gun Control Policy Right After Vegas Shooting — The campaign organization said Democrats should focus on offering thoughts and prayers. — The morning after the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign …
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Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:
DCCC Internal Polling Presented to Members of Congress Panned Single Payer Health Care
DCCC Internal Polling Presented to Members of Congress Panned Single Payer Health Care
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Roger Stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks — On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Donald Trump. In his interview with the House Intelligence Committee last September, Stone …
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NBC News:
U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election — The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election …
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Raw Story
Tampa Bay Times:
Shooting survivor's father admits email changes in CNN spat — Colton Haab's father acknowledges omitting some words from the email but says he didn't do it on purpose. — Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger-pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Infowars one strike away from YouTube ban — Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube. — The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla. …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
David Hogg Is Fair Game for Critics
David Hogg Is Fair Game for Critics
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Zachary Cohen / CNN:
NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat — NSA chief: Need authority to stop Russian cyber threat — Washington (CNN)US Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not been granted the authority by President Donald Trump …
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Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
A self-described sex expert says she will spill information on Trump and Russia to get out of a Thai jail … MOSCOW — A self-described sex expert whose videos highlighted the ties between one of Russia's richest men and the Kremlin has been jailed in Thailand and is calling for U.S. help …
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Sean Illing / Vox:
How Trump's 2020 campaign manager is connected to the Russia scandal — Parscale is linked to Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that has become a focus of the Trump-Russia investigation. — President Donald Trump has named Brad Parscale to be his 2020 campaign manager.
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President Trump Announces 2020 Campaign Manager
President Trump Announces 2020 Campaign Manager
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Dana Bash / CNN:
Trump taps Brad Parscale to run his 2020 re-election campaign
Trump taps Brad Parscale to run his 2020 re-election campaign
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CBS Miami:
Sources: Carnage Could Have Been Far Worse In Florida School Massacre — PARKLAND - CBS4 News has obtained new information in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre which left 17 people dead. — An official briefed on the shooting investigation tells CBS4 News that the carnage could have been far worse.
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Allie Nicodemo / Northeastern:
Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say — The deadly school shooting this month in Parkland, Florida, has ignited national outrage and calls for action on gun reform. But while certain policies …
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Jackie Wang / Dallas Morning News:
Texas Democrats' early voting totals should ‘shock every conservative to their core,’ Abbott email says — AUSTIN — Early voting for the March primary is more than half over, and Democrats have outpaced Republicans at the polls on each day. — Through Sunday in the 15 Texas counties …
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Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
How Republicans Can Win the Midterms
How Republicans Can Win the Midterms
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Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Far-Right Troll Chuck Johnson Tried Out for ‘Survivor.’ Here's His Audition Tape. — CBS' mistake is the world's loss. — The 36th season of “Survivor,” the reality TV show that ushered America into an era of turbo-capitalized narcissism and celebrity worship that helped get Donald Trump elected president, will premiere Wednesday.
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WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
Man armed with AR-15 stops attack by neighbor in Oswego — Share Update: … OSWEGO, Ill. — A man armed with an AR-15 rifle stopped an attack by one of his neighbors and held him until police arrived. — It happened Monday at an apartment building on Harbor Drive in Oswego Township.
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Xi Jinping May Be President for Life. What Will Happen to China? — In the early nineteen-eighties, decades before Xi Jinping became China's President, he was a skinny young Communist at a professional crossroads. Xi had a degree from the élite Tsinghua University and …
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Preparing for a New Cold War
Trump Is Preparing for a New Cold War
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Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Gates — Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his legal team has moved to drop charges that were brought last week in an expansive superseding indictment against Rick Gates. The 32-count indictment issued in the Eastern District of Virginia accused Gates of tax and bank fraud.
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Matt Phillips / New York Times:
Trump's Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages — President Trump promised that his tax cut would encourage companies to invest in factories, workers and wages, setting off a spending spree that would reinvigorate the American economy. — Companies have announced plans for some of those investments.
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Dean Baker / cepr.net:
Hey Folks, Looks Like Corporate America Hasn't Heard About the Trump Tax Cuts
Hey Folks, Looks Like Corporate America Hasn't Heard About the Trump Tax Cuts
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond hearings. — It's a profound loss for those immigrants appealing …
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Quinn Norton / The Atlantic:
The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger — The day before Valentine's Day, social media created a bizarro-world version of me. I have seen strange ideas about me online before, but this doppelgänger was so far from resembling me that I told friends and loved ones I didn't want to even try to rebut it.
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Kelsey McKinney / The FADER:
Aliens Exist … In no particular order, here is a list of things Tom DeLonge has consistently claimed to believe: UFOs are real, aliens are real and they visit us episodically, the U.S. government has known about alien life for decades, the U.S. government has been actively experimenting …
Ali Breland / The Hill:
Week ahead: House to vote on controversial online sex trafficking bill — The House is expected to vote in the coming week on legislation aimed at cracking down on sex trafficking online. — The bill is sparking concern from the tech industry, which worries that a proposed change …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Corker decides against reelection bid, sticks with retirement — Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) will not run for reelection after reconsidering his decision last fall to retire, his chief of staff said Tuesday. — After listening to some Tennessee Republicans and GOP senators who were privately urging …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
U.S. judge rejects lawsuit seeking to stop Trump border wall — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday sided with President Donald Trump's administration and rejected an attempt by the state of California and environmental groups to stop the government from building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
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Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Leak: How NYT Editor James Bennet Justifies The Op-Ed Page To His Own Paper — “The world needs this from us right now.” — In December, New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet met with a group of Times employees to answer questions about his much-questioned opinion section.
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