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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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CNN:
Kushner security clearance is downgraded
Kushner security clearance is downgraded
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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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Washington Post:
Four Commerce Department appointees lose their posts after problems in background checks
Reuters:
Trump son-in-law, adviser Kushner loses access to top intelligence briefing: sources
Trump son-in-law, adviser Kushner loses access to top intelligence briefing: sources
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
In Russia probe, Hope Hicks refuses to answer questions about Trump administration
In Russia probe, Hope Hicks refuses to answer questions about Trump administration
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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 …
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue Media:
HUD worker: Ben Carson demoted me for refusing to buy him a $5k chair
HUD worker: Ben Carson demoted me for refusing to buy him a $5k chair
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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 …
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Schools safer today than in 1990s, study on shootings says
Schools safer today than in 1990s, study on shootings says
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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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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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Donald J Trump:
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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ARLnow.com:
BREAKING: Hazmat Situation at Marine Corps Headquarters — (Updated at 6:55 p.m.) Firefighters, paramedics and law enforcement have responded to Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall for a hazmat situation involving an unknown substance that was mailed to the base.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sympathetic to Florida man arrested by city officials he criticized — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. went to the videotape, and he found it “pretty chilling.” — He was talking about the November 2006 meeting of the Riviera Beach City Council in Florida …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
An Open Letter / NYR Daily:
The World Must Act Now on Syria — The United Nations says it has run out of words on Syria, but we, the undersigned, still have some for the governments, parliamentarians, electorates, and opinion leaders of the powers upon whom the international legal order has hitherto depended.
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 …