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4:30 AM ET, February 28, 2018

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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 …
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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.
Washington Post:
Four Commerce Department appointees lose their posts after problems in background checks … Four Commerce Department political appointees working on interim security clearances lost their jobs Tuesday because of problems in their background checks, the latest fallout from the intensifying public scrutiny …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
The Deep State Takes Out the White House's Dark Clown Prince … If you've ever filled out a form SF-86 for a U.S. government security clearance, you'll know the hassle of dealing with the sheer volume of information it entails.  Listing contacts, personal, financial and travel information in enormous …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Josh Raffel leaving White House
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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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut
Discussion: Raw Story and Shareblue Media
Dan Mangan / CNBC:   HUD spends $31,561 on a dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson's office
CNN:
Mueller team asks about Trump's Russian business dealings as he weighed a run for president  —  (CNN)Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trump's business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.
Discussion: KTLA, Political Wire and Mediaite
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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 …
Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
Trump campaign chief lends name to penny stock tied to felon  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The political strategist and online guru who was named President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager Tuesday has a close financial relationship with a penny-stock firm with a questionable history …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Sean Illing / Vox:
How Trump's 2020 campaign manager is connected to the Russia scandal
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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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN Chief Jeff Zucker, Jake Tapper Respond to Town Hall Critics: “They'll Get Over It”
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
ICE confirms 150-plus arrests in California sweep, slams Schaaf's early warning  —  Federal officials said Tuesday they arrested more than 150 undocumented immigrants in a Northern California sweep aimed at countering local sanctuary laws, while suggesting Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's decision …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Breitbart
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Los Angeles Times:
Oakland mayor faces backlash after notifying residents of possible immigration enforcement
Discussion: Mercury News and Breitbart
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Man posing as ridesharing driver raped at least 7 women, police allege
Discussion: KTLA
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: CNN, AOL and The Daily Caller
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BuzzFeed:
The Florida Teens Started Their Movement In A Parent's Living Room. …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: FedEx's secret deal with the NRA and the gun industry  —  More than two dozen companies have cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) in recent days, having come under scrutiny for doing business with the gun lobby following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead earlier this month.
Ali Winston / The Verge:
Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology  —  Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about  —  Illustrations by Garret Beard and Alex Castro  —  In May and June 2013 …
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. …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
David Hogg Is Fair Game for Critics  —  The Parkland survivor has chosen to insert himself into an important national policy debate.  We who disagree with his views on guns have a duty to speak up against them.  —  David Hogg, the telegenic 17-year-old who survived the shooting in Parkland …
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 …
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 …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Preparing for a New Cold War  —  Read its foreign policy statements and this much becomes clear: The Trump administration is preparing for a new Cold War.  Its National Security Strategy, unveiled in December, asserts that “The United States will respond to the growing political …
Discussion: Power Line, New York Times and Salon
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Xi Jinping May Be President for Life. What Will Happen to China?
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Washington Post
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:
Searing Big Screen “Chappaquiddick” Thriller: Mary Jo Kopechne as First #MeToo Victim of Kennedy Family Money, Power and Corruption  —  I think John Curran's masterful “Chappaquiddick” was shown once in Toronto for a handful of critics and distributors.  Byron Allen was very smart to pick …
 
 
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Tony Badran / Tablet Magazine:
‘Ambassador Samantha Power Lied to My Face About Syria,’ by Kassem Eid
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Flip Two State Legislative Seats in CT and NH, Bringing Trump-Era Total to 39
David French / The Atlantic:
What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture
Rasmussen Reports:
Americans Blame Government More Than Guns for Florida Massacre
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sympathetic to Florida man arrested by city officials he criticized
Discussion: Politico
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC Orders Alec Baldwin Talk Show, Plans Post-Oscars Sneak Peek (Exclusive)
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jezebel
An Open Letter / NYR Daily:
The World Must Act Now on Syria
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
U.S. judge rejects lawsuit seeking to stop Trump border wall
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Kelsey McKinney / The FADER:
Aliens Exist … In no particular order, here is a list …
Luke O'Brien / HuffPost:
Far-Right Troll Chuck Johnson Tried Out for ‘Survivor.’ Here's His Audition Tape.
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Quinn Norton / The Atlantic:
The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger
Business Insider:
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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