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Hope Hicks' “white lies” testimony becomes a flashpoint for House Intel Committee — In a rare, on-the-record accounting of some of the House Intelligence committee's secret, closed-door proceedings, two members of the House Intelligence Committee explained to CBS News what led White House …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hope Hicks to Resign as White House Communications Director — Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump's longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she was resigning. — Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump's 2016 presidential campaign without …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The White House Didn't Break Hope Hicks Overnight — Hope Hicks entered American politics at its fringes, in the early stages of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a grinning 26-year-old member of the Trump Organization's public-relations team who'd been rerouted from her task of helping Ivanka Trump develop a lifestyle brand.
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Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Trump reportedly berated Hope Hicks over her testimony to the House Intel Committee — President Donald Trump reportedly berated Hope Hicks for testimony she gave to lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee during which she admitted telling white lies for him.
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CNN:
What Hope Hicks meant about white lies — (CNN)White House communications director Hope Hicks, who on Wednesday announced she plans to leave the White House, testified to the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that she has told what amounted to white lies for President Donald Trump.
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Washington Post:
Mueller investigation examining Trump's apparent efforts to oust Sessions in July … Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been investigating a period of time last summer when President Trump seemed determined to drive Attorney General Jeff Sessions from his job, according to people familiar …
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Axios:
The wild wars within the Trump White House — After a crazy 24 hours, sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling. — The big picture: Hope Hicks leaving is obviously a huge blow to him.
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Axios:
Scoop: Besieged Sessions dines with Rosenstein in show of solidarity — If Donald Trump finally follows through on his rage and fires Jeff Sessions, the image with this story will be printed in history books. — Tonight at 7:35pm, the Attorney General strode into a high-end Washington restaurant …
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Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Shelby says he'd leave Trump if he were Sessions: 'I wouldn't be anybody's whipping boy'
Shelby says he'd leave Trump if he were Sessions: 'I wouldn't be anybody's whipping boy'
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump refers to Sessions as ‘Mr. Magoo’: report
Trump refers to Sessions as ‘Mr. Magoo’: report
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New York Times:
Kushner's Business Got Loans from Companies After White House Meetings — Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, President Trump's senior adviser. — Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.
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news.walmart.com:
Walmart Statement on Firearms Policy — In light of recent events, we've taken an opportunity to review our policy on firearm sales. Going forward, we are raising the age restriction for purchase of firearms and ammunition to 21 years of age. We will update our processes as quickly as possible to implement this change.
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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
Kroger to Stop Selling Guns to Buyers Under 21 — Supermarket chain sells firearms at 43 Fred Meyer locations in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington — Kroger Co. KR 2.18% said it would stop selling guns to buyers under 21 years old through its Fred Meyer locations …
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Kroger-owned Fred Meyer stores won't sell guns to anyone under 21 years old — Dick's CEO: Thoughts, prayers don't do anything — Kroger, the nation's largest grocery chain, said it will stop selling guns and ammunition to customers who are younger than 21 years old.
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CNN:
See HUD's $31,000 mahogany dining set — Washington (CNN)A $31,000 dining set the Department of Housing and Urban Development purchased, which raised eyebrows when first reported Tuesday, includes a table, sideboard, breakfront — all in mahogany — and 10 mahogany chairs with a blue velvet finish …
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CNN:
White House furious at embarrassing stories about HUD, Secretary Ben Carson — Complaint filed over Carson's office expenses — Washington (CNN)Senior White House aides are furious about a series of negative stories about frivolous spending at the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored ‘the Einstein visa’ — In 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Most Americans say Trump is racist — WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of Americans, including large majorities of blacks and Hispanics, think President Donald Trump is a racist. More than half think his policies have made things worse for Hispanics and Muslims …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Trump, The Day After: “Respect 2nd Amendment!” — Pontificate in haste, repent at leisure. Or perhaps Donald Trump didn't have as much leisure as he might have surmised. After a disastrous performance in a “listening session” yesterday in which Trump ridiculed Republicans for being controlled …
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Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Republicans Gobsmacked by Trump's Gun Control Comments
Republicans Gobsmacked by Trump's Gun Control Comments
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Take the guns first, go through due process second’ — on Wednesday voiced support for confiscating guns from certain individuals deemed to be dangerous, even if it violates due process rights. — “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man's case that just took place in Florida …
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Ben Sasse rips Trump after he said, ‘take the guns first, go through due process second’
Ben Sasse rips Trump after he said, ‘take the guns first, go through due process second’
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Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
Putin claims Russia has nuclear arsenal capable of avoiding missile defenses … MOSCOW — Russia has developed nuclear weapons that can avoid any missile defense systems and plans to bolster its arsenal with nuclear-powered cruise missiles capable to hitting any point on the globe …
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Liz Peek / Fox News:
Trump is ramping up for a 2020 run (but Democrats STILL don't get it) — It's official: President Trump is running for re-election. He announced Tuesday that he has appointed Brad Parscale as his campaign manager and that planning for the 2020 race is underway.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's corruption deserves to be a central issue in the 2018 midterms
Trump's corruption deserves to be a central issue in the 2018 midterms
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Walter Shaub / Los Angeles Times:
In any other presidency, our ‘insufficiently accurate’ secretary of Veterans Affairs would be gone — Deceiving an ethics official is a serious offense for a government employee. Can we agree on that? — Now imagine you're a Cabinet official leading an agency of a few hundred thousand employees.
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Donovan Slack / USA Today:
VA Secretary David Shulkin's top PR aide asked Congress to help get him fired
VA Secretary David Shulkin's top PR aide asked Congress to help get him fired
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Fights Worth Having — For my money, the best op-ed published in The Times this week was Mona Charen's Feb. 25 barn-burner, “I'm Glad I Got Booed at CPAC.” Charen is a movement conservative who worked for Nancy and Ronald Reagan and is a longtime contributor to National Review.
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Marcy Wheeler / New York Times:
Has Jared Kushner Conspired to Defraud America? — Amid the dizzying details of internet trolls, almost a million dollars' worth of antique rugs and fake bank accounts, the indictments brought by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, in his investigation of Russian tampering in the 2016 election have one thing in common.
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Associated Press:
Hundreds gather at church for blessing ceremony featuring AR-15s — NEWFOUNDLAND, Pa. — Hundreds of crown-wearing worshipers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, prompting a nearby school to cancel classes.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
They Don't Hate The NRA. They Hate You. — The progressives are cranking things up to 11 on the Stupid/Psycho Scale, which is good for us in the short term - some of us Normals were growing complacent and the midterms are coming. But we also need to open our eyes and accept the bitter reality we face.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
EU Warns Tech Giants to Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour—or Else — EU lays out rules for firms to fight online illegal material — Facebook, Google among tech firms under pressure to react — The European Union issued internet giants an ultimatum to remove illegal online terrorist content within …
CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
Gorilla Statue Removed After Complaints It Was ‘Racially Insensitive’ — UPDATED: February 28, 2018 1:15 PM Corsicana city council member Jeff Smith posted to Facebook that the city will return the gorilla statue inside his cage as soon as weather permits.
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Ashley Kirzinger / The Henry J. Kaiser Family …:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - February 2018: Health Care and the 2018 Midterms, Attitudes Towards Proposed Changes to Medicaid — KEY FINDINGS: — Medicaid continues to be seen favorably by a majority of the public (74 percent) and about half (52 percent) believe the Medicaid program …
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CNBC:
US weekly jobless claims drop to lowest level since 1969 — Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 210,000 for the week ended Feb. 24, the lowest level since December 1969. — It was the 156th straight week that claims remained below …