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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.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump family v. John Kelly  —  The Trump family — and the president's oldest son, Don Jr., in particular — was angry about the overwhelmingly negative TV coverage about Jared Kushner last night, and feels White House Chief of Staff Kelly is hanging Jared out to dry, a source familiar with the situation tells Axios.
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 …
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 …
NBC News:
Trump slammed Clinton over handling of classified info.  That looks like hypocrisy now  —  First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  Jared Kushner loses access to highly classified information 3:04
Washington Post:
Four Commerce Department appointees lose their posts after problems in background checks
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner Loses His Right-Hand Man Just When He Needs Him Most
Discussion: Breitbart, Politico and Washington Post
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Kushner loses access to top-secret intelligence
Julie Creswell / New York Times:
Dick's, Major Gun Retailer, Will Stop Selling Assault-Style Rifles  —  One of the nation's largest sports retailers, Dick's Sporting Goods, said Wednesday morning it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores.  —  The retailer also said that it would no longer …
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People.com:
Oprah Winfrey Reveals the One Thing That Could Make Her Run for President  —  There's only one thing that could make Oprah Winfrey run for president in 2020.  —  Amid calls for her to consider a run for the White House — from fans as well as her closest friends — “I went into prayer,” …
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
Liz Ruskin / Alaska Public Media:
Rep. Young suggests guns could've saved Jews during Holocaust  —  Speaking at a conference in Juneau last week, Alaska Congressman Don Young argued against gun control by suggesting Jews might not have died in the Holocaust if they had been armed.  —  Listen now
Discussion: Daily Kos, Roll Call and ThinkProgress
Nicole Darrah / Fox News:
ICE arrests more than 150 people in Bay Area following Democratic mayor's warning  —  Head of ICE's enforcement and removal blasts Mayor Libby Schaaf's decision to announce raids; Claudia Cowan rides along with federal immigration agents trying to enforce the law.
Discussion: CNN, RedState and The Daily Caller
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tipped off immigrants about ICE raid and isn't sorry she did
Jerome R. Corsi / USA Today:
Arm qualified, willing teachers and staff  —  Allowing teachers and school staff the right to carry weapons provides the possibility of a near instant response: Opposing view  —  Even in the best of circumstances, police responding to a school shooting need time to deploy, arrive on the scene and engage.
Oli Coleman / Page Six:
Publicists to steer stars away from Seacrest on Oscars red carpet  —  E! network execs say that Ryan Seacrest will host their Oscars red-carpet coverage on Sunday, in spite of shocking allegations that emerged Monday that he subjected his personal stylist to “years of unwanted sexual aggression.”
Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
NRA directly appealed to Trump against raising age for firearms purchases  —  Washington (CNN)National Rifle Association leaders appealed directly to President Donald Trump about not raising the age limit for buying certain firearms, a senior administration official tells CNN.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge sets Sept. 17 trial date for Manafort on Mueller charges  —  A judge in Washington on Wednesday set a Sept. 17 trial date for former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort on charges from special counsel Robert Mueller, including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent.
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
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.
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New York Times:
With AR-15s, Mass Shooters Attack With the Rifle Firepower Typically Used by Infantry Troops  —  A Marine shooting a standard rifle used by the military.  —  The gunman firing a civilian variant during the Parkland shooting. … Since 2007, at least 173 people have been killed in mass shootings …
Discussion: twitchy.com
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
PA-18 Special Election Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up  —  It's not normal for Republicans to be worried about losing a seat President Trump carried by 20 points.  But with two weeks to go before the March 13 special election, Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone is locked …
Alex Daugherty / miamiherald:
Rubio bill would let young adults in D.C. purchase the AR-15  —  WASHINGTON  —  Last week, Marco Rubio stared into the eyes of a father who lost his daughter during the nation's deadliest high school shooting and made an announcement: Young adults should not be able to purchase guns.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Naked Politics
Washington Post:
Cyber chief says Trump has given him no new authority to strike at Russian interference threat … The head of U.S. Cyber Command warned lawmakers that penalties and other measures have not “changed the calculus or the behavior” of Russia as it seeks to interfere with this year's midterm elections.
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller … Claudia, Jackie, Olivia, and Margo Oshry are a group of sisters in New York living the millennial dream, running viral Instagram accounts and ruthlessly curating their online images.
Lea Skene / www.theadvocate.com:
Mother of baby killed in Baton Rouge crash involving off-duty cop arrested for failing to secure child seat  —  Just weeks after a Baton Rouge police officer was arrested on negligent homicide and accused of causing a crash that injured several people and killed a baby, the child's mother …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Tesler / Washington Post:
Democrats and Republicans are increasingly divided on the value of teaching black history  —  Wednesday marks the end of Black History Month.  And like prior Februaries, this month has seen its fair share of articles lamenting Americans' lack of knowledge about African American history.
Discussion: Shakesville
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
Why I'm Writing Captain America  —  Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics.  To say it is more difficult than it looks is to commit oneself to criminal understatement.  Writers don't write comics so much as they draw them with words.
Bloomberg:
How Defective Guns Became the Only Product That Can't Be Recalled  —  Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger.  The government won't fix the problem.  The NRA is silent.  —  Thomas “Bud” Brown makes his way out the back door …
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Discussion: Roll Call
Tony Badran / Tablet Magazine:
‘Ambassador Samantha Power Lied to My Face About Syria,’ by Kassem Eid  —  One day after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Saturday demanding a truce in the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta to allow for aid access and medical evacuations, Russia, Iran …
Discussion: Power Line
Guy Faulconbridge / Reuters:
Exclusive: North Korean leaders used Brazilian passports to apply for Western visas - sources  —  LONDON (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father Kim Jong Il used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s …
Discussion: Axios
Bloomberg:
Manafort Joined Trump as Ukraine Work Dried Up, Cash Woes Rose  —  Fixer said to visit 17 times in 2014-15, with unpaid bills  —  Gates cooperation gives Mueller view on Manafort's cash hunt  —  Among the enduring curiosities of Donald Trump's presidential run was his announcement …
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 …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Rise of Woke Capital  —  Here are two stories about corporate America's current role in our politics and common life.  In one, the country's biggest companies are growing a conscience, prodded along by shifts in public opinion and Donald Trump's depredations and their own idealistic young employees …
 
 
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Hamid Shalizi / Reuters:
Afghanistan's Ghani offers talks with Taliban ‘without preconditions’
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
NYC must pay $180G to 3 Muslim women forced to remove hijabs for mugshots
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Sexual predators pose as Uber and Lyft drivers and attack women leaving bars and clubs, police say
Sara Stewart / New York Post:
Jennifer Lawrence flounders in atrocious ‘Red Sparrow’
New York Times:
In N.R.A. Fight, Delta Finds There Is No Neutral Ground
Discussion: ABC News, Joe.My.God. and WIS-TV
Ben Schreckinger / GQ:
Steve Bannon Is Hatching His Comeback
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Debbie Lesko wins Republican primary race for vacant congressional seat
Discussion: Political Wire and Washington Post
David Smith / The Guardian:
Half-century of US civil rights gains have stalled or reversed, report finds
 Earlier Items: 
Chicago Tribune:
Obama makes pitch for his center in Jackson Park: ‘Too much development’ has not been the problem for South Side
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Dem wins New Hampshire seat in Trump district
Discussion: Vox and Hullabaloo
Lauren DeBellis Appell / Fox News:
The NRA just got a new member. Here's why this mom of two joined the group
John Bowden / The Hill:
Supreme Court rules immigrants can be detained indefinitely
Ned Oliver / The Roanoke Times:
GreenTech, the electric car company once led by McAuliffe, files for bankruptcy
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ginger Hervey / Politico:
EU's Irish border position is a ‘fantasy,’ says former UK Brexit minister