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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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David Caplan / ABC News:
Dick's Sporting Goods CEO: Company will no longer sell assault-style rifles, nor sell guns to people under 21
Dick's Sporting Goods CEO: Company will no longer sell assault-style rifles, nor sell guns to people under 21
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Vox, Axios, Gizmodo, New York Magazine and AOL
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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Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Little white lies could be a very big problem for Hope Hicks — (CNN)Hope Hicks has occasionally told fibs on behalf of her boss, but they only amounted to white lies, according to what little we've heard spill out after her closed-door testimony Tuesday with congressional investigators.
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Raw Story, The Root, AOL and Washington Press
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Ben Carson's HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for His Office
Ben Carson's HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for His Office
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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 …
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NBC News:
Mueller asking if Trump knew about hacked Democratic emails before release — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses pointed questions about whether Donald Trump was aware that Democratic emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved …
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Balloon Juice and Mediaite
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.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Kushner bombshell: Fox buries unflattering story for Trump White House...again — This is why Trump loves ‘Fox & Friends’ — Jared Kushner's downgraded security clearance is the top story for nearly every major news organization in America, but on Fox News, the stunning development has itself been downgraded.
David Bauder / Associated Press:
PBS launching new conservative political talk show — NEW YORK (AP) — Columnist Michael Gerson and commentator Amy Holmes are teaming to start a conservative-oriented talk show on PBS that takes its cue from William F. Buckley's “Firing Line,” which aired from 1966 to 1999.
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NewsBusters, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Is Reluctant to Escalate the Cyber War With Russia — Putin has proven he will retaliate. — Democrats are furious. Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community have no doubt that Russian trolls, bots and hackers are planning to meddle in the midterm elections this fall …
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Politico and Mother Jones
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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
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Washington Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NBC News, Daily Kos, Roll Call and ThinkProgress
Ben Schreckinger / GQ:
Steve Bannon Is Hatching His Comeback — In a wide-ranging and challenging conversation, Donald Trump's former strategist tells GQ's Ben Schreckinger why the #MeToo movement amazes him, why the Chinese enrage him, and why his secret new venture—a project to “weaponize ideas”—excites him.
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IJR, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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,” …
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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.
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Mashable, Outside the Beltway and The FADER
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
USA Today Runs Op-Ed From Jerome Corsi, InfoWars D.C. Bureau Chief … USA Today on Wednesday published an op-ed promoting the idea of arming school teachers with concealed firearms to combat potential school shooters. And while the piece garnered some criticism online …
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Jerome R. Corsi / USA Today:
Arm qualified, willing teachers and staff
Arm qualified, willing teachers and staff
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Media Matters for America
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.
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ThinkProgress
Bob Eller / Talking Points Memo:
Father Of FL Shooting Survivor Says He Edited Email Used To Discredit CNN — The father of a Florida shooting survivor acknowledged Tuesday he omitted words in an email he sent media outlets accusing CNN of using scripted remarks at a town hall on guns and school safety.
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 …
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 …
Danny Vinik / Politico:
Press secretary quits FEMA, citing ‘boys club’ — Resignation comes after top public affairs leader left the agency amid pressure over its response to hurricanes. — Two top public-affairs officers of the Federal Emergency Management Agency have resigned over the past month …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The GOP's Tax-Cut Narrative Is Already Unraveling — The big Republican tax cut isn't even three months old yet. But it's already confounding. — For months, critics (like me) predicted that the new law would be a handout for large corporations, which would drive up their stock prices and enrich wealthy investors.
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Bloomberg
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 …
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twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
Alex Leary / Tampa Bay Times:
Trump shuts out Bill Nelson from meeting on guns — The Democrat hasn't been invited to a White House meeting on guns to be held Wednesday. — WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump this afternoon will discuss gun legislation with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, seeking momentum amid concerns …
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Nature:
An absorption profile centred at 78 megahertz in the sky-averaged spectrum — Abstract — After stars formed in the early Universe, their ultraviolet light is expected, eventually, to have penetrated the primordial hydrogen gas and altered the excitation state of its 21-centimetre hyperfine line.
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Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
NRA directly appealed to Trump against raising age for firearms purchases — Trump: It's OK to fight the NRA sometimes — 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.
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Breitbart and Shareblue Media
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Sessions defends himself after Trump bashed him on Twitter — Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeared to rebuff criticism from Donald Trump Wednesday, vowing to do his job with “integrity and honor” after the president said it was “disgraceful” that Sessions asked an internal watchdog …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cherokee Street shop vandalized for flag supporting police, owner says — The owner of a store on Cherokee Street says someone broke her window and left a threatening note, all over a flag hanging outside. — Cherri Elder, the owner of Elder's Antiques at 2124 Cherokee Street …
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 …
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Raw Story
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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Andrew Keshner / New York Daily News:
Three Muslim women forced to remove hijabs for mug shots snag $180G payout from city — New York City will pay a total of $180,000 to three Muslim women who were forced to take off their hijabs for mug shots, the Daily News has learned. — Settlements in the three cases were filed Monday …
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Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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 …
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 …
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The Daily Beast, Washington Monthly and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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Shakesville