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6:50 PM ET, March 1, 2018

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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Intelligence Leaders Say House G.O.P. Leaked a Senator's Texts  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel's top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Hope Against Hope  —  Hope Hicks is kidding herself if she thinks that her tenure in the Trump White House will be judged only for harmless, situational untruths.  —  Presidents are in the habit of lying—often with bloody consequences.  The Bay of Pigs, the Gulf of Tonkin, Watergate …
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
It's Time for Devin Nunes To Go - for Good
Discussion: Politico
Daily Mail:
Revealed: How Hope Hicks was ‘trapped’ …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nicolle Wallace / NBC News:
White House preparing for McMaster exit as early as next month  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser as early as next month in a move orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five people familiar with the discussions.
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Many Trump Staffers Are Trying To Leave His Out-Of-Control White House  —  Even for this chaotic administration, the last few weeks have taken a toll on President Donald Trump and his staff.  A tragic mass shooting, big-name staff departures, and a series of scandals …
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.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's tariff war nudges Cohn toward White House exit
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John Kelly jokes (?) that ‘God punished’ him when he left DHS to be Trump's chief of staff
Discussion: The Hill, RedState, AOL and CNN
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:   Scaramucci Says He Fears John Kelly Will Thwart SkyBridge Sale
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
A telling anecdote about Trump and the opioid abuse crisis
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Matt Glassman / New York Times:   The Root of White House Chaos? A Weak President
NBC News:
Mueller eyes charges against Russians who stole, spread Democrats' emails  —  WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is assembling a case for criminal charges against Russians who carried out the hacking and leaking of private information designed to hurt Democrats in the 2016 election …
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CNN:
Exclusive: FBI counterintel investigating Ivanka Trump business deal  —  (CNN)US counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump's international business deals, according to two sources familiar with the matter.  —  The FBI has been looking into the negotiations …
Pew Research Center:
1. Generations' party identification, midterm voting preferences, views of Trump  —  Millennial voters continue to have the highest proportion of independents of any generation.  But when their partisan leanings are taken into account, they also are the most Democratic generation.
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USA Today:
Voters vow to elect a Congress that stands up to Trump, poll shows  —  WASHINGTON — Americans are mad, and that is putting Republicans at risk.  —  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds voters looking toward the midterm elections are overwhelmingly unhappy with the country's direction …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Political Wire
Michael Dimock / Pew Research Center:
Defining generations: Where Millennials end and post-Millennials begin  —  For decades, Pew Research Center has been committed to measuring public attitudes on key issues and documenting differences in those attitudes across demographic groups.  One lens often employed by researchers …
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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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to Quit Amid Tense Relations Under Trump  —  MEXICO CITY — The United States ambassador to Mexico plans to resign from her post in May, according to a memo circulated on Thursday to embassy staff, the latest in a string of senior diplomatic departures from the region …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
U.S. ambassador to Mexico stepping down
Discussion: American Thinker
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Plans Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum and Markets Slump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he will impose stiff tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, thwarting some of his top pro-trade advisers and rattling stock markets as the prospect of a global trade fight loomed.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ally Was in Talks to Earn Millions in Effort to End 1MDB Probe in U.S.  —  Emails indicate Republican donor and wife were negotiating fee if the Justice Department closed its investigation  —  A top Republican fundraiser close to President Donald Trump was in negotiations to earn tens …
Justin Wm. Moyer / Washington Post:
‘March For Our Lives’ gun-control rally bumped from Mall by ‘talent show’ … A planned rally against mass shootings can't be held on the Mall later this month because it conflicts with what's described in a National Park Service permit application as a “talent show.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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.”
Andrew Roth / The Guardian:
Putin threatens US arms race with new missiles declaration  —  President says Russia has new line of nuclear-capable weapons that can breach US defences … Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has developed and is testing a new line of strategic, nuclear-capable weapons that would be able …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rick Gates tells judge he's canceling trip due to threat invoking Russian mafia  —  Ex-Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates told a federal court Thursday afternoon that he and his wife believe it's “not prudent” …
Associated Press:
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen charged over IS photos  —  PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors filed preliminary charges Thursday against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence, in a new blow to a woman long seen as the face of Europe's anti-immigrant populism.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Dark money group America First Policies is running a pro-Trump polling operation.  Here is an inside look at its secretive work  — America First Policies, a nonprofit group with close ties to President Donald Trump, has hired Trump's pollsters to conduct a wide range of political polling and research.
Tennessean.com:
Mike Huckabee resigns from CMA Foundation board following controversy  —  Mike Huckabee and TBN president Matthew Crouch talk about the new show in Nashville  —  Less than one day after his appointment was announced, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has resigned from the CMA Foundation board of directors …
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Robert Kraft's much younger girlfriend secretly had a baby  —  There was speculation about Patriots owner Bob Kraft after his much younger girlfriend Ricki Noel Lander secretly had a baby — but he's confirmed that the child is not his.  —  Billionaire Kraft, who has four adult sons …
Washington Post:
Jared Kushner's troubles include an impending $1.2 billion company debt … In December 2016, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to Donald Trump's presidential transition, was busy helping shape the new administration.  But Trump's son-in-law also had another pressing concern …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The ‘Experts’ Kobach Is Using To Defend His Voter Fraud Claims In Court  —  Next week, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will go to federal court to defend a voting restriction that he has for years tried to implement in his state.  —  To help Kobach make his case …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Vox
Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow sheds 550 points after Trump says steel and aluminum tariffs coming next week  — The Dow Jones industrial average traded more than 500 points lower after rising more than 150 points earlier in the day.  — The U.S. will set tariffs of 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum, the president said.
 
 
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
There Sure Were A Bunch Of White Nationalists At CPAC, Huh?
dsca.mil:
Ukraine - Javelin Missiles and Command Launch Units
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Helen Zhao / CNBC:
Steve Wynn strikes back at ‘revolting’ reports that he raped a woman and fathered her child
Tim Collins / Daily Mail:
Facebook keep creepy secret files on every internet user
Discussion: Breitbart
Hannah Reale / The Wesleyan Argus:
Hill to Replace Handler '92 at Commencement Ceremony
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Spurned by U.S. and Facing Danger Back Home, Iranian Christians Fear the Worst
Fox News:
California has worst ‘quality of life’ in US, study says
Discussion: AOL, Mercury News and Instapundit
Wall Street Journal:
Exxon Abandons Russian Projects Brokered by Tillerson
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Katia Dmitrieva / Bloomberg:
Manufacturing in U.S. Expands at Fastest Pace Since May 2004
Discussion: Breitbart
BostonGlobe.com:
State trooper involved in shooting has history of racist online posts
Discussion: CBS Boston and Raw Story
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
D.C. Public Schools graduation rate on track to decline this year
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
 

 
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