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8:40 PM ET, March 2, 2018

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NBC News:
Trump was angry and ‘unglued’ when he started a trade war, officials say  —  WASHINGTON — With global markets shaken by President Donald Trump's surprise decision to impose strict tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the president went into battle mode on Friday: “Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Bloomberg:
Scaramucci Is on White House ‘Exclusion List’ Blocking Visits  —  White House official had denied his claim he was on blacklist  —  Statement confirms he is on list requiring special approval  —  Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump's former communications director …
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and Mediaite
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump confidant dumped millions in steel-related stock last week  —  Billionaire investor and longtime Trump confidant Carl Icahn dumped $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, just days before Trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel imports.
CNN:
The great unraveling: Trump's allies are really worried about him  —  (CNN)Not since Richard Nixon started talking to the portraits on the walls of the West Wing has a president seemed so alone against the world.  —  One source — who is a presidential ally — is worried, really worried.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“She's in Immense Personal Jeopardy”: Even for Hope Hicks, the West Wing Got Too Hot  —  “Emotionally overwhelmed” by the headlines over Rob Porter, manipulated by Kelly, and interviewed by Mueller and Congress, the president's surrogate daughter is leaving the Trump bunker at one of his toughest moments.
Discussion: Vox and New York Times
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Jared has faded’: Inside the 28 days of tumult that left Kushner badly diminished
CBS News:
John Kelly's comment about God punishing him with chief of staff job aggravated Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
Mueller team asking if Kushner foreign business ties influenced Trump policy  —  WASHINGTON — Federal investigators are scrutinizing whether any of Jared Kushner's business discussions with foreigners during the presidential transition later shaped White House policies in ways designed …
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The Intercept:
Jared Kushner's Real-Estate Firm Sought Money Directly From Qatar Government Weeks Before Blockade  —  The real estate firm tied to the family of presidential son-in-law and top White House adviser Jared Kushner made a direct pitch to Qatar's minister of finance in April 2017 in an attempt …
CNBC:
Electrolux puts $250 million US investment on hold over Trump's tariff hike  — Sweden's Electrolux said it would delay a planned $250 million investment in Tennessee, after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on imported aluminum and steel.  — Trump said the duties …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Trump's Tariffs Are Especially Ominous
Discussion: National Review
Axios:
Man of steel: Trump's secret fantasies realized
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
The number of Delta Airlines passengers who bought tickets with NRA discount: 13  —  How many airline passengers does it take to kill a $40 million tax break for Delta Air Lines?  13.  —  The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package Thursday.
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Leslie Josephs / CNBC:   Delta CEO says, ‘Our values are not for sale,’ after Georgia lawmakers drop tax break
The Daily Beast:
Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin ‘Extremely Paranoid’ Ahead of Damning New Investigation, Sources Say … Embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is likely to be the subject of another damaging investigation as early as next week, one that could prove politically fatal.
TMZ.com:
Rick Ross Hospitalized, Machine Keeping Him Alive  —  Rick Ross has been hooked up to a machine that's taking over the function of his heart and lungs ... according to sources connected to the music mogul.  —  Rick is in a Miami area hospital getting treatment in the cardio unit …
Discussion: AOL, WSVN-TV, The Blast and The FADER
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TMZ.com:
Rick Ross — Hospitalized ... Possible Pneumonia
Discussion: The Blast, AOL and The Daily Caller
Marisa Kendall / Mercury News:
Sunnyvale home shatters record with enormous price tag  —  Check out the other stories on Uber Health and the Northern California storm.  —  SUNNYVALE — The small, unassuming home in the Cherry Chase neighborhood was on the market just two days before it sold for $2 million, a whopping $550,000 over its asking price.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Trump Swaps His Beloved Burgers for Salads and Soups in New Diet  —  Two weeks since he's been seen eating burger, one person says  —  But bacon was still on the menu at breakfast this week  —  Donald Trump has traded cheeseburgers for salads in the presidential diet — at least some of the time.
New York Times:
E.U. Leader Threatens to Retaliate With Tariffs on Bourbon and Bluejeans  —  BERLIN — The European Union will hit back at the heart of the United States, slapping tariffs on products like Harley-Davidsons, Kentucky bourbon and bluejeans, if President Trump goes ahead with a plan to place tariffs …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
House Race in Pennsylvania May Turn on Trump Voters' Regrets  —  BURGETTSTOWN, Pa. — The steel mill where Patti Stroud's husband worked for 26 years shut down a few weeks before Election Day in 2016.  Though she is a registered Democrat, Ms. Stroud had long since drifted away from the party over its liberal social policies.
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds  —  Majority of drivers make less than minimum wage and many end up losing money, according to study published by MIT … Uber and Lyft drivers in the US make a median profit of $3.37 per hour before taxes …
Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Questions surround Trump's 1st wall contract  —  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors and accused …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Press
Detroit Free Press:
CMU shooting: Student fatally shot parents in dorm, police say  —  A Central Michigan University student allegedly shot and killed his parents Friday morning in a fourth-floor dorm room, sources told the Detroit Free Press.  —  James Eric Davis Jr. is listed as a sophomore in CMU's student directory.
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Lucia I. Suarez Sang / Fox News:
2 killed at Central Michigan University, gunman ‘armed and dangerous’
David Dayen / The Intercept:
Instead of Taking on Gun Control, Democrats are Teaming with Republicans for a Stealth Attack on Wall Street Reform  —  In mid-January, Citigroup executives held a conference call with reporters about the bank's fourth quarter 2017 earnings.  The discussion turned to an obscure congressional bill …
Discussion: CNBC
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Alec Baldwin on His ABC Talk Show, Woody Allen Fallout and ‘SNL’ Future  —  “Every time I do it now, it's like agony,” Baldwin says of his Trump parody.  —  Beginning this weekend, ABC will start spending its Sundays With Alec Baldwin.  —  Earlier this week, the network ordered a nine-episode …
Carlos Garcia / TheBlaze:
Condoleezza Rice stuns ‘The View’ audience with amazing story about 2nd Amendment rights  —  Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered an amazing story from her childhood to explain to the more liberal hosts of “The View” why she supports Second Amendment rights.  —  Here's what she said
Libby Watson / Splinter:
Everyone in Washington Is Having a Lovely Time  —  Isn't living in Washington, D.C. nice?  It's got lovely architecture, beautiful parks, several Trader Joe's, and so many terribly interesting people, who contribute so much to society.  If you work very hard, and get a little lucky …
KCTV:
Child called racial slur, spat on by firefighter at Overland Park Hooters  —  Police say a racial slur was hurled at a child at a Hooters off Metcalf Avenue.  —  KCTV5 News spoke to a witness who was at the restaurant and he said he was dumbfounded by a statement the firefighter made to police.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate:
First, I wanted to write you to say thank you most sincerely for your support and prayers for my campaign for the U. S. Senate.  Your financial contributions helped me fight over $50 million dollars from Washington insiders who did not want me to bring the truth about God and our Constitution to Washington D. C.
CNN:
‘Bomb cyclone’ forms as flood threat sparks ‘LIFE & DEATH’ warning  —  (CNN)A powerful nor'easter morphed into a “bomb cyclone” Friday as it hammered the East Coast with a ferocious mix of howling winds, drenching rain, some snow and surging waves.  —  “Take this storm seriously!” …
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Soaring healthcare costs drove West Virginia teachers to go on their (possibly illegal) statewide strike  —  The Wetzel County public school district in West Virginia has given some pretty strange explanations for why every school in the state has been closed for more than a week.
Discussion: HuffPost
Randall D. Eliason / Washington Post:
Mueller's net is tightening around Trump's inner circle — and maybe Trump himself  —  Randall D. Eliason teaches white-collar criminal law at George Washington University Law School.  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is significantly turning up the heat on President Trump.
Washington Post:
Trump pushes Republicans to oppose crucial New York-New Jersey tunnel project … President Trump is pushing congressional Republicans not to fund a crucial infrastructure project — a long-delayed plan to build a new rail tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey — setting up a confrontation …
Denver Post:
Two Colorado lawmakers reveal they have been wearing bulletproof vests to Capitol in wake of sexual harassment scandal  —  Weeping Steve Lebsock reminds colleagues he is a Marine.  “You would have had me here to protect you.  Even the ones that don't like me.”
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
 
 
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David Brooks / New York Times:
How Progressives Win the Culture War
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New York Times:
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John Harwood / CNBC:
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