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8:55 AM ET, March 2, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump's Chaos Theory for the Oval Office Is Taking Its Toll  —  WASHINGTON — For 13 months in the Oval Office, and in an unorthodox business career before that, President Trump has thrived on chaos, using it as an organizing principle and even a management tool.
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Real Risks of Trump's Steel and Aluminum Tariffs  —  A higher price for the metals isn't the main concern; it's the chance that the global trade system will be undermined.  —  President Trump announced today that his administration would impose a 25 percent tariff on imported steel …
Axios:
Man of steel: Trump's secret fantasies realized  —  President Trump has long mused about doing what he wants, when he wants, how he wants.  He wanted tariffs on steel and aluminum — big ones — now.  He wanted to negotiate with Congress — in public, on his court, surprise and shock, all for the cameras.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Tariff Folly
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Raw Story
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's trade war could erase all the tax-cut gains
Discussion: CNBC
Jacob M. Schlesinger / Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Impose Steep Aluminum and Steel Tariffs
Associated Press:
China weighs whether to retaliate over Trump's tariff hikes
Jerry Oppenheimer / Daily Mail:
Get stylish like Hope Hicks in a Veronica Beard jacket … Hicks, who turns 30 next October, revealed she was leaving the White House on Thursday.  She is Trump's longest surviving aide and helped guide his early shoestring campaign operation after working for the Trump Organization
Discussion: The Hill, Althouse, AOL and Mediaite
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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.
Washington Post:
Trump and McMaster have seemed anxious to part but so far remain together … For months, the White House has been stuck when it comes to replacing H.R. McMaster, the president's national security adviser.  —  President Trump has often seemed eager to move on from the Army three-star general …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump ignored ‘bright line’ on discussing Russia with Hicks
Discussion: CNN
Associated Press:
Trump adrift: Tumult in West Wing amid exits, investigation
Discussion: Political Wire
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Many Trump Staffers Are Trying To Leave His Out-Of-Control White House
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 …
New York Times:
Justice Dept. Report Is Expected to Criticize Andrew McCabe Over Media Disclosures  —  WASHINGTON — A Justice Department review is expected to criticize the former F.B.I. deputy director, Andrew G. McCabe, for authorizing the disclosure of information about a continuing investigation to journalists …
Discussion: Axios and The Last Refuge
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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 …
Washington Post:
Report said to fault FBI's former No. 2 for approving improper media disclosure, misleading inspector general
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 …
Tim Mak / NPR:
Depth Of Russian Politician's Cultivation Of NRA Ties Revealed  —  A prominent Kremlin-linked Russian politician has methodically cultivated ties with leaders of the National Rifle Association, and documented efforts in real time over six years to leverage those connections and gain access deeper into American politics, NPR has learned.
Discussion: Just Security, AOL and Political Wire
CNNMoney:
Longtime Fox News exec who wrote controversial Olympics column out at network  —  Fox News exec slams Olympic committee's focus on diversity  —  John Moody, the longtime Fox News executive who wrote a controversial column about the US Olympic committee last month, is no longer with Fox News …
The Daily Beast:
Leaked: Secret Documents From Russia's Election Trolls … The Kremlin-backed troll farm at the center of Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election has quietly suffered a catastrophic security breach, The Daily Beast has confirmed, in a leak that spilled new details of its operations onto obscure corners of the internet.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's embrace of Russia: The evidence on public display already paints a jarring picture  — Trump's in-plain-sight embrace of Russia gets obscured by the Trump news avalanche.  It's worth reviewing what's been established so far.  —  As Robert Mueller accumulates guilty pleas …
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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Fox News:
Nunes: FBI may have violated criminal statutes in FISA application to spy on Trump adviser Carter Page
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
New York Times:
Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show  —  Want the latest climate news in your inbox?  You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter.  —  WASHINGTON — Even before President Trump officially opened his high-profile review last spring …
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
Georgia Passes Bill That Stings Delta Over N.R.A. Position  —  ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that stripped out a tax break proposal highly coveted by Delta Air Lines — the most stinging punishment that America's pro-gun forces have leveled so far …
Discussion: The Root
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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
NBC News:
Daniel Frisiello charged with ‘powder’ letters to Trump son, others  —  A Massachusetts child-care worker was charged Thursday with sending the threatening letter filled with white powder to Donald Trump Jr. that sent his wife to the hospital — along with four other bizarre letters mailed …
Jess Bidgood / New York Times:
‘I Live Paycheck to Paycheck’: A West Virginia Teacher Explains Why She's on Strike  —  Public schools in West Virginia were closed for a sixth day on Thursday, as teachers striking over health care costs and pay largely rebuffed a deal this week between Gov. James C. Justice and union leadership aimed at getting them back to school.
Discussion: Jacobin, CNN and Washington Press
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 …
New York Times:
N.R.A. Suggests Trump May Retreat From Gun Control  —  WASHINGTON — The top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association claimed late Thursday that President Trump had retreated from his surprising support a day earlier for gun control measures after a meeting with N.R.A. officials and Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office.
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 …
Washington Post:
A Trump ally is likely to replace a career diplomat as U.S. ambassador, and Mexicans are worried … MEXICO CITY — The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Roberta S. Jacobson, plans to leave her post this spring, a move that could further strain a rapidly deteriorating relationship between the two countries …
 
 
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Jessica Klein / Tubefilter:
Alphabet Will Not Share YouTube's Revenue With The SEC
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Will Russia Meddle in Italy's Election? It May Not Have To
Discussion: The National Interest
Ted Barrett / CNN:
McConnell: Senate to skip gun debate for bank bill
Discussion: Washington Press
Lili Bayer / Politico:
Hungarian foreign minister: Brexit is ‘Brussels’ failure'
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
They Were Trained for This Moment
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Rewire
 Earlier Items: 
Erika Martin / KTLA:
Joshua Tree Couple Arrested After 3 Children Found Living in Plywood Box for Years: Sheriff's Officials
Discussion: FOX40 and FOX31 Denver
Benjamin Haas / The Guardian:
South Korea cuts ‘inhumanely long’ 68-hour working week
The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Bets That Familiar Faces and Online Virality Will Win Him Four More Years
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
YouTube Terminates Account of InfoWars Bureau Chief
Discussion: Washington Press, Jezebel and PinkNews
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Rick Gates tells judge he's canceling trip due to threat invoking Russian mafia
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Dark money group America First Policies is running a pro-Trump polling operation.
Discussion: Washington Post
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
BBC Chair Samir Shah calls for UK's “outdated” regulatory regime to be improved to let public service broadcasters compete with US streaming giants for viewers

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

 
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