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John Santucci / ABC News:
Several White House staffers terminated or reassigned for security clearance issues: Sources  —  Several White House staffers have been terminated or reassigned for issues related to their security clearances — with at least one individual employed in the Office of the First Lady relieved of duty …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's dangerously thin red line  —  In early February, after President Trump's well-received State of the Union address and Davos trip, economic adviser Gary Cohn was having lunch with the president and Chief of Staff John Kelly, in the small dining room off the Oval Office.  —  “I've got to tell you.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Four unfolding events that show the crazy times we're in  —  THE STEP BACK: FOUR UNFOLDING EVENTS THAT SHOW WE'RE LIVING IN RIDICULOUSLY CRAZY TIMES ...  REASON 1: THE SPEAKER IS WAGING A VERY PUBLIC WAR WITH THE PRESIDENT IT LOOKS LIKE HE'LL LOSE: SPEAKER PAUL RYAN has privately …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump blames past presidents as far back George H.W. Bush for economic woes
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
Eric Bradner / CNN:
With primary ending, Cruz takes opening shot at Beto O'Rourke's name  —  Cruz, O'Rourke respond to name-mocking ad  —  Washington (CNN)Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's first shot at his expected Democratic challenger, Rep. Beto O'Rourke?  Mocking his name.  —  As Tuesday's primaries were closing …
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YouTube:
If You're Gonna Run in Texas |  Ted Cruz for Senate Statewide Radio Ad  —  Stand with Ted: http://www.tedcruz.org Follow Ted: http://twitter.com/tedcruz Like Ted: http://fb.com/tedcruzpage Donate: http://tedcruz.org/donate
The Guardian:
Sergei Skripal was deliberately poisoned with nerve agent, say police  —  Former Russian spy's case being treated as attempted murder, with police officer also ‘seriously ill’ … The former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was deliberately poisoned with a nerve agent in a case that is now being treated …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Former Russian Spy Poisoned by Nerve Agent, British Police Say  —  LONDON — A former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in England this week, the British authorities said on Wednesday, heightening suspicions that the episode was an assassination attempt by a national government …
Misha Glenny / Coffee House:   The targeting of Sergei Skripal might have been McMafia, not the Kremlin
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Nunberg Says He Enjoyed Defiance But Will Comply With Mueller  —  Says president ‘never did anything illegal’ around him  —  Plans to testify on Friday, hand over subpoenaed emails  —  Longtime Donald Trump associate Sam Nunberg said he loved the attention he received from a round …
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Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Stormy Daniels sues Trump, says ‘hush agreement’ invalid because he never signed
USA Today:
Stormy Daniels is just one reason Donald Trump couldn't work in his own White House
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
U.S. Holocaust Museum Revokes Award to Aung San Suu Kyi  —  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has revoked a prestigious human rights award it had given to the Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, now Myanmar's civilian leader, faulting her for failing to halt or even acknowledge …
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
Ben Carson Removes Anti-Discrimination Language From HUD Mission Statement  —  It will no longer reference “inclusive” communities “free from discrimination.”  —  WASHINGTON Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is changing the mission statement of his agency …
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Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
McDonald's is flipping its iconic arches upside down in an unprecedented statement  — McDonald's is flipping its logo on all its digital channels to celebrate International Women's Day on Thursday.  —  People driving by a McDonald's in Lynwood, California, might be baffled by an upside-down sign.
Vladimir Isachenkov / Associated Press:
Putin praises Trump, says US political system eating itself  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on President Donald Trump on Wednesday, but added that he was sorely disappointed with the U.S. political system, saying that it has been “eating itself up.”
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers.  Here's What I Learned.  —  I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch.  Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago, the biggest news still somehow finds a way to slip through.
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
The NYPD Is Ready to Arrest Harvey Weinstein.  Will District Attorney Cy Vance Finally Agree to Let Them? … The NYPD is prepared to collar Harvey Weinstein for felony sexual assault, a police official with direct knowledge of the case told The Daily Beast.
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
The DCCC's scorched-earth campaign against Texas Democrat Laura Moser backfired  —  Moser made it into a May runoff election.  —  Until a few weeks ago, Laura Moser was a little-known name, one of seven candidates running for the Democratic primary in Texas's Seventh Congressional District.
CNN:
This is what Nikolas Cruz's life in jail is like  —  Parkland, Florida (CNN)New documents obtained by CNN provide a glimpse into the Florida school shooter's life in the Broward County Jail.  —  In observation reports from February 17 to 24, deputies described Nikolas Cruz's activities, demeanor and behavior.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Facing Potential Challenge from Cynthia Nixon, Cuomo Swipes at Familiar Foe: The Mayor  —  A day after news broke that the actress Cynthia Nixon was in talks with two Democratic strategists about entering the 2018 governor's race in New York, the two-term incumbent, Andrew M. Cuomo …
Discussion: PinkNews, The Outline and LGBTQ Nation
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Jimmy Vielkind / Politico:
‘Sex and the City’ actress threatens Cuomo's 2020 ambitions
Discussion: Splinter and Daily Wire
Nature:
Measurement of Jupiter's asymmetric gravity field  —  Abstract  —  The gravity harmonics of a fluid, rotating planet can be decomposed into static components arising from solid-body rotation and dynamic components arising from flows.  In the absence of internal dynamics …
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Nature:
Jupiter's atmospheric jet streams extend thousands of kilometres deep
Discussion: Gizmodo
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Requiem for a Strike  —  West Virginia teachers have a deal.  On Tuesday, a compromise reached by a conference committee composed of Democratic and Republican members of the state House and Senate raised public worker pay by 5 percent.  Teachers and union representatives said the deal …
Nigel Jaquiss / Willamette Week:
In 2011, Portland Police Investigated a Sexual Assault Complaint Against Billionaire Mark Cuban.  He Wasn't Charged.  Here's What Happened.  —  WW has obtained the transcript of a Portland Police detective's interview with Cuban.  “Oh my Lord,” Cuban said.  “Oh my f***ing Lord.”
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Cannabis candidate’ accused of abusing women and inflating his resume  —  CHICAGO — Benjamin Thomas Wolf, an Illinois congressional candidate whose provocative campaign has captured national media attention, has smoked weed in front of an American flag, brandished an AR-15 in a campaign ad and is running ads on porn sites.
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
Blue-Collar Trump Voters Are Shrugging at Their Tax Cuts  —  DAYTON, Ohio — At Slyder's Tavern, Matt Kazee, a machinist, drank a couple of beers as he waited for burgers to take home for dinner.  His tab was about equal to the increase in his take-home pay after President Trump's tax cut found its way into the nation's paychecks.
Discussion: Raw Story
Elizabeth Bruenig / Washington Post:
It's time to give socialism a try  —  In the United States, we've arrived at a pair of mutually exclusive convictions: that liberal, capitalist democracies are guaranteed by their nature to succeed and that in our Trumpist moment they seem to be failing in deeply unsettling ways.
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and The Resurgent
Christian Davenport / Washington Post:
Why is Paul Allen building the world's largest airplane?  Perhaps to launch a space shuttle called Black Ice. … A massive airplane being built by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen moved a step closer to flight last week, when it crept out of its hangar in Mojave, Calif. …
Discussion: Daily Mail and GeekWire
Shannon Liao / The Verge:
Amazon admits Alexa is creepily laughing at people and is working on a fix  —  Wait, what?  —  Over the past few days, users with Alexa-enabled devices have reported hearing strange, unprompted laughter.  Amazon responded to the creepiness in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We're aware of this and working to fix it.”
Mae Anderson / Associated Press:
Trump reopens a seemingly settled video-game debate  —  NEW YORK (AP) — In the wake of the Florida school shooting, President Donald Trump is reviving an old debate over whether violent video games can trigger violent behavior.  There's just one problem: Roughly two decades of research has repeatedly failed to uncover any such link.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump to Sign Tariffs on Thursday but Some Countries Could Escape Them  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to formally sign off on stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports at noon on Thursday, according to people familiar with the deliberations …
Discussion: CNBC
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
We're All Fascists Now  —  Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.  She is also a woman who says bad things.  Things like: Men and women are equal, but there are differences between them.
Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Geek Squad's Relationship with FBI Is Cozier Than We Thought  —  After the prosecution of a California doctor revealed the FBI's ties to a Best Buy Geek Squad computer repair facility in Kentucky, new documents released to EFF show that the relationship goes back years.
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Peter Thiel's Money Talks, in Contentious Ways.  But What Does He Say?  —  Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley's homegrown Cassandra.  He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and clueless and less good for mankind than they believed.  —  Comeuppance, the billionaire investor warned, was coming.
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Influence Campaign Extracted Americans' Personal Data  —  Operators used social media to pitch fake business directories, petitions in return for information  —  All the Facebook account Black4Black asked for was some personal information about Ajah Hales and other Cleveland-area small-business owners.
BBC:
Britain First leader and deputy leader jailed for hate crimes  —  The leader and deputy leader of far-right group Britain First have been found guilty of religiously aggravated harassment.  —  Paul Golding, 36, and Jayda Fransen, 32, were arrested over the distribution of leaflets and posting of online videos during a gang-rape trial.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Reuters and Politico
 
 
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Anne Ryman / USA Today:
‘Doomsday Clock’ professor put on leave amid allegations of sexual misconduct
Omar Jimenez / CNN:
In this American town, guns are required by law
Discussion: IJR, Breitbart and AOL
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
A Photo of Charles Murray Is Too Traumatizing for Some Middlebury College Students
Discussion: The College Fix
CNBC:
Snap is laying off about 100 engineers
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Under Trump, the ‘forgotten men and women’ are still forgotten
CBS Philly:
Toomey: Proposed Tariffs Are ‘Big Mistake’
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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Producer to Pay $60 Million in Settlement
Bloomberg:
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