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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Dined with Fox News' Seb Gorka and Jesse Watters at the White House This Week … On Monday night, President Donald Trump welcomed Seb Gorka back into the White House—not for a job but for a meal.  —  The president was joined for dinner in the White House residence by Fox News personalities …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Damage control at White House to reverse Trump's stunning blunder
Discussion: Weekly Standard and YouTube
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump makes a mess of North Korea talks hours after announcing them
Washington Post:
In Trump's decision on North Korea, the world glimpses a president who is his own diplomat, negotiator and strategist
NBC News:
Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.
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Tom Llamas / ABC News:
Funds ‘from my home equity line’ used for porn star payoff: Cohen  —  The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says emails show President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen was using his Trump Organization email just days before the 2016 election as he arranged the wire transfer of a $130,000 payment …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
The President and the Porn Star: A Story's Slow Rise Above the Din  —  WASHINGTON — If a porn-tinged hush payment falls in a news din already torqued to maximum volume, does it make a sound?  —  It seems to be getting there, despite North Korean intervention.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Stormy Daniels Absolutely Slays Trump Trolls on Twitter
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyers Seek Deal With Mueller to Speed End of Russia Probe  —  Legal team seek to use interview with president as leverage in negotiations  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to negotiate a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview …
Jeffrey Schweers / Tallahassee Democrat:
NRA sues Florida over gun bill same day Gov. Scott signed it into law  —  The National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit this afternoon against the state to block a law that had just been signed by Gov. Rick Scott that prohibits gun sales to anyone between the ages of 18 and 21.
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NRA-ILA:
NRA Files Suit Challenging Florida Gun Control Law
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:   Florida Governor Signs Gun Limits Into Law, Breaking With the N.R.A.
Washington Post:
In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant … Donald Trump was so eager to have Vladi­mir Putin attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow that he wrote a personal letter to the Russian president inviting him to the event, according to multiple people familiar with the document.
Discussion: Boing Boing and Mediaite
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Trump's Latest Pardon Shows The Best Way To Get One: Go On Fox News  —  By comparing his case to Hillary Clinton's, a Navy sailor and his lawyer were able to grab Fox's attention — and the president's.  —  WASHINGTON A former Navy sailor who pleaded guilty to a felony count of unauthorized possession …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Trump pardons former Navy sailor imprisoned for taking photos on nuclear submarine, White House says
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze and IJR
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump pardons sailor in submarine photos case
Discussion: Associated Press, NBC News and ABC News
Ryan Browne / CNN:
Exclusive: Trump getting a parade but tanks won't roll down Pennsylvania avenue  —  Here's how other countries do military parades  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will get his military parade, but it is unlikely to mirror the Paris Bastille Day event which inspired …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli sentenced to 7 years in prison — says, ‘This is my fault’  — Convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli is sentenced for securities fraud related to two hedge funds he ran and to his former drug company Retrophin.  — The notorious “pharma bro” …
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Leslie Dyste / KTVU-TV:
3 hostages taken, shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home  —  Woman on lockdown at Yountville Veterans Home speaks with KTVU  —  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - Three people were taken as hostages and shots were fired at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville — the largest in the United States …
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John D. Feeley / Washington Post:
Why I could no longer serve this president  —  John D. Feeley, who retired this week as a U.S. diplomat, will soon be working with Univision and the Fusion Media Group on immigration-themed content.  —  Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate.  Trump's Chief of Staff Stopped Him.  —  Want the latest climate news in your inbox?  You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter.  —  John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head …
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Axios
Kayleigh McEnany / CNN:
Jared Kushner is quietly tackling Washington's swamp  —  Kayleigh McEnany is the national spokesperson for the Republican National Committee.  Prior to joining the RNC, McEnany was a CNN political commentator.  She earned her law degree from Harvard Law School and BSFS from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.
KQCA-TV:
Bay Area coffee shop won't serve police for ‘safety of customers’  —  Hasta Muerte Coffee: ‘We need support of the actual community to keep this place safe, not police’  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  A coffee shop in Oakland is refusing to serve law enforcement officers for the …
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Sergio Quintana / NBC Bay Area:
Coffee Shop in Oakland Refuses to Serve Police Officers
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump's hotel group wrote $151,470 check to the U.S. Treasury as it handed over all 2017 profits from business with foreign governments  — Trump Organization wrote the check on Feb. 22, representing all the hotel and related profits from foreign governments that it could account for
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
The Sam Nunberg exit interview: 'Now the game's over'  —  WASHINGTON — We in the media might not have Sam Nunberg to kick around anymore.  Then again, who knows for sure?  —  Late Thursday evening, hours before he appeared before a grand jury hearing as part of special counsel
Discussion: Raw Story
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
A Review Of ‘The Shape Of Water,’ From A Guy Who Had Sex With A Dolphin  —  “I find a dolphin a lot more sexy than that thing was,” said Malcolm Brenner.  —  In 2010, journalist Malcolm Brenner released his autobiographical novel, Wet Goddess.  A few years later, Brenner was the subject …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Burgess Everett / Politico:
The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him  —  Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country.  But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.  —  “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …
 
 
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