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1:40 AM ET, February 15, 2019

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ABC News:
National emergency will be blocked by courts temporarily, DOJ warns White House  —  A senior official said the White House would win an appeal.  —  16m ago
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump shocks GOP with emergency declaration  —  The surprise announcement Thursday that President Donald Trump will use his emergency powers to try and build his border wall blindsided some Republicans, confused others and sent the Senate GOP into a general state of shock.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story and Breitbart
Washington Post:
‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump's attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat  —  After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.  —  Headed for another defeat on his signature promise …
New York Times:
Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Congress Passes Spending Bill  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the nation's southwestern border even as he agreed to sign a spending package …
Bloomberg:
Trump Plans $8 Billion for Border Wall Invoking His Own Authority  — Plans to redirect nearly $7 billion approved for other uses  — Congress approved spending package averting second shutdown  —  Donald Trump plans to use unilateral authority to spend about $8 billion …
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Trump's National Emergency Is Great News for Future President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  —  I hope President Donald Trump and his short-sighted supporters have been enjoying the fun they've had at the Green New Deal's expense.  Unfortunately for them, the president's plan to declare a national emergency …
Discussion: CNN, IJR and Breitbart
Washington Post:
House Democrats to challenge Trump's emergency declaration; Republicans divided on action  —  House Democrats are gearing up to pass a joint resolution disapproving President Trump's emergency declaration to build his U.S.-Mexico border wall, a move that will force Senate Republicans to vote …
Discussion: Politico, Vox, Mother Jones and Breitbart
Foreign Policy:
Trump May Have $21 Billion in Military Funds Available for the Wall  —  The president plans to sign a federal spending bill and declare a national emergency to bankroll his long-promised border wall.  —  The announcement Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to declare …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News, CNN, twitchy.com and NPR
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump technically obese, despite doctor's clean bill of health  —  President Donald Trump gained four pounds over the last year, according to a new assessment from his doctor, a weight increase that makes him technically obese.  —  But Trump's doctor, Sean Conley, nonetheless determined that the president …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Will Declare a National Emergency. What Happens Next?
Discussion: The Nation, Breitbart and Raw Story
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi warns GOP: Next president could declare national emergency on guns
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:   An emergency declaration by Trump will lead to lawsuits. Lots of them.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Face-Saving Way Out of Crisis Raises Fears Over Rule of Law
Discussion: Vox and Law & Crime
Ken Klukowski / Breitbart:
President Trump Must Ensure Spending Bill Does Not Cancel Emergency Powers
Sean Hannity / Fox News:
How Trump can take Congress' garbage deal, and stick the wall down their throats
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
CNN:
Trump will sign bill to avoid shutdown, then declare national emergency to free billions for border wall, official says
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump declaring a national emergency to build border wall with McConnell's support will come back to haunt conservatives
Discussion: Hot Air, Townhall and Viking Pundit
Washington Post:
Congress approves border deal to avert shutdown; Trump to sign it and seek wall money elsewhere
Laura Stampler / Fortune:
Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits  —  Those wondering how many zeros Amazon, which is valued at a trillion dollars, has to pay in federal taxes might be surprised to learn that its check to the IRS will read exactly $0.00.
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J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters  —  Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from some lawmakers and union leaders, who contended that a tech giant did not deserve nearly $3 billion in government incentives.
Bloomberg:
Amazon Was Holding Talks Wednesday to Make NYC Deal Happen
Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
Amazon's Escape From New York
Discussion: The Guardian and Forbes
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Amazon Got Exactly What It Deserved—And So Did New York
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
'That's pretty firm': Why Amazon is done negotiating with New York
Discussion: Mediaite
The Amazon Blog:
Update on plans for New York City headquarters
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Andrew McCabe's disturbing account of working for Sessions and Trump  —  Greg Miller is national security correspondent for The Washington Post, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy.”
Discussion: Mediaite and KBZK
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New York Times:
McCabe Says Justice Officials Discussed Recruiting Cabinet Members to Push Trump Out of Office
CBS News:
McCabe says he ordered the obstruction of justice probe of President Trump
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
We're entering a new phase of the Trump-Russia investigation  —  President Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “ red line ” that people may have overlooked the outrageousness of his claim.  But this self-declared immunity is about to change.
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
The Senate's Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning  —  About two years ago, Republican Representative Devin Nunes, then the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, went on a “midnight run” to the White House that changed everything.  —  Nunes embarked on the late-night excursion …
Discussion: Raw Story
Allan Smith / NBC News:
NBC News, MSNBC, Telemundo to host first Democratic presidential primary debate  —  The debate will also stream online free on NBC News' digital platforms, including NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com and apps.  —  NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June …
Discussion: The Week
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Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
5 insane provisions in the amnesty omnibus bill  —  Before getting into the details of this crazy omnibus bill, it's important to recognize that we don't understand all the details.  The worst provisions are written in vague language ensconced in an 1,169-page bill, which has already …
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New York Times:
Blaming Political Climate, Trumps Give Up on New Hotels  —  In the early months of the Trump administration, with the president no longer running his family business, his eldest sons embarked on a plan to roll out two new hotel lines in dozens of American cities.
Discussion: KBZK and Raw Story
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Anti-Semitism has spread through the Islamic world like a cancer  —  In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements about Israel and its most ardent American supporters.
Discussion: New York Times
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“My Only Goal Has Been to Protect Jeff and Lauren”: Michael Sanchez, Suspected Bezos Leaker, Supplies His Own Theory About the Affair, the Enquirer, Some Below-the-Belt Selfies, and “a Legendary Romance”  —  Weeks ago, Michael Sanchez was a minor player on the fringes of Hollywood …
 
 
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
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Washington Post:
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The Daily Beast:
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