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Washington Post:
Former campaign staffer alleges in lawsuit that Trump kissed her without her consent. The White House denies the charge. — A staffer on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign says he kissed her without her consent at a small gathering of supporters before a Florida rally …
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
A Lawsuit by a Campaign Worker Is the Latest Challenge to Trump's Nondisclosure Agreements — A staff member of Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign filed a lawsuit in federal court in Florida on Monday, alleging that she experienced “racial and gender discrimination” while working for the campaign …
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Washington Post, Politico, The Daily Beast and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Casey Newton / The Verge:
The Trauma Floor — The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America — She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography.
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Bloomberg, Breitbart, Mashable, East Bay Times, Boing Boing, Mediaite, The Week, The American Conservative and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
Trump Tells His Lawyers: Stay for the Coming Legal Hellscape — The president has made private admissions that federal investigations bedeviling his first term in office will be haunting him for possibly years to come. — Late last year, over the course of three separate conversations …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Washington Post, Law & Crime, Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's Memo Appointing Matthew Whitaker Raises Questions About When He Actually Took Over DOJ — WASHINGTON — A newly released document regarding former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker's appointment shows that, at the earliest, President Donald Trump authorized Whitaker to lead …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Rosenstein: Barr will do the ‘right thing’ on Mueller report
Rosenstein: Barr will do the ‘right thing’ on Mueller report
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One America News Network and Raw Story
Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Study: Green New Deal Would Cost Up to $94 Trillion — Sen. Barrasso: ‘Green New Deal would bankrupt the nation’ — The “Green New Deal” would cost up to $94.4 trillion, or over $600,000 per household in the United States, according to a new study. — The American Action Forum study offers …
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Townhall, Daily Wire, AAF, Splinter and Young Conservatives
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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Could Cost $93 Trillion, Group Says
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Could Cost $93 Trillion, Group Says
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Daily Wire, IJR and Job Creators Network
AAF:
The Green New Deal: Scope, Scale, and Implications
The Green New Deal: Scope, Scale, and Implications
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The Gateway Pundit, Hit & Run and TheBlaze
Maggie Severns / Politico:
GOP donors: Trump campaign lacks a strategy to win in 2020 — Late last month, more than 100 major Republican donors gathered at the Trump International Hotel for a presentation from the president's campaign manager Brad Parscale and other top political hands on their plans to keep the White House …
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, Hullabaloo, The Week, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Russia says US asked for advice on dealing with North Korea — Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday said that the U.S. asked for Moscow's advice in approaching this week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. — The Associated Press reported …
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Just Security
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Washington Post:
‘We fell in love’: Trump and Kim shower praise, stroke egos on path to nuclear negotiations
‘We fell in love’: Trump and Kim shower praise, stroke egos on path to nuclear negotiations
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Politico, ABC News, Axios, The Week, New York Times, Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway
William M Arkin / The Guardian:
Say what you will about Trump, but his tactics on North Korea are working
Say what you will about Trump, but his tactics on North Korea are working
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Test Feed Using Fields, New York Times and Althouse
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights — In his campaign launch video last week, Bernie Sanders singled out the fossil fuel industry for criticism, listing it among the special interests he planned to take on. But in the final months of the 2016 campaign …
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Daily Wire, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, TheBlaze, The Week, Shakesville, Splinter and twitchy.com
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
The best president money can't buy
The best president money can't buy
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Hanna Trudo / National Journal:
Sanders Prepares to Release Tax Returns
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
How Lindsey Graham Went From Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick — “What happened to me?” the senator asks. “Not a damn thing.” — As the luncheon dishes were placed down, the master of ceremonies kicked off a boisterous round of Lindsey Graham trivia. “What is the senator's middle name? …
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Shareblue Media, The Week and Raw Story
New York Times:
It's Mueller's Investigation. But Right Behind Him Is Andrew Goldstein. — WASHINGTON — The routine was always the same. President Trump's lawyers would drive to heavily secured offices near the National Mall, surrender their cellphones, head into a windowless conference room …
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Law & Crime
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Labour Party Leader, Under Pressure, Backs a New Brexit Referendum — LONDON — Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Monday that it was prepared to support a second referendum on withdrawal from the European Union, a shift that could have significant ramifications for the fate of Brexit and for the country's future.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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ICE:
Joint Statement from ICE and CBP on stillbirth in custody — On Feb. 22, while being processed for release from DHS custody, a 24-year-old Honduran woman went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn baby at the Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC). — The woman, whose name …
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Splinter
emptywheel:
On August 2, 2016, Paul Manafort Gave Konstantin Kilimnik 75 Pages of Recent, Detailed Polling Data — I want to return again to the question of what Paul Manafort ordered Rick Gates to print out on August 2, 2016, so he could share it with Konstantin Kilimnik at a clandestine meeting that night.
Dana Bash / CNN:
Harry Reid wishes for George W. Bush again ‘every day’ — Programming note: For more on George W. Bush and the political family that produced two Presidents, watch CNN's Original Series “The Bush Years” debuting Sunday, March 3 at 9pm ET on CNN. — (CNN)Former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Daughter Of Putin's Spokesman Working In European Parliament — BRUSSELS — The daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman works as an intern in the European Parliament in Brussels, and has unhindered access to various EU documents, RFE/RL has learned.
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The Guardian
Holmes Lybrand / CNN:
Fact Check: Did Ivanka Trump create ‘millions of jobs’? — Washington (CNN)During an address to US governors Monday morning, President Donald Trump discussed the need for training programs and claimed that his daughter Ivanka had “created millions of jobs.”
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The White House, Political Wire, IJR and The Last Refuge
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Francis X. Donnelly / Detroit News:
Jackson gay rights leader accused of burning down own home … Nikki Joly, transgender activist, arrives in court with defense attorney Daniel Barnett in Circuit Court in Jackson, to face Judge John McBain on Friday, Feb 1, 2019, and is granted a continuance.
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Metro.co.uk, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Front Page Magazine and Big League Politics
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Diamond and Silk Documentary Snubbed by Anti-Conservative Oscars — While the Oscar for Best Picture this year went to white director Peter Farrelly's white savior flick Green Book, the Academy Awards also snubbed the most authentic take on the modern black experience that came out in 2018.
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Justin Chang / Los Angeles Times:
Oscars 2019: ‘Green Book’ is the worst best picture winner since ‘Crash’
Oscars 2019: ‘Green Book’ is the worst best picture winner since ‘Crash’
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Win McNamee / Marketplace:
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen: Far from retired, nowhere near done — Janet Yellen made history as the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve Board — a position that has been called “the second most powerful person in government” and the peak of a nearly 17-year career at the institution.
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Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Politico and Balloon Juice
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Americans' Perceptions of U.S. World Image Best Since 2003 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty-eight percent of Americans believe the U.S. rates “very” or “somewhat favorably” in the world's eyes. Though the current figure is up just slightly from the 55% recorded last year, it represents the highest figure Gallup has found since 2003.
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National Review and The Daily Caller
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump Organization asks House committee to cease investigations, citing an alleged conflict of interest — A lawyer for the Trump Organization has asked the House Judiciary Committee to cease any investigations related to it, claiming that the panel's work has been tainted by its hiring …
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Politico, Law & Crime and Talking Points Memo
Pat Eaton-Robb / Washington Times:
Transgender sprinters finish 1st, 2nd at Connecticut girls indoor track championships — NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Andraya Yearwood hears the comments, usually from adults and usually not to her face. — She shouldn't be running, they say, not against girls. — Yearwood, a 17-year-old junior …
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Activist whose group infiltrated McCaskill campaign will take stage after Josh Hawley — As soon as Sen. Josh Hawley exits the stage at a Friday event in Maryland, a conservative activist responsible for undercover videos of his Democratic opponent will appear on that same stage.