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9:00 AM ET, February 26, 2019

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Wall Street Journal:
Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office  —  Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Planned in Michael Cohen's Testimony: A Litany of Accusations Against Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, is planning on portraying his onetime client in starkly negative terms when he testifies Wednesday before a House committee …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
What The Steele Dossier Got Wrong About Michael Cohen  — A previously redacted section of the Steele dossier that was recently unsealed in a legal case makes several false claims about Michael Cohen's wife and father-in-law.  — The inaccuracies raise further questions about the veracity …
Washington Post:   20 questions that Michael Cohen could answer for lawmakers when he testifies on Capitol Hill this week
Washington Post:
Cohen plans scathing testimony about Trump, Russia and Stormy Daniels
Discussion: Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Cohen hearings designed to keep public in dark about Russia
Thom Tillis / Washington Post:
I support Trump's vision on border security.  But I would vote against the emergency.  —  Thom Tillis, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from North Carolina.  —  President Trump has few bigger allies than me when it comes to supporting his vision of 21st-century border security …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Trump on brink of defeat on border emergency  —  President Donald Trump is on the verge of a bipartisan rejection of his emergency declaration at the border in what would be an embarrassing rebuke by a Congress opposed to his immigration agenda.  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) …
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story, Contemptor and IJR
Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
G.O.P. Tries to Hold Down Defections Before Vote to Block Trump's Emergency  —  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders scrambled to keep rank-and-file members in line ahead of a House vote on Tuesday to kill President Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the Mexican border …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Tillis to vote for resolution blocking Trump's emergency declaration
Wall Street Journal:
House Investigators Probe Trump Contact With Matthew Whitaker  —  A House panel believes it has evidence that President Trump asked Matthew Whitaker, at the time the acting attorney general, whether Manhattan U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman could regain control of his office's investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Law & Crime
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Manafort lawyers ask judge for leniency in sentencing  —  Lawyers for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, pleaded on Monday for a federal judge to spare their 69-year-old client from a sentence that would essentially send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Discussion: NPR and Political Wire
Matt Ford / New Republic:   Did Trump Win His War on the Russia Investigation?
Bloomberg:
Paul Manafort Seeks Mercy From D.C. Judge Who'll Punish Him
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
In Hanoi, Kim Jong Un and a culture clash with the White House press corps  —  HANOI — What happens when the authoritarian ruler of North Korea checks into a hotel teeming with American journalists filing round-the-clock news reports?  —  The free press loses — or at least it did Tuesday …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Russia says US asked for advice on dealing with North Korea
Washington Post:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives in Vietnam by train for summit with Trump
Associated Press:
Russia: US asks for advice on North Korea talks
Discussion: Washington Press
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Democrats block bill to stop infanticide.  Politico smears Republicans for the effort  —  If anyone wonders why so many people hate, detest, despise the establishment media, witness Politico's “news” article Monday night about Senate Democrats' defeat of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Senate defeats anti-abortion bill, as GOP tries to jam Dems
Discussion: Townhall
Dennis Overbye / New York Times:
Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos?  —  Axions?  Phantom energy?  Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process.  —  There was, you might say, a disturbance in the Force.  —  Long, long ago, when the universe …
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
This LGBT Activist's House Was Burned Down.  Police Now Suspect He Set the Fire Himself.  —  In 2017, prominent Michigan LGBT activist Nikki Joly, a transgender man, was the victim of an apparent hate crime: An unknown arsonist burned down his house, which had two dogs and three cats trapped inside.
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Frank Witsil / Detroit Free Press:
Police: Michigan gay-rights activist set fire to own home in fabricated hate crime
Discussion: PinkNews and Daily Wire
Francis X. Donnelly / Detroit News:
Jackson gay rights leader accused of burning down own home
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Raises $10 Million in Less Than a Week  —  A clutch of advisers to Senator Bernie Sanders began arriving at the Capitol Hill townhouse that served as his makeshift headquarters before dawn last Tuesday, where they readied themselves to track, among other things …
Discussion: CNN, Daily Wire and Axios
Gus Garcia-Roberts / USA Today:
This 21-year-old tweeted lies about Robert Mueller and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Now, he's eyeing the 2020 election  —  COSTA MESA, Calif. - A false claim bubbled up from the internet last month that Sen. Kamala Harris, the recently announced presidential candidate, wasn't eligible for election …
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian state television has listed U.S. military facilities that Moscow would target in the event of a nuclear strike, and said that a hypersonic missile Russia is developing would be able to hit them in less than five minutes.
Associated Press:
India strikes inside Pakistan after deadly Kashmir attack  —  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan says India launched an airstrike on its territory early Tuesday that caused no casualties, while India said it targeted a terrorist training camp in a pre-emptive strike that killed a “very large number” of militants.
Discussion: Times of India, Axios and The Week
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Ridhima Shukla / NDTV.com:
Live Updates: Preemptive Action Targeted At Jaish Camp, Says Centre
Discussion: Balloon Juice and RT
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
State Department says it won't intervene after manslaughter suspect returns to Saudi Arabia  —  The State Department has indicated little hope of bringing back a Saudi citizen to the United States after he fled before his manslaughter trial in Portland.  —  The department confirmed …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Iran's Charmer-in-Chief Resigns  —  With the departure of Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, maybe the West will be more realistic about Iran's malign intentions.  —  There is a temptation to view the resignation of Iran's foreign minister as a bad omen.  Here is a man, Javad Zarif, who helped negotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
Netanyahu's new rival is surging in Israel's polls  —  Here's why Benny Gantz's ambiguity on Palestinians is a winning strategy.  —  In April, Israeli voters will head to the polls to elect a new government.  Despite corruption charges, surveys have shown Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party …
 
 
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why Democrats are not afraid of gun control anymore
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
2020 Democratic hopefuls embrace new meaning of reparations
Discussion: Axios and Politico
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Is Not a Candidate. She Looms Over 2020 Anyway.
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Anti-vaxxers face backlash as measles cases surge
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Pacific Standard
Jeff Carlson / theepochtimes.com:
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
As 2020 Democrats campaign in Iowa, voters are asking about policies — not Trump or Mueller
Discussion: Political Wire
Stephanie Ruhle / MSNBC:
Former Cambridge Analytica employee was questioned by Mueller
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook restores Russia-linked pages, but is still figuring out what to do about state-backed media
 Earlier Items: 
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Wisconsin governor orders troops to leave southern border
Discussion: National Review
Michael M. Phillips / Wall Street Journal:
Marine Recruits Learn an Important Lesson: What Happened on 9/11
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Warren creates purity test unseen in modern presidential politics
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Arrest Record Leaks for a Top Candidate in Tuesday's Public Advocate Election
John Williams / New York Times:
New York Review Names 2 Top Editors 5 Months After Ian Buruma's Departure
ICE:
Joint Statement from ICE and CBP on stillbirth in custody
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Splinter
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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