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11:25 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 …
USA Today:
Jordan & Meadows: Democrats put out welcome mat for a liar.  We can't trust Michael Cohen.  —  The Cohen hearing will be a partisan circus meant to destroy Trump.  We'll ask about Cohen's crimes and why he's getting a forum to avenge his grudge.  —  CONNECT11  —  TWEET11  —  COMMENT11
Discussion: NPR
CNBC:
Michael Cohen is expected to tell Congress that Trump broke the law while in office: NBC News  — Former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Tuesday starts a three-day gauntlet of congressional appearances by giving a closed-door interview to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Discussion: The Guardian and Above the Law
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Cohen to present new evidence of alleged Trump “criminal conduct”
Discussion: Washington Post
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:   Cohen Is Prepared to Say Who Signed His Stormy Daniels ‘Cover-up’ Checks
Washington Post:
20 questions that Michael Cohen could answer for lawmakers when he testifies on Capitol Hill this week
Discussion: Daily Kos
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's three days of Capitol Hill testimony, explained
Discussion: Bloomberg
Washington Post:
Cohen plans scathing testimony about Trump, Russia and Stormy Daniels
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Cohen hearings designed to keep public in dark about Russia
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   What The Steele Dossier Got Wrong About Michael Cohen
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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Ross K. Baker / USA Today:   Senate Republicans will commit institutional treason if they support Trump's ‘emergency’
Victor Garcia / Fox News:
Ivanka Trump challenges Ocasio-Cortez platform, says Americans don't want ‘guaranteed minimum’  —  Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and a White House senior adviser, lauded her father's economy and said the majority of Americans ideologically believe differently than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Pete Hegseth to Sitting Congresswoman AOC: ‘Quiet, Quiet...Learn Something Before You Come Back to Me’  —  Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth showed off what some may see as questionable parenting skills as he dismissed the climate change agenda expressed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:   Ivanka Trump goes after Ocasio Cortez over “guaranteed minimum” jobs policy
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump's inner circle might escape Mueller charges — but still won't be safe  —  Even if special counsel Robert Mueller finishes his work without filing new charges, President Donald Trump and his associates won't be in the clear.  —  In recent weeks, several prominent figures close to Trump …
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Matt Ford / New Republic:   Did Trump Win His War on the Russia Investigation?
Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR:
Manafort Seeks Leniency In Sentencing
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Columbia Journalism Review:
Poll: How does the public think journalism happens?  —  For decades, we've known that Americans don't trust the press.  What we haven't known is how people view the makings of journalism, from the use of fact checkers and anonymous sources to the question of whether money skews journalistic decision-making.
Washington Post:
On ousting Maduro, only Venezuela's opposition appears to favor a bolder approach  —  After a weekend of high drama but few results at Venezuela's border, the United States and other nations appeared resigned Monday to the fact that forcing President Nicolás Maduro from power will be neither quick nor easy.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Bernie Sanders Will Rebuke Billionaires, But Not Ruthless Dictators
Discussion: Bloomberg
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Raises $10 Million in Less Than a Week
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 …
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: The Week and Raw Story
Mary McNamara / Los Angeles Times:
Emma Thompson's letter to Skydance: Why I can't work for John Lasseter … When Skydance Media Chief Executive David Ellison announced this year that he was hiring John Lasseter to head Skydance Animation, many in and outside the company were shocked and deeply unhappy.
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 …
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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Shalom Lipner / Politico:
Kushner's Peace Plan Looks Dead on Arrival
Discussion: CNBC, Jerusalem Post and The National
New York Times:
What Goes On in Those Brexit Talks in Brussels?  ‘Nothing,’ Document Says  —  BRUSSELS — Since her Brexit plan was overwhelmingly rejected last month, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain has repeatedly set off for Brussels, ostensibly to negotiate new terms for her country's departure from the European Union.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Republicans of Gilead  —  A louche administration takes aim at reproductive rights.  —  In “The Handmaid's Tale,” Margaret Atwood's ever-resonant tale of misogynist dystopia, Christian fascism has a sordid, perverse underbelly.  On the surface, the Republic of Gilead …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Era of Limited Government Is Over  —  Why American conservatism after Trump may learn to like the state.  —  Since conservatism became a movement in the 1950s, the American right has understood itself to be defending not just the written American Constitution but an unwritten one as well …
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 …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
Why Democrats are not afraid of gun control anymore  —  (CNN)The House of Representatives this week is poised to pass its most significant gun control legislation since President Bill Clinton's first term — and in the process highlight a fundamental transformation in the Democratic Party's center of gravity.
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Anti-vaxxers face backlash as measles cases surge  —  The resurgence of measles across the United States is spurring a backlash against vaccine critics, from congressional hearings probing the spread of vaccine misinformation to state measures that would make it harder for parents to opt out of immunizing their children.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Pacific Standard
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.
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.
Discussion: The Federalist, Politico and Townhall
 
 
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The week's other summit: Kushner to meet Saudi crown prince
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's ideology isn't populism. It's catastrophism.
Discussion: Raw Story
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Harris aims to lock down California with new statewide endorsements
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and POLITICUSUSA
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Paul Manafort's Lawyers Argue For A Lighter Sentence, Saying He's The Victim Of “Public Vilification”
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.
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Iran's Charmer-in-Chief Resigns
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jeff Carlson / theepochtimes.com:
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Prevented FBI From Pursuing Gross Negligence Charges Against Clinton
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
This LGBT Activist's House Was Burned Down. Police Now Suspect He Set the Fire Himself.
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Facebook restores Russia-linked pages, but is still figuring out what to do about state-backed media
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
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonian:
State Department says it won't intervene after manslaughter suspect returns to Saudi Arabia
Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

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Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

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