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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump delivers scorched-earth speech as he tries to regain footing — President Donald Trump delivered a scorched-earth speech to conservative activists on Saturday, calling the Russia investigation “bullshit,” adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
'We're not going to turn on our own': Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount — When President Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen testified last week that his former boss was a “racist” and “con man” who routinely skirts the law, Republicans showed little interest in following up on his claims.
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump whipped up public emotion over Otto Warmbier's death. Now it's boomeranging back on him. — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — President Trump's decision to make Otto Warmbier the public face of his pressure campaign on North Korea aimed …
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
Trump announces executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don't ‘support free speech’ — A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday.
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters — Loomer, who has already been banned from Twitter and Uber, was banned from conservative gathering on Saturday shortly before President Trump was supposed to take the stage. — The Conservative Political Action …
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John W. Dean / New York Times:
I Testified Against Nixon. Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen. — My appearance before Congress helped take down a president. Will the same thing happen to Trump? — Mr. Dean was a White House counsel under Richard Nixon. — There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973 …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control — Jeff Bezos amassed the world's greatest fortune by relying on what he has called a “regret minimization framework.” He built an $800 billion company with 14 codified principles and a brutally exacting culture. His annual salary of $81,840 has not budged since 1998.
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader — Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group has signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California.
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Washington Press, The Week and Boing Boing
Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Inside Raheem Kassam's ‘Transatlantic Right Wing Spring Fling’ — Cockburn doesn't mind a cocktail or two, but he wasn't sure if he could stomach the ‘Raheem is Daddy’ special on offer at the Nigel Farage party last night at CPAC. — Kassam is a particularly proud boy at the moment, and perhaps understandably so.
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Washington Post and Instapundit
Jennifer Barrios / Washington Post:
Commission picks new map for Maryland's gerrymandered 6th District — A nonpartisan commission charged with redrawing Maryland's 6th Congressional District, which a court ruled was unconstitutional, has proposed new boundaries for the sprawling district. — The Governor's Emergency Commission …
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Ambitions Cloud Democratic Hopes to Win the Senate — WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are convinced that Steve Bullock, the popular governor of Montana, would give the party its best shot at unseating Senator Steve Daines, a freshman Republican, when he stands for re-election next year …
The Guardian:
Revealed: Facebook's global lobbying against data privacy laws — Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment — Facebook has targeted politicians around the world - including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne …
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Stay-Puft Socialism, Luxurious Infanticide — Old evils continue to reinvent themselves. … Dear Reader (Including the Amy Klobuchar intern kept in a crate in the back office), — One of my favorite Twitter accounts is the official Twitter feed of the Socialist party of Great Britain.
Sacramento Bee:
Sacramento D.A.: No charges against police officers who shot Stephon Clark — One year after Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark to death and sparked a renewed national dialogue over police shootings of young black men, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert declared Saturday …
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Mother Jones and Raw Story
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Russian General Pitches ‘Information’ Operations as a Form of War — MOSCOW — The chief of Russia's armed forces endorsed on Saturday the kind of tactics used by his country to intervene abroad, repeating a philosophy of so-called hybrid war that has earned him notoriety in the West …
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Political Wire and Sputnik International
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
‘I know where I came from!’: Sanders begins 2020 campaign with personal speech in Brooklyn — Brooklyn, New York (CNN)Bernie Sanders on Saturday spoke about his father's escape from Europe, where “virtually his entire family there was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism.”
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Fox News:
UC-Berkeley police arrest suspect in campus attack on conservative activist — University of California-Berkeley officials on Friday arrested a suspect who allegedly assaulted a conservative activist on campus last month. — Zachary Greenberg, 28, was arrested by university police about 1 p.m. …
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Aaron Colen / TheBlaze:
Man arrested for assault on conservative activist at UC Berkeley
Man arrested for assault on conservative activist at UC Berkeley
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge orders Roger Stone to explain imminent release of book that may violate gag order — Republican operative and longtime Trump friend Roger Stone faced fresh legal trouble Friday after a federal judge ordered his attorneys to explain why they failed to tell her before now about the imminent publication …
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Christian Vasquez / Politico:
Judge demands answers from Roger Stone on book that could violate gag order
Judge demands answers from Roger Stone on book that could violate gag order