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4:25 PM ET, February 18, 2022

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New York Times:
Material Recovered From Trump by Archives Included Classified Information  —  In a letter to Congress, the National Archives confirmed that boxes taken from the White House by the former president included classified national security documents.  —  WASHINGTON — The National Archives confirmed …
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Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
National Archives: Trump took classified items to Mar-a-Lago  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The 15 boxes of White House records that were stored at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence contained items marked as classified national security information, the National Archives and Records Administration said Friday.
Discussion: Insider, CNBC, The Hill and Rolling Stone
Foreign Policy:
Russia Planning Post-Invasion Arrest and Assassination Campaign in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say  —  Intelligence on possible targets has been shared with Ukraine and other partners in the region.  —  The United States has obtained intelligence that Russia may target prominent political opponents …
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Politico:
The Speech In Which Putin Told Us Who He Was  —  The beautiful and prosperous city of Munich, Germany, has many claims to notoriety.  It was the hotbed of early Nazism, the site of Neville Chamberlain's famous meeting to appease Hitler and, later, a hub of German resistance to Hitler.
Associated Press:
Ukrainian rebels to evacuate civilians to Russia amid crisis
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
US Senate approves resolution for Ukraine, warning Russia
Foreign Affairs:
What if Russia Wins? … When Russia joined the ongoing civil war in Syria, in the summer of 2015 …
Michael Carpenter / U.S. Mission to the OSCE:
U.S. Statement for the Vienna Document Joint PC-FSC Chapter III Meeting
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN:
The media and Durham's corrupt “spying” investigation  —  Editor's note: Good news!  The audio option should be returning next week. … Subscribe to PRESS RUN  —  Fox News has lost its mind.  Again.  —  Looking for a partisan outrage to promote as Covid cases plummet …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
War over Trump spying  —  WAR OVER TRUMP SPYING.  Anyone who has followed political journalism for more than a minute or two could predict how some big outlets would cover the revelation that operatives connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign spied on the Trump campaign.
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:   Trump threatens Hillary Clinton with death all over again — and nobody seems to care
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Durham Distances Himself From Furor in Right-Wing Media Over Filing
Jackie Calmes / Los Angeles Times:
The latest conservative to join the resistance?  Ted Cruz's mentor  —  It's been a measure of former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig's stature in the conservative legal movement that Supreme Court justices hired so many of his law clerks — 40 over 15 years.
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
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Politico:
The never-before-told backstory of Pence's Jan. 6 argument  —  For most of his life, J. Michael Luttig has operated behind the scenes at the top of the conservative legal world.  He started his career as a young aide at the U.S. Supreme Court, worked as an attorney in the Reagan White House …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Squad politics backfire  —  The hard-left politics of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the so-called “Squad,” once a dominant theme for vast numbers of elected Democrats, is backfiring big-time on the party in power, top Democrats tell us. … - “It's a huge problem.”
Politico:
Judge rejects Trump effort to toss lawsuits accusing him of Jan. 6 conspiracy  —  A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's effort to dismiss multiple lawsuits accusing him of bearing legal responsibility for the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Discussion: The Hill and Bloomberg
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CNN:
Judge allows lawsuits against Trump for January 6 to go forward but tosses cases against Giuliani and Trump Jr.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Red Covid, an Update  —  The partisan gap in Covid deaths is still growing, but more slowly.  —  Ocean County, in central New Jersey, is a mixture of beach towns like Barnegat Light and exurban towns like Toms River and Lakewood.  Household income in the county exceeds the U.S. average.
Discussion: Twitchy
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Newsom backs legislation to allow private citizens to go after gun makers  —  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday announced he will support legislation that would allow for private citizens to go after gun makers, enforcing the state's ban on assault weapons.
Discussion: Politico
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Associated Press:
California bill would allow citizens to enforce weapons ban  —  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A new bill in California would allow private citizens go after gun makers in the same way Texas lets them target abortion providers, though gun advocates immediately promised a court challenge if it becomes law.
HuffPost:
Trump Directed $375,000 In Donations To His Own Building To Rent An Unused Office  —  “It's a huge scam,” said a former aide, and the total exceeds what Trump donated to Republican candidates - the supposed purpose behind his committees.  —  By S.V. Date  —  NEW YORK ― …
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
Dean Obeidallah / MSNBC:
GOP bills banning critical race theory are racist, and Democrats should say so  —  Republicans believe they've found their winning issue for the 2022 election: banning what they call critical race theory from being taught to students from kindergarten to college.
John Burnett / NPR:
Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own  —  There's a private Facebook group with nearly 8,000 members called Conservatives Moving to Texas.  Three of them are sitting at a dinner table—munching on barbecue weenies and brownies—in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
USDA APHIS:
Fresh Avocado Imports from Mexico Resume  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced today that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed.
Discussion: Bloomberg and FreightWaves
Hunter Woodall / Star Tribune:
Minnesota Rep. Jim Hagedorn dies at the age of 59  —  Hagedorn, a Republican, was serving in his second term at the time of his death.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  MORE  —  Minnesota U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn has died at the age of 59 after a long battle with kidney cancer, according to his wife.
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Wife in Maryland spy couple also pleads guilty in plot to sell U.S. nuclear secrets  —  The wife of a Navy engineer pleaded guilty Friday to helping her husband try to sell secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country — a high-profile espionage case that will send her to prison …
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Dean Baquet Never Wanted to Be an Editor  —  Ahead of his expected retirement, the Times' executive editor reflects on his newsroom's unprecedented growth, Twitter's influence on journalism, and the time he punched a hole in a wall.  —  When Dean Baquet took over as the executive editor of the Times …
Politico:
Chief judge in D.C. says Jan. 6 defendants should get credit for talking to Congress  —  A prominent federal judge on Friday urged the Justice Department to incentivize Jan. 6 defendants to cooperate with congressional investigators, saying Capitol riot participants should be credited …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
The Oscars will require tests for all and vaccines for most.  —  Vaccine mandates and P.C.R. tests for the event, set for March 27 in Los Angeles.  —  After much internal discussion, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has come to an agreement on coronavirus safety measures …
Politico:
Jan. 6 panel interviewed Ellipse rally organizer Katrina Pierson  —  Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign spokesperson who helped plan the Jan. 6 rally at the Ellipse, has answered questions from the Capitol riot panel, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Michael Kruse / Politico:
Josh Mandel Could Be Ohio's Next Senator.  So What Does He Believe?  —  He publicly changed from moderate to full MAGA warrior to survive in today's GOP.  It might work.  —  Josh Mandel delivers a campaign speech at the Ohio Political Summit in Strongsville, May 15, 2021.  Photo by Nick Hagen for POLITICO
Discussion: HotAir, The Hill and The Rooster
 
 
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New York Times:
How China Uses Bots and Fake Twitter Accounts to Shape the Olympics
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jay Varma / STAT:
To make public health officials more accountable, they should be elected, not appointed
Washington Examiner:
Daily on Energy: Morrisey lays out his case for limiting EPA power emissions regulation
Discussion: nrdc.org, Associated Press and Jacobin
Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:
Congressional stock trading ban must include spouses, lawmakers say
Discussion: TheBlaze and POLITICUSUSA
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Trump to hold fundraiser, rally for Georgia governor candidate Perdue
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Shock: DHS springs plan for 16,000 Afghan influx through Loudoun County
Discussion: Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
GOP lawmakers are pushing high-tech ‘fraud-proof’ ballots. A Texas company could be the only supplier.
Steven E. Koonin / Wall Street Journal:
Greenland's Melting Ice Is No Cause for Climate-Change Panic
Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis:
For the first time, fewer than half of Americans have an unwavering faith in God
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Celebs Backed BLM Fund That Bailed Out a BLM Assassin
Discussion: New York Post
Bloomberg:
Not Even $200 a Barrel: Shale Giants Swear They Won't Drill More
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
They Wanted to Roll Back Tough-on-Crime Policies. Then Violent Crime Surged.
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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