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2:50 PM ET, February 11, 2023

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CNN:
Trump team turns over additional classified records and laptop to federal prosecutors  —  Former President Donald Trump's legal team turned over a multi-page document with classified markings and a laptop belonging to an aide to federal prosecutors in recent months, multiple sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.
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ABC News:
Trump team turns over item marked classified to DOJ, sources say
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump legal team hands over additional classified folder to Justice Dept.
Discussion: Boston Herald
New York Times:
F.B.I. Found One Classified Document After Searching Pence's Home
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Millionaire Rep. Dan Goldman has racked up 84 tickets in 6 years  —  He's off to a fined start.  —  Freshman Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman's two luxury vehicles have amassed at least 84 traffic and parking violations in the last six years.  —  The congressman and multi-millionaire …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
Florida school district pulls children's book on Roberto Clemente  —  A school district in Florida has removed a children's book on Latino baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente to see if it complies with a new state law limiting discussions about race, Axios has confirmed.
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Nicole Acevedo / NBC News:   Roberto Clemente book removed from Florida public schools pending review over discrimination references
TechCrunch:
MrBeast's blindness video puts systemic ableism on display  —  Recently, megastar creator MrBeast posted a video to his YouTube in which he spotlights numerous blind and visually impaired people who have undergone a surgical procedure that “cures” their blindness.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
This Gen Z Democrat is deftly skewering right-wing fantasies  —  Rep. Maxwell Frost, the first Gen Z member of Congress, had numerous breakthrough moments this week during hearings run by House Republicans.  The Florida Democrat's performance did more than unmask the folly of GOP investigations, though it certainly did that.
John Herrman / New York Magazine:
The Only Success Story in Right-Wing Social Media  —  For a moment, the right's longtime dream of an alternative social media seemed within reach.  Various companies had been trying to build alt-Facebooks and alt-Twitters and alt-Reddits for years, of course, but they remained marginal.  Then came 2020.
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Matt Gaetz Honors Accused Murderer at Committee Hearing  —  A quick Google search would have informed Rep. Matt Gaetz who his honored guest really was, but the victim's family says he's trying to make it right.  —  When members of the House Judiciary Committee convened for their first meeting …
Discussion: MasonCountyPress.com and Raw Story
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Justice Department standards on federal death penalty called confusing  —  The Justice Department's disparate approaches in a pair of mass-killing cases is generating accusations that the Biden administration has failed to press for the elimination of capital punishment and is not applying clear standards …
Louisa Loveluck / Washington Post:
In earthquake-battered Syria, a desperate wait for help that never came  —  JINDERIS, Syria — It took four days and nights after the earthquake for the rubble to fall silent here.  The strongest voices belonged to the women, residents said.  Parted from their children, or fighting to save them …
Discussion: NPR, The Hill and Los Angeles Times
Brooke Kato / New York Post:
My husband won't forgive me for farting in front of him — I'm devastated  —  It's better not to bottle things up.  —  A married woman revealed that her husband allegedly called her flatulence “absolutely revolting” — after only farting once in front of him during their nine-year relationship.
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Wagner Founder Has Putin's Support, but the Kremlin's Side-Eye  —  Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the once secretive tycoon, is confounding Moscow's Kremlin-allied elite by starting to dabble in politics alongside waging war in Ukraine.  —  He challenged Ukraine's president to a duel from the cockpit of a bomber.
Bryan Harris / Financial Times:
Lula's attacks on Brazil central bank alarm investors  —  President questions independent monetary policy and bank's continuing independence  —  Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reignited investors' concerns about his new leftwing administration after repeatedly criticising …
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Texas Attorney General Agrees to Give $3.3 Million and an Apology to His Former Aides  —  The multimillion-dollar settlement will come from state funds and be paid to top deputies who had accused the attorney general, Ken Paxton, of corruption.  —  HOUSTON — The Texas attorney general …
Diane Taylor / The Guardian:
Far-right protesters clash with police at Merseyside hotel housing asylum seekers  —  Three people arrested as witnesses say police van set on fire and counter-protesters surrounded  —  Disturbances have broken out in Knowsley near Liverpool after several hundred far-right demonstrators protested …
Caleb Davis / Reuters:
Russia likely lost dozens of armoured vehicles near Ukraine's Vuhledar: UK  —  Russian forces likely lost dozens of armoured vehicles in a single, failed attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Vuhledar, British intelligence said on Friday, as one pro-Russian blogger warned of a “crisis” in troop command.
Discussion: Associated Press
CNN:
Congressman who raised issue of antisemitism on Twitter says he was bombarded with antisemitic tweets  —  New York CNN —  A Jewish lawmaker who spoke about the problem of antisemitism on Twitter during a House Oversight hearing this week focused on the company was later bombarded …
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
While Claiming Jewish Heritage, Anna Paulina Luna Forgot to Mention Her Nazi Grandfather  —  Is Anna Paulina Luna the new George Santos?  —  Since it first came out last December that newly elected lawmaker George Santos had lied about roughly 99% of his biography, fresh falsehoods …
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Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:   A Michigan politician announced her baptism in Messianic Judaism. The rabbi of her synagogue says there's no such thing.
 
 
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Reuters:
Iran exiled opposition figures in talks to unite against government
Discussion: The Intercept and Al-Monitor
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
William Jefferson Biden Triangulates
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
‘The View’ host admits she was wrong to claim DeSantis is ‘erasing’ Black history
Discussion: Twitchy and IJR
Washington Post:
It's time to clear out the McPherson Square encampment
Discussion: E&E
 Earlier Items: 
David Roth / Defector:
The Man Who Invented Himself
Kurt Bardella / Los Angeles Times:
House Republicans launched their big investigations this week. Guess how that went
Discussion: Vox, Breitbart and The Liberty Loft
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
What we can infer from the Alaska aerial object
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
Corporations Gave Election Deniers A Last-Minute Surge Of Campaign Cash
Kriston Capps / Bloomberg:
The Rise of the Millionaire Renters
Discussion: Tatum scores 41 …