Raging Trump sidelines spy chief

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🗳️ Nevada goes to the polls. Head to our dedicated elections page for full results and coverage from the Nevada Democratic Caucuses this Saturday By Holly Thomas TOP STORIES ‌ Friday, February 21 ‌ TRUMP SIDELINES ACTING SPY CHIEF AFTER RUSSIAN MEDDLING BRIEFING President Donald Trump sidelined Joseph Maguire, who had been acting director of national intelligence, after learning a member of Maguire’s team had briefed House lawmakers that Russia was attempting to interfere in the 2020 elections to get Trump reelected. [HuffPost] ‌ ROHRABACHER: I OFFERED TRUMP PARDON TO ASSANGE Former California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said in a new interview that during a three-hour meeting at the Ecuadorian Embassy in August 2017, he told Julian Assange he would get Trump to give him a pardon if he turned over information proving the Russians had not been the source of internal Democratic National Committee emails published by WikiLeaks. [HuffPost] ‌ NYT BLASTED FOR OP-ED BY TALIBAN DEPUTY LEADER The New York Times is under fire for allowing a senior Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, to write an unchallenged opinion piece. The 1,000-word essay, which mused about peace negotiations with the U.S., was titled: “What We, the Taliban, Want.” Haqqani is wanted for questioning by the FBI about an attack on a hotel in Kabul in 2008, which left an American and five others dead. [HuffPost] ‌ WARREN TACKLES BLOOMBERG AGAIN Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued to lambaste billionaire and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, saying she had written a simple contract he could sign that would release dozens of women who filed sex discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuits against him and his company from their nondisclosure agreements. [HuffPost] ‌ STONE SENTENCED TO 40 MONTHS Roger Stone, a political consultant and longtime Trump pal, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress and witness tampering. Prosecutors initially recommended a much longer sentence, but Attorney General William Barr had other ideas. Stone remains free while he appeals. [HuffPost] ‌ MORE THAN 500 VIRUS CASES IN CHINESE PRISONS Hubei, the Chinese province at the center of the coronavirus outbreak, announced 631 new cases today after tallying infections in its prisons. The total number of infected is over 76,600, and at least 2,200 people have died -- all but 11 in mainland China. Evacuees from the Diamond Princess ship have tested positive for the virus after arriving in the U.S. and Australia. [CNN] ‌ TRUMP COMPLAINS 'PARASITE' WON BEST PICTURE Trump complained during a rambling rally in Colorado Springs about the South Korean blockbuster “Parasite” winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. “I’m looking for like … let’s get ‘Gone with the Wind,’ can we get ‘Gone with the Wind’ back, please?” Trump rambled, naming the 1939 epic that romanticizes slavery. [HuffPost] WHAT'S BREWING ‌ WATCHDOG CALLS FOR PROBE INTO GIULIANI'S UKRAINE ROLE A watchdog group is calling for a criminal investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s alleged leverage of government funds to benefit the reelection of client Trump. Trump has admitted that he sent Giuliani to Ukraine to pressure officials to investigate unfounded accusations against political rival Joe Biden. During some of that time, Trump held up $390 million in military aid for Ukraine. [HuffPost] ‌ MULVANEY: U.S. IS 'DESPERATE' FOR IMMIGRANTS Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney surprisingly announced to an audience in England that the U.S. is “desperate” for immigrants to fuel the nation’s economic growth. “We are desperate — desperate — for more people,” Mulvaney told an audience of several hundred at the Oxford Union. [HuffPost] ‌ HOW SUPER PACS TOOK OVER THE 2020 DEMOCRATICPRIMARY The unified front the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates once held against super PACs has totally crumbled, with every major non-billionaire candidate remaining in the race accepting the help of an outside group that can collect donations of any size. [HuffPost] ‌ BLOOMBERG CLAIMS WOMEN EARN THE SAME AS MEN AT HIS COMPANY. THEY DON'T. At Wednesday night’s Democratic primary debate, as Michael Bloomberg took a bludgeoning for the mistreatment of women at the company that made him a billionaire, he said: “In my foundation, the person that runs it’s a woman, 70% of the people there are women. In my company, lots and lots of women have big responsibilities. They get paid exactly the same as men." Bloomberg’s company disclosures prove the claim that women are paid equally to be false. ‌ HER STORY SHOWS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T SILENCE WOMEN  Before Susan Fowler, then 25, took down the CEO of Uber with a blog post exposing the company’s toxic, sexist culture, she’d already overcome daunting obstacles. Yet there’s one obstacle that she hasn’t been able to get around, Fowler writes. And that’s sexism. Multiple incidents of humiliation, gaslighting and retaliation during her time in college and then at a series of Silicon Valley startups culminated with her “very strange year” at Uber. [HuffPost] ‌ MAN ARRESTED IN STABBING AT LONDON MOSQUE A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after the stabbing of a man in his 70s in a mosque near Regent’s Park. The victim in the attack at London Central Mosque was in a non-life threatening condition. [HuffPost] We Belong Here: Black History Month 2020 A Seat At The Table: Culture And Cuisine Soul food has evolved in American food culture to become classic comfort food that's being reimagined from its difficult past. ‌ Visit our full Black History Month coverage on our dedicated page. Watch the Video BEFORE YOU GO It's no secret: Victoria's Secret has a new owner. 36-year-old woman arrested for calling police after parents shut off her cellphone. Mystery from "The Office" sort of revealed by Jenna Fischer 15 years later. What exactly is an NDA? Here's what to know before you sign.  What's a sinking fund, and why should you have one? 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