Sessions relents, agrees to recusal, as partisans madly spin his false statement as perjury or innocent mistake….will he resign?...--Beltway spinfest draws Dems who tolerated Clapper’s proven perjury, and Repubs who trade their biblical thinking for pat rationalizations
--Paul Krugman’s keeping a list of Trump’s lying cabinet
--at WaPo, Chris Cizilla asks why Sessions dodged Franken’s actual question, then volunteered “I did not have communications with the Russians”
--ACLU’s Faiz Shakir demands that Sessions live up to his confirmation oath, and tell the whole truth
--recusal is no guarantee of fair investigation or prosecution
--in our in-depth interview, journalist and historian Gareth Porter warns progressives about getting on the anti-Russia bandwagon
--Yahoo’s CEO and top lawyer pay price for lying about hacking, Marissa Mayer will forfeit $14 million, lawyer is sacked
--the accountants who botched Oscars best picture award won’t be back
--but Foxconn keeps making colossal promises about job creation, which it doesn’t keep
--FBI charges St. Louis man who made threats to Jewish centers as payback to former girlfriend
--misfires in Trump’s fine-tuned engine”, as White House fights break out over Paris climate change agreement and budget cuts for IRS
--today’s heart-breaking immigrant story: 22-year-old Dreamer Daniela Vargas is picked up by ICE minutes after news conference where she spoke
--a second DHS report is leaked, showing no security basis for travel ban
--House Republicans meet in secret to dismantle Obamacare, and both Dems and Reps feign outrage to media
--Fed signals rate increases are on the way….will savings rate recover?
--widow of Orlando shooting suspect won release on bail, but it was blocked by Florida judge
--in upstate New York, drone protesters are acquitted and juror praises their resistance
--Egyptian court clears former dictator Mubarek, sealing coffin of Arab Spring
--Noah Dyer, running for AZ governor, goes TMI, preempting attacks on his wild sex life, student debt, and divorce
--VICE releases video compilation of Alex Jones freak-outs and apologies
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