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JEFF SESSIONS<\/strong>. Attorney General pushes back<\/a> on Trump tweet attacking him as \u2018disgraceful\u2019<\/a>: \u201cWe have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this Department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary,\u201d Sessions said in a statement.\u00a0As long as I am the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this Department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n DOWNGRADE<\/strong>. The Trump family blames John Kelly for hanging Jared Kushner out to dry<\/a>.<\/p>\n HOPE HICKS<\/strong>. I tell white lies for Trump<\/a>: \u201cHope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.\u201d<\/p>\n TEAM SJP<\/strong>. A new photo of Cynthia Nixon may have Kim Cattrall fuming<\/a>.<\/p>\n FRENZY<\/strong>. Cher hits Sydney ahead of Mardi Gras performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n FLORIDA<\/strong>. House panel approves bill to arm teachers<\/a>. \u201cVoting along party lines, the House Appropriations Committee approved training teachers to carry guns in class under the direction of local law enforcement \u2014 if superintendents or\u00a0school boards approve.<\/p>\n MARCO RUBIO<\/strong>. Approval rating hits all-time low in Florida<\/a>. \u201cThat\u00a0poll pegged Rubio\u2019s approval rating at just 38 percent\u00a0\u2014 down 8 points from the last time Quinnipiac surveyed Florida voters\u2019 approval of the junior senator in July 2016. That\u2019s also down sharply from his all-time high\u00a0of 57 percent approval in August 2015, according to Quinnipiac.\u201d<\/p>\n NET NEUTRALITY<\/strong>. Senate Democrats have a plan to save it<\/a>.<\/p>\n CONVICTED<\/strong>. Founder of Asian LGBT site Fridae.com convicted of drug trafficking<\/a>: \u201cA district court has convicted Fridae.com<\/a> founder Stuart Koe Chi Yeow, 45, of one count of drug trafficking. Following a trial, District Judge Olivia Low found him guilty on Tuesday (Feb 27) of selling one packet of a crystalline substance containing 0.17g of methamphetamine, or Ice, to beauty adviser Yeoh Kim Koon for $240.\u201d<\/p>\n WOLF FOR CONGRESS<\/strong>. Illinois congressional candidate Benjamin Thomas Wolf smokes weed in new campaign ad<\/a>. \u201cBenjamin Thomas Wolf, a progressive candidate running for Congress in the state\u2019s 5th District, which includes parts of Chicago, released the photo on his campaign website on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n \ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n CUSTOMER JOY<\/strong>. Netflix CFO David Wells reveals what drove Ryan Murphy signing<\/a>: \u2018Speaking at the\u00a0Morgan Stanley<\/a>\u00a0media and telecom conference in San Francisco, Wells elaborated, \u201cThese deals are going to be rarer than you might think. Not everybody gets one. You have to have that track record of being a prolific producer. Like Shonda Rhimes, we were pleased with the type of content he creates in terms of being popular globally, not just in the U.S. He creates a lot of customer joy, as we like to say.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n DEATH OF GAY CULTURE<\/strong>. San Francisco\u2019s gay Lion Pub (a place we used to frequent back in 1990) has been transformed into a $6 million private home<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThe Lion has gone through a lot of changes since its opening 20 years ago,\u201d Ellis said to the Bay Area Reporter in 1989. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from preppy bar to a dance bar to a hippie bar to leather and back to preppy.\u201d<\/p>\n NEW ALBUM ALERT<\/strong>. Pentatonix is coming this spring<\/a>: \u201cToday (February 27), they announced the imminent release of an album\u2019s worth of material and shared plans for a summer tour across the United States. Called\u00a0PTX Presents: Top Pop, Vol. I<\/em>, the album will drop on April 13. \u201d<\/p>\n TRUE OSCAR POSTERS OF THE DAY<\/strong>:<\/p>\n If the posters for this year’s Oscar-nominated movies told the truth. t.co\/yUm61gRGOf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/U1tplOG6Mt<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ali Gray (@The_Shiznit) January 23, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE DAY<\/strong>. Troye Sivan \u201cMy My My\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n NEW PERSPECTIVE OF THE DAY<\/strong>. The back of a Minke whale. \u201cLittle is known about Antarctica\u2019s elusive minke whales, but for the first time, scientists attached a camera<\/a> to the back of one of the giant creatures to get a glimpse into their secretive underwater world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n HUMP DAY HOTTIE<\/strong>. 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RICK GATES<\/strong>. Mueller drops more than 20 criminal counts following plea deal in Russia probe<\/a>: \u201cThe charges being dropped were brought against Gates in a court in Alexandria, Virginia, in keeping with the terms of his plea deal\u2026.If Gates breaks the terms of the agreement, he can be re-charged with the same crimes without having the option to fight his case in Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Paul](\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/manafort-1.jpeg?resize=195%2C195\")
NOT GUILTY<\/strong>. Paul Manafort pleads, trial to begin in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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