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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
Mueller Still Investigating Possible Collusion, Source Says — Indictments of 13 Russians don't preclude further charges — Trump reaffirms ‘no collusion!’ by his presidential campaign — Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors haven't concluded their investigation …
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CNBC:
Russians indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of election meddling to support Donald Trump — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office said Friday that a grand jury indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential elections …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian Oligarch Indicted in U.S. Election Interference — ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Long before he was indicted by the United States in a case involving the troll factory that spearheaded Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 United States elections …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment — New charges on Friday in the special counsel's Russia investigation put attention squarely on a notion President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to avoid: the legitimacy of his 2016 election.
The Daily Beast:
Mueller Indicts 13 Russian Nationals for Election Interference, Says They Communicated With Trump Campaign
Mueller Indicts 13 Russian Nationals for Election Interference, Says They Communicated With Trump Campaign
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Three big takeaways from Mueller's stunning new indictments
Three big takeaways from Mueller's stunning new indictments
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Mueller's Latest Indictment Shows Trump Has Helped Putin Cover Up a Crime
Mueller's Latest Indictment Shows Trump Has Helped Putin Cover Up a Crime
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BuzzFeed:
These Are The Russians Charged With Meddling In The 2016 Election
These Are The Russians Charged With Meddling In The 2016 Election
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Russia hoax’ turns out to be real
Trump's ‘Russia hoax’ turns out to be real
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016
Sanders silent on claim that Russians backed him in 2016
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New York Times:
13 Russians Indicted as Mueller Reveals Effort to Aid Trump Campaign
13 Russians Indicted as Mueller Reveals Effort to Aid Trump Campaign
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New York Times:
Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters
Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters
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Ryan Goodman / New York Times:
Message to Trump: Let Mueller Do His Job
Message to Trump: Let Mueller Do His Job
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Bloomberg:
Mueller Accuses Russians of Pro-Trump, Anti-Clinton Meddling
Mueller Accuses Russians of Pro-Trump, Anti-Clinton Meddling
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The White House:
Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the Russia Indictments
Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the Russia Indictments
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Ex-CIA chief debunks Trump: ‘Implausible’ Russia didn't influence votes
Ex-CIA chief debunks Trump: ‘Implausible’ Russia didn't influence votes
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Go Donald!’: Inside the Russian shadow campaign to elect Trump
‘Go Donald!’: Inside the Russian shadow campaign to elect Trump
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New York Times
The Hill:
Mueller indicts 13 Russians for interfering in US election
Mueller indicts 13 Russians for interfering in US election
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Lawyer: President's ‘Happy’ Mueller Indicted 13 Russian Meddlers
Trump Lawyer: President's ‘Happy’ Mueller Indicted 13 Russian Meddlers
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Exclusive: Group chat messages show school shooter obsessed with race, violence and guns — (CNN)In a private Instagram group chat, confessed school shooter Nikolas Cruz repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views and displayed an obsession with violence and guns.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Statement on the Shooting in Parkland, Florida — On January 5, 2018, a person close to Nikolas Cruz contacted the FBI's Public Access Line (PAL) tipline to report concerns about him. The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior …
Associated Press:
Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant — The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort …
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Shawn Musgrave / Politico:
How white nationalists fooled the media about Florida shooter — Following misrepresentations by a white nationalist leader and coordinated efforts by internet trolls, numerous researchers and media outlets spread a seemingly false claim that the man charged with killing more than a dozen people …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump visits hospital, meets shooting survivors — PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the school shooting that killed 17 people in Florida (all times local): — President Donald Trump has met with victims of a school shooting who are recovering at a Florida hospital.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Parkland survivor slams GOP for shrugging off dead kids — but freaking out over ‘rainbow wedding cakes’
CNN:
From ‘broken child’ to mass killer
From ‘broken child’ to mass killer
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Associated Press:
White nationalist appears to disavow connection with shooter
White nationalist appears to disavow connection with shooter
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Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Five states allow guns to be seized before someone can commit violence
Five states allow guns to be seized before someone can commit violence
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The Daily Beast:
Parkland Students to President Trump: Stay ‘Far Away’ From Us
Parkland Students to President Trump: Stay ‘Far Away’ From Us
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Brianna Sacks / BuzzFeed:
Authorities Were Called To Alleged Florida School Shooter Nikolas Cruz's House More Than 35 Times
Authorities Were Called To Alleged Florida School Shooter Nikolas Cruz's House More Than 35 Times
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Scott Travis / Sun-Sentinel:
School district to tear down Stoneman Douglas High building where attack took place
School district to tear down Stoneman Douglas High building where attack took place
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Ben Feuerherd / The Daily Beast:
Parkland Teacher Opposed to Gun Control Has Change of Heart
Parkland Teacher Opposed to Gun Control Has Change of Heart
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller levels new claim of bank fraud against Manafort — Prosecutors say they've found ‘additional criminal conduct’ by the former Trump campaign chairman. — Special counsel Robert Mueller's office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman …
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New Yorker:
Donald Trump, a Playboy Model, and a System for Concealing Infidelity — One woman's account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair. — In June, 2006, Donald Trump taped an episode of his reality-television show, “The Apprentice …
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Melania Trump arrives solo to air base amid second affair scandal as first couple heads to Florida — (CNN)First lady Melania Trump eschewed the traditional South Lawn couple's walk to Marine One on Friday amid another adultery allegation scandal, opting instead to drive separately ahead of President Donald Trump.
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
New White House security clearance policy could put 'bull's eye' on Kushner … White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly announced Friday that beginning next week, the White House will no longer allow some employees with interim security clearances access to top-secret information …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Californian man pleads guilty to identity fraud connected to Russian interference in presidential election — (CNN)A California man pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a second case unsealed Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russian interference in the US presidential election.
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Sam Amick / USA Today:
Kevin Durant on Laura Ingraham's commentary: ‘To me, it was racist’ — LOS ANGELES - The timing was perfect. — While the social media stratosphere was still buzzing on Friday about Laura Ingraham's offensive segment on Fox News, where the host told LeBron James and Kevin Durant to …
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James Risen / The Intercept:
Is Donald Trump a Traitor? — I find it hard to write about Donald Trump. — It is not that he is a complicated subject. Quite the opposite. It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious. He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist.
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Fox Butterfield, is that you? — James Taranto has moved on from his daily online Best of the Web column and his recurring documentation of New York Timesthink under the catchphrase “Fox Butterfield, is that you?” Butterfield was the Times reporter endlessly befuddled by, or indignant over …
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