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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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Lawfare:
Russian Influence Campaign: What's in the Latest Mueller Indictment — None of the defendants indicted Friday for their alleged influence operation against the U.S. political system is likely to ever see the inside of an American courtroom. None is in custody. None is likely to surrender to U.S. authorities.
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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.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Mueller's Indictment Ends Trump's Myth of the Russia “Hoax” — The President of the United States wakes each day, it seems, to another nightmarish crisis and addresses it as if in a state of frenzied denial. When faced with the hideous reality of yet another gun massacre, this time in Parkland, Florida, he dares not mention guns.
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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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Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
The rise of 'Putin's chef,' the Russian oligarch accused of manipulating the U.S. election
The rise of 'Putin's chef,' the Russian oligarch accused of manipulating the U.S. election
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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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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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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Oligarch Indicted by U.S., Is Known as 'Putin's Cook'
Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Oligarch Indicted by U.S., Is Known as 'Putin's Cook'
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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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Los Angeles Times:
Horrified Florida students beg the adults: Please, do something about guns … The kids in South Florida are fed up. With the adults. — After a mass shooting left 17 students and faculty dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Parkland …
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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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Associated Press:
White nationalist appears to disavow connection with shooter
White nationalist appears to disavow connection with shooter
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump visits hospital, meets shooting survivors
The Latest: Trump visits hospital, meets shooting survivors
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Kelly Fisher / Courier-Journal:
Marshall County shooting suspect's identity confirmed, will be tried as an adult
Marshall County shooting suspect's identity confirmed, will be tried as an adult
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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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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Parkland survivor slams GOP for shrugging off dead kids — but freaking out over ‘rainbow wedding cakes’
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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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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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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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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Tim White / WPRI-TV:
State Sen. Nicholas Kettle charged with video voyeurism, extortion — PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - State Sen. Nicholas Kettle, R-Coventry, has been arrested by the state police and charged with one count of video voyeurism and two counts of extortion. — The 27-year-old was arrested by state police on Friday.
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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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KTLA, Politico, New York Times and Political Wire
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
McMaster: Russian meddling in U.S. elections is beyond dispute — President Trump's national security adviser said Saturday that Russian inrterference in the 2016 U.S. elections is beyond dispute, marking a sharp reversal of the president's frequent dismissal of alleged Russian cyber-meddling as a “hoax.”
Tennessean.com:
Stephen Fincher halts U.S. Senate bid, encourages Corker to seek re-election — Former U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher is halting his bid for the U.S. Senate and is encouraging U.S. Sen Bob Corker to seek re-election. — The seventh-generation cotton farmer from Frog Jump ended his campaign late Friday.
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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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