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Mike Allen / Axios:
We know nothing; Mueller knows all — Robert Mueller's meaty indictment, accusing 13 Russians (including an oligarch known as “Putin's cook") of “information warfare against the United States of America,” shows the special counsel has been doing deep, serious investigative work — totally under the radar, and with zero leaks.
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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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Ex-Russian diplomat calls US charges ‘fantasies’ — MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the Russian response to U.S. indictments (all times local): — Russia's former ambassador to the United States is dismissing detailed allegations of attempted Russian interference …
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Sophie Tatum / CNN:
McMaster: Evidence of Russian meddling is ‘now really incontrovertible’ — McMaster responds to Russian indictments — Washington (CNN)Evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 election is “now really incontrovertible,” White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said Saturday.
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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.”
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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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment
Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment
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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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Washington Post:
What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
It's Going to Be Much, Much Harder for Trump to Fire Rod Rosenstein Now
It's Going to Be Much, Much Harder for Trump to Fire Rod Rosenstein Now
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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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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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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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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump visits hospital, meets shooting survivors
The Latest: Trump visits hospital, meets shooting survivors
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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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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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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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Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
Bari Weiss and the Left-Wing Infatuation With Taking Offense — The mob was unusually vociferous, even for Twitter. After the California-born ice skater Mirai Nagasu became the first American woman to land a triple axel at the Olympics, the New York Times writer Bari Weiss commented “Immigrants: They get the job done.”
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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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Florida Governor Rick Scott:
Gov. Rick Scott: FBI Director Needs to Resign — PARKLAND, Fla. - Today, Governor Rick Scott made the following statement regarding the FBI's admission that they failed to take action after receiving information on January 5, 2018, regarding “[Nikolas] Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people …
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