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3:05 PM ET, February 17, 2018

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader  —  WASHINGTON — After more than a dozen Russians and three companies were indicted on Friday for interfering in the 2016 elections, President Trump's first reaction was to claim personal vindication …
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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.
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 …
Bob Bauer / Just Security:
The Charging Mystery in the Russia Indictments—And Its Indication of What Comes Next in the Mueller Investigation  —  The special counsel's indictment of Russian individuals and organizations brought campaign finance law for the first time into formal charges in the case.  But this development came with a mystery.
Politico:
‘Something was weird’: Inside the Russian effort to bamboozle Florida  —  The operation in the nation's largest swing state was in a class by itself.  —  The scathing indictment unsealed Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller outlines a multi-state scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
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.
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
McMaster: Russian meddling in U.S. elections is beyond dispute
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Mueller's Indictment Ends Trump's Myth of the Russia “Hoax”
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Fiona Maxwell / Politico:
McMaster: ‘Incontrovertible’ evidence of Russian interference in election
Discussion: New York Magazine
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
The rise of 'Putin's chef,' the Russian oligarch accused of manipulating the U.S. election
Washington Post:
What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Kushner requests more intel info than almost all White House staff: report  —  's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner  —  has reportedly requested more intelligence information than almost every other White House official.  —  The Washington Post reports that Kushner …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Washington Post
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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.
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 …
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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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The students at Florida's Douglas High are amazing communicators. That could save lives.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNN
CNN:
Trump visits Florida hospital, sheriff's office after Parkland shooting
Joe Trinacria / Pushback:
Larry Krasner Sues Big Pharma, Drops All Marijuana Possession Charges  —  With a little over a month in office, Philly's new DA is already further reforming the city's drug policy.  —  On the same day a Philly.com op-ed was published in which Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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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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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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Mueller adds bank fraud to Manafort's list of alleged criminal conduct
Discussion: RedState
Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts / Washington Post:
I was asked to help ICE at my government job.  I couldn't do that.  So I quit.  —  I loved my work at the Labor Department, but I can't be a part of breaking up families.  —  My job as a legal secretary for the Montana Department of Labor and Industry was not an easy one.
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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Erika Pesantes / Sun-Sentinel:
As Nikolas Cruz fired, JROTC students hid behind bulletproof sheets
Discussion: RedState and NBC News
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
‘Catch and kill’: How a tabloid shields Trump from troublesome stories
Carol Rosenberg / miamiherald:
Frustrated judge halts Guantánamo's USS Cole war crimes trial
Discussion: Lawfare and New York Times
Dara Lind / Vox:
DREAMers are at risk because of Donald Trump. Period.
Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
Bari Weiss and the Left-Wing Infatuation With Taking Offense
Dallas Morning News:
We recommend Stefano de Stefano over Ted Cruz in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate
Discussion: Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Deputy mayor resigns after allowing chancellor to bypass school lottery
 Earlier Items: 
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
‘When will they love their kids more than their guns,’ an Australian priest asks Americans
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Weinstein Co. board fires president and COO David Glasser ‘for cause’
Tennessean.com:
Stephen Fincher halts U.S. Senate bid, encourages Corker to seek re-election
Discussion: Humphrey On The Hill
Tim White / WPRI-TV:
State Sen. Nicholas Kettle charged with video voyeurism, extortion
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Fox Butterfield, is that you?  —  James Taranto has moved …
Discussion: Breitbart
 

 
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