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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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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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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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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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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.”


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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Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment
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One America News Network, ABC News, Liberty Unyielding, Vox and The Hill


Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Politico, Vox, Geller Report, Washington Press and GeekWire, more at Mediagazer »

What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
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It's Going to Be Much, Much Harder for Trump to Fire Rod Rosenstein Now
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‘Go Donald!’: Inside the Russian shadow campaign to elect Trump
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New York Times

The rise of 'Putin's chef,' the Russian oligarch accused of manipulating the U.S. election
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The Guardian, New York Times, DFRLab, VICE News and Vox

Ex-CIA chief debunks Trump: ‘Implausible’ Russia didn't influence votes
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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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Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant
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White nationalist appears to disavow connection with shooter
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The students at Florida's Douglas High are amazing communicators. That could save lives.
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Marshall County shooting suspect's identity confirmed, will be tried as an adult
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The Latest: Trump visits hospital, meets shooting survivors
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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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Mueller adds bank fraud to Manafort's list of alleged criminal conduct — has reported a new criminal accusation against President Trump — 's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — Mueller's team said in a court filing Friday that it learned of “additional criminal conduct” …
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RedState


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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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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Washington Monthly and New York Times


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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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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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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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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