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12:15 PM ET, February 17, 2018

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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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Axios
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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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico and NPR
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Go Donald!’: Inside the Russian shadow campaign to elect Trump
Discussion: New York Times
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Russia hoax’ turns out to be real
Ryan Goodman / New York Times:
Message to Trump: Let Mueller Do His Job
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
Kelly Fisher / Courier-Journal:
Marshall County shooting suspect's identity confirmed, will be tried as an adult
Discussion: FOX2now.com and KTLA
New York Times:   A ‘Mass Shooting Generation’ Cries Out for Change
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  —  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” …
Discussion: RedState
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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Washington Post:
Read Kelly's memo of proposed changes to White House security clearance process
Discussion: ABC News, The Week and Business Insider
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.
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.
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 …
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.”
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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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.
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
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’
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Tennessean.com:
Stephen Fincher halts U.S. Senate bid, encourages Corker to seek re-election
Discussion: Humphrey On The Hill
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Fox Butterfield, is that you?  —  James Taranto has moved …
Discussion: Breitbart and WCCO | CBS Minnesota
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In a brief Florida stop, Trump focuses on praising responders
Discussion: Splinter
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Long Blockchain Faces Delisting Again, Despite Name Change
Adam Elmahrek / Los Angeles Times:
ICE steps up enforcement at businesses in California, targeting employers and workers
Discussion: The Root
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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