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2:15 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 …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and IJR
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  —  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.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Mueller's Indictment Ends Trump's Myth of the Russia “Hoax”
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
Discussion: RedState, Politico and BuzzFeed
Politico:
‘Something was weird’: Inside the Russian effort to bamboozle Florida
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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Mary Ellen Klas / miamiherald:
Lawmakers agree to destroy site of school carnage: ‘This building has to come down’  —  Students will never be returning to Building 12 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School again.  —  Florida legislators said Thursday they will provide the resources to help the Broward School District tear …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The students at Florida's Douglas High are amazing communicators.  That could save lives.  —  Telegenic and media-savvy is one way to describe David Hogg, a lean and dark-haired senior at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  —  But maybe a better way is this: Change agent.
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
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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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 …
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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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
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 …
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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Erika Pesantes / Sun-Sentinel:
As Nikolas Cruz fired, JROTC students hid behind bulletproof sheets
Discussion: 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.
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
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In a brief Florida stop, Trump focuses on praising responders
 

 
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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

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View
 
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