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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.
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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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ThinkProgress and IJR
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.”
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Fiona Maxwell / Politico:
McMaster: ‘Incontrovertible’ evidence of Russian interference in election
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New York Magazine
Washington Post:
What Trump still doesn't get about Russian interference in the election
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Fox News Insider, NBC News and Politico
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment
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One America News Network, ABC News, Liberty Unyielding and The Hill
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.
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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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Politico:
‘Something was weird’: Inside the Russian effort to bamboozle Florida
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Political Wire, WBBH-TV and Weekly Standard
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Mueller's Indictment Ends Trump's Myth of the Russia “Hoax”
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Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
The rise of 'Putin's chef,' the Russian oligarch accused of manipulating the U.S. election
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New York Times, Power Line, Business Insider, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Breitbart, VICE News, DFRLab, Woke Sloth, Vox and Washington Press
New York Times:
Inside a 3-Year Russian Campaign to Influence U.S. Voters
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Politico, Vox, Geller Report, Breitbart and GeekWire
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Go Donald!’: Inside the Russian shadow campaign to elect Trump
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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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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.
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Mary Ellen Klas / miamiherald:
Lawmakers agree to destroy site of school carnage: ‘This building has to come down’
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IJR, Florida Politics, Daily Wire and Sun-Sentinel
CNN:
Trump visits Florida hospital, sheriff's office after Parkland shooting
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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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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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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 …
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ThinkProgress and Washington Post
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 …
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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
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RedState
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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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Kevin Durant Responds to Laura Ingraham: ‘To Me, It Was Racist’
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