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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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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.
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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New York Times:
To Stir Discord in 2016, Russians Turned Most Often to Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO — In 2014, Russians working for a shadowy firm called the Internet Research Agency started gathering American followers in online groups focused on issues like religion and immigration.
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emptywheel:
What Did Mueller Achieve with the Internet Research Agency Indictment? — Back during Nunes Week, Trey Gowdy described the importance of Robert Mueller's investigation by stating that we were only seeing half of what he was doing. The other half of his work, Gowdy said, was the counterintelligence side …
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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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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Russian indictments prove Trump won fair and square
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Politico:
‘Something was weird’: Inside the Russian effort to bamboozle Florida
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Mueller's new indictments put the pressure on Trump to act
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Lawfare:
Russian Influence Campaign: What's in the Latest Mueller Indictment
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Marwa Eltagouri / Washington Post:
The rise of 'Putin's chef,' the Russian oligarch accused of manipulating the U.S. election
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Mueller's Indictment Ends Trump's Myth of the Russia “Hoax”
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Prominent Republican Donor Issues Ultimatum on Assault Weapons — A prominent Republican political donor demanded on Saturday that the party pass legislation to restrict access to guns, and vowed not to contribute to any candidates or electioneering groups that did not support a ban on the sale of military-style firearms to civilians.
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Paula McMahon / Sun-Sentinel:
Nikolas Cruz was investigated after cutting himself on Snapchat, state report shows — South Florida Sun Sentinel — Nikolas Cruz cut his arms on Snapchat and said he wanted to buy a gun in September 2016, more than a year before he was accused of killing 17 people in a school in Parkland …
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CNN:
CNN announces town hall with students, parents affected by Florida school shooting — Parkland student makes demand to lawmakers — “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action” will air live on Wednesday, February 21 at 9 p.m., ET. — (CNN)The school shooting in Florida …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
The NRA donated $10,000 to help train the Parkland shooting suspect to use a rifle — Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who charged with murdering 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, honed his marksmanship skills in a school program supported by the NRA.
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New York Times:
Florida Agency Investigated Nikolas Cruz After Violent Social Media Posts
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ABC News:
Florida teen who survived shooting massacre rallies passionate crowd, 'It's time for victims' to change gun laws
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Dakin Andone / CNN:
These young survivors of the Parkland shooting give voice to a nation's outrage
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The students at Florida's Douglas High are amazing communicators. That could save lives.
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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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Fox News Insider:
Florida School Shooting: Sheriff Judd Says Teachers Should Carry Guns to Prevent Violence
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New York Daily News:
Florida high school shooter was on school rifle team funded by the NRA: ‘He was a very good shot’
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Erika Pesantes / Sun-Sentinel:
As Nikolas Cruz fired, JROTC students hid behind bulletproof sheets
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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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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
New White House security clearance policy could put 'bull's eye' on Kushner
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
No Country for Young Men With AR-15s — Four years ago the essayist Helen Andrews wrote a critique, for the religious journal First Things, of what she described as “bloodless moralism” — meaning the decay of public moral arguments into a kind of a vulgar empiricism, a mode of debate …
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Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed:
The Florida School Shooting Suspect Snapped Into A Jealous Rage When Another Student Began Dating His Ex-Girlfriend — Former friends and classmates of suspected Florida high school shooter Nikolas Cruz said they received threats from him shortly after a breakup. — Reporting From Parkland, Florida
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Exclusive: Group chat messages show school shooter obsessed with race, violence and guns
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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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Alex Harris / miamiherald:
‘No more guns’: Protesters escorted out of Paul Ryan fundraiser in Key Biscayne — Two protesters chanting “no more guns” were removed from a Republican fundraiser in Key Biscayne Friday night after confronting Speaker of the House Paul Ryan about the mass shooting that happened days earlier and miles up the road.
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Robert Barnes / Law & Crime:
Does Mueller Indictment Mean Clinton Campaign Can Be Indicted for Chris Steele? — Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted foreign citizens for trying to influence the American public about an election because those citizens did not register as a foreign agent nor record their financial expenditures to the Federal Elections Commission.
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Fiona Maxwell / Politico:
McMaster: ‘Incontrovertible’ evidence of Russian interference in election — Moscow may change tack because its strategy is not working, US national security adviser says. — The evidence against Russians charged with interfering in the U.S. election is “incontrovertible,” …
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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
McMaster: Russian meddling in U.S. elections is beyond dispute
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