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10:55 AM ET, February 17, 2018

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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 …
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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.
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
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Worries about Trump's legitimacy resurface with Russia indictment  —  New charges on Friday in the special counsel's Russia investigation put attention squarely on a notion President Donald Trump has aggressively sought to avoid: the legitimacy of his 2016 election.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump's ‘Russia hoax’ turns out to be real
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
‘Go Donald!’: Inside the Russian shadow campaign to elect Trump
New York Times:   Indictment Makes Trump's Hoax Claim Harder to Sell
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Ex-CIA chief debunks Trump: ‘Implausible’ Russia didn't influence votes
Discussion: CNN, NPR and Washington Post
Ryan Goodman / New York Times:
Message to Trump: Let Mueller Do His Job
CNBC:
Russians indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of election meddling to support Donald Trump
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Mueller's Latest Indictment Shows Trump Has Helped Putin Cover Up a Crime
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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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 …
Associated Press:
Shooting suspect was on school rifle team that got NRA grant  —  The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort …
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
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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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: Axios
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
It's Going to Be Much, Much Harder for Trump to Fire Rod Rosenstein Now
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Week and CNBC
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 …
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 and Business Insider
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 …
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
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.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Californian man pleads guilty to identity fraud connected to Russian interference in presidential election  —  (CNN)A California man pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a second case unsealed Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation into Russian interference in the US presidential election.
Florida Governor Rick Scott:
Gov. Rick Scott: FBI Director Needs to Resign  —  PARKLAND, Fla. - Today, Governor Rick Scott made the following statement regarding the FBI's admission that they failed to take action after receiving information on January 5, 2018, regarding “[Nikolas] Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people …
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CBS News:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott calls on FBI Director Chris Wray to resign
Discussion: Joe.My.God., AOL and Federal Bureau …
 
 
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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’
Tennessean.com:
Stephen Fincher halts U.S. Senate bid, encourages Corker to seek re-election
Discussion: Humphrey On The Hill
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Fox Butterfield, is that you?  —  James Taranto has moved …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In a brief Florida stop, Trump focuses on praising responders
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Chris Cuomo rips GOP lawmakers for not coming on CNN after shooting
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Long Blockchain Faces Delisting Again, Despite Name Change
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