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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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The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, Business Insider, Axios, Politicus USA, Mediaite, TheBlaze, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Paula McMahon / Sun-Sentinel:
Nikolas Cruz: 'We had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know.' — Sun Sentinel — Nikolas Cruz was immature, quirky and depressed when James and Kimberly Snead took him into their Parkland home. But he was pleasant and seemed to be growing happier, they said.
CNN:
Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS’
Florida student Emma Gonzalez to lawmakers and gun advocates: ‘We call BS’
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Hullabaloo, Splinter, FOX 61, KNXV and KTLA
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Florida GOP in crisis as major donor threatens to pull money over guns
Florida GOP in crisis as major donor threatens to pull money over guns
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Business Insider
New York Times:
Florida Agency Investigated Nikolas Cruz After Violent Social Media Posts
Florida Agency Investigated Nikolas Cruz After Violent Social Media Posts
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RedState, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Florida Teacher of the Year's gun violence post goes viral after school shooting
Florida Teacher of the Year's gun violence post goes viral after school shooting
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The Right Scoop and TheBlaze
Paula McMahon / Sun-Sentinel:
Nikolas Cruz was investigated after cutting himself on Snapchat, state report shows
Nikolas Cruz was investigated after cutting himself on Snapchat, state report shows
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RT, Business Insider, WPIX 11 New York and IJR
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘They are laughing their asses off in Moscow’: Trump takes on the FBI, Russia probe and 2016 election … West Palm Beach, Fla. — President Trump questioned the intensifying special counsel's investigation of his campaign and administration while attacking his own national security adviser …
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ThinkProgress, RedState, Politico, Axios and USA Today, more at Mediagazer »
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Amy Held / NPR:
Trump Chides McMaster For Saying Evidence Of Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible’ — Updated at 9 a.m. ET Sunday — President Trump chided his national security adviser on Sunday, tweeting H.R. McMaster “forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians.”
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump's National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible’
Trump's National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible’
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KQED News, The Gateway Pundit, 89.3 KPCC, RealClearPolitics and Mother Jones
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Russian indictments prove Trump won fair and square
Russian indictments prove Trump won fair and square
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Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Anton Troianovski / Washington Post:
A former Russian troll speaks: 'It was like being in Orwell's world' … The indictment by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of 13 Russians associated with a St. Petersburg online “troll factory” that allegedly interfered with the U.S. election has brought a sense of vindication to the handful …
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Althouse
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Washington Post:
The 21st-century Russian sleeper agent is a troll with an American accent … Not long after Marat Mindiyarov started working at the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll factory indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, he began hearing about the coveted “Facebook Department.”
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Front Page Magazine, New York Times, Law & Crime and Des Moines Register
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers
Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers
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The Verge, more at Mediagazer »
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Joe Biden, in public and private, tiptoes toward a 2020 run — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential run in 2020, even broaching the possibility during a recent gathering of longtime foreign policy aides. — Huddled in his newly opened office steps …
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Outside the Beltway
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Republicans race to reverse midterm recruitment failures — For months, Republican leaders watched in horror as hordes of their most sought-after midterm recruits passed on running, spooked by what increasingly looked like an electoral beatdown in the making.
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Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
The 14 GOP senators who voted against Trump's immigration framework — 's immigration framework faced an unexpected opponent this week as it crashed on the Senate floor: Republicans. — The opposition from more than a fourth of the GOP conference came despite an intense pressure campaign …
New York Times:
‘An Endless War’: Why 4 U.S. Soldiers Died in a Remote African Desert — Reporting from the desert of Niger to a small town in Georgia, The New York Times reconstructed how four American soldiers lost their lives — and why they were in Africa to begin with.
Stephanie Towers / WYFF-TV:
Greenville County teacher found partially undressed in SUV with student, charged with sex crimes, deputies say — Elizabeth Heaton Taylor was Greer High track coach — GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. — A Greenville County teacher and track coach at Greer High School has been charged …
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Greenville News, New York Post and Breitbart
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Trumps went straight from Parkland to Studio 54- themed ‘disco party’ at Mar-a-Lago: report — President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump didn't spend overlong pondering the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday night, according to Mediaite.com.
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HuffPost, Mediaite and Politicus USA
Christopher Lebron / Boston Review:
‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve — Black Panther, the most recent entry into the Marvel cinematic universe, has been greeted with the breathless anticipation that its arrival will Change Things. The movie features the leader of a fictional African country who has enough wealth …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
USA Today:
In a world first, Switzerland deems it illegal to boil a lobster — GENEVA — When it comes to cooking fresh lobster, the Swiss are now saying: We feel your pain. — A law goes into effect March 1 that bans the common cooking method of tossing a live lobster into a big pot of boiling water, quickly killing the tasty crustacean.
David Badash / Raw Story:
'You're here celebrating the death of 17 children': Gun reform protesters booted out of Paul Ryan Florida fundraiser — Two activists were removed from Paul Ryan's weekend fundraiser in Key Biscayne, Florida for confronting the Speaker of the House about gun reform.
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Alex Harris / miamiherald:
‘No more guns’: Protesters escorted out of Paul Ryan fundraiser in Key Biscayne
‘No more guns’: Protesters escorted out of Paul Ryan fundraiser in Key Biscayne
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Shareblue Media and Politico
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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emptywheel
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Robert Barnes / Law & Crime:
Does Mueller Indictment Mean Clinton Campaign Can Be Indicted for Chris Steele?
Does Mueller Indictment Mean Clinton Campaign Can Be Indicted for Chris Steele?
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Power Line