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2:55 PM ET, February 19, 2018

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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Conservatives urge Trump to grant pardons in Russia probe  —  After months of criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, President Donald Trump's supporters are issuing increasingly bold calls for presidential pardons to limit the investigation's impact.
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
How A Plea Reversal From Michael Flynn Could Uncover More Federal Corruption  —  On Friday, Judge Emmet Sullivan issued an order in United States v. Flynn that, while widely unnoticed, reveals something fascinating: A motion by Michael Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea based on government misconduct is likely in the works.
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
How Does Trump Stack Up Against the Best — and Worst — Presidents?  —  Where does Donald Trump rank on the list of American presidents?  —  We surveyed presidential politics experts to sketch out a first draft of Trump's place in presidential history.  —  Since our previous survey in 2014 …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump comes in last in expert presidential rankings survey
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Madison Park / CNN:
Florida school shooter obtained 10 firearms  —  CNN will hold a town hall with the victims' classmates, parents and community members.  “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action” will air live Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.  —  School shooter Nikolas Cruz will attend a 1 p.m. ET hearing …
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De Elizabeth / Vox:
As a teacher, shooter drills were bad. Being expected to die for my students was terrifying.
Discussion: Washington Post
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
Parkland High School Student: Media Politicizing Tragedy To Push Gun Control, Not Focusing On Students
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Teachers say Florida suspect's problems started in middle school, and the system tried to help him
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Funeral after funeral, an emotional marathon for survivors of the Parkland school shooting
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:   Fla. shooting survivor on Trump's FBI tweets: ‘Disgusting’
Washington Post:
Top U.S. officials tell the world to ignore Trump's tweets … MUNICH — Amid global anxiety about President Trump's approach to world affairs, U.S. officials had a message for a gathering of Europe's foreign policy elite this weekend: Pay no attention to the man tweeting behind the curtain.
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Washington Post:
Trump lashes out over Russia probe in angry and error-laden tweetstorm … WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump lashed out with fresh anger about the intensifying Russia probe over the weekend, accusing Democrats of enabling a foreign adversary to interfere in the 2016 election and attacking …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
President Trump is losing control
Discussion: The Hill, NBC News and The Guardian
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report
Discussion: Washington Post, RedState and The Week
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
A non-alarmist reading of the Mueller Russia indictment … There's been no shortage of breathless reaction to Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for their efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.
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Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive's Comments on Russian Interference
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller
Discussion: Breitbart and Front Page Magazine
Scott Shane / New York Times:
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
Discussion: National Review
CBS News:
Oprah follows up with the partisan voters in Michigan  —  Last fall, Oprah Winfrey spoke with 14 Michigan voters, seven of whom voted for Donald Trump.  Winfrey sat down with the voters again to get their thoughts on Trump's first year in office  —  Oprah Winfrey
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Trump Jr. to give foreign policy speech while on ‘unofficial’ business trip to India … NEW DELHI — The president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is making what's been dubbed an unofficial visit to India to promote his family's real estate projects.  But he's also planning to deliver …
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Trump's Miss Universe Gambit  —  For years, he used his beauty pageants to boost business interests abroad.  A 2013 contest, in Moscow, may also have helped give him the Presidency.  —  The first-round results of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant seem to have come as a surprise …
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
New York Times:
Tools of Trump's Fixer: Payouts, Intimidation and the Tabloids  —  As accounts of past sexual indiscretions threatened to surface during Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign, the job of stifling potentially damaging stories fell to his longtime lawyer and all-around fixer, Michael D. Cohen.
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Page Six:
Ronan Farrow banned from NBC?
Discussion: AOL and Mediaite
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump open to improving background checks, spokesman says  —  West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump “is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system” for gun purchases, less than a week after the Florida school shooting that killed 17 people.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump tweet angers survivors of Parkland shooting
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House: Trump supports stronger background checks for gun buys
Discussion: New York Times and Breitbart
Jill Abramson / New York Magazine:
Do You Believe Her Now?  —  With new evidence that Clarence Thomas lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it's time to talk seriously about impeachment.  —  Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas testifying before the Senate in 1991.  Paul Hosefros/The New York Times/Redux (Hill); Jose R. Lopez/The New York Times/Redux (Rhomas)
Discussion: Daily Wire and National Review
Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
HOW AN ALT-RIGHT BOT NETWORK TOOK DOWN AL FRANKEN  —  White nationalist provocateurs, a pair of fake news sites, an army of Twitter bots and other cyber tricks helped derail Democratic Senator Al Franken last year, new research shows.  —  While everyone has been focused on Russian meddling …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Texas Democrat Writes Giant-Killer Narrative One Livestream at a Time  —  By Michael TackettPhotographs by Tamir Kalifa Feb. 19, 2018  —  BEAUMONT, Texas — Operating on two hours' sleep, Beto O'Rourke was 20 hours into his day and looked it.  His white shirt and gray slacks were an accordion of wrinkles.
Kate Buck / Metro.co.uk:
Passenger drops farts so putrid pilot is forced to make emergency landing  —  A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after a row caused by a passenger who refused to stop farting.  —  The passenger apparently kept breaking wind on board a Transavia Airlines flight from Dubai to Amsterdam Schiphol last weekend.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
 
 
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Doug Smith / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County's homeless problem is worsening despite billions from tax measures
Discussion: Daily Wire
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump administration dismantles LGBT-friendly policies
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Couple who took in alleged Fla. school shooter says he texted their son that he was ‘going to the movies’
Discussion: TheBlaze
Jonathan Lai / Philly.com:
Pa. Supreme Court to offer new congressional map in gerrymandering saga. Here's what to expect.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
State election officials across country returning to paper ballots
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“The Canaries Are Dying”: How Trump Is Making Republicans Pick Their 2018 Poison
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
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