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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.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now — Our democracy is in serious danger. — President Trump is either totally compromised by the Russians or is a towering fool, or both, but either way he has shown himself unwilling or unable to defend America against a Russian campaign to divide and undermine our democracy.
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Confessions of a Russiagate Skeptic — If, like me, you've been following every twist and turn of the Russia investigations, you've probably wrestled with the same question that has been gnawing at me for more than a year now: What if there's nothing there?
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David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Former Trump aide Rick Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say … A former top aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days - and has made clear to prosecutors that he would testify against Paul J. Manafort Jr. …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House: Trump supports stronger background checks for gun buys — President Donald Trump supports laws to strengthen the background check system for gun purchases in the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school shooting that killed 17, the White House announced on Monday.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump hits golf course 3 days after visiting shooting victims
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump open to improving background checks, spokesman says
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Rush Limbaugh attacks Parkland students for marching and ‘bashing’ NRA: ‘This is totally political’
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump tweet angers survivors of Parkland shooting
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Arnie Seipel / NPR:
Trump Supports Improving Background Checks, But Will That Mean Action?
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Christine Yared / New York Times:
Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Podesta: Trump a ‘draft dodger’ in war for democracy
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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 …
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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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The Atlantic and Outside the Beltway
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
White House: Trump Supports Gun Background Check Bill
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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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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller … Who is afraid of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III? President Trump is afraid. So are those who worked on his campaign. But they are not alone. — Over the weekend, Rob Goldman made it clear that some of America's biggest social media companies are scared of Mueller, too.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11
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Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive's Comments on Russian Interference
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
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National Review and VICE News
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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Mother Jones, Raw Story and Althouse
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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The ‘Oprah 2020’ story isn't going away. Trump just made sure of it
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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? — There is an internal war brewing after it was claimed that Ronan Farrow has been banned by NBC News' top exec Andy Lack. — Farrow was booked on Rachel Maddow's prime-time MSNBC show on Friday to discuss his story about Donald Trump's alleged affair with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.
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)
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Dave McNary / Variety:
‘Black Panther’ Smashes Records With $218 Million at Holiday Weekend Box Office — Disney-Marvel's “Black Panther” is heading for a super-heroic $218 million debut over the four-day President's Day weekend at 4,020 North American locations, estimates showed Sunday.
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
‘Black Panther’ Smashes Box Office Records and Hollywood Myths
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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“The Canaries Are Dying”: How Trump Is Making Republicans Pick Their 2018 Poison — Caught between the president's rabid, loyal base and suburban women, Republican candidates may not survive a blue wave election. — “These races are like canaries in the coal mine,” Steve Israel …
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