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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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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.
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Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now
Whatever Trump Is Hiding Is Hurting All of Us Now
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Politico
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Trump-Russia inquiry: Manafort under pressure after reports that Gates has flipped
Trump-Russia inquiry: Manafort under pressure after reports that Gates has flipped
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Washington Post, The Mahablog, Outside the Beltway, TheBlaze 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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Axios, Mother Jones, Daily Wire, Mediaite, Raw Story and Althouse
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump comes in last in expert presidential rankings survey
Trump comes in last in expert presidential rankings survey
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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.
As a teacher, shooter drills were bad. Being expected to die for my students was terrifying.
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Washington Post
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Students who survived massacre refuse to pose for photo op with Trump
Students who survived massacre refuse to pose for photo op with Trump
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BostonGlobe.com, IJR, CNN and USA Today
Ryan Saavedra / Daily Wire:
Parkland High School Student: Media Politicizing Tragedy To Push Gun Control, Not Focusing On Students
Parkland High School Student: Media Politicizing Tragedy To Push Gun Control, Not Focusing On Students
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The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Funeral after funeral, an emotional marathon for survivors of the Parkland school shooting
Funeral after funeral, an emotional marathon for survivors of the Parkland school shooting
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Fla. shooting survivor on Trump's FBI tweets: ‘Disgusting’
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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Betsy's Page
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
RECKONING WITH TRUMP'S ILLEGITIMACY
RECKONING WITH TRUMP'S ILLEGITIMACY
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The Daily Caller, New York Times and Lawfare
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive's Comments on Russian Interference
Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive's Comments on Russian Interference
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller
Why Facebook is afraid of Robert Mueller
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Breitbart and Front Page Magazine
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11
Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11
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twitchy.com, RT, CNBC, Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Scott Shane / New York Times:
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
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National Review, more at Mediagazer »
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, Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway
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Washington Post:
Trump lashes out over Russia probe in angry and error-laden tweetstorm
Trump lashes out over Russia probe in angry and error-laden tweetstorm
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Washington Post:
For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals
For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals
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twitchy.com
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
President Trump is losing control
President Trump is losing control
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The Hill, NBC News and The Guardian
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
White House: Trump Supports Gun Background Check Bill
White House: Trump Supports Gun Background Check Bill
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Washington Post, USA Today, New York Magazine, Politicus USA and The Week
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Splinter and Joe.My.God.
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump hits golf course 3 days after visiting shooting victims
Trump hits golf course 3 days after visiting shooting victims
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Shareblue Media, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
The ‘Oprah 2020’ story isn't going away. Trump just made sure of it
The ‘Oprah 2020’ story isn't going away. Trump just made sure of it
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ABC News, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, RT, NewsBusters and IndieWire
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 …
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Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
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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Axios and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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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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ThinkProgress, The Guardian, KTLA, theGrio, CBS Miami and Political Wire
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump tweet angers survivors of Parkland shooting
Trump tweet angers survivors of Parkland shooting
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Politico, Daily Kos, NPR, Sun-Sentinel, KTLA, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, IJR, TheBlaze, RT and Raw Story
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House: Trump supports stronger background checks for gun buys
White House: Trump supports stronger background checks for gun buys
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Breitbart and New York Times
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.
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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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 …
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Raw Story
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.
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The Daily Caller and Fox News
Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
State election officials across country returning to paper ballots — WASHINGTON — Hoping to counter waves of Russian Twitter bots, fake social media accounts, and hacking attacks aimed at undermining American democracy, state election officials around the country are seizing on an old-school strategy: paper ballots.