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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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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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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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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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Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
How A Plea Reversal From Michael Flynn Could Uncover More Federal Corruption
How A Plea Reversal From Michael Flynn Could Uncover More Federal Corruption
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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:
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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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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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report
Trump surveyed Mar-a-Lago members over gun control in wake of school shooting: report
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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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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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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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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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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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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Attacking the ‘Woke’ Black Vote
Scott Shane / New York Times:
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
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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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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.
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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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump open to improving background checks, spokesman says
Trump open to improving background checks, spokesman says
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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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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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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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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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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Rush Limbaugh attacks Parkland students for marching and ‘bashing’ NRA: ‘This is totally political’ — Radio host Rush Limbaugh attacked a group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida for organizing marches after 17 were killed in a mass shooting at their school.
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Victor Oquendo / ABC News:
Survivor of Florida school shooting used his body as human shield to protect classmates
Survivor of Florida school shooting used his body as human shield to protect classmates
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Christine Yared / New York Times:
Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain
Don't Let My Classmates' Deaths Be in Vain
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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.