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Jeff Tavss / Associated Press:
Florida House votes down motion to take up weapons ban with Douglas students present — Final vote was 36-71 on first day of lobbying for students — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - On their first full day lobbying Florida lawmakers in Tallahassee to change the state's gun laws …
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Media Matters for America:
Pro-Trump media launch attacks on student survivors of Florida school shooting — After any mass shooting, disinformation spreads online like wildfire. It happens immediately, created and disseminated on purpose, often in real time as the event is unfolding.
Sun-Sentinel:
West Point posthumously admits shooting victim Peter Wang to Class of 2025 — U.S. Military Academy West Point is posthumously admitting Florida school shooting victim Peter Wang, who dreamed of attending the prestigious academy. — Wang could have been in the Class of 2025. The 15-year-old's funeral is today.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Former Congressman joins smear campaign against students who survived Parkland massacre
Former Congressman joins smear campaign against students who survived Parkland massacre
miamiherald:
Hundreds of students walk out of class and are marching to Stoneman Douglas High
Hundreds of students walk out of class and are marching to Stoneman Douglas High
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Emily Witt / New Yorker:
How the Survivors of Parkland Began the Never Again Movement
How the Survivors of Parkland Began the Never Again Movement
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BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Jr. Liked Tweets Promoting A Conspiracy Theory About A Florida Shooting Survivor
Donald Trump Jr. Liked Tweets Promoting A Conspiracy Theory About A Florida Shooting Survivor
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Lucia I. Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Army awards heroism medals to JROTC cadets killed in Florida school shooting
Army awards heroism medals to JROTC cadets killed in Florida school shooting
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Cameron Cawthorne / Washington Free Beacon:
MSNBC's Katy Tur: ‘Kids or Guns, What Do You Value More?’
MSNBC's Katy Tur: ‘Kids or Guns, What Do You Value More?’
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Manafort Under Scrutiny For $40 Million In “Suspicious” Transactions — As the special counsel investigated President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, authorities obtained details on “suspicious” banking activity that was first unearthed in 2014 and 2015.
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David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Mueller Charges Lawyer With Lying in Russia Probe — Van Der Zwaan helped prepare Ukraine report for Manafort — False statements case comes days after Russians charged — An attorney who worked for a prominent law firm was charged with making false statements to federal authorities …
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Washington Post:
Mueller probe: London-based son-in-law of Russian businessman to plead guilty to false statements … The London-based son-in-law of one of Russia's wealthiest men is set to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon in Washington to making false statements in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's probe …
New York Times:
Former Skadden Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Lying in Russia Investigation
Former Skadden Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Lying in Russia Investigation
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates
Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates
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Alex Leary / Tampa Bay Times:
Parkland students come under attack for their outspokenness — Critics begin to question their motives. — The grieving students in Parkland have been praised for their articulate, emotional and forceful response to the tragedy. — Now they are coming under attack from the far-right …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Regulate ‘Bump Stock’ Devices — WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to propose regulations to ban so-called bump stocks, which can convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic weapon like the one used last year in the massacre of concertgoers in Las Vegas.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Don Jr. Advises President Trump After School Shooting: Don't Go Wobbly on Guns
Don Jr. Advises President Trump After School Shooting: Don't Go Wobbly on Guns
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Philip Elliott / TIME:
Inside Donald Trump's Twitter-Fueled Weekend Meltdown — White House aides prayed for rain. Inclement weather would mean President Donald Trump would have to take the motorcade to the waiting plane to Florida. That would mean he couldn't take the helicopter from the South Lawn to Joint Base Andrews …
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Travis Fain / WRAL-TV:
NC couple pitching dating site for Trump supporters — RALEIGH, N.C. — A married couple from Guilford County have become the faces of a new Donald Trump-themed dating website. — Barrett and Jodi Riddleberger's smiles, beneath Trump campaign baseball caps, are the first thing greeting visitors at Trump.dating.
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Jason Dearen / Associated Press:
Man featured on ‘Trump Dating’ site has child sex conviction — GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man who was one of the faces of a dating service for fans of the president has a felony conviction for indecent liberties with a child. — News outlets reported Monday that visitors …
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed:
In Emails, Trump's Top General Said The Transgender Military Ban Was “Unexpected” And He Was “Not Consulted” — Emails newly obtained by BuzzFeed News reveal the surprise for Joint Chiefs of Staff. — Less than 24 hours after President Trump tweeted that “after consultation with my Generals …
Carolyn Van Houten / Washington Post:
Trump accuser keeps telling her story, hoping someone will finally listen — This Trump accuser keeps asking herself that. But she plans to keep talking about that day in 2006. — She believed her best chance to be heard was through sheer repetition, so Rachel Crooks took her seat …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
How Banks Could Control Gun Sales if Washington Won't — For the past year, chief executives have often talked about the new sense of moral responsibility that corporations have to help their communities and confront social challenges even when Washington won't.
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VICE:
The Reversal of Pennsylvania's GOP Gerrymander Is a Big Democratic Win — Welcome back to House Party, our column looking at the 2018 House of Representative races as midterms approach. — In a hugely positive development for American democracy, on Monday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court implemented …
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Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Republicans will sue to block court-drawn Pennsylvania congressional map
Republicans will sue to block court-drawn Pennsylvania congressional map
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Remy Smidt / BuzzFeed:
Here's What It's Like At The Headquarters Of The Teens Working To Stop Mass Shootings — Just days after surviving a mass shooting, a team of teens are trying to start a revolution from their parents' living rooms. — Reporting From Parkland, Florida — PARKLAND, Florida …
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
Inside the Mueller Indictment: A Russian Novel of Intrigue — IT WAS THE day of the biker rally, the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend 2016, when thousands of motorcyclists descend in a cacophonous blitz on Washington, DC, for the annual Rolling Thunder rally.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Respect First, Then Gun Control — This has been an emotional week. We greet tragedies like the school shooting in Florida with shock, sadness, mourning and grief that turns into indignation and rage. The anger inevitably gets directed at the N.R.A., those who support gun rights …
Angela Wright-Shannon / HuffPost:
Clarence Thomas Sexually Harassed Me. Yes, He Should Be Impeached. — The impeachment of Clarence Thomas is a pipe dream. In this fantasy, Justice Thomas is actually brought to justice, removed for lying under oath during his Senate confirmation hearing.
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Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News:
MeToo in medicine: Women, harassed in hospitals and operating rooms, await reckoning
MeToo in medicine: Women, harassed in hospitals and operating rooms, await reckoning
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ARLnow.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Employees Are Very Interested in a Particular Article About Arlington — Eagle-eyed readers of this site may have noticed something odd in this past Friday's weekend discussion post: namely, the inclusion of an article from December among the most-viewed stories of the week.
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Serena Williams / CNN:
What my life-threatening experience taught me about giving birth — Serena Williams shares scary birth experience — Serena Williams is a professional tennis player, businesswoman and UNICEF goodwill ambassador. The views expressed in this commentary are her own.
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Libby Watson / Splinter:
You Dumb Motherfuckers, John Kelly Was Always Bad — FiveThirtyEight, a website that apparently still exists, has a deeply depressing story out Tuesday on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly by politics writer Perry Bacon Jr. The piece is essentially a mea culpa, where Bacon admits …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Devin Nunes' 10 questions about the Trump dossier — House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has sent a series of questions about the Trump dossier to a number of current and former government officials. The committee did not specify to whom Nunes sent the questions …
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Reuters:
White House says Trump son-in-law Kushner can do job without security clearance — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, can continue in his role as a senior White House adviser even if he does not obtain a security clearance, the White House said on Tuesday.
KUSA-TV:
‘I was almost a school shooter’ — That's not a sentence many people ever hear, or read. It's also not a sentence many people would ever say publicly. — Author: Next with Kyle Clark — “I was almost a school shooter.” — That's not a sentence many people ever hear, or read.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Don't blame ‘Washington.’ Blame the GOP. — Dysfunctional Washington refuses to work out its differences to solve problems that matter to Americans. — So say pundits and policy activists, perhaps hoping that diffuse criticism, rather than finger-pointing, will yield a government willing to govern.
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