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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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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 …
Sun-Sentinel:
West Point posthumously admits shooting victim Peter Wang to Class of 2025
West Point posthumously admits shooting victim Peter Wang to Class of 2025
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BostonGlobe.com:
Florida legislators vote down attempt to revive ban on assault rifles
Florida legislators vote down attempt to revive ban on assault rifles
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Tampa Bay Times, AOL, True Pundit, Political Wire and Business Insider
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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ThinkProgress
Media Matters for America:
Pro-Trump media launch attacks on student survivors of Florida school shooting
Pro-Trump media launch attacks on student survivors of Florida school shooting
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ABC News, True Pundit, VICE News, ThinkProgress, People.com, NorthCrane, Billboard, Washington Free Beacon, No More Mister Nice Blog, Little Green Footballs, Shakesville, Shareblue Media, The Week, CBS Miami, Mediaite, The Mahablog, thecut, WPIX 11 New York, theGrio and The Gateway Pundit
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
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Shareblue Media, CNN, Raw Story, Mother Jones, Mediaite, IJR, Media Matters for America, Washington Post, The Week, Daily Kos, Naples Daily News, USA Today and RedState
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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ABC News, Splinter, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Politico, VICE News, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, True Pundit, Mediaite and TheBlaze
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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miamiherald, Rewire and Shareblue Media
Jamie Crawford / CNN:
Army awards medals to students killed in Florida shooting
Army awards medals to students killed in Florida shooting
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The Federalist, Shareblue Media and theGrio
CNN:
Senior HHS official placed on leave for promoting unfounded claims and conspiracy theories on social media — (CNN)A top official at the Department of Health and Human Services has been placed on administrative leave after a CNN KFile inquiry while the agency investigates social media postings …
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Talking Points Memo and Axios
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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The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
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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 …
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Manafort Under Scrutiny For $40 Million In “Suspicious” Transactions
Manafort Under Scrutiny For $40 Million In “Suspicious” Transactions
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The Atlantic, Raw Story, The Week, Talking Points Memo, IJR and Political Wire
Lisa Respers France / CNN:
George and Amal Clooney to attend March For Our Lives — Survivor: I'm terrified to return to school — (CNN)George and Amal Clooney have stepped up in support of the survivors of the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida. — The superstar couple announced Tuesday that they are donating $500,000 …
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Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Oprah Winfrey Answers Call & Joins Clooneys, Katzenbergs, Spielberg And Capshaw In Donating $500,000 …
Oprah Winfrey Answers Call & Joins Clooneys, Katzenbergs, Spielberg And Capshaw In Donating $500,000 …
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New York Times, Washington Monthly, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Times, Jezebel, Showbiz411 and NewsBusters
Maane Khatchatourian / Variety:
Clooneys, Spielbergs, Katzenbergs, Oprah Donate to Parkland Students' March for Our Lives
Clooneys, Spielbergs, Katzenbergs, Oprah Donate to Parkland Students' March for Our Lives
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Business Insider and IJR
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Pence was set to meet with North Korean officials during the Olympics before last minute cancellation … PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Vice President Pence departed for a five-day, two country swing through Asia earlier this month having agreed to a secret meeting with North Korean officials …
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Politico, Axios, Political Wire, Business Insider, One America News Network and The Daily Caller
Jane Coaston / Vox:
President Trump just directed the Justice Department to ban bump stocks — But it could be harder than he thinks. — President Trump appeared to take a tiny step toward the narrowest possible gun control measures on Tuesday, saying that he signed a memo directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Moves to Regulate ‘Bump Stock’ Devices
Trump Moves to Regulate ‘Bump Stock’ Devices
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New Republic
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
Trump moves to ban ‘bump stocks’ 4 months after Las Vegas shooting
Trump moves to ban ‘bump stocks’ 4 months after Las Vegas shooting
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Politico, The Daily Beast, RT, Raw Story and Daily Kos
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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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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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 …
Joseph Ax / Reuters:
Republicans will sue to block court-drawn Pennsylvania congressional map — (Reuters) - State and national Republican officials will file a federal lawsuit as soon as Wednesday seeking to block a new Pennsylvania congressional map released on Monday by the state's high court, the party's congressional campaign arm said on Tuesday.
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Libby Watson / Splinter:
New York Times Editorial Board: Person Published by Times a Week Ago Is ‘Disreputable’ and Untrustworthy — Remember last week, when the New York Times ran an op-ed from the gun ‘researcher’ John Lott, who has been thoroughly and consistently debunked by basically everyone else who researches gun violence?
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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FiveThirtyEight and The Week
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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ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, The Gateway Pundit, Woke Sloth, Splinter and Balloon Juice
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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twitchy.com, Business Insider, Breitbart, AOL, Washington Free Beacon and JustOneMinute
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.
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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Fox News, The Last Refuge, RedState, The Daily Caller and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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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.
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Ernesto Semán / Washington Post:
Comparing Trump to South American authoritarians reveals a dangerous misunderstanding of democracy — Such comparisons fundamentally misunderstand Latin American populism. — It's en vogue for enraged liberals to compare Trumpism to Argentine Peronism, wielding the analogy as a warning …
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.