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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
Mueller probe: London-based son-in-law of Russian businessman to plead guilty to false statements
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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller charges latest target in Russia probe
Mueller charges latest target in Russia probe
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Axios and Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
Former Skadden Lawyer Accused in Russia Investigation of Making False Statements
Former Skadden Lawyer Accused in Russia Investigation of Making False Statements
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Politico, CNBC, Breitbart and emptywheel
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Mueller probe's latest indictment: Alex Van Der Zwaan
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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Nicholas Thompson / Wired:
A Facebook Executive Apologizes To His Company—And To Robert Mueller — ON FRIDAY MORNING, just before 10am on the West Coast, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller published his indictment of 13 Russian operatives for interfering in the US election. The document was 37 pages, and it mentioned Facebook 35 times.
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 …
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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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Vox, Daily Kos and Shakesville
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.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Former Congressman joins smear campaign against students who survived Parkland massacre — Former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) has joined a growing far-right smear campaign against the students who survived last week's massacre in a Parkland, Florida high school.
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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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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 …
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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James LaPorta / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Army Awards Medal of Heroism to Slain Parkland Students
U.S. Army Awards Medal of Heroism to Slain Parkland Students
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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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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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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 …
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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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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Between the lines on Trump's Romney endorsement — I've been calling people in the White House and sources close to Mitt Romney to find out the backstory behind the Trump endorsement of Romney. — What I've learned: Both sides agree Romney, who has a tumultuous history with Trump, didn't ask for an endorsement.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Mitt Romney said he wouldn't accept an endorsement from Trump. Monday night, he did.
Mitt Romney said he wouldn't accept an endorsement from Trump. Monday night, he did.
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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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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
The Smarm of the Contrarian — Conor Friedersdorf has taken some time off from his complaints about how college students are coddled snowflakes to write a column about how horrible it is when people say unkind things about the arguments made by well-compensated newspaper columnists.
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Eschaton
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.
Washington Post:
Louisville forced to vacate 2013 men's basketball championship in punishment for sex scandal — The NCAA appeals committee upheld a ruling that the university must forfeit 123 victories, including the 2013 national championship and a 2012 Final Four appearance, as punishment for a scandal …
Walter Shapiro / The Guardian:
If Trump has nothing to hide, why is he so soft on Russia? — This is a question the press must keep asking over and over again - until they receive an answer … The political world has known the power of repetition since Cato the Elder reputedly ended every speech in the Roman Senate with the words …
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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.
Washington Post:
A crackdown by Egypt's Sissi is devouring his own regime — Mohamed Soltan is a human rights advocate and founder of The Freedom Initiative. Aya Hijazi is an Egyptian-American social activist and founder of Belady Foundation. — Last week, security forces in Egypt arrested a man named Hisham Geneina.
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.
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Focus On The Family Has Declared Itself A Church, Avoiding IRS Disclosure Rules — Focus on the Family, the behemoth Religious Right organization founded by James Dobson, has declared itself to be a church, thereby avoiding a requirement that it file public tax documents …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Rob Porter's Charisma and Ambition Disguised Flare-ups of Anger — WASHINGTON — People who crossed paths with Rob Porter in Harvard classrooms or the hallways of Capitol Hill describe him in glowing terms: He was articulate enough to be secretary of state. Intelligent enough to be a Supreme Court justice.
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