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11:55 AM ET, February 20, 2018

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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.
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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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller charges lawyer with lying about interaction with Rick Gates  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed a charge against a lawyer for lying to investigators about his interaction with former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates in September 2016.  —  Alex Van Der Zwaan is expected to plead guilty Tuesday afternoon.
Discussion: The Week and Balloon Juice
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Mueller probe's latest indictment: Alex Van Der Zwaan  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has charged Dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan with making false statements to FBI investigators.  Van Der Zwaan, who was officially charged on Feb. 16 in a federal court in Washington, has a plea hearing scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. EST.
Discussion: NRSC
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller charges attorney with making false statements about Rick Gates communications
Discussion: Axios and Outside the Beltway
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shakesville
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.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller's interest in Kushner grows to include foreign financing efforts  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's interest in Jared Kushner has expanded beyond his contacts with Russia and now includes his efforts to secure financing for his company from foreign investors during …
Mike Allen / Axios:
5 clues to Mueller's roadmap
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Associated Press:
Man featured on ‘Trump Dating’ site has child sex conviction  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man with a felony conviction for indecent liberties with a child was one-half of the poster couple for a new “Trump Dating” website.  —  News outlets reported Monday that visitors …
Discussion: RedState and VICE News
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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.
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Man featured in ads for pro-Trump dating site was convicted of child sex crimes: report
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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James LaPorta / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Army Awards Medal of Heroism to Slain Parkland Students … PARKLAND, Florida — The U.S. Army has given medals to three Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets killed in the Parkland school shooting last week, a spokesperson told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
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 …
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.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Business Insider
New York Times:
After Florida School Shooting, Russian ‘Bot’ Army Pounced  —  SAN FRANCISCO — One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate.
New York Times:
The New Pennsylvania House Districts Are In.  We Review the Mapmakers' Choices.  —  Reviewing the decisions made to redraw the map in one of the country's most gerrymandered states.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: GOP to take new congressional map to court
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Magazine
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 …
Discussion: Splinter
Lucian Wintrich / The Gateway Pundit:
EXPOSED: School Shooting Survivor Turned Activist David Hogg's Father in FBI, Appears To Have Been Coached On Anti-Trump Lines [VIDEO]  —  As previously reported:  —  In less than a week since they survived a mass murdering gunman attack on their school, two student who quickly became media stars …
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN, RedState and Joe.My.God.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
The far-right smear campaign against students who survived the Parkland massacre
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Fox News Plans a Streaming Service for ‘Superfans’  —  Thanks to a relentless news cycle — and a dedicated fan in the Oval Office — Fox News has defied the downward trends in the television business, notching its highest-rated year in 2017 even as audiences dwindled for many networks.
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.
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Baltimore is the nation's most dangerous city  —  The collective homicide toll for America's 50 biggest cities dipped slightly in 2017, a USA TODAY analysis of crime data found.  —  The FBI won't publish its annual comprehensive crime report until later this year, but an early review …
Discussion: Baltimore Sun and The Daily Caller
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Michael Moore participated in anti-Trump rally allegedly organized by Russians  —  Michael Moore attends Russia-sponsored anti-Trump rally  —  Michael Moore, the polemical filmmaker who has long accused President Trump of colluding with Russians, posted videos and pictures of himself participating …
Haley Britzky / Axios:
Trump's morning tweets perfectly align with Fox & Friends  —  President Trump had a busy Tuesday morning on Twitter, with seven tweets before 9am, touching on topics from the Russia investigation to Pennsylvania's new congressional district map.  —  Why it matters: His tweets perfectly aligned with Fox & Friends' morning lineup.
Axios:
Kushner among White House officials attending Abbas' UN speech  —  In a surprise move, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and special envoy Jason Greenblatt will attend Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' speech this morning at the UN Security Council in New York, Western diplomats told me.
David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Fake videos are on the rise.  As they become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing  —  All it takes is a single selfie.  —  From that static image, an algorithm can quickly create a moving, lifelike avatar: a video not recorded, but fabricated from whole cloth by software.
Discussion: Althouse
FireEye / Threat Research Blog:
APT37 (Reaper): The Overlooked North Korean Actor  —  On Feb. 2, 2018, we published a blog detailing the use of an Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) by a suspected North Korean cyber espionage group that we now track as APT37 (Reaper).  —  Our analysis of APT37's recent activity reveals …
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann has a reputation for hard-charging tactics — and sometimes going too far … When FBI agents raided the northern Virginia home of President Trump's former campaign manager Paul J. Manafort Jr. on July 26, they came with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
 
 
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Ian Sample / The Guardian:
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Ashley Balcerzak / Center for Public Integrity:
How Democrats use ‘dark money’ — and win elections
James Alan Fox / USA Today:
School shootings are not the new normal, despite statistics that stretch the truth
Paul Demko / Politico:
Trump proposal boosts skimpy insurance plans, again undercutting Obamacare
Discussion: Vox
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump's top science adviser never studied science
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
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Matt Grossmann / New York Times:
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Trump's rebuke of McMaster was months in the making
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
On Russia, Facebook Sends a Message It Wishes It Hadn't
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