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12:20 PM 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 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
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.
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
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:
The far-right smear campaign against students who survived the Parkland massacre
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
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 …
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
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.
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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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.
Washington Post:
One of the bloodiest attacks of Syria's war kills more than 100 in a rebel-held Damascus suburb … BEIRUT — Attacks by forces loyal to the Syrian government have killed more than 100 people in a rebel-held Damascus suburb, aid agencies and monitoring groups said Tuesday …
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Kareem Shaheen / The Guardian:
'It's not a war. It's a massacre': scores killed in Syrian enclave
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 …
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
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.
Lauren Trager / KMOV-TV:
Greitens adds former judge to his legal defense team  —  ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Gov. Eric Greitens has added a new lawyer to his team amidst investigations surrounding allegations of blackmail during an extramarital affair.  —  A member of Greitens' current legal team confirms to News 4 that John …
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.
Discussion: TMZ.com
 
 
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
The places that will decide the 2018 midterm elections
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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
Axios:
Kushner among White House officials attending Abbas' UN speech
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann has a reputation for hard-charging tactics — and sometimes going too far
David Pierson / Los Angeles Times:
Fake videos are on the rise. As they become more realistic, seeing shouldn't always be believing
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump's top science adviser never studied science
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Trump's rebuke of McMaster was months in the making
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