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NRA to participate in CNN town hall — Watch CNN's town hall “Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action” live on Wednesday, February 21 at 9 p.m. ET on CNN TV and CNN.com. — Washington (CNN)The National Rifle Association will participate in CNN's nationally televised town hall Wednesday …
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Students are walking out in protest: Live updates — Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students are in Tallahassee meeting with Florida lawmakers to demand action against gun violence. Later tonight, CNN hosts a town hall on the issue. Follow here for the latest.
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Hit & Run, New York Times, Jamie Dupree - AJC and ARLnow.com


School shooting survivor knocks down ‘crisis actor’ claim
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The Latest: Sheriff: Deputies to carry rifles at schools
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Axios, Washington Post and Business Insider

Republican congresswoman blames mass shootings on Democrats
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theGrio

Trump floats arming teachers, increasing age for gun purchases in emotional listening session
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Splinter, Associated Press, twitchy.com, The Week and Washington Post

David Clarke on Parkland shooting survivor: “My dad would have backhanded me” for “popping off to an authority figure”
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Washington Post, The Daily Beast, VICE, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice and HuffPost

The #1 Trending Video on YouTube Right Now Suggests That a Student From the Parkland Shooting Is a Crisis Actor
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Students stage walk-outs across U.S. in solidarity with Parkland students
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Los Angeles Times, Cincinnati.com, KMSP and Breitbart

Once a ‘proud NRA sellout,’ Putnam won't say if he'd use term again
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ABC News


Mueller asking if Manafort promised banker White House job in return for loans — Federal investigators are probing whether former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort promised a Chicago banker a job in the Trump White House in return for $16 million in home loans, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told NBC News.
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New charges filed in Manafort-Gates case — The notice of sealed charges comes after prosecutors accused the former Trump campaign chairman of bank fraud. — New charges have been filed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal case against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, CNBC, CANNONFIRE and Shakesville

Former Trump Adviser Sam Nunberg expected to meet with special counsel team
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Politico


Trump: “Why aren't Dem crimes under investigation? Ask Jeff Sessions!” — Question: If all of the Russian meddling took place during the Obama Administration, right up to January 20th, why aren't they the subject of the investigation? Why didn't Obama do something about the meddling?
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Why The Trump/Russia ‘Skeptics’ Are Wrong — Over the weekend, several prominent news media figures announced themselves as Trump/Russia skeptics. Politico's Blake Hounshell seemed to kick off the discussion with this essay. This isn't “fake news” type skepticism. It's much more focused and I think reasonable.
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Hullabaloo and Vox


Top DOJ official Rachel Brand fires back at claims she bolted over Mueller probe concerns — EXCLUSIVE - Former top Justice Department official Rachel Brand, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, pushed back strongly at speculation she left the Trump administration over concerns …


Texas school district threatens to suspend students who protest gun violence — A superintendent in a Texas school district is warning that students will be suspended if they cause any disruptions to protest gun violence. — Needville Independent School District (ISD) …
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RedState and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Houston-area school district threatens to suspend students who protest after Florida shooting — Needville ISD Superintendent Curtis Rhodes on Tuesday threatened to suspend any student who disrupts schools or walks out to protest current gun laws. — In a letter sent to families and published …
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Vox, Axios, Mother Jones, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Daily Kos and Shakesville


Nope, The Florida School Shooting Survivors Demanding Gun Control Are Not Crisis Actors — Right-wing websites are fueling a now-viral conspiracy theory that Florida high school students demanding gun control are actors pushing a liberal agenda. The theory was even promoted by the aide of a Florida lawmaker.
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Media Matters for America, Splinter, Washington Free Beacon, Woke Sloth and Washington Post


Trump's former bodyguard makes $15,000 a month from a GOP ‘slush fund’ — The Republican National Committee is paying a firm owned by Trump's former bodyguard $15,000 a month for consulting, according to its latest campaign filings. — Within weeks of leaving the White House …
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Automation and the use of multiple accounts — Keeping Twitter safe and free from spam is a top priority for us. One of the most common spam violations we see is the use of multiple accounts and the Twitter developer platform to attempt to artificially amplify or inflate the prominence of certain Tweets.
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Conservative Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected
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Engadget, Axios, CNET, Weekly Standard, Joe.My.God., Little Green Footballs and New York Magazine

Trump supporters, conservatives rage over Russian bot purge, #TwitterLockOut
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Politico, twitchy.com, The Verge, Right Wing Watch, The Gateway Pundit and Mediaite


Melania Trump's parents are legal permanent residents, raising questions about whether they relied on ‘chain migration’ … The parents of first lady Melania Trump have become legal permanent residents of the United States and are close to obtaining their citizenship, according to people familiar …
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The Daily Caller, Axios, The Week, Splinter, AOL, Mediaite, Political Wire and Joe.My.God.


The Pro-Trump Media Has Its Match In The Parkland Students — On Monday night, the pro-Trump media set its sights on a new political enemy: young adult survivors of gun violence. — The attack on outspoken survivors of the Parkland school shooting began with an article …
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Washington Monthly, more at Mediagazer »


Worst Roommate Ever — “You've got your whole life in front of you. You're pretty, you've got this house — well, you don't have this house anymore. This house is my house.” — Alex Miller's spare room had been on Craigslist for two weeks when, last March, she got the call she'd been waiting for.


Billy Graham was on the wrong side of history — Racial tensions are rising, the earth is warming, and evangelicals are doing little to help. That may be Graham's most significant, and saddest, legacy … Play Video — When Billy Graham stands before the judgment seat of God …
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Billy Graham, 99, Dies; Pastor Filled Stadiums and Counseled Presidents
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Brooke Baldwin Battles FL Lawmaker in Tense Gun Debate: ‘Stop Going Back to the Talking Points, Sir!’ — On Tuesday, just six days after the Parklanf, FL school shooting, the Florida state House voted down a proposed ban on semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines by a 71-36 margin.
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CNN, The Right Scoop, CBS Miami and KTLA
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Florida lawmakers refuse to debate assault rifles — but say porn is dangerous
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The Daily Beast, Sun-Sentinel, RedState, myfox8.com and twitchy.com


Toomey calls for ‘conversation’ about impeaching state Supreme Court justices … Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey — (R) called for a “conversation” about impeaching state Supreme Court justices over their new congressional map, which both parties say will benefit Democrats.
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It's Time to End ‘Trending’ — In the wake of last week's Parkland high school shooting, right-wing conspiracy theorists are pushing the ludicrous story that the teenage survivors speaking out against gun violence are “crisis actors” — dupes hired to pretend to be victims of tragedy.
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YouTube apologizes for top trending conspiracy video that claimed Parkland survivor is an actor
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TheBlaze


With last-minute cancellation of Gateway Pundit founder, drama once again unfolds ahead of CPAC — The Conservative Political Action Conference hasn't even started and a snafu is once again stealing the limelight ahead of the annual event. — News of the last-minute chaos emerged …
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RedState, Raw Story, The Right Scoop and Joe.My.God.


Sarah Huckabee Sanders: There's no war against the media … Mike McCurry, who served as press secretary in the Clinton White House, on Tuesday night told current White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that he didn't “want to put her on the spot.” Then he proceeded to put her on the spot.
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Joe.My.God., Talking Points Memo and Shareblue Media
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Ivanka Trump to lead U.S. delegation to Olympics closing ceremonies
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Axios and One America News Network