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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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mynews13.com, Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, Associated Press, Shareblue Media, The Root, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., New Republic and The Week
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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 …
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Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Here Are the Eight Miami GOP Dirtbags Who Just Voted Down Assault Weapon Ban … Perhaps no piece of news illustrates how depraved and broken the Florida political system is than what just went down in Tallahassee. Just six days after Nikolas Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to murder 14 teenagers …
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Charles Rabin / miamiherald:
Parkland students face new attack, this time from the political right on social media — Even as they rode buses to Tallahassee on Tuesday as the newest and most powerful political voices for gun control in America, an outspoken group of students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas …
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ABC News
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump Jr. ‘likes’ tweet attacking Florida school shooting survivor, 17, which suggests …
Donald Trump Jr. ‘likes’ tweet attacking Florida school shooting survivor, 17, which suggests …
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The Gateway Pundit
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Watch Van Jones annihilate Jack Kingston for doubling down on his attacks on the Parkland survivors
Watch Van Jones annihilate Jack Kingston for doubling down on his attacks on the Parkland survivors
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Media Matters for America
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, Gizmodo, True Pundit, AOL, Business Insider, Splinter and Political Wire
Lisa Respers France / CNN:
George and Amal Clooney to attend March For Our Lives
George and Amal Clooney to attend March For Our Lives
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National Review, KTLA and CBS Los Angeles
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Florida school shooting survivor: Media using tragedy to push gun control
Florida school shooting survivor: Media using tragedy to push gun control
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Front Page Magazine, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress and New York Times
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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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
A spreading movement? How Florida school shooting survivors are inspiring other students to demand gun control
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder
Right-Wing Media Uses Parkland Shooting as Conspiracy Fodder
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Tampa Bay Times, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Splinter, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Mediaite
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
New York Times:
Kushner Resists Losing Access as Kelly Tackles Security Clearance Issues — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, is resisting giving up his access to highly classified information, prompting an internal struggle with John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff …
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Arthur Allen / Politico:
Shulkin says he has White House backing to purge VA
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Democrat Linda Belcher Takes Deep-Red Kentucky Seat, the 37th Flip Since Trump's Inauguration … Democrat Linda Belcher triumphed in a special election on Tuesday night in a deep-red Kentucky district where President Trump previously won by a whopping 50-point margin.
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New York Magazine and Associated Press
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Last night, Democrats flipped a Kentucky state legislature seat in a district Trump won by 49 points — Democrat Linda Belcher regains her old seat. — Early Tuesday evening, Democrat Linda Belcher was pronounced the winner of the special election in Kentucky's House District 49 …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Jezebel
Courier-Journal:
Dan Johnson's widow and former lawmaker clash in special House election to replace him
Dan Johnson's widow and former lawmaker clash in special House election to replace him
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NPR, Mother Jones, Splinter and Daily Kos
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Democrat wins state House race in Kentucky after a Republican's scandal and suicide
Democrat wins state House race in Kentucky after a Republican's scandal and suicide
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The Daily Beast, Politicus USA and Axios
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
CPAC Says Dinesh D'Souza Not Going to Speak This Year, Condemns ‘Indefensible’ Remarks — After Dinesh D'Souza's disgusting tweets going after teenage survivors of a school shooting, people genuinely wondered if D'Souza was lined up to speak at CPAC this week. The organization says he is and was not.
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Jim Jamitis / RedState:
WHOA: CPAC Totally Disowns Former Featured Speaker Dinesh D'Souza — Wow. CPAC dropped the hammer on one of their formerly favorite speakers. They threw Dinesh D'Souza so far under the bus that he's now probably tasting transmission fluid. — Whatever credibility Dinesh D'Souza once …
KPNX:
Arizona candidate got topless selfie from legislative staffer, messages reveal — A legislative staffer sent Steve Montenegro a topless photo via text message, according to a series of messages between Montenegro and the staffer that were reviewed by 12 News. — Author: Brahm Resnik
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The Daily Beast, Roll Call and Political Wire
Josh Kovensky / KyivPost:
UPDATED: Attorney who whitewashed Tymoshenko prosecution charged with perjury — Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko looks out from behind bars in November 2011. In 2012, a team from US law firm Skadden came to Ukraine for a report that legitimized Tymoshenko's prosecution. (UNIAN)
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Sports Illustrated:
Exclusive: Inside the Corrosive Workplace Culture of the Dallas Mavericks — More than a dozen current and ex-employees characterize the Mavs' hostile work environment—ranging from sexual harassment to domestic violence—as an “open secret.” Sports Illustrated details the allegations in a special investigation.
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CBS Dallas, AOL, Deadspin, abc7ny.com, KDFW and Dallas Morning News
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump privately talks up new age limit on guns — President Trump has told associates that he doesn't think high school kids should be able to buy guns, and is open to the idea of imposing a minimum purchase age of 21 for guns like those used in the Florida high school massacre, a source close to the president said.
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Memorandum on the Application of the Definition of Machinegun to “Bump Fire” …
Presidential Memorandum on the Application of the Definition of Machinegun to “Bump Fire” …
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CNN, New York Times, The Last Refuge, Hit & Run and VICE News
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
CNNMoney:
The unwitting: The Trump supporters used by Russia — Rosenstein: Russians paid, recruited Americans — A Donald Trump supporter who unwittingly helped a Kremlin-linked operation to meddle in American politics says he only learned of his part in the Russian plot when the FBI showed up at his doorstep months later.
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Business Insider
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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Washington Post:
Trump's ‘tougher on Russia’ claim fits a pattern of striving to one-up Obama … To hear President Trump tell it, he is tougher than former president Barack Obama. He is smarter than Obama — more shrewd, more effective, more respected. The 45th president is, by his own accounting, superlative to the 44th in almost every way.
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New York Magazine
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Trump Has Been Tough on Russia (Except Rhetorically)
Trump Has Been Tough on Russia (Except Rhetorically)
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ThinkProgress, Mother Jones, Power Line, Raw Story, Washington Post and IJR
Chris McDaniel / BuzzFeed:
Missouri Fought For Years To Hide Where It Got Its Execution Drugs. Now We Know What They Were Hiding. — The state of Missouri did everything it could to keep secret where it got the drugs it used to put 17 inmates to death. Now, BuzzFeed News has discovered the supplier …
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Daily Kos
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Sex Abuse Allegations Shatter Illusions of Charity Sector … The #MeToo movement has shone light on sexual misconduct in dozens on industries—movie producers, high-ranking politicians, billionaires, Oscar-winners, and rock stars have all paid the price for their past actions.
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One America News Network, BBC and The Guardian
New York Times:
New Netanyahu Corruption Allegations: The Details — JERUSALEM — Two more serious allegations have surfaced in the metastasizing corruption investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle: that one of his aides tried to bribe a judge to quash a criminal case involving …
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VICE News