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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, Associated Press, Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, The Root, Shareblue Media, Joe.My.God., Daily Kos, 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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The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Raw Story, The Hill, Big League Politics, USA Today, ThinkProgress, RedState, Mother Jones, CBS Los Angeles, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, Business Insider, The Guardian, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., Law & Crime, Politicus USA, Shareblue Media, True Pundit, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Mahablog, Shakesville and The Gateway Pundit
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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ThinkProgress
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump Jr. ‘likes’ tweet attacking Florida school shooting survivor, 17, which suggests he wasn't really there and can't be trusted because his father is a retired FBI agent — Trump Jr. has not commented himself on the shooting but has been busy liking other Twitter users' remarks
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The Gateway Pundit
Lisa Respers France / CNN:
George and Amal Clooney to attend March For Our Lives — Survivor: I'm terrified to return to school — (CNN)George and Amal Clooney have stepped up in support of the survivors of the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida. — The superstar couple announced Tuesday that they are donating $500,000 …
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National Review, KTLA and CBS Los Angeles
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, True Pundit, Gizmodo, Business Insider, AOL, Splinter and Political Wire
Charles Rabin / miamiherald:
Parkland students face new attack, this time from the political right on social media
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 …
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
A spreading movement? How Florida school shooting survivors are inspiring other students to demand gun control
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
BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump Jr. Liked Tweets Promoting A Conspiracy Theory About A Florida Shooting Survivor
Donald Trump Jr. Liked Tweets Promoting A Conspiracy Theory About A Florida Shooting Survivor
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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BuzzFeed, Front Page Magazine, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and New York Times
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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CNN, The Week, Business Insider, Raw Story, Mediaite, Political Wire and Daily Kos
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:
Democrats just flipped a Kentucky state legislature seat in a district Trump won by 49 points — Democrat Linda Belcher regains her old seat. — Democrat Linda Belcher was just pronounced the winner of the special election in Kentucky's House District 49, a seat that Donald Trump carried …
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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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Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Splinter
Courier-Journal:
Dan Johnson's widow claims voter fraud after losing seat to Linda Belcher in District 49 race
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, Axios and Politicus USA
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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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
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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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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ABC News, The American Conservative, RT, FOX 61, The Daily Caller, KTLA, One America News Network, Business Insider, The Week, Axios and Political Wire
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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Political Wire
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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KDFW, Dallas Morning News, Deadspin and CBS Dallas
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
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.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Trump Has Been Tough on Russia (Except Rhetorically) — This tweet from Donald Trump is inviting a lot of mockery this morning. … There's just one problem: Trump has a point. — Barack Obama sold out our Eastern European allies on missile defense. He slow-walked aid to Ukraine …
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Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, IJR, Washington Post, Raw Story and Power Line
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Libby Watson / Splinter:
You Dumb Motherfuckers, John Kelly Was Always Bad — FiveThirtyEight, a website that apparently still exists, has a deeply depressing story out Tuesday on White House Chief of Staff John Kelly by politics writer Perry Bacon Jr. The piece is essentially a mea culpa, where Bacon admits …
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The Week and FiveThirtyEight
KUSA-TV:
‘I was almost a school shooter’ — That's not a sentence many people ever hear, or read. It's also not a sentence many people would ever say publicly. — Author: Next with Kyle Clark — “I was almost a school shooter.” — That's not a sentence many people ever hear, or read.
Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:
Natalie Portman Doesn't Want To Live In Oblivion — In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Portman discusses Annihilation, Hollywood's Time's Up revolution, learning from Reese Witherspoon, and her regret over signing the Roman Polanski petition. — Over the course of Natalie Portman's career …
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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Business Insider, NBC News, AOL, Salon, Hullabaloo, CNN, Raw Story, IJR, The Daily Caller and RT
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Poison We Pick — This nation pioneered modern life. Now epic numbers of Americans are killing themselves with opioids to escape it. — It is a beautiful, hardy flower, Papaver somniferum, a poppy that grows up to four feet in height and arrives in a multitude of colors.
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