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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
RNC started paying Trump campaign's rent at Trump Tower after it stopped covering Trump's legal bills for Russia probe — The Republican National Committee has for months been quietly paying expenses previously covered by the Trump campaign in an arrangement that experts say is bizarre, but legal.
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New York Times:
Rick Gates, Trump Campaign Aide, to Plead Guilty in Mueller Inquiry and Cooperate — WASHINGTON — A former top adviser to Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign indicted by the special counsel was expected to plead guilty as soon as Friday afternoon, according to two people familiar …
ABC News:
Former Trump aide tells loved ones of plans to plead guilty, cooperate with Mueller — This was a “gut-wrenching decision” for the ex-campaign official, a source said. — Feb 23 — Corker reconsidering retirement sets up possible GOP battle with Blackburn — Corker could challenge Blackburn in Tennessee GOP primary race.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Mueller files new charge against Paul Manafort — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Russia investigation (all times local): — Special counsel Robert Mueller is accusing President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman of secretly paying former European politicians to lobby on behalf of Ukraine.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Who Was In The Fateful Meeting That Rick Gates Lied To Mueller About?
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CNN:
Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty in Mueller investigation
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Washington Post:
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates expected to plead guilty and cooperate with special counsel …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Staffer Rick Gates to Plead Guilty in Russia Probe
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates pleads guilty to lying and conspiracy against the United States
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Former Trump aide tells loved ones of plans to plead guilty, cooperate with special counsel
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
InfoWars is two strikes away from being banned from YouTube — Shooting survivor: I'm not a crisis actor — (CNN)InfoWars, a far-right media organization run by Alex Jones and known for peddling unfounded conspiracy theories, is on thin ice with YouTube after it posted a video that portrayed …
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CBS News:
Poll: Support for stricter gun laws rises; divisions on arming teachers — Nearly two-thirds of Americans support stricter laws on gun sales, including an increasing number of Republicans, but the public divides on the idea of allowing more teachers and school officials to carry guns.
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Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed:
Guess Who Thinks Arming Teachers Is A Really, Really Bad Idea? Military Combat Veterans.
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Shareblue Media, New York Times and Daily Kos
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The ‘scripted’ town-hall question: A CNN non-scandal
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Arming Teachers Would Endanger Students of Color
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
FL Shooting Survivor Colton Haab: CNN Told Me I Needed To “Stick To The Script”; Entire Town Hall Scripted
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Here's definitive proof that a good guy with a gun doesn't always stop a bad guy with a gun
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twitchy.com, Jamie Dupree - AJC and Althouse
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump blames armed officer at FL high school
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ABC News, BBC, The Daily Beast and New Republic
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott moves to bar people under 21 and mentally ill from buying guns
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Sources: Coral Springs police upset at some Broward deputies for not entering school — (CNN)When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
What Do Jotted Talking Points Say About Trump's Empathy? — WASHINGTON — For more than an hour on Wednesday, President Trump listened quietly to entreaties for action, personal stories of grief and loss, and expressions of raw anger, clutching a white notecard with talking points written on it.
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Washington Post:
Top Justice Dept. official alerted White House 2 weeks ago to ongoing issues in Kushner's security clearance … A top Justice Department official alerted the White House two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Kushner's security clearance and access ‘up to Gen. Kelly,’ Trump says — President Donald Trump said Friday the decision over whether to give Jared Kushner a waiver on his security clearance will be “up to” chief of staff John Kelly. — “That'll be up to Gen. Kelly,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House.
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Axios:
In Trumpworld, every day is yesterday
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Yahoo Sports:
Exclusive: Federal documents detail sweeping potential NCAA violations involving high-profile players, schools — Documents and bank records obtained in discovery during the federal investigation into the underbelly of college basketball detail in meticulous fashion the expenditures …
Del Quentin Wilber / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Tip-Line Caller Said Nikolas Cruz ‘Is Going to Explode’ — A person close to accused Florida shooter said she wanted ‘clear conscience’ if he ‘just starts shooting’ — A person close to the teenager accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school warned the FBI she was concerned he would …
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Business Insider and AOL
Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:
MetLife, Symantec Dump NRA After Boycott Calls Grow — Companies that offered benefits to the gun group's members are dropping their association following the Parkland massacre. — A call to boycott the National Rifle Association became the top trend on Twitter as users …
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Townhall.com, Business Insider and Mediaite
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Brad Davis / Omaha World-Herald:
First National Bank of Omaha ends relationship with NRA
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Brian Mast / New York Times:
I Appreciate Assault Weapons. And I Support a Ban. — The most important and unregrettable time of my life was the 12 years I spent in the Army. I became a bomb technician because I wanted to save lives. I nearly gave my own life for that — I lost both my legs and a finger …
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USA Today, Washington Post and Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
Ex-NFL player Jonathan Martin taken into custody in connection with Instagram post that closed Harvard-Westlake — Former NFL player and Harvard-Westlake alumnus Jonathan Martin was taken into custody Friday in connection with an Instagram post that displayed a shotgun and referenced the school by name …
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Justin Terranova / New York Post:
Bullied NFL lineman posts shotgun photo, forces high school to close
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Gothamist Lives, Thanks to a Boost From Public Radio — AFTER BILLIONAIRE JOE Ricketts announced the shuttering of local news organizations Gothamist and DNAInfo last fall, readers across the country mourned the loss of the beloved sites, and worried about the vulnerability of journalism in the digital age.
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New York Times, Splinter, Engadget and WPIX 11 New York, more at Mediagazer »
DCCC:
Laura Moser — Democratic voters need to hear that Laura Moser is not going to change Washington. She is a Washington insider, who begrudgingly moved to Houston to run for Congress. In fact, she wrote in the Washingtonian magazine, “I'd rather have my teeth pulled out without anesthesia” than live in Texas.
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
National Dems' Attacks On Progressive Signal Aggressive Primary Posture
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Hullabaloo
ProPublica:
Inside Atomwaffen As It Celebrates a Member for Allegedly Killing a Gay Jewish College Student — ProPublica obtained the chat logs of Atomwaffen, a notorious white supremacist group. When Samuel Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California …
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Motherboard, Shakesville and Eschaton
Barkha Dutt / Washington Post:
Trudeau's India trip is a total disaster — and he has only himself to blame … How did Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the world's favorite liberal mascot — a feminist man, with movie-star good looks, a 50 percent female cabinet and a political lexicon that has replaced “mankind” …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump directs Pentagon to schedule military parade for Veterans Day — President Donald Trump's plans for a White House-backed military parade are beginning to take shape. — The president has directed the Department of Defense to organize a parade that would take place on Nov. 11 …
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