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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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Bloomberg:
Meeting That Gates Admits Lying About Matches Rohrabacher Dinner — Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates just admitted to lying to U.S. investigators about a March 19, 2013, meeting between his boss, Paul Manafort, and an unidentified U.S. congressman. Public filings show a meeting …
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New York Times:
‘The Hapsburg Group’: Mueller Says Manafort Secretly Paid European Leaders — For five centuries, the Habsburgs dominated much of Central Europe, reaching from their ancestral base in Austria to eventually encompass a multiethnic and multilingual empire that collapsed only at the end of World War I.
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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 …
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Mueller just singled out a Republican congressman in unsealed Trump-Russia indictment — Special Counsel Mueller just filed a new criminal charge today (embedded below) alleging a criminal cover-up of ex-Trump aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates' illegal foreign lobbying efforts …
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
What Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Means For Mueller's Probe
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Mueller files new charge against Paul Manafort
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Austrian chancellor appears to have lobbied as part of Manafort scheme
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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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The Mahablog and bradford-delong.com
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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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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Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Minute by minute at Donald Trump's wild, rambling CPAC speech
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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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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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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Kushner's security clearance and access ‘up to Gen. Kelly,’ Trump says
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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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Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:
Philando Castile's mom slams NRA chief Wayne LaPierre as a hypocrite: ‘This country is run off money’ — The mother of Philando Castile blasted NRA chief Wayne LaPierre as a hypocrite Thursday, saying his silence after the shooting death of her gun-owning, school-employed son proves his true motive is money.
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The Root
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
Justin Terranova / New York Post:
Bullied NFL lineman posts shotgun photo, forces high school to close — Former Dolphins offensive lineman Jonathan Martin posted a chilling Instagram story that forced a high school to close. … On Thursday, Martin caught the attention of school officials with a story that featured a photo …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration ‘justifiably concerned’ about sharing intel with Trump team — A lawyer for President Barack Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, told Congress late Friday that the outgoing administration was fearful of sharing classified intelligence …
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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 …
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller's military career, detailed in documents, was brief but remarkable … When Robert Swan Mueller III deployed to Vietnam as a Marine infantry platoon commander in 1968, he surely knew it would be difficult. Mueller's regiment, the 4th Marines, had faced bloody jungle warfare for months …
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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CBS News:
Lawyers for California siblings allegedly held captive by parents share recovery details — The California parents accused of torturing and starving their 13 children will be in court Friday for a procedural hearing. For the first time, lawyers representing their seven adult children …
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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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The ‘scripted’ town-hall question: A CNN non-scandal
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Will Cleveland / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Police: Undocumented Rochester student threatens East High on Facebook — A student with a shotgun made a terrorist threat against East High School on social media, according to Rochester police. — Abigail Hernandez, 21, is charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony.
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Associated Press:
Docs: Woman whose affair led rep to quit threatened husband — PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman whose affair with a Pennsylvania congressman led to his resignation — and who's pursuing her own run for the U.S. House — is accused of threatening to kill her husband.
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Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott proposes $500 million school safety program, no ban on specific weapons, no armed teachers — Florida's governor proposes school resource officers in every school, and one officer for every 1,000 students. — Gov. Rick Scott unveiled an action plan Friday in response …
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Josh Meny / KATC-TV:
Oberlin student cleared by law enforcement still banned from school — OBERLIN - — In Allen Parish, a teenager found out quickly that any type of joke about guns or shooting will result in swift action. — On Wednesday night, KATC reported that The Allen Parish Sheriff's Department responded …
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Katie Leslie / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz trails Senate challenger Beto O'Rourke in six-week fundraising haul. By a lot. — Updated at 9:30 p.m. with comment from Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier. — WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's fundraising lagged far behind his top Democratic challenger during the first six weeks of 2018 …
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