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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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New York Times:
Armed Sheriff's Deputy ‘Never Went In’ During Florida Shooting — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The only armed security guard on campus during a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school last week “never went in” to a building to try to take down the shooting suspect, Sheriff Scott Israel …
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miamiherald:
Parkland school cop ‘never went in’ during the shooting. There were other failures, too. — Eight days after mass shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Broward's top cop on Thursday revealed a stunning series of failures by the sheriff's department.
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Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress:
Three major car rental companies dump the NRA — A major car rental conglomerate which operates three prominent national brands is ending its corporate relationship with the National Rifle Association, as backlash grows in the wake of the Parkland mass shooting.
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Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
Armed sheriff's deputy stayed outside Florida school while mass killing took place — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The armed school resource officer assigned to protect students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School took a defensive position outside the school and did not enter the building …
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Todd Tongen / WPLG-TV:
Stoneman Douglas BSO resource officer did not enter school during shootings
Stoneman Douglas BSO resource officer did not enter school during shootings
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Stephen Hobbs / Sun-Sentinel:
Stoneman Douglas cop resigns; sheriff says he should have ‘killed the killer’
Stoneman Douglas cop resigns; sheriff says he should have ‘killed the killer’
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Orlando Sentinel, Vox and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
David Choi / Business Insider:
Armed police are guarding the home of the deputy who resigned over his lack of action in the Parkland school shooting
Armed police are guarding the home of the deputy who resigned over his lack of action in the Parkland school shooting
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CNN:
School shooter threatened others with a gun, first host family told police
School shooter threatened others with a gun, first host family told police
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
On Guns, Liberals Are Flirting With the Politics of Fear. That's Scary.
On Guns, Liberals Are Flirting With the Politics of Fear. That's Scary.
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NBC News, New Republic, Business Insider and The Resurgent
Kansas City Star:
Gov. Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy stemming from affair — Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted Thursday afternoon by a St. Louis grand jury on a felony charge of invasion of privacy. — The charge stems from a 2015 affair and allegations that he threatened to release …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens's sexual blackmail scandal, explained
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens's sexual blackmail scandal, explained
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Jim Salter / Associated Press:
Grand jury indicts Missouri governor who admitted affair
Grand jury indicts Missouri governor who admitted affair
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New York Magazine and VICE News
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Ex-Trump Staffer Rick Gates to Drop His Lawyer in Russia Probe … Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates has fired his lawyer, The Daily Beast has learned. And, contrary to recent media reports, Gates is not about to make a deal with the Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Washington Post:
Special counsel Mueller files new charges in Manafort, Gates case … New charges were filed Thursday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner, ratcheting up the legal pressure on them as they prepare for a trial later this year.
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CNN:
Mueller files new charges against Manafort and Gates
Mueller files new charges against Manafort and Gates
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller adds new tax, bank fraud charges against Manafort, Gates
Mueller adds new tax, bank fraud charges against Manafort, Gates
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Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
In rare move, national Democrats come out against primary candidate Laura Moser in bid for Culberson's seat — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Thursday posted negative research on Democratic congressional hopeful Laura Moser, one of seven Democrats vying to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. John Culberson.
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David French / National Review:
The Gun-Control Debate Could Break America — A rage more personal than political exists on both sides, and poses real danger to the ties that bind us as a nation. — Last night, the nation witnessed what looked a lot like an extended version of the famous “two minutes hate” from George Orwell's novel 1984.
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Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
NRA spox: ‘Many in legacy media love mass shootings’
NRA spox: ‘Many in legacy media love mass shootings’
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Washington Post:
Putin ally said to be in touch with Kremlin, Assad before his mercenaries attacked U.S. troops … A Russian oligarch believed to control the Russian mercenaries who attacked U.S. troops and their allies in Syria this month was in close touch with Kremlin and Syrian officials in the days …
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CNN:
Sources: Mueller probe stymies Kushner security clearance — Washington (CNN)Jared Kushner has been unable to obtain a full security clearance in part because of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Political Wire
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John Walcott / Reuters:
Two top White House advisers may leave over tensions with Trump: sources
Two top White House advisers may leave over tensions with Trump: sources
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Washington Press and Hullabaloo
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
An Epidemic of Dishonesty on the Right — Enough with the rancid conspiracy theories — First it was the Holocaust, now Parkland — is there any act of depravity to which the less respectable right-wing media cannot imagine a connection for George Soros?
GQ:
What Ever Happened To Brendan Fraser? — GQ's Zach Baron reports on the stupendous rise and surprising disappearance of the once ubiquitous movie star. — Brendan Fraser wants me to meet his horse. “I got this horse because it's a big horse,” he says, standing in a barn in Bedford, New York.
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Will Remove “Nation of Immigrants” From Mission Statement — The lead U.S. agency tasked with granting citizenship to would-be Americans is making a major change to its mission statement, removing a passage that describes the United States as a nation of immigrants.
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Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
Nation of immigrants? According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, not so much.
Nation of immigrants? According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, not so much.
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NBC News, NPR and CBS Los Angeles
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. official focused on election security being shoved aside — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a federal agency who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyber attacks by Russia or others is being removed from his post by Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House.
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Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Gov. Rauner drinks chocolate milk to demonstrate his commitment to diversity — In an awkward onstage appearance this week, Gov. Bruce Rauner drank a glass of chocolate milk to demonstrate his belief in diversity. — “It's really, really good,” Rauner said after taking a sip of the sugary drink.
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Sarah Larimer / Washington Post:
‘They have had it’: West Virginia teachers strike, closing all public schools … Teachers across West Virginia walked off the job Thursday amid a dispute over pay and benefits, causing more than 277,000 public school students to miss classes even as educators swarmed the state Capitol in Charleston to protest.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
McCain associate invokes Fifth Amendment on Trump dossier sources: report — (R-Ariz.) invoked the Fifth Amendment in order to not testify before the House Intelligence Committee on the unverified Trump-Russia dossier, according to Fox News. — The committee originally issued a subpoena …
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