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Davis Richardson / The New York Observer:
Michael Steele Responds to Racial Insult Hurled by CPAC Communications Director — Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) communication director Ian Walters sparked controversy with a racially charged insult hurled at former RNC chair Michael Steele on Friday night.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Michael Steele addresses CPAC official's ‘painfully stupid’ comment about race — Former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Michael Steele on Friday blasted a comment from a Conservative Political Action Conference spokesman in which the CPAC official said that the RNC picked Steele …
Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Parkland shooting survivor's family shops doctored emails with CNN to media outlets — The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email between Haab's father, Glenn Haab, and a CNN producer to media outlets.
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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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Scripted’ controversy: CNN releases emails of correspondence with Florida student
‘Scripted’ controversy: CNN releases emails of correspondence with Florida student
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Emily Witt / New Yorker:
Urgency and Frustration: The Never Again Movement Gathers Momentum
Urgency and Frustration: The Never Again Movement Gathers Momentum
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Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Accuses CNN of ‘Questioning the Integrity of a Survivor’ Over Alleged ‘Scripted’ Question
Tucker Carlson Accuses CNN of ‘Questioning the Integrity of a Survivor’ Over Alleged ‘Scripted’ Question
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New York Times:
Tipster's Warning to F.B.I. on Florida Shooting Suspect: 'I Know He's Going to Explode'
Tipster's Warning to F.B.I. on Florida Shooting Suspect: 'I Know He's Going to Explode'
Del Quentin Wilber / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Tip-Line Caller Said Nikolas Cruz ‘Is Going to Explode’
FBI Tip-Line Caller Said Nikolas Cruz ‘Is Going to Explode’
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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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Jacob Brogan / Slate:
Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files
Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files
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New York Times:
More than 100 charges. 19 people. 3 companies: The Mueller Inquiry, Explained.
More than 100 charges. 19 people. 3 companies: The Mueller Inquiry, Explained.
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Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
What Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Means For Mueller's Probe
What Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Means For Mueller's Probe
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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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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Top Homeland Security official, who clashed with White House over immigration policy, to step down … Elaine Duke, the second-highest-ranking official at the Department of Homeland Security, announced Friday that she will step down after serving less than a year in the job.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Delta and United abruptly reverse course, sever contracts with the NRA — Delta and United Airlines announced Saturday morning that they are terminating contracts with the NRA to provide discounted flights to the organization's annual convention in May. — The airlines previously advertised discounts …
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Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
These companies have cut ties with the NRA
These companies have cut ties with the NRA
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Matthew Chapman / Shareblue Media:
Six companies dump the NRA in just 24 hours
Six companies dump the NRA in just 24 hours
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Brian Faler / Politico:
‘This is not normal’: Glitches mar new tax law — The glitches in the new tax law are starting to pile up. — One inadvertently denies restaurants, retailers and others generous new write-offs for things like remodeling. — Another would allow wealthy money managers to sidestep a crackdown …
Liesl Schillinger / Foreign Policy:
McMaster Gives a Belated Russian Lesson — It's time for Americans to add a new Russian word to their strategic lexicon. — In the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and ever since, thousands of English words written by Russians pretending to be Americans have infiltrated social media in the United States.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
A conservative Democrat in Illinois feels the ire of his liberal base — PALOS HILLS, Ill. — After 30 minutes of hissing and heckling — and cheers for his opponent — Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) had heard enough. After Marie Newman, the liberal activist running against him …
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
This Man Helped Peter Thiel Demolish Gawker — Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel did not come up with the idea to covertly fund lawsuits against Gawker Media. That credit belongs to an Oxford-educated man who Thiel's inner circle calls “Mr. A.” — Peter Thiel's campaign …
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New York Times:
Facebook and Google Struggle to Squelch ‘Crisis Actor’ Posts — SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, one week after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., Facebook and YouTube vowed to crack down on the trolls. — Thousands of posts and videos had popped up on the sites, falsely claiming …
CNN:
Putin's ‘chef’ accused of trying to cover his tracks — Exclusive: Putin's ‘chef,’ the man behind the troll factory — Moscow (CNN)The oligarch whose company is linked to the Russian mercenary group believed to be behind an attack on US and allied forces in Syria earlier this month …
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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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 …
David Brennan / Newsweek:
‘A TOTAL F***-UP’: RUSSIAN MERCENARIES IN SYRIA LAMENT U.S. STRIKE THAT KILLED DOZENS — Recordings have emerged in which Russian mercenaries subjected to a joint U.S. strike that killed dozens of their comrades describe the incident as “a total fuck-up.” — Polygraph.info …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump: If North Korea Doesn't Obey Me, I Might Punish the Whole World — On Friday, president Trump announced that his administration would be hitting North Korea with the “heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before.” The new penalties target dozens of ships and shipping companies that have …
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Toby Helm / The Guardian:
Ken Livingstone to rejoin Labour party as suspension over Hitler remarks ends — Reinstatement of former London mayor likely to rekindle bitter internal row over antisemitism … Labour could lift Ken Livingstone's suspension and allow him to resume the status of a full party member within weeks …
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CNN:
Robert Mueller and his pursuit of justice — (CNN)In the early 1990s, Robert Mueller had just left one of the most powerful posts in America's criminal justice system: assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the Department of Justice. Taking his experience into private practice …
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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