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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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Law & Crime and Shakesville
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
What Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Means For Mueller's Probe
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, The Verge and emptywheel
Associated Press:
The Latest: Mueller files new charge against Paul Manafort
The Latest: Mueller files new charge against Paul Manafort
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The Right Scoop, Political Wire and The Atlantic
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Former Austrian chancellor appears to have lobbied as part of Manafort scheme
Former Austrian chancellor appears to have lobbied as part of Manafort scheme
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Washington Post, Shareblue Media, ABC News, Axios and The Week
New York Times:
Rick Gates, Trump Campaign Aide, to Plead Guilty in Mueller Inquiry and Cooperate
Rick Gates, Trump Campaign Aide, to Plead Guilty in Mueller Inquiry and Cooperate
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Who Was In The Fateful Meeting That Rick Gates Lied To Mueller About?
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
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, FOX2now.com, Jamie Dupree - AJC, KTLA, Althouse and myfox8.com
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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Washington Press, Forward Progressives, Politicus USA and Raw Story
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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The American Conservative, AOL, Politicus USA, Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and The Daily Beast
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Kushner's security clearance and access ‘up to Gen. Kelly,’ Trump says
Kushner's security clearance and access ‘up to Gen. Kelly,’ Trump says
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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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Brian Mast / New York Times:
I Appreciate Assault Weapons. And I Support a Ban.
I Appreciate Assault Weapons. And I Support a Ban.
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JustOneMinute, Raw Story, Washington Post and USA Today
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed:
Guess Who Thinks Arming Teachers Is A Really, Really Bad Idea? Military Combat Veterans.
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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USA Today, The Comeback, The Daily Beast, WSVN-TV, ProFootballTalk, TheBlaze, IJR, WGN-TV, theGrio, The Root and The Week
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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 …
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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
InfoWars is two strikes away from being banned from YouTube
InfoWars is two strikes away from being banned from YouTube
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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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Joe Uchill / Axios:
Rice denies being briefed on Steele dossier
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Minute by minute at Donald Trump's wild, rambling CPAC speech — He patted his bald spot. He said his opponents “committed a lot of atrocities.” At one point, he pantomimed a stabbing. The U.S. president's Friday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference was an old-fashioned campaign-style ramble.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The unending campaign of Donald Trump
The unending campaign of Donald Trump
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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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The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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 …
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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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, AOL, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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.
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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Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump to host Arab leaders for sensitive talks — President Trump has accelerated his diplomatic efforts to broker peace among quarreling Arab monarchies, starting with an upcoming series of White House visits by leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Axios has learned.
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
When Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel Was Accused of Corruption, He Responded: 'Lions Don't Care About the Opinions of Sheep' — Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel—the man whose agency failed to prevent the Parkland massacre despite having received a tip last November that Nikolas Cruz …
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The Daily Caller and Washington Post
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