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Los Angeles Times:
Active shooting at YouTube headquarters brings huge police response — An active shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., sparked panic and a massive police response Tuesday. — Several YouTube employees sent tweets Tuesday afternoon, saying employees were racing …
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Emily Kirschenheuter / KRON:
Shooter dead, at least 3 injured in YouTube shooting — CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE — SAN BRUNO (KRON) - A woman shot multiple people Tuesday before turning the gun on herself at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, according to police. — Sources tell KRON4 that a woman shot her boyfriend.
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NBC News:
YouTube shooting: Female suspect dead at firm's HQ in San Bruno, California — A woman opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters Tuesday afternoon before dying of a gunshot wound, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News. Multiple injuries were reported.
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Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC:
Female suspect in YouTube HQ shooting is dead: NBC News
Female suspect in YouTube HQ shooting is dead: NBC News
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Recode:
Four people have been shot at YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley
Four people have been shot at YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley
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IJR, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Politico and Mother Jones
Justin Carissimo / CBS News:
Police respond to “active shooter situation” at YouTube's California headquarters — live updates
Police respond to “active shooter situation” at YouTube's California headquarters — live updates
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
YouTube Shooting: Woman Shot Boyfriend, Then Killed Herself
YouTube Shooting: Woman Shot Boyfriend, Then Killed Herself
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The Daily Beast, One America News Network, CBS Los Angeles and The Week
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government — (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
What Mueller's Most Conspicuous Silence Suggests — But the emails! — It's not just an increasingly worn rejoinder to any story of chaos and disaster in the Trump administration. It's also an interesting question to ask about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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CNN, CANNONFIRE, The Daily Caller, Artvoice, Central Florida Post, Washington Times and Mediaite
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
In a footnote, Mueller sends a warning shot to Trump … Paul Manafort's legal strategy for evading the charges filed against him by special counsel Robert Mueller was fairly straightforward. His attorneys argued, among other things, that many of the charges Manafort faces — which include fraud …
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Raw Story, emptywheel, Vox, VICE News and The Week
Washington Post:
Justice official authorized Mueller to investigate whether Trump campaign chair colluded with Russia
Justice official authorized Mueller to investigate whether Trump campaign chair colluded with Russia
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National Review
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.
Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes. That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster.
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Politico
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Thank You, Jeff Sessions
Clare Foran / CNN:
How EPA's Scott Pruitt avoided tough questions on Tuesday — Washington (CNN)As questions swirled over whether or not he can hold onto his administration post, embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appeared calm on Tuesday as he touted the agency's decision …
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Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides — In early March, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt approached the White House with a request: He wanted substantial pay raises for two of his closest aides.
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HuffPost:
2 Florida Republicans Now Joining Calls For Scott Pruitt To Resign
2 Florida Republicans Now Joining Calls For Scott Pruitt To Resign
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CNN:
Trump appointee at Defense Department resigns after CNN reveals birther postings — (CNN)A political appointee at the Department of Defense has resigned after a CNN KFile inquiry about controversial postings he made on Facebook. — Todd Johnson is a former Trump campaign state director …
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Washington Post:
That caravan of migrants Trump was tweeting about? Mexico stopped it. … VERACRUZ, Mexico — The Mexican government on Monday evening moved to break up the caravan of migrants moving through southern Mexico, with immigration officials registering the travelers and suggesting …
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Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US suspects listening devices in Washington — For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The all-consuming tribalism of Trump's Republican Party, in one 30-second ad … As metaphors for the Trump-led Republican Party go, it's difficult to beat Rep. Todd Rokita's new ad in the Indiana Senate race. — In 30 seconds, the Republican congressman from Indiana discusses no policy issues …
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YouTube, Political Wire, New York Times and Washington Times
Bloomberg:
Sinclair Employees Say Their Contracts Make It Too Expensive to Quit — Noncompetes, forced arbitration and a liquidated damages clause can equal 40 percent of annual salary. — , and — After Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. drew widespread criticism for having anchors read a statement taking aim …
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People.com:
Inside Tiffany Trump's Strained Relationship with Her Dad: ‘They Go Months Without Speaking’ — With rare, back-to-back appearances spanning three states, Tiffany Trump and her father, President Donald Trump, seem to be on something of a father-daughter reunion tour.
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Raw Story, Political Wire and thecut
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018 — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018. It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Hollywood Reporter:
Don't Be Fooled, ‘Roseanne’ Is Really TV's Most Anti-Trump Show — The NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist argues the politics on the revived sitcom are played for laughs like on ‘All in the Family’ or the ‘Colbert Report,’ but the daily economic struggles of the Conner family actually make a pointed anti-Trump statement.
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Stormy Daniels requests ‘suspicious’ bank information related to hush payment — Avenatti: Trump popping champagne too soon — (CNN)A lawyer for Stormy Daniels is asking the Treasury Department to release information filed with the government by a bank about “suspicious” …
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
'I can't breathe': Asheville police video shows white officer beating, choking black jaywalking suspect … Johnnie Rush was trying to get home from a long shift at the Cracker Barrel. — Then he got stopped for jaywalking — an encounter with the police department in Asheville, N.C. …
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump is finally making investors nervous — Investors spent most of last year ignoring the president's antics. They're not anymore. — If the stock market was in a Trump rally before, it's in a Trump slump now — even if the president would rather not admit it.
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election — President Trump has said repeatedly that Russian interference didn't matter in the 2016 election, and he has suggested — wrongly — that the intelligence and law enforcement communities have said the same.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Dana Rohrabacher immediately links shooting at YouTube to ‘illegal aliens’ — Republican congressman wastes no time exploiting a tragedy to push his political agenda. — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) appeared on Fox Business Network amid breaking news reports of a shooting at YouTube headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.
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The Daily Beast, Mother Jones and Mediaite
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Roseanne is bringing conservative American women out of the closet — “Roseanne,” the ABC sitcom, brought in 25 million viewers and counting to the shock of elites who believed that the biggest new draw on TV was Jimmy Kimmel and comedy tilting politically left.
Josh Rogers / KTBS:
Southwood High principal says no to transgender student's yearbook pictures — A Southwood High School senior is fighting back against her principal after he said her senior pictures violate the school's dress code. — Kami Pham, a transgender student, said principal Jeff Roberts told …
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ThinkProgress, Jezebel, IJR and Law & Crime
Tulsa World:
‘Go ahead, be pissed at me’: Oklahoma lawmaker, upset at teachers' decorum, vows not to vote for education … As the statewide teacher walkout entered its second day, some lawmakers are criticizing the behavior of those protesting at the Capitol. — Rep. Josh Cockroft …