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Houston Chronicle:
‘Multiple fatalities’ reported at Santa Fe High School shooting  —  SANTA FE, Texas - A shooting at Santa Fe High School this morning has left “multiple fatalities,” a law enforcement source confirmed.  —  The source said the gunman was a male, but could provide no further information.
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Associated Press:
Houston-area media reporting fatalities from school shooting  —  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following a shooting at a local high school Friday morning.  —  Television station KHOU and the Houston Chronicle …
New York Times:
Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting: At Least 8 Dead and Suspect in Custody  —  SANTA FE, Tex. — A male student was taken into custody on Friday morning after a shooting spree inside a high school in southeast Texas left at least eight people dead, the majority believed to be students, the authorities said.
KHOU-TV:
WATCH LIVE: At least 8 killed in shooting at Santa Fe HS; Officials sweeping building  —  Authorities say one suspect is in custody at the school, located about 30 miles southeast of Houston.  Another person has also been detained.  —  SANTA FE, Texas - Federal and county officials tell …
Houston Chronicle:
At least 9 dead in Santa Fe High School; shooter had multiple guns, bombs
Discussion: Mediaite, Fox News and Mashable
abc13.com:
LIVE COVERAGE: Confirmed injuries after Santa Fe High School shooting
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A Santa Fe High School student says she expected to be shot at one day
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Washington Post:
At least 8 killed in shooting at Texas high school, sheriff says
Mythili Sampathkumar / The Independent:
Texas school shooting latest: Man turns up to Santa Fe High carrying American flag and gun saying …
Discussion: The Federalist
Washington Post:
Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms  —  President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms to ship packages, according to three people familiar …
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy  —  He says there's a crisis in masculinity.  Why won't women — all these wives and witches — just behave?  —  TORONTO — Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there's no shame in looking backward to a model of how the world should be arranged.
Washington Post:
In blow to GOP, House fails to pass massive farm bill in face of conservative Republican showdown … A sweeping farm bill failed in the House on Friday in a blow to GOP leaders who were unable to placate conservative lawmakers demanding commitments on immigration.
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HuffPost:
Freedom Caucus Sinks Farm Bill  —  A fight over immigration spoiled Paul Ryan's welfare reform agenda.  —  WASHINGTON Republicans failed to come up with the votes Friday to pass a major piece of their domestic policy agenda, with a farm bill rewrite narrowly going down on the House floor …
Politico:
Farm bill goes down as Freedom Caucus votes against it
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
It's right there in plain sight … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Here's the difficulty.  We want Congress to exercise oversight when it comes to the activities of our intelligence services, to prevent them from abusing their awesome powers and to maintain public confidence that such abuses …
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and Townhall
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Washington Post:
‘Bigger than Watergate’: Trump joins push by allies to expose role of an FBI source … President Trump's allies are waging an increasingly aggressive campaign to undercut the Russia investigation by exposing the role of a top-secret FBI source.  The effort reached new heights Thursday …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Trump: Justice Dept. put a ‘spy’ in campaign to ‘frame’ him
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and The Guardian
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Was Trump's Campaign ‘Set Up’?
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Scrapped Training Exercise With South Korea Involving B-52s  —  South Korea expressed concern in advance of U.S.-North Korea summit, officials say  —  A training exercise involving U.S. B-52 bombers and South Korean planes was scrapped earlier this week after the South Korean government …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Maximum pressure on North Korea is gone, and it isn't coming back
Discussion: Just Security and Military.com
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Nuclear deal Trump seeks with North Korea could mirror Iran deal he hates
Discussion: Politico, RedState and ABC News
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Unfair!’  Rudy Giuliani explodes when CNN's Cuomo plays clip of him saying presidents must obey subpoenas  —  Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani went on an angry tirade against Chris Cuomo on Friday after the CNN host played an old clip of him saying that presidents must comply with subpoenas to testify.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Giuliani says Mueller has agreed to narrow scope of potential Trump interview  —  Washington (CNN)Rudy Giuliani said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to narrow the scope of a potential interview with President Donald Trump from five topics to two.
Joanna Chiu / Foreign Policy:
Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage  —  Newsroom predators in foreign bureaus hurt their colleagues — and their stories.  —  Today, I'm known as a strong advocate in my social circles, promoting women's and minorities' voices in media.  But when I first moved to China seven years ago …
New York Times:
Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities' Funding to Abortion Restrictions  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to announce on Friday a new policy barring Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health organizations from providing or mentioning abortions at any facility …
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Bill Gates: Trump twice asked me the difference between HIV and HPV  —  Microsoft co-founder tells foundation meeting it was ‘kind of scary’ how much Trump knew about what Gates' daughter looked like  —  Bill Gates, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, has claimed Donald Trump twice asked …
Discussion: Mashable, PinkNews, Bustle, AOL and WTVR-TV
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Trump the Second Coming of Reagan?  —  Fox News's Bret Baier wants you to think he just might be.  —  Bret Baier, chief political anchor of Fox News, President Trump's favorite network, insists he isn't living in some alternate reality.  He knows that our current President is louder …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Politico and Contemptor
TMZ.com:
Jay-Z Convinced Meek Mill to Cancel White House Visit with Trump  —  Meek Mill bailed on a visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Friday after a late-night call from Jay-Z ... TMZ has learned.  —  TMZ broke the story ... Meek agreed to travel to the White House to discuss prison reform.
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Obama's Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed  —  In one respect, it seems to me, the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful.  In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama's two-term legacy.  —  I don't want to say or face this.  I still want to believe my colleague …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Trump taps Wilkie as next Veterans Affairs secretary  —  President Donald Trump on Friday announced he would tap current acting Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to be the department's next permanent leader, joking that he had “ruined the surprise” for the previously unaware Wilkie.
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Senate Democrats Call For Multi-Agency Probe Into Russia Sanctions Delay … Three top senators on Friday requested rare multi-agency inspector-general investigations into the Trump administration's failure to fully implement congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia.
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
GOP candidate films herself confronting transgender woman using bathroom  —  A Republican candidate for Congress in California filmed herself confronting a transgender woman using the women's bathroom at a Denny's in Los Angeles.  —  Jazmina Saavedra, who is campaigning for a seat …
 
 
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Margherita Stancati / Wall Street Journal:
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Robin Emmott / Reuters:
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Millions flow to fast-growing lobbying firms with ties to the Trump administration
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Craig Gilbert / USA Today:
Support for Donald Trump a constant theme in Republican ads for midterms
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miamiherald:
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Politico:
When Trump attacks, Democrats shut their mouths and pray
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Sources Say Cohen Financial Records Not Missing, Just Restricted
New York Times:
Congressional Candidates, Not Mueller, Could Decide Trump's Future
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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