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NBC News:
Actresses Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman among 40 charged in college entrance exam cheating plot — The scheme involved students who attended or were seeking to attend Georgetown University, Stanford University, UCLA, and other top colleges. — Hollywood figures among those charged in college exam cheating scheme
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TMZ.com:
Felicity Huffman Arrested by FBI with Guns Drawn, Loughlin to Surrender Wed — Felicity Huffman — Arrested By FBI Agents with Guns Drawn ... Loughlin to Surrender Wednesday — EXCLUSIVE — 7:58 PM PT — We just got Felicity after posing bail ... and it was clear she didn't want to talk.
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Page Six, The Daily Caller and KFOR-TV
New York Times:
College Admissions Scandal: Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged — Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders …
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Esquire, Religion News Service, The Stanford Daily, The Texas Tribune, Slate, The Atlantic, Recode, SFist, TMZ.com, Page Six, TechCrunch and Deadspin
New York Times:
Lori Loughlin's Daughter Is Caught Up in College Admissions Scandal — Ms. Giannulli, an influencer with big audiences on YouTube and Instagram, posted sponsored content about being a student. — Olivia Jade Giannulli, whose parents are two of the dozens of people accused of cheating …
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CBS San Francisco, Page Six, CBS Miami, VICE News, The Outline and Althouse
Washington Post:
FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme — The Justice Department on Tuesday charged more than 30 wealthy people — including two television stars — with being part of a long-running scheme to bribe and cheat to get their kids into big-name colleges and universities.
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BuzzFeed News, Mercury News, The American Conservative, The Daily Caller, Vanity Fair, New York Times, The Mary Sue and The Week
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Live Updates: Ringleader pleads guilty in $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam
Live Updates: Ringleader pleads guilty in $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam
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Fox News, Justice News, CNN, Associated Press, The Stranger, ABC7, The Daily Caller, The Lid, IJR, Raw Story and The Week
Cary Aspinwall / Dallas Morning News:
Boeing 737 Max 8 pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw — Pilots repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the Boeing 737 Max 8 to federal authorities, with one captain calling the flight manual “inadequate and almost criminally insufficient” several months …
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Bob King / Politico:
Trump's FAA increasingly isolated as other countries ban Boeing jet — The Federal Aviation Administration refused again Tuesday evening to ground Boeing's beleaguered 737 MAX 8 jetliner, despite pleas from lawmakers of both parties who said the U.S. should join a growing list of governments …
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EASA, NPR, CNN, Bloomberg, One America News Network, Axios, TechCrunch, National Review and The Week
Associated Press:
Pilots have reported issues in US with new Boeing jet — Airline pilots on at least two flights have reported that an automated system seemed to cause their Boeing planes to tilt down suddenly, the same problem suspected of contributing to a deadly crash in Indonesia.
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New York Times and Fortune, more at Techmeme »
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
2 charts refuting Trump's claim that “airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly”
2 charts refuting Trump's claim that “airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly”
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New York Times, Politico, Raw Story and Washington Post
Konstantin Kakaes / MIT Technology Review:
A second 737 Max crash raises questions about airplane automation
A second 737 Max crash raises questions about airplane automation
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Washington Post, Associated Press, USA Today, Pacific Standard, Vox, VICE News, Politico and Raw Story
Susan Davis / NPR:
Speaker Pelosi Revokes Vice President Pence's House Office Space — The speaker giveth, and the speaker taketh away. — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has reclaimed office space her predecessor, Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., awarded to Vice President Pence.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Pence, GOP senators discuss offer to kill Trump emergency disapproval resolution — Vice President Pence is discussing an offer with Republican senators that could lead to the defeat of a Democratic resolution overturning President Trump's emergency declaration to build a wall on the Mexican border …
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ABC News, Defense One, Washington Post, Splinter, Daily Kos and Raw Story
NBC Southern California:
Governor Expected to Announce Executive Action to Reduce Use of Death Penalty — Colorado Man Arrested in 1973 Newport Beach Killing — Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to announce he is taking executive action to try to eliminate the use of the death penalty in California.
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
After Soul Searching, Gov. Gavin Newsom Will Halt Executions in California — LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce a moratorium on capital punishment on Wednesday, granting a temporary reprieve for the 737 inmates who wait on the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere.
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Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Chronicle:
Gov. Newsom to order halt to California's death penalty
Gov. Newsom to order halt to California's death penalty
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Daily Kos
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Newsom to sign moratorium on executions in California
Newsom to sign moratorium on executions in California
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Axios and One America News Network
Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Jared Kushner Shows There's a Shady-Yet-Legal Way to Get Rich Kids Into College — Today's news of a massive college admissions scam that has ensnared at least 40 people, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, has a lot of people asking the same question …
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ProPublica, Contemptor, Washington Post and Mother Jones
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are a case study in why nepotism is problematic
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are a case study in why nepotism is problematic
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Contemptor, Washington Press and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Lisa Page said FBI discussed charging Hillary Clinton with ‘gross negligence’ in 2016, and DOJ told them no — Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page testified last year that officials in the bureau, including then-FBI Director James Comey, discussed Espionage Act charges against Hillary Clinton …
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RedState, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Lisa Page transcripts reveal details of anti-Trump ‘insurance policy,’ concerns over full-blown probe
Lisa Page transcripts reveal details of anti-Trump ‘insurance policy,’ concerns over full-blown probe
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Congressman Doug Collins and IJR
New York Times:
Mueller Report Has Washington Spinning (and It's Not Even Filed) — WASHINGTON — Television crews have been positioned outside the offices of the special counsel, the federal courthouse and, at least before they were asked to leave, the McLean, Va., home of the new attorney general, William P. Barr.
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders aide apologizes for questioning American Jews' ‘dual allegiance’ to Israel — A spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign apologized Tuesday after questioning whether the “American-Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the state of Israel” — a comment condemned …
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Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Trump administration preparing to close international immigration offices — The Trump administration is preparing to shutter all 21 international offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a move that could slow the processing of family visa applications, foreign adoptions …
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New York Times, NPR, The Week, Politico, Shareblue Media, Splinter and Shakesville
Wall Street Journal:
Navy, Industry Partners Are ‘Under Cyber Siege’ by Chinese Hackers, Review Asserts — The Navy and its contractors are “under cyber siege” by Chinese hackers who have stolen national security secrets in recent years, an internal review concluded.
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Task & Purpose
Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Appeals court rules Ohio can defund Planned Parenthood — A majority of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Ohio can cut state funding to Planned Parenthood because the organization performs abortions, overturning a lower court ruling that blocked the state from stripping …
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Slate, LifeNews.com, RedState, Splinter and Daily Wire
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Read the ‘testicular bill of rights,’ one lawmaker's answer to antiabortion legislation
Read the ‘testicular bill of rights,’ one lawmaker's answer to antiabortion legislation
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Common Dreams, The Mary Sue, Raw Story, Faithwire, Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi has a two-track strategy on impeachment — Analysis: No, the speaker won't move to impeach the president if she doesn't have the votes — but her committees are doing the work right now. — WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would be publicly calling …
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Raw Story
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Benjamin Parker / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Pelosi Doesn't Want to Impeach Trump
The Real Reason Pelosi Doesn't Want to Impeach Trump
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Hmm Daily, NPR, Crooked Media and Raw Story
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Trump vowed to eliminate the debt in 8 years. He's on track to leave it at least 50 percent higher. — In March 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump told The Washington Post he could eliminate the entire U.S. debt in eight years. Now that he's president, Trump is doing the exact opposite.
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The Democrats, East Bay Times and ThinkProgress
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Analysis: Just a tenth of Trump's proposed Medicare cuts directly affect seniors
Analysis: Just a tenth of Trump's proposed Medicare cuts directly affect seniors
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Axios, IJR and The Daily Caller
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Hasn't Asked Dershowitz About His Pedophile Client Jeffrey Epstein — The attorney has appeared on Fox News 27 times since major news broke about the illegal plea deal Epstein's lawyers negotiated. Fox has not asked Dershowitz about it even once.
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Alec MacGillis / New York Times:
The Tragedy of Baltimore — Since Freddie Gray's death in 2015, violent crime has spiked to levels unseen for a quarter century. Inside the crackup of an American city. … On April 27, 2015, Shantay Guy was driving her 13-year-old son home across Baltimore from a doctor's appointment when something …
Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Dick's Sporting Goods to Remove Guns From 125 Stores — Dick's Sporting Goods will stop selling firearms at 125 of its stores, further pulling back from the business after it decided last year to tighten policies on gun sales.
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Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
The Associated Press Circulated Right-Wing Misinformation — The Associated Press, a standard-bearer for the news industry, published at least three press releases on its APNews.com website and AP News app that contained misinformation and partisan propaganda from conservative political groups, Right Wing Watch has learned.
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Pompeo Blames Russia, Cuba for Ongoing Crisis in Venezuela — ‘A match from hell’ — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed the ongoing crisis in Venezuela on Russia and Cuba, which he accused of dashing the “democratic dreams of the Venezuelan people” through a series of measures meant …
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Townhall
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