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Mueller report sent to attorney general, signaling his Russia investigation has ended — Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has submitted a confidential report to Attorney General William P. Barr, marking the end of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election …
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New York Times:
Mueller Delivers Report on Russia Investigation to Attorney General — WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has delivered a report on his inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William P. Barr, according to the Justice Department …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Mueller concludes Russia probe, delivers report to AG Barr — WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, entangled Trump's family …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Mueller report handed off to Department of Justice; won't recommend any further indictments, a senior official says — Mueller won't recommend any further indictments, a senior DOJ official said. — Special counsel Robert Mueller's much-anticipated report - the product of nearly two years …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Where's the Mueller Report? Washington Can Barely Handle the Anticipation — WASHINGTON — The president's lawyer has no idea when the report is coming, either. — Seated alone amid tourists at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Friday, Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mueller submits report on Trump investigation to AG Barr
Mueller submits report on Trump investigation to AG Barr
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Washington Post:
Democrats will order FBI, White House counsel to preserve records shared with Mueller
Democrats will order FBI, White House counsel to preserve records shared with Mueller
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Trump: ‘People Will Not Stand for It’ if Mueller Report Makes Me Look Bad
Trump: ‘People Will Not Stand for It’ if Mueller Report Makes Me Look Bad
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Robert Mueller has completed his report
Robert Mueller has completed his report
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New York Times:
Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General
Mueller Delivers Report on Trump-Russia Investigation to Attorney General
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Mueller's end is only the beginning
POLITICO Playbook: Why Mueller's end is only the beginning
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CNN:
Special counsel Robert Mueller ends investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller ends investigation
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Four Arguments About the Mueller Report You Should Ignore
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Giuliani: Waiting for Mueller report is ‘like waiting for a baby’
Giuliani: Waiting for Mueller report is ‘like waiting for a baby’
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Orders Treasury to Roll Back Sanctions Against North Korea — WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday by announcing that he was rolling back North Korea sanctions that it imposed just a day ago. — The move, announced on Twitter …
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Washington Post:
Trump cancels some sanctions aimed at North Korea, contradicting Treasury Dept. — President Trump sparked confusion on Friday by announcing the cancellation of sanctions aimed at North Korea that were just announced by his own Treasury Department, an apparent effort to salvage his administration's nuclear negotiations.
Christina Capatides / CBS News:
Parkland shooting survivor Sydney Aiello takes her own life — On the day a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sydney Aiello escaped with her life. However, the grief of losing 17 of her classmates and teachers, as well as the long-lasting effects of enduring such a traumatic event, weighed heavily on her.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Nominates Famous Idiot Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Board — Stephen Moore's career as an economic analyst has been a decades-long continuous procession of error and hackery. It is not despite but precisely because of these errors that Moore now finds himself in the astonishing position …
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Offers Fed Board Position to Economic Commentator Stephen Moore — President Trump said he intends to nominate former campaign adviser Stephen Moore to serve on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says He'll Nominate Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Board
Trump Says He'll Nominate Stephen Moore to Federal Reserve Board
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Commander-in-Chief Picks Flatterer-in-Chief for Fed Board
Commander-in-Chief Picks Flatterer-in-Chief for Fed Board
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Posts Largest-Ever Monthly Budget Deficit in February — Shortfall rises 40% to $544b in first 5 months of fiscal year — Corporate, income taxes decline as tariff revenue climbs — The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month …
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National Journal:
House Democrats Move to Hobble Primary Challengers — The party's congressional campaign arm rolled out new hiring standards to deter firms from working with candidates who run against incumbents. — Ally Mutnick — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making an early move …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans resigned to Trump losing 2020 popular vote but confident about Electoral College — Senior Republicans are resigned to President Trump losing the popular vote in 2020, conceding the limits of the flamboyant incumbent's political appeal and revealing just how central the Electoral College …
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Electoral College's Real Problem: It's Biased Toward the Big Battlegrounds
The Electoral College's Real Problem: It's Biased Toward the Big Battlegrounds
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed News:
The Romance Of Mayor Pete In The Season Of Scam — Let's, for the purposes of argument, assume that everything Pete Buttigieg is on paper, he is in real life. — He went to Harvard, attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, worked at McKinsey, returned home to improve his community …
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Sady Doyle / Medium:
The Media Gaslighting of 2020's Most Likable Candidate … At CNN's town hall event on Monday, the American people saw something we'd been told was impossible: Elizabeth Warren winning over a crowd. — The Massachusetts senator took aim at a variety of subjects: the Electoral College …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
From a Swimsuit Model to the Trump Megaphone: The Genesis of ‘Jexodus’ — WASHINGTON — At 23, Elizabeth Pipko has branded herself on social media as a onetime figure skater, a part-time poet and a former Trump campaign aide, an Instagramista whose feed spotlights her Mar-a-Lago wedding and racy swimsuit and lingerie modeling shots.
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
American Jews, caught between Ilhan Omar and Donald Trump, are lost in a wilderness
American Jews, caught between Ilhan Omar and Donald Trump, are lost in a wilderness
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Bloomberg:
Treasuries Buying Wave Triggers First Curve Inversion Since 2007 — Gap Between 3-month and 10-year U.S. yields vanishes Friday — Move follows Fed policy shift, gloomier economic signs — The Treasury yield curve inverted for the first time since the last crisis Friday …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
WATCH: Trump Fumes and Calls Fox's Maria Bartiromo ‘Fake News’ for Grilling Him on McCain Attacks — President Donald Trump grew angry during an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Friday as she repeatedly pressed him over his renewed attacks on John McCain.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Without Major Sponsors, Tucker Carlson's Show Leans on Ads for Fox Programming — ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ besieged by social media backlash, increasingly is filling commercial breaks with in-house ads and direct-response brand spots. — As blue-chip advertisers have abandoned Tucker Carlson's …
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
War Torn — Navy cryptologist Shannon Kent was a driven warrior, and then a devoted mom. When her deployment orders came in, could she reconcile the two? — The doubts crowded in late at night, after the kids were in bed and the dishes were put away. — In the months after she got …
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Iowa Republican Steve King slams Hurricane Katrina disaster victims — Voters call out Steve King after Facebook post: We care — Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Steve King, who has a lengthy history of incendiary comments related to race, favorably compared the response of his Iowan constituents …
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Fox News:
FBI clashed with DOJ over potential ‘bias’ of source for surveillance warrant: McCabe-Page texts — Just nine days before the FBI applied for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to surveil a top Trump campaign aide, bureau officials were battling with a senior Justice Department official …
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Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Fox News has normalized a lie about the origins of the Russia investigation
Fox News has normalized a lie about the origins of the Russia investigation
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