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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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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
11 looming questions now that Mueller's investigation is over — Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller has finished his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and turned over his final report to Attorney General William Barr.
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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 …
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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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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Congress demands full Mueller report ahead of huge partisan fight
Congress demands full Mueller report ahead of huge partisan fight
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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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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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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Robert Mueller Is Done With His Investigation Into The Trump Campaign — And Isn't Recommending More Indictments
Robert Mueller Is Done With His Investigation Into The Trump Campaign — And Isn't Recommending More Indictments
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Robert Mueller has completed his report
Robert Mueller has completed his report
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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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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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CNN:
Special counsel Robert Mueller ends investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller ends investigation
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is officially complete
Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is officially complete
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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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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump Overrules Own Experts on Sanctions, in Favor to North Korea — WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday with a sudden announcement that he had rolled back newly imposed sanctions on North Korea, appearing to overrule national security experts as a favor to Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.
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Washington Post:
Trump cancels some sanctions aimed at North Korea, contradicting Treasury Dept.
Trump cancels some sanctions aimed at North Korea, contradicting Treasury Dept.
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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
Trump Offers Fed Board Position to Economic Commentator Stephen Moore
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The Montgomery Advertiser:
Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen to step down — What we know about SPLC's firing of co-founder Morris Dees — Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen said in a statement Friday he has asked the board of the troubled organization to “to immediately launch …
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Head of Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announces resignation amid internal upheaval — The president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard Cohen, announced his resignation Friday, the latest in a series of high-profile departures at the anti-hate organization amid allegations …
Washington Post:
FEMA data breach hits 2.5 million disaster survivors — The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared personal addresses and banking information of more than 2 million U.S. disaster survivors in what the agency acknowledged Friday was a “major privacy incident.”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
Rory Appleton / Fresno Bee:
Fresno Republicans to reschedule annual dinner after Nunes-Twitter beef explodes — The Fresno County Republican Party canceled plans for its Lincoln Reagan dinner next month featuring Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, as its keynote speaker after social media calls for people to crash the event.
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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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