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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Mueller fallout ... All eyes on Barr — DRIVING THE DAY — NEW: THE PRESIDENT'S WEEK: Monday: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and will take a photo with the NHL's Washington Capitals. Tuesday: Trump will host …
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Texas Monthly, Washington Post and Breitbart
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Abigail Abrams / TIME:
These Are All of the Other Investigations Donald Trump Faces — While Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his confidential report to the Justice Department on Friday, the investigations surrounding President Donald Trump and his associates are far from over.
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Townhall, Hullabaloo, Washington Post, The Week and RT
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
It's Mueller time but don't forget: Trump has undermined the very idea of America — Partisan fury over the special counsel's report may obscure the ways the president has damaged our democracy — We may never know for sure whether Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to obtain Russia's help …
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Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Would be wise to wait ‘til we see the facts’ in Mueller report: House Intel chair
Would be wise to wait ‘til we see the facts’ in Mueller report: House Intel chair
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Nadler: Executive privilege can't be used to ‘hide wrongdoing’ in Mueller report
Nadler: Executive privilege can't be used to ‘hide wrongdoing’ in Mueller report
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Rolling Stone
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump projects calm as White House waits for Mueller findings
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Nadler to DOJ: Don't hide evidence of Trump wrongdoing
Nadler to DOJ: Don't hide evidence of Trump wrongdoing
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Breitbart
Monique O. Madan / miamiherald:
Second Parkland shooting survivor kills himself, police confirm — A second Parkland shooting survivor has killed himself, Coral Springs police confirmed on Sunday. — Investigators told the Miami Herald that a current Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student died in “an apparent suicide” on Saturday night.
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Fox News, FOX31 Denver, The Daily Beast, New York Post and Outside the Beltway
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Rep. Ilhan Omar tells California audience that Trump's anti-Islam remarks inspire attacks like New Zealand shooting — Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of the first two Muslim women in Congress, accused President Trump on Saturday of inciting hatred of Islam and inspiring attacks like the killing …
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Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders decries anti-Muslim violence in mosque visit and downtown L.A. rally — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont called on Americans to “stand up to hatred of all kinds” on Saturday as he paid a visit to a Koreatown mosque to commemorate the victims of the mass shooting in New Zealand.
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Common Dreams, Fox News and Axios
David Krayden / The Daily Caller:
Hundreds Protest Rep. Ilhan Omar, CAIR Fundraiser
Hundreds Protest Rep. Ilhan Omar, CAIR Fundraiser
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Daily News, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and JNS.org
Associated Press:
AP PHOTOS: Mueller flashes smile as world awaits his report — WASHINGTON — As the world anxiously awaits the findings of the Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller flashed a smile Sunday after going to church with his wife in Washington. — Mueller and his wife, Ann …
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Talking Points Memo
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Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election has failed
The vast attempt to undo the 2016 election has failed
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RedState
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FLASHBACK: John Brennan Predicted Additional Mueller Indictments Just Two Weeks Ago
FLASHBACK: John Brennan Predicted Additional Mueller Indictments Just Two Weeks Ago
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Power Line and Conservative News Today
NBC News:
Why some Democrats say: Don't sleep on ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg — The South Bend mayor is having a moment with Democrats, from the blue-checkmark salons of Twitter to the house parties of the early-voting states. — WASHINGTON — Pete Buttigieg just might be the anti-Trump.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Pete Buttigieg is having a moment
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good — Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. — SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Langlois has a new best friend. She is a cat named Sox. She lives on a tablet, and she makes him so happy that when he talks about her arrival in his life, he begins to cry.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How to Understand the End of the Mueller Investigation (Hint: You Can't Yet) — I have a confession: I don't understand the reaction to the news of the Mueller investigation's end. I don't understand the evident glee among some of the president's defenders. I don't understand the gloom among some of the president's critics.
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Raw Story and The Bulwark
Arthur Allen / Politico:
The Most Powerful Activist in America Is Dying — The last few times Ady Barkan got arrested in the U.S. Capitol building, the routine had a few new twists. Officers no longer handcuffed him, since he had lost nearly all his capacity for movement. They just put a bracelet on one of his wrists to show he was in custody.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It's not the Democrats who'll have a problem addressing impeachment — We do not know the underlying contents or even the barest conclusions of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's final report as of this writing. The range of outcomes for President Trump run from a declaration by Mueller that …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
The Guardian:
Palestinian writer has fingers smashed in Gaza beating — Publisher says Atef Abu Saif, also a spokesperson for Fatah, almost killed by masked men — Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Hazem Balousha in Gaza — A UK publisher has condemned an attack by masked men in Gaza on a Palestinian writer …
Ethan Winter / Data For Progress:
The Fox News Bubble — There is a growing body of evidence suggesting Fox News viewers are uniquely conservative compared to the general American electorate. Recent research has indicated that Fox News played a causal role in the rightward lurch of the Republican Party.
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Booker wrestles with primary field lurching left — At the end of January, Cory Booker was emphatic in his defense of the filibuster. “We should not be doing anything to mess” with it, he said. — By springtime, the New Jersey Democrat had softened his stance considerably: “That door is not closed.”
Hate Inc.:
It's official: Russiagate is this generation's WMD — The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it — Note to readers: in light of news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's investigation is complete, I'm releasing this chapter of Hate Inc. early, with a few new details added up top.
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Axios, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Viking Pundit
NBC News:
Beto O'Rourke could be a threat — to Biden on his right and Sanders on his left — The Texas Democrat sent a message by campaigning this week in midwestern states that cost Democrats the White House in 2016. — CLEVELAND — By the time Beto O'Rourke arrived at Gino's Cento Anno …