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New York Times:
Young People Keep Marching After Parkland, This Time to Register to Vote  —  WASHINGTON — The pace of new voter registrations among young people in crucial states is accelerating, a signal that school shootings this year — and the anger and political organizing in their wake — may prove to be more than ephemeral displays of activism.
Discussion: Bustle
Washington Post:
Texas school had a shooting plan, armed officers and practice.  And still 10 people died. … SANTA FE, TEX. — They, like so many others, thought they had taken the steps to avoid this.  —  The school district had an ­active-shooter plan, and two armed police officers walked the halls of the high school.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Houston Police Chief Says He Has ‘Hit Rock Bottom’ on Gun Rights Arguments  —  Just hours after 10 people were killed in a school shooting in Santa Fe, Tex., the police chief in nearby Houston issued a defiant condemnation of elected officials who have failed to act on gun control, saying he had “hit rock bottom.”
Discussion: AOL, Shareblue Media and The Week
New York Times:
New Reality for High School Students: Calculating the Risk of Getting Shot  —  Just hours after a gunman killed 10 people at a Texas high school, two students 1,000 miles away worried about the safety of their usual seats in the school cafeteria.  —  Calysta Wilson and Courtney Fletcher …
Discussion: CNN, Teen Vogue and RedState
Reuters:
Texas Shooting Suspect Seems ‘Weirdly Nonemotional,’ Lawyer Says
Discussion: Breitbart
Michael Rodriguez / Monitor:   Family mourns news that Pharr churchgoer among school shooting victims
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Should Get Details on Informant Before Mueller Interview, Giuliani Says  —  President's lawyer seeks information about person said to have been used by U.S. investigators  —  President Donald Trump shouldn't agree to talk with special counsel Robert Mueller without knowing more about a man …
Discussion: CNN, Political Wire, IJR and Hullabaloo
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Lawfare:
'The Day that We Can't Protect Human Sources': The President and the House Intelligence Committee Burn an Informant  —  It wasn't that long ago that both the executive branch and the legislature in this country considered the protection of intelligence sources a matter of surpassing national importance.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:   CA Rep. Devin Nunes launches desperate fundraising pitch — in Virginia
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Expands to Israeli Entrepreneur With U.A.E. Ties  —  Investigation has sought testimony regarding work of Joel Zamel, founder of several private consulting firms  —  WASHINGTON—Special counsel Robert Mueller's probe is looking more closely into Middle Eastern involvement …
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Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Report Suggests Blackwater Founder Erik Prince May Have Lied to Congress
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Obama's education secretary: Let's boycott school until gun laws change … Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a radical idea on Twitter: Parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.  —  His tweet came hours …
Annie Vainshtein / San Francisco Chronicle:
Palo Alto pastor resigns after nasty tweets about city: ‘An elitist sh— den of hate’  —  A debate in Palo Alto over permits, traffic, and safety turned into frenzy of internet warfare after unsavory tweets from an associate pastor were leaked to the city's website.
Discussion: Townhall
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Why does Trump get away with corruption?  Because Bill and Hillary Clinton normalized it  — Scandals continue to pile up on the Trump administration — yet the president's approval ratings are on the rise.  — One reason is that it's been embedded in political culture most prominently …
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Jennifer Wright / New York Post:   It's time for Bill Clinton to take a walk in the Chappaqua woods
Max Seddon / Financial Times:
UK has not renewed Roman Abramovich's visa  —  UK authorities have yet to renew Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich's visa after it expired last month, three people close to the billionaire have told the Financial Times, as geopolitical tensions rise between Moscow and the west.
New York Daily News:
Al Sharpton says royal wedding shows white supremacy is ‘on its last breath’  —  Al Sharpton said the royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who is biracial, is a sign that white supremacy is “on its last breath.”  —  Sharpton spoke of the nuptials during …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and IJR
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Elaine Godfrey / The Atlantic:
Who Does the Democratic Party Stand For?  —  There are two Staceys angling to become Georgia's first woman governor.  —  One Stacey—Stacey Abrams—is black.  She's the former minority leader of the state House of Representatives.  The other, Stacey Evans, is white.
New York Times:
The Last Days of Time Inc.  —  It was once an empire.  Now it is being sold for parts.  —  Time Inc. began, in 1922, with a simple but revolutionary idea hatched by Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden.  The two men, graduates of Yale University, were rookie reporters at The Baltimore News …
 
 
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