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Rick Gates Has Agreed to Cooperate With Mueller’s Team. Here’s What He Might Know.

Rick Gates departs Federal District Court, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rick Gates, the longtime business partner of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, has decided to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors, ending weeks of speculation about his fate and highlighting…

This Democrat Doesn’t Want to Ban Assault Weapons. Republicans Are Attacking Him Anyway.

Keith Srakocic/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Next month’s special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th district, between Republican state Sen. Rick Saccone and Democrat Conor Lamb, will be the first congressional election after last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. While many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, have been put on…

The NRA’s Plan to “Harden” Schools is Terrifying

tiwaongin/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During Wednesday night’s CNN town hall on school shootings, Lori Alhadeff, the parent of a 14-year-old victim of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting confronted the NRA’s national spokeswoman Dana Loesch on why her organization hadn’t done more to make schools safer. Alhadeff pointed…

The Trump Administration Just Got Sued Over an “Unusual Mortality Event” in the Ocean

Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On January 22, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration got word of a juvenile, North Atlantic right whale carcass floating off the coast of Virginia. Later identified as whale #3893, the 39-foot, 10-year-old female was towed to shore, where researchers examined her partially-decomposed remains.…

This Parkland Shooting Survivor Was the Third in Her Family to Escape a Gun Attack

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Curtosy of the Tylim family; Mother JonesDani Tylim was taking a math test at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 when the fire alarm started ringing. Confused, the 18-year-old junior evacuated to a field by the school’s tennis courts. That’s when she heard the gunshots.  “I thought…