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Charles Pierce | Trump, Russia, Election. Quid, Pro, Quo. 
Donald Trump traveled to Moscow in 2013 to meet Vladimir Putin hoping to discuss plans for a Trump Tower near Red Square. (photo: AP/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "Here's a story that you will not find in Tuesday morning's editions of either the New York Times or The Washington Post because reasons, I guess. On Monday, when President* Trump was fitting the employees of the Department of Justice for their armbands, he also was supposed to sign a bill imposing new sanctions on Russia for its ratfcking of the 2016 presidential election." 
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Did McCabe Jump or Was He Pushed? 
Yascha Mounk, Slate 
Mounk writes: "In the years following World War II, the Soviet Union systematically attempted to undermine democratically elected governments in countries from Poland to Yugoslavia. But to install communist regimes, it first needed to get rid of these countries' most popular public servants - and it often resorted to murder to do so." 
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Immigrants to Attend State of the Union So Trump Can See 'the Type of Person That He Is Hurting' 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "Several Democratic lawmakers will bring immigrants to Tuesday night's State of the Union address as a way to symbolically criticize President Donald Trump on the various ways his harsh immigration policies would target people with longstanding ties to their communities." 
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Baltimore Cops Kept Toy Guns to Plant Just in Case They Shot an Unarmed Person 
Michael Harriot, The Root 
Harriot writes: "In April 2016, a 13-year-old boy was shot by officers of the Baltimore Police Department. The boy ran when faced with the police, so they gave chase. During the chase, the police spotted the boy holding a gun, and when he turned, they shot the teenager. The youngster wasn't critically injured, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case of a justifiable use of force." 
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RNC Will Keep Steve Wynn Donations Unless Probe Finds Him Guilty 
Khorri Atkinson, Axios 
Atkinson writes: "RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told Fox News that donations made by its former finance chair Steve Wynn, who has been accused of sexually assaulting his employees, will only be returned if he's found guilty of wrongdoing." 
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Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Resist Police Raid at Headquarters 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a human rights group whose main goal is to search for their children disappeared during the Argentine dictatorship, denied state officials entrance into their facility in Buenos Aires on Monday, saying the judicial warrant was illegal." 
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A Third of Coral Reefs 'Entangled With Plastic' 
Helen Briggs, BBC 
Briggs writes: "More than 11 billion items of plastic were found on a third of coral reefs surveyed in the Asia-Pacific region. This figure is predicted to increase to more than 15 billion by 2025." 
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