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09 March 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News FREE OF CORPORATE INFLUENCE, BUT NOT FREE - Yes, we have succeeded in building a great information source - free of shady financing. We do however have to pay the bills, (the honest way.) Join the many who support this wonderful project. Get behind RSN. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! David Corn and Michael Isikoff | What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump's Obsession With Putin Began  David Corn and Michael Isikoff, Mother Jones Excerpt: "It was late in the afternoon of November 9, 2013, in Moscow, and Donald Trump was getting anxious." READ MORE Blackwater founder Erik Prince arrives for a closed meeting with members of the House Intelligence Committee, November 30, 2017. (photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg) Report: Mueller Has Heard Testimony Conflicting With Erik Prince's House Intel Answers Jacqueline Thomsen, The...

Michael Cohen's $130K Payment to Stormy Daniels: What's Next at the FEC Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to adult actress Stephanie Clifford—Stormy Daniels on stage—is...  Read More

09 March 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News THE STIGMA AGAINST VOLUNTARY SUPPORT: There is an apparent perception that if we are not compelled to pay for something, it's worth nothing. If every person on our list paying more than $75. a month to their cable company gave RSN $10. a month, we could stop running fundraisers altogether. Why does voluntary equate to worthless? / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! FOCUS: John McCain and Angelina Jolie | America Should Lead in Saving the Rohingya  John McCain and Angelina Jolie, The New York Times Excerpt: "Sadly, we are seeing now this same lack of effective diplomacy in Myanmar, formerly Burma, where since last summer 680,000 Rohingya Muslims have been forced to flee a systematic military campaign of killings, arson, rape and other mass atrocities amounting to ethnic cleansing." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on  Facebook  and ...

CIVIL RIGHTS A Football Recruit Got Asked About Sexuality. The NFL's Investigating. The Law Is Muddy. By Erin Mulvaney Gay rights advocates and the National Football League said an unnamed team should not have asked a prospective player...  Read More

Trump launches a rescue mission to save GOP seat in Pennsylvania special election White House counselor Kellyanne Conway deplanes Air Force One in December. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: PITTSBURGH—If Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone wins an unexpectedly close special election here next Tuesday, it will be on Donald Trump’s coattails.  On the other hand, this race wouldn’t be competitive at all if the president was not so polarizing – even in a mostly blue collar, largely rural southwestern Pennsylvania district that he carried by 20 points in 2016. This race should be a gimme for the GOP. Democrats didn’t even bother to field a candidate in 2016 or 2014. But public and private polls show the contest in the 18th district is now a toss-up, even after Republicans have poured in more than $10 million – about five times what Democrats have spent. Court-ordered reappor...