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Mueller Report reveals shocking new details about Trump, Russia, obstruction (Justin Miller, Betsy Woodruff, Daily Beast)
As president, he tried to control the investigation and fire Mueller. As a candidate, he appeared to know what WikiLeaks planned, ordered Hillary’s emails to be found, and more.

Mueller: Trump told his aides to interfere in the investigation, they just didn’t listen (Dara Lind, Vox)
Mueller on obstruction: Evidence prevents ‘conclusively determining no criminal conduct occurred’

Mueller on obstruction: Evidence prevents “conclusively determining no criminal conduct occurred” (Morgan Chalfant, The Hill)
Special counsel Robert Mueller said in his long-awaited report that he was unable to “conclusively determine” during the course of his investigation that no criminal conduct occurred in regards to whether President Trump obstructed justice.
Mueller’s investigators wrote that they were “unable” to say definitively that Trump did not commit an obstruction of justice offense because of “difficult issues” presented by the evidence collected over the course of their nearly two-year probe, as stated in a redacted version of the special counsel’s closing documentation released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
“[I]f we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment,” the report states.
“The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him,” it states.

The anti-vax movement is now infecting the pet world (Jen Reeder, Daily Beast)
Amidst the measles crisis, anti-vax campaigns are starting to trickle through at the vet’s office.

Facebook bans British far-right groups and their leaders (Ivana Kottasová, CNN)
Facebook has banned a number of far-right groups and their leaders in the United Kingdom after determining that they “spread hate.”
The social network announced Thursday that it had imposed bans on the British National Party, Britain First, the English Defence League, Knights Templar International and the National Front.

Seven individuals associated with the groups were also banned, including former British National Party leader Nick Griffin, and Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen of Britain First.

Source code of Iranian cyber-espionage tools leaked on Telegram (Catalin Cimpanu, ZDnet)
APT34 hacking tools and victim data leaked on a secretive Telegram channel since last month.

Why a hacking operation by a proto-state in Ukraine could spell trouble for the U.S. (Joseph Marks, Washington Post)
The Luhansk People’s Republic, a region that has claimed independence from Ukraine with the backing of Russia’s military, isn’t recognized by the United States, the European Union or NATO. But it has a hacking army and it’s targeting the Ukrainian government and military, according to new research from the cybersecurity company FireEye.   
This is probably the most extreme case to date of an ultra-small group targeting a national government with a sophisticated hacking operation, John Hultquist, FireEye’s director of intelligence analysis who co-wrote the report, told me.
And it could usher in a new era of small nations or nonstate actors developing sophisticated hacking operations, he said. That could mean a big headache for the United States and other global powers, which will have to defend themselves against a new slate of digital adversaries.