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Good morning! Today is Thursday March 02, 2017.
Here is a sampler of some of the latest investigative news from around the country and across the world.

Sessions Didn't Disclose Meeting with Russian Envoy Last Year
Washington Post
Jeff Sessions reportedly met twice last year with Russia's ambassador to the United States, meetings he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings to become Attorney General. Since Sessions oversees the agencies leading investigations into Russian election meddling, the disclosure could fuel new calls for a special counsel.

Snapchat Asked Anti-Gun Charity for Money to Keep NRA Ads off Videos
Mic
Emails show that Snapchat's head of political sales told Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit gun safety group backed by Michael Bloomberg, that it might run NRA advertising on the nonprofit's Snapchat awareness campaign if the charity didn't pay for advertising.

Lopsided Campus Rape Tribunal Shocks Court's Conscience
Watchdog.org
A California judge has ordered San Diego State University to "dissolve the finding" of a campus tribunal that found an accused student guilty of sexual assault. In his ruling, the judge said the university's tribunal was so lopsided against the accused that it was “enough to shock the Court’s conscience.”

Ex-Congregants Describe How Devil Was Beaten Out of Them in N.C.
Associated Press
In Spindale, N.C., congregants of the Word of Faith Fellowship were regularly punched, smacked, choked, slammed to the floor or thrown through walls in a violent form of deliverance meant to “purify” sinners by beating out devils, 43 former members said in separate, exclusive interviews.

Interactive: Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom
New York Times
A reporter retraces the journey across Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania that Harriet Tubman made on the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s. It's hard to know "where Tubman’s heroism ends and tall tales begin," he writes in seeking "a deeper, more accurate understanding of Harriet Tubman, a complex American hero."

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