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An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890
03.26.2019 Vol. 220 No. 120
TUESDAY
March sadness
Cyclones fall short of Sweet 16 after difficult loss against Lady Bears
SARAH HENRY/ IOWA STATE DAILY Senior Bridget Carleton sprints past members of Missouri State’s team during the game against the Bears in the second round of the NCAA Championship on Monday at Hilton Coliseum.
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BY SPENCER.SUCKOW @iowastatedaily.com Iowa State went ice cold from the field at the most inopportune time, and the team’s best season in recent memory is over because of it. Thanks in large part to a 2-of-17 performance from beyond the arc and a 36 percent shooting percentage from the field overall, the No. 3 Cyclones fell in an upset in the Round of 32 on Monday to
No. 11 Missouri State, by a score of 69-60. This despite 31 points from Bridget Carleton and the advantage of playing in front of a rowdy home crowd at Hilton Coliseum. What perhaps makes the poor shooting even harder to swallow is not only that it came at the worst possible time, but that it happened just two nights after everyone on the team scored a basket in
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Attorney general says report shows no evidence of collusion BY JAKE.WEBSTER @iowastatedaily.com The long-awaited report on the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was completed Friday. Since the investigation began in May 2017, there have been dozens of indictments and multiple guilty pleas and convictions of members of the Trump campaign for crimes that were uncovered during the course of the investigation. Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was recently sentenced to 7.5 years in prison after being convicted of tax and bank fraud after prosecution by the Mueller team. U.S. Attorney General William Barr received Mueller’s report Friday and released his summary of it to the chairs and ranking members of the congressional judiciary committees Sunday.
“The special counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” Barr said in his summary. Over the course of the nearly two years that the special counsel investigation took place, Trump took to Twitter on various occasions to call the investigation a “witch hunt” conducted by Democrats. Mueller is a registered Republican who was appointed FBI Director by former Republican President George W. Bush in 2001. Despite concluding that no coordination between the Trump campaign took place, Mueller’s report “determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election,” according to the summary. A Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency, sought to conduct disinformation campaigns on social media with the
intent of interfering in the election. The other main Russian effort was a hacking operation that hacked into servers belonging to the Clinton campaign and Democratic party to disseminate materials such as emails to attempt to influence the election. Trump said in a tweet after the release of Barr’s summary “No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT,” though Mueller’s report reached no conclusion whether Trump had obstructed justice, according to Barr’s summary. The special counsel having declined to conclude whether the president had obstructed justice, the Attorney General said in his summary it was left to him to determine whether the conduct described in the Mueller report constitutes a crime. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod
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COURTESY OF FLICKR Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election since May 2017.