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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare — PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party's quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.
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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
In private meeting, Pence vows ‘full evaluation of voting rolls’ over claims of fraud — In a private meeting with congressional Republicans this week, Vice President Pence vowed that the Trump administration would pursue a wide-ranging probe of voting rolls in the United States …
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Talking Points Memo and The Guardian
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Trump argument bolstered: Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds — Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.
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The Lid, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon
Michael Waldman / New York Times:
Voting Fraud Inquiry? The Investigators Got Burned Last Time
Voting Fraud Inquiry? The Investigators Got Burned Last Time
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USA Today, Althouse, twitchy.com and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Mexico Tantrum — Less than a week into the job, President Trump on Thursday raised the specter of a trade war with America's third-largest partner, Mexico, as the White House warned that the United States could impose a 20 percent tariff on Mexican imports.
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The Week, Washington Post, Politico, ABC News, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight and Refinery29
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump: Telephone call with Mexican president was ‘very friendly’
Trump: Telephone call with Mexican president was ‘very friendly’
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ABC News and Associated Press
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Mexico's Vicente Fox to Trump: We are ‘ready for the trade war’
Mexico's Vicente Fox to Trump: We are ‘ready for the trade war’
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ABC News, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
David Caplan / ABC News:
Melania Trump Appears on Cover of Mexican Vanity Fair Amidst Tensions
Melania Trump Appears on Cover of Mexican Vanity Fair Amidst Tensions
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Heat Street, AOL, Refinery29, Fox News Insider and Mashable
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump won't kill speculation on lifting Russia sanctions — President Donald Trump on Friday left the door open to lifting sanctions against Russia. — “Well, I hear a call was set up,” Trump told reporters at bilateral news conference alongside British Prime Minister Theresa May …
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ABC News
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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Trump: ‘Very Early’ To Talk About Lifting Sanctions Against Russia
President Trump: ‘Very Early’ To Talk About Lifting Sanctions Against Russia
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Politico and Associated Press
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: March for Life demonstrators ‘have my full support’
Trump: March for Life demonstrators ‘have my full support’
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ABC News
Jim Miller / Sacramento Bee:
Calexit backers can begin collecting signatures to qualify for 2018 ballot — Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment seeking California's secession from the U.S. can begin collecting voter signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot, the secretary of state's office said Thursday.
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The Gateway Pundit and The American Mirror
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Sheila Weller / Vanity Fair:
How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case — With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.
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The Guardian, theGrio, Raw Story, The Week and WGN-TV
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A viral Washington Post story about State Department resignations is very misleading — On Thursday morning, the Washington Post published a piece with an explosive headline: “The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.” The piece alleged that Undersecretary …
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neo-neocon, Israpundit, Washington Blade, UN Dispatch, Power Line, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump won't attend Alfalfa Club dinner — President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night, an exclusive black-tie dinner — and White House roast — that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended. — Instead of the president himself …
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New York Times and Political Wire
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Rod Blagojevich's 20-year-old daughter Amy unloads on Barack Obama — Patti Blagojevich with her daughters Annie, center, and Amy on Aug. 9, 2016, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's resentencing. — Scratch the Obamas off Amy Blagojevich's Christmas card list.
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The Daily Caller and Althouse
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together — And we'll all have to live with the fallout. — One of the things supposedly driving President Donald Trump to distraction, in what should be a celebratory first week in office, is that he isn't getting a honeymoon period from the media and the general public.
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Washington Post and The Atlantic
Mikhail Gorbachev / TIME:
Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War’ — Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia. — The world today is overwhelmed with problems. Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss.
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AOL, Mediaite, Common Dreams, NBC News and The Week
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Trump thinks he is the modern Andrew Jackson. Here is why he isn't. Yet. — It's rapidly become conventional wisdom that President Trump is the modern-day incarnation of Andrew Jackson. Establishment Republicans, long unsure of how to understand Trump and his successes in any sort …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's ‘escort’ claims — First lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a “high-end escort.”
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit and John Hawkins' Right Wing News, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd — On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.
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Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Huge shakeup at ‘Today’ to make way for Megyn Kelly — More On: — NBC is canceling the third hour of “Today” to make way for new star Megyn Kelly, sources exclusively confirm to Page Six. — We're told Kelly will take over either the 9 a.m. hour from Tamron Hall and Al Roker or will replace Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
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Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Mike Allen / Axios:
The Bannon coup — White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything. — They wrote the Inaugural speech and set in fast motion a series of moves to cement Trump as an America-first Nationalist.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law — There's one fundamental difference between the new White House and the old when it comes to immigration: Barack Obama ordered his administration not to enforce a number of immigration laws. Donald Trump has ordered his administration to enforce them.
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary — and we're seeking Republicans to oppose her … Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Thursday night that no Democrat will vote to confirm Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire tapped by President Trump to be his education secretary.
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DCist, ThinkProgress, WOOD-TV, Common Dreams and Politico
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
New U.S. U.N. envoy warns allies: back us or we'll take names — The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, pledged on Friday to overhaul the world body and warned U.S. allies that if they do not support Washington, then she is “taking names” and will respond.
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Daily Kos
Michael Wolff / Newsweek:
Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump — Donald Trump is obsessed with the media. And the media is obsessed with Trump. Let's take it as a given that this obsession is unhealthy. The last time there was such a level of neurotic fixation and overwhelming distrust between a president …
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The Federalist and Politico