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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 …
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 — For days President Trump has promoted the absurd notion that three million to five million people voted illegally in the presidential election. — On Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump went further.
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Althouse 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, ABC News, Daily Kos, Politico, FiveThirtyEight and Refinery29
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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, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit, Refinery29, Heat Street, AOL, Fox News Insider and Mashable
Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
President Trump: ‘Very Early’ To Talk About Lifting Sanctions Against Russia — President Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday that he believes it's still “very early” to be talking about lifting sanctions against Russia. His comments came a day ahead of a planned phone call between …
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Politico and Associated Press
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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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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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Israpundit, Washington Blade, UN Dispatch, Power Line, 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
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.
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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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, Common Dreams, Mediaite, NBC News and The Week
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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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 and John Hawkins' Right Wing News, more at Mediagazer »
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 »
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Little Mexican War — The President is treating our neighbor like Obama treated Israel.
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NBC News
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
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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ThinkProgress, WOOD-TV, Common Dreams and Politico
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
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Campaign Staffer Who Posted Racist Comments Joins The Administration — An email shows the staffer is one of 15 joining the Education Department. — Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post — PHILADELPHIA A staffer on Donald Trump's campaign who posted racist material …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Raw Story and Baltimore Sun
Democracy Now:
Shailene Woodley on Malia Obama's Presence at Sundance Standing Rock Solidarity Event Against DAPL — This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. — The Sundance Film Festival has been abuzz this year with sightings of former first daughter Malia Obama.
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AOL and Heat Street