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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
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Another Bogus Obamacare Argument From Donald Trump And Paul Ryan
Another Bogus Obamacare Argument From Donald Trump And Paul Ryan
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The Week
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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Washington Post:
President Trump and Mexican president speak by phone amid crisis in relations
President Trump and Mexican president speak by phone amid crisis in relations
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘torture’ works, but he'll defer on decision over tactics to his defense secretary
Trump says ‘torture’ works, but he'll defer on decision over tactics to his defense secretary
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Daily Kos
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
New York Times:
Trump Will Call for a Pentagon Plan to Hit ISIS Harder, Officials Say
Trump Will Call for a Pentagon Plan to Hit ISIS Harder, Officials Say
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IJR, Shakesville, Reuters, Defense One, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Political Wire
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
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Week: Governing Without a Script — The new president seems to be running his administration much like he ran his company and campaign, eager to weigh in on every issue and willing to make last-minute calls — A directive to revive two controversial oil pipelines awaited …
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The Week
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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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The Guardian and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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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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ThinkProgress, USA Today, Althouse, twitchy.com and Talking Points Memo
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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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
‘Calexit’ supporters can start work to make ballot
‘Calexit’ supporters can start work to make ballot
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Los Angeles Times, RedState and Hot Air
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain warns Trump he'll fight on lifting Russian sanctions — (R-Ariz.) is urging President Trump not to make a “reckless” move to lift Russian sanctions, warning that he would work in Congress to reinstate the sanctions as law. — “For the sake of America's national security and that of our allies …
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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 …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The end of Sarah Palin is here … Remember how former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was going to use her political celebrity to build an army of like-minded politicians via her political action committee? — Yeah, not so much. — Michael Beckel of the Center for Public Integrity flagged for me this news …
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Heat Street
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
New wave of anti-evolution bills hit states — New legislation introduced in a handful of states would allow alternatives to the theory of evolution to be taught in classrooms, the latest wave of measures backed by religious conservatives targeting broadly accepted scientific curriculum.
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Argus Leader and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't Photoshop an image of the president's hand — Dana Schwartz, a writer for the New York Observer, claimed to have noticed something interesting about one of the photos displayed during President Trump's interview with ABC News that aired this week.
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The Verge, Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Andrew Sparrow / The Guardian:
Donald Trump ‘100% behind Nato’, says Theresa May at joint White House press conference - as it happened — Rolling coverage of Donald Trump and Theresa May's joint press conference at the White House — Trump and May's press conference - Snap verdict — Today we have reaffirmed our unshakeable commitment to this alliance.
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The Hill, BuzzFeed and The Gateway Pundit
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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
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 »
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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Mediaite, Common Dreams, NBC News, AOL and The Week
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump thinks he is the modern Andrew Jackson. Here is why he isn't. — 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 …
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
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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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
No Mention Of Jews In Trump Holocaust Statement Breaks With Tradition — President Donald Trump did not explicitly mention Jews in his Friday statement commemorating the millions exterminated by the Nazis, an omission that the Anti-Defamation League called “troubling” and out of step with past presidential statements.