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FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories — Washington (CNN)The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign …
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White House effort to justify travel ban causes growing concern for some intelligence officials — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has assigned the Department of Homeland Security, working with the Justice Department, to help build the legal case for its temporary travel ban on individuals …
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Political Wire
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Priebus asks the FBI to refute Trump Russia reports — The big story: The Russia affair gets a new twist with the revelation that White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute reports that Trump campaign officials were in frequent contact with Russian intelligence agents prior to the election.
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
He yelled ‘Get out of my country,’ witnesses say, and then shot 2 men from India, killing one — A 51-year-old man faces first-degree murder charges after shooting three men in an Olathe, Kan., bar Wednesday night, police say, reportedly telling two of them, local Garmin engineers from India, to “get out of my country.”
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Kansas City Star:
Suspect in Olathe shooting allegedly told bartender he killed two Middle Eastern men
Suspect in Olathe shooting allegedly told bartender he killed two Middle Eastern men
Ian Cummings / Kansas City Star:
'It wasn't right,' says Olathe man wounded at Austins while trying to stop shooter
'It wasn't right,' says Olathe man wounded at Austins while trying to stop shooter
Toriano Porter / Kansas City Star:
First-degree murder charge filed in possible hate crime shooting at Austins bar in Olathe
First-degree murder charge filed in possible hate crime shooting at Austins bar in Olathe
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Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
CPAC invented an alternate history of the alt-right to justify Steve Bannon's invite. — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—On Thursday, white nationalist Richard Spencer was thrown out of the Conservative Political Action Conference. As security escorted him to the door, a college junior in a blue blazer and fashy haircut followed him.
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
Trumpism versus conservatism at CPAC
Trumpism versus conservatism at CPAC
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Washington Post, Media Matters for America and Vox Popoli
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’
Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’
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New York Times:
President Trump Breaks a Promise on Transgender Rights — On the campaign trail, Donald Trump broke with Republican Party orthodoxy by vowing to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans from violence and oppression. Soon after taking office, President Trump announced …
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Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:
Betsy DeVos's Spineless Transgender Bathroom Politics
Betsy DeVos's Spineless Transgender Bathroom Politics
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Arne Duncan / Washington Post:
The White House's thoughtless, cruel and sad rollback of transgender rights
The White House's thoughtless, cruel and sad rollback of transgender rights
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
GOP congressman: Trump should release tax returns — Congress could force release of Trump's taxes — As a candidate, Trump was the first major-party nominee in decades not to release his tax returns — Pace, Florida (CNN)A conservative member of Congress called on President Donald …
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Washington Post and The Week
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for 2010 health care law reaches new high — With congressional Republicans discussing proposals to replace the Affordable Care Act, public support for the 2010 health care law has reached its highest level on record. — Currently, 54% approve of the health care law passed seven years ago …
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Bloomberg:
GOP Obamacare Plan Would Cover Fewer People; Blowback Grows — Plan expands access for those who want it, Republicans say — ‘Not everybody is going to have health care’: GOP lawmaker — Republican lawmakers expect that their Obamacare replacement will result in fewer Americans covered …
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Axios
New York Times:
Weakened Democrats Bow to Voters, Opting for Total War on Trump — WASHINGTON — Reduced to their weakest state in a generation, Democratic Party leaders will gather in two cities this weekend to plot strategy and select a new national chairman with the daunting task of rebuilding the party's depleted organization.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
2020 race lures sprawling Democratic field
New York Times:
Kim Jong-nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The poison used to kill Kim-Jong-nam, the brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was VX nerve agent, a substance listed as a chemical weapon, the Malaysian police announced on Friday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Kim Jong Nam Killed With U.N.-Banned VX Nerve Agent, Malaysia Says
Kim Jong Nam Killed With U.N.-Banned VX Nerve Agent, Malaysia Says
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New York Magazine
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump wants to make sure U.S. nuclear arsenal at ‘top of the pack’
Trump wants to make sure U.S. nuclear arsenal at ‘top of the pack’
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Political Wire, The Week, Sputnik International, The Daily Caller, Western Journalism and Hot Air
New Yorker:
Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War — What lay behind Russia's interference in the 2016 election—and what lies ahead? — 1. SOFT TARGETS — On April 12, 1982, Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the K.G.B., ordered foreign-intelligence operatives to carry out “active measures” …
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Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
Cover Story: Barry Blitt's “Eustace Vladimirovich Tilley”
Cover Story: Barry Blitt's “Eustace Vladimirovich Tilley”
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Business Insider and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Kushner, Ivanka Trump Pushed to Remove Words Critical of Climate Deal From Executive Order — Trump plans to issue orders aimed at rolling back Obama climate agenda soon; language critical of Paris accord removed — WASHINGTON—At the request of President Donald Trump's son-in-law …
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The Week, The Daily Caller and Axios
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Marsha Blackburn claims out of state people infiltrated her town hall — records seem to show she's lying — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said that her recent town hall was overwhelmed by angry people that were not from her district.
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Dow Jones Newswires and The Week
Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Where in the world is Sarah Palin? Her political star is fading — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As the Conservative Political Action Conference kicked off just outside of Washington this week, there was one name noticeably missing from the roster of speakers: Sarah Palin.
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The New Nationalism in America — Decades of intellectual and political activity preceded the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review in 1955. A little less than a decade later, National Review publisher William Rusher helped orchestrate Barry Goldwater's presidential nomination.
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The Week
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Ivanka Trump wants to help the wealthy pay their au pairs — One of the biggest lingering questions about the Donald Trump presidency is the degree to which his campaign shtick of being a working-class populist was an open fraud. So far, all signs point towards “completely.”
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Dow Jones Newswires:
‘You Have to Stop,’ Renaissance Executive Tells Boss About Trump Support — A clash involving Renaissance Technologies hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who supports President Donald Trump, and another executive of the firm, who opposes the president, reflects divides at other U.S. workplaces.
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Hullabaloo, Business Insider and Tablet Magazine
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Border Patrol Agents Stop Domestic Travelers at New York Airport — A search for a deportation target leads to a demand for travelers' “papers” at JFK — Passengers of a domestic Delta flight from San Francisco to New York were told to show their identity documents to uniformed agents …
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Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
Yes, Mass Deportations Are Coming. And We Know Why. — There are two main questions about President Donald Trump's recently issued immigration policies. First, is the administration embarking on a campaign of mass deportations of undocumented immigrants? Second, if so, why?
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The Week, Washington Post and The Guardian
Reed Tucker / New York Post:
Nobody cares about any recent Best Picture Oscar winners — The film that walks away with the Best Picture statue at Sunday's Academy Awards will earn a place forever in the history books — but perhaps not on viewers' screens. — More On: — The cream of the crop of Hollywood's golden age gained immortality.
PRRI:
47% of the Country Say Trump Has Violated the Constitution, but Few Support Impeachment — PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FAVORABILITY, COMPARED TO OBAMA AND BUSH — President Trump's Favorability, Compared to Obama and Bush — Americans continue to hold more negative than positive views of President Donald Trump.
Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart:
The Social Security Administration paid $1 billion in benefits to those who did not have a Social Security number (SSN), according to a recent audit. — The agency's inspector general found errors in how the government documented representative payees or individuals who are designated …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
Donald Trump Plans to Bypass the Courts to Deport as Many People as Possible — On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released a pair of memos laying out how the agency intends to implement President Donald Trump's executive orders on domestic immigration enforcement.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Conquering Trump returns to conservative summit — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — A conquering President Trump will return to CPAC on Friday to address conservative activists, who are happy with his first month in office but have yet to be completely sold on his agenda.