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Darius Tahir / Politico:
Boehner: Republicans won't repeal and replace Obamacare — Former House Speaker John Boehner predicted on Thursday that a full repeal and replace of Obamacare is “not going to happen.” — Boehner, who resigned in 2015 amid unrest among conservatives, said at an Orlando health care conference …
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Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Dispatch News:
Murkowski tells Legislature she'll consult Alaska leaders before voting on repeal of Medicaid expansion — (Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Dispatch News) — JUNEAU — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski moved Wednesday to ease Alaskans' concerns about congressional Republicans' plans for the Affordable Care Act …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Repeal of Health Law Faces Obstacles in House, Not Just in Senate
Repeal of Health Law Faces Obstacles in House, Not Just in Senate
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Political Wire
Nicholas Evangelista / Project Veritas:
Project Veritas Releases Over 100 Hours of Audio From Inside CNN — · James O'Keefe Offers $10,000 Award for Content Which Exposes Media Malfeasance — · Anonymous Source Within CNN Provided Audio to Project Veritas — · More Audio Yet to be Released in a WikiLeaks Style Dump
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Project Veritas ‘CNN Leaks’ fall flat — For a few days, Project Veritas founder and conservative activist James O'Keefe has been hyping the release of what he said were hundreds of hours of undercover audio recordings of employees at CNN. — Some staffers at CNN were legitimately alarmed …
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Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Washington Post and Vox Popoli, more at Mediagazer »
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
O'Keefe Drops “Bombshell” Undercover Footage From Within CNN — As promised two days ago on the Sean Hannity radio show, James O'Keefe and his team at Project Veritas just released covertly captured, previously unheard audio footage from within the CNN newsroom.
Jeff Stein / Newsweek:
EXCLUSIVE: LISTEN TO CONTROVERSIAL WHITE HOUSE TERRORISM ADVISER SEBASTIAN GORKA'S ANGRY CALL TO A CRITIC — An embattled White House terrorism advisor whose academic credentials have come under widespread fire telephoned one of his main critics at home Tuesday night and threatened legal action against him, Newsweek has learned.
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New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Business Insider
Media Matters for America:
CPAC Is Trying To Wash The “Alt-Right” Stench Off Breitbart — The term “alt-right” is toxic. It should be. The loose confederation of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and misogynists have spent the last year spreading fear, hatred, and conspiracy theories.
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Media Matters for America, Digiday, Right Wing Watch and Mediaite
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Priebus and Bannon push back on the idea that they are warring forces
Priebus and Bannon push back on the idea that they are warring forces
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Axios
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump expected to huddle with top GOP donors in Palm Beach
Trump expected to huddle with top GOP donors in Palm Beach
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Politicus USA
Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones:
Conservatives Can't Figure Out Whether to Embrace or Denounce the Alt-Right
Conservatives Can't Figure Out Whether to Embrace or Denounce the Alt-Right
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Fox News Insider:
Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes Dies at Age 66 — Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes has passed away at age 66 after a brief illness. — Colmes leaves behind his wife, Jocelyn Crowley, who issued the following statement: — Alan Colmes passed away this morning after a brief illness. He was 66-years-old.
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J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
BREAKING: Alan Colmes Dead at 66
BREAKING: Alan Colmes Dead at 66
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Politico, Western Journalism, Snopes.com, The Week and The Resurgent, more at Mediagazer »
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
DHS Chief Kelly says there will be ‘no mass deportations’ — Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly promised Mexican officials Thursday that there will be “no mass deportations” under the Trump administration, as Kelly and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attempt to repair …
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ABC News, New York Times, The Atlantic, Common Dreams, Hot Air, twitchy.com, New York Magazine and Reuters
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
Manafort faced blackmail attempt, hacks suggest — A purported cyberhack of the daughter of political consultant Paul Manafort suggests that he was the victim of a blackmail attempt while he was serving as Donald Trump's presidential campaign chairman last summer.
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The Hill, New York Magazine, Raw Story, The Week, Political Wire and Axios
Rumana Ahmed / The Atlantic:
I Was a Muslim in Trump's White House — In 2011, I was hired, straight out of college, to work at the White House and eventually the National Security Council. My job there was to promote and protect the best of what my country stands for. I am a hijab-wearing Muslim woman …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hannity apologizes for sharing ‘inaccurate’ story about McCain — Fox's Sean Hannity has apologized for sharing a story on Twitter that calls Sen. John McCain — (R-Ariz.) a “war criminal.” — “I retweeted an inaccurate article. My apologies to @SenJohnMcCain,” the “Hannity” host wrote on Thursday afternoon.
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RedState, The Gateway Pundit and AOL
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Sean Hannity Shares Fake News Story Calling John McCain ‘War Criminal’
Sean Hannity Shares Fake News Story Calling John McCain ‘War Criminal’
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ThinkProgress, RedState, Raw Story and TheBlaze
Howard Fischer / Arizona Capitol Times:
Arizona Senate votes to seize assets of those who plan, participate in protests that turn violent — Claiming people are being paid to riot, Republican state senators voted Wednesday to give police new power to arrest anyone who is involved in a peaceful demonstration that may turn bad — even before anything actually happened.
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BizPac Review, Hit & Run, Washington Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Root and Common Dreams
Melissa Pamer / KTLA:
Cellphone Video Shows Anaheim Struggle Between 13-Year-Old Boy and Off-Duty LAPD Officer Who Fired Weapon — Cellphone video captured a physical struggle between an off-duty LAPD officer and a 13-year-old boy that led to the officer firing his weapon and the teen in Anaheim police custody.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump calls deportation push a ‘military operation’ — President Trump on Thursday called his effort to ramp up deportations a “military operation” aimed at ridding the U.S. of “really bad dudes.” — “We're getting really bad dudes out of this country,” he said at a meeting with manufacturing CEOs.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump touts recent immigration raids, calls them a ‘military operation’
Trump touts recent immigration raids, calls them a ‘military operation’
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Political Wire
Kansas City Star:
Suspect in Olathe shooting allegedly told bartender he killed two Middle Eastern men — The suspect in Wednesday night's triple shooting in Olathe allegedly told a bartender in Clinton, Mo., before he was arrested that he had killed two Middle Eastern men, The Star has learned.
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Toriano Porter / Kansas City Star:
Suspect in custody after shooting at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe leaves one dead, two injured
Suspect in custody after shooting at Austins Bar and Grill in Olathe leaves one dead, two injured
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Talking Points Memo, Facebook, KCTV, The Root and FOX2now.com
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Undocumented woman with brain tumor refused surgery, forcibly removed from Texas hospital: lawyer — An undocumented woman in desperate need of brain surgery has been forcibly removed from a Texas hospital — and her relatives in New York fear she could lose her life, a family representative said early Thursday.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Lawyers: ICE detainee with brain tumor removed from hospital
Lawyers: ICE detainee with brain tumor removed from hospital
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Daily Kos, New York Magazine, The Week and The Daily Beast
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's very strange prediction of an upcoming Supreme Court vacancy — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) made a pretty odd prediction Thursday: He said he believed there would be a Supreme Court vacancy shortly after Neil Gorsuch's likely confirmation to the existing one.
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Political Wire
Peter Baker / New York Times:
McMaster May Reorganize Trump's Foreign Policy Team Once Again — WASHINGTON — Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, President Trump's new national security adviser, is considering a reorganization of the White House foreign policy team that would give him control of Homeland Security and guarantee full access …
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New Yorker, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Foreign Policy Research …, Axios and Political Wire
John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP to bury House resolution on Trump conflicts — House Republicans next week plan to derail a Democratic resolution that would have forced disclosure of President Donald Trump's potential ties with Russia and any possible business conflicts of interest, according to multiple House sources.
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Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Danish man who videoed himself burning the Quran charged with blasphemy — Case is first time Danish prosecutors have charged anyone with blasphemy in 46 years — A Danish man who posed a video of himself setting fire to the Quran on Facebook has been charged with blasphemy in the first such prosecution for 46 years.
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Associated Press, Hot Air, Hit & Run and The Local
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Death of Compassion — Folks, we have been here before. — After Ronald Reagan, a celebrity-turned-politician, carried 49 states in his devastating defeat of Walter Mondale in 1984, Democrats were whining and moaning, shuffling their feet and scratching their heads.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Bow-Tied Bard of Populism — Tucker Carlson is selling me hard on the swamp. It is an unseasonably warm afternoon in late January, and we are seated at a corner table in Monocle, an upscale Capitol Hill eatery frequented by the Fox News star. (Carlson, who typically skips breakfast …
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite