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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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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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Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ — The reclusive mastermind behind President Trump's nationalist ideology and combative tactics made his public debut Thursday, delivering a fiery rebuke of the media and declaring that the new administration …
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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.
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Bannon: Trump administration is in unending battle for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’
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Trumpism versus conservatism at CPAC
Trumpism versus conservatism at CPAC
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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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President Trump Breaks a Promise on Transgender Rights
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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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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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Suspect in Olathe shooting allegedly told bartender he killed two Middle Eastern men
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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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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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2020 race lures sprawling Democratic field
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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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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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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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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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Kim Jong Nam Killed With U.N.-Banned VX Nerve Agent, Malaysia Says
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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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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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Cover Story: Barry Blitt's “Eustace Vladimirovich Tilley”
Cover Story: Barry Blitt's “Eustace Vladimirovich Tilley”
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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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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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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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‘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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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.
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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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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.
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An underground network is readying homes to hide immigrants — Los Angeles (CNN)A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smoothes the grain of the wood floor in the dining room. — But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is showing off in Los Angeles …
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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.