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New York Times:
Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan, Analysts Say  —  WASHINGTON — Millions of people who get private health coverage through the Affordable Care Act would be at risk of losing it under the replacement legislation proposed by House Republicans, analysts said Tuesday …
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New York Times:
How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care  —  It looks as if Republicans want to bring back health care rationing.  —  In 2010, Mark Price, a 37-year-old resident of Goodyear, Ariz., was struggling to pay the bills for his leukemia treatment.  His house was under foreclosure.
Wall Street Journal:
A Historic Health-Care Moment  —  The House plan isn't perfect, but it's the only reform opportunity Republicans will get.  —  The do-or-die moment for the Trump Administration and the GOP Congress arrived on Monday, as House Republicans rolled out their ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill.
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
The Republican Plan Is Even Worse Than Obamacare
Louis Nelson / Politico:   Sen. Cotton: House GOP moving ‘too quickly’ on Obamacare repeal
Wall Street Journal:
Rapport Between Donald Trump, Barack Obama Crumbles  —  Budding feud is new distraction in a Trump presidency that has been struggling to enact its agenda  —  The rapport between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is unraveling, with the president convinced that Mr. Obama is undermining …
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Curt Mills / US News:
NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims  —  Bill Binney, who resigned from NSA in 2001, did not elaborate on President Obama's specific role in surveilling Trump.  —  A veteran of the NSA has said President Donald Trump is righ to claim he was wiretapped and monitored.  (ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES)
D. Watkins / Salon:
Ben Carson's infinite fall from grace  —  If we use Ben Carson's logic on enslaved “immigrants,” Frederick Douglass made it big after a plantation internship  —  “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less.”
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bre Payton / The Federalist:
11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Ben Carson's immigrant/slave speech is remarkably similar to an address Obama gave last year
Discussion: Hot Air
Samantha Cooney / TIME:
Meet the Organizers Behind the Upcoming Worldwide Women's Strike  —  'Nobody else will defend our rights if we don't do it'  —  Women across the country are going on strike.  —  On Wednesday — International Women's Day — some women will take the day off from their jobs and household responsibilities …
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Valentina Zarya / Fortune:
A Brief But Fascinating History of International Women's Day
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
Trump warns House GOP members of electoral ‘bloodbath’ if repeal and replace fails  —  Trump ‘proud to support’ GOP health care plan  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned House Republicans Tuesday if they can't get pass health care legislation after seven years of promises it could be a …
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump begins healthcare push: 'Let's get it done'
Los Angeles Times:
Garcetti wins reelection in landslide as City Council incumbents prevail  —  Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti won reelection Tuesday in what appeared to be one of the biggest landslides in the city's history, crushing 10 little-known rivals and strengthening his standing for a potential run for higher office.
abc11.com:
FRANKLIN COUNTY TEEN WHO DECAPITATED MOTHER IN COUNTRY ILLEGALLY … <iframe width="476" height="267" src="http://abc11.com/video/embed/ ?pid=1789353" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>  —  FRANKLIN COUNTY, North Carolina (WTVD) —  The Franklin County District Attorney said Tuesday …
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John Binder / Breitbart:
Illegal Immigrant Teen Beheaded His Mother, Say Police
Discussion: BizPac Review
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump clothing line reports record sales  —  Ivanka Trump's eponymous women's fashion line is reporting record sales figures despite calls for a boycott and controversies surrounding President Trump.  —  “Since the beginning of February, they were some of the best performing weeks …
Twin Cities:
Son of Sen. Tim Kaine one of six arrested after protesters disrupt Trump rally at state Capitol Saturday  —  The youngest son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton's 2016 running mate, was one of six people arrested Saturday after counter-protesters disrupted a rally in support of President Donald Trump at the Minnesota State Capitol.
Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Tweets and temperament are tripping up President Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump gets high marks for leadership amid growing economic optimism, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, but questions about his temperament and his tweets have cost him the political boost …
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Grants Oval Office Meeting to TMZ Founder  —  Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has spent his time meeting with heads of state, titans of industry, economic advisers and public health specialists.  —  And the founder of TMZ.  —  Mr. Trump, in a meeting last Wednesday …
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director: When Trump tweets unproven allegations, it ‘weakens the office of the presidency’ … Former CIA director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta raised concerns Tuesday that President Trump's allegation that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower prior to the presidential election “weakens” his office.
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Tinder Select is a secret, members-only version of the app  —  Tinder has been operating a members-only version of the platform called Tinder Select, which is meant to serve only the elite users on the app, including CEOs, super models, and other hyper-attractive/upwardly affluent types.
Jake Sherman / Politico:
NEW REALITY with OBAMACARE replacement — New POLITICO/Morning Consult poll: voters want a special prosecutor to probe Russia-Trump ties — PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: Tory Burch  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TRUMP SPEAKS — @realDonaldTrump at 6:12 a.m.: “I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles …
Discussion: Morning Consult and Political Wire
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Hawaii plans to file first lawsuit against new travel ban  —  Trump's new travel ban: One thing to know  — Lawyers for the challengers say the new travel ban suffers from the same “constitutional and statutory defects” as the original one  —  (CNN)Hawaii is not wasting any time challenging President Donald Trump's new travel ban.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Hawaii plans to sue to block new Trump travel ban
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Rachael Levy / Business Insider:
A $2.5 trillion asset manager just put a statue of a defiant girl in front of the Wall Street bull  —  State Street installed a statue of a girl in front of the Wall Street bull in downtown Manhattan.  —  The world's third-largest asset manager installed a bronze statue of a defiant girl …
Discussion: NBC New York and Axios
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Questions About Loyalty to Trump Stall Mnuchin's Treasury Picks
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Next step in Dem realignment: Their own CPAC
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The amazing plunge in IRS audits of rich people and large companies
Discussion: Mother Jones
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:
WikiLeaks: CIA Uses ‘Stolen’ Malware to ‘Attribute’ Cyberattacks to Nations Like Russia
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Where Are the Great Communicators?
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
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