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Sean Spicer's Quick Twitter Reaction to Jobs Report May Break a Rule — The enthusiastic reaction of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, was understandable on Friday when the Labor Department reported a gain of 235,000 jobs. “Great news for American workers,” he proclaimed, “in first report for @POTUS Trump.”
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What's a legitimate news outlet? A new face in the White House press pool raises questions. — In an age of partisan media, the lines between “partisan” and “media” can sometimes blur. — Case in point: The pool reporter covering Vice President Pence on Thursday — that is …


Sean Spicer's appalling answer about economic data shows how far we've lowered the bar for Trump — At Friday's press briefing, Sean Spicer told an absurd lie to the assembled members of the White House press corps. But he did it with a smile rather than a snarl, so everyone laughed.
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Fox News Radio correspondent confronts Gateway Pundit reporter in White House briefing room — A Fox News Radio correspondent confronted in the White House briefing room the White House reporter for a website that traffics in conspiracy theories, witnesses said on Friday.
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Drama in White House press room as Fox reporter vehemently denies he assaulted right-wing blogger — The White House correspondent for a far-right blog accused a Fox News Radio reporter of assaulting him before Friday's press briefing, a charge both a Fox News representative and the reporter flatly denied.
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Sean Spicer wore an upside-down flag pin. The Internet lost its mind.
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Gateway Pundit Reporter ACCOSTED, HARASSED — Screamed At in White House Press Room: “Nazi... White Supremacist!”
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Trump team knew Flynn was possible foreign agent before Inauguration Day
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Trump taps private security director for White House job
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Washington Post and ThinkProgress

Spicer broke a federal rule when he hailed jobs report too soon after its release
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Trump Abruptly Orders 46 Obama-Era Prosecutors to Resign — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday moved to sweep away the remaining vestiges of Obama administration prosecutors at the Justice Department, ordering 46 holdover United States attorneys to tender their resignations immediately …
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Sessions asks 46 Obama-era US attorneys to resign — has asked dozens of U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Barack Obama — to submit their resignations, the Department of Justice announced Friday. — U.S. attorneys are normally replaced at the beginning of new administrations.
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Trump team asks Obama-appointed U.S. attorneys to offer resignations
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7 Reasons Why Obamacare 2.0 Is All But Guaranteed to Impose Crushing Costs on Voters, Hurt Trump's Base, And Hand Power Back to the Democrats — If passed in its current form, the GOP's Obamacare 2.0 bill will impose brutal costs Americans still struggling to make it through a great recession …
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Is the Republican health plan designed to fail? — There's a theory going around Washington that Republicans don't want their health bill to pass. — There is a line worth noting in David Brooks's column today: “The Republican plan will fuel cynicism. It's being pushed through in an elitist …
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Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose in the G.O.P. Repeal Bill
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A Bill So Bad It's Awesome
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Right targets Ryan — not Trump — on ObamaCare plan
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Pelosi: Trump is ‘making fools’ out of GOP
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Amash cries after missing first vote in Congress — Rep. Justin Amash has long boasted about not missing a single vote since he arrived in Congress in 2011 — 4,289 in a row, give or take a vote, if you're counting. — But on Friday, as he was railing against the GOP's Obamacare replacement bill off …
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Trump Appointee Who Tweeted About “Some Muslim Piece Of S**t” Is Out From Energy Department — A Trump campaign worker appointed to the Energy Department is a former massage therapist with a history of tweeting anti-Muslim remarks. — A massage therapist and former Trump campaign operative …
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Trump adviser admits to contact with DNC hacker — Roger Stone, President Trump's former campaign advisor, on Friday admitted to having private conversations with a hacker who helped leak information from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during last year's campaign.
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The super-secret division in charge of the Russia investigation — Washington (CNN)Somewhere in the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, a closely held number of FBI agents face the daunting task of determining how the Russian government sought to manipulate the US presidential election.
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The dangerous and irresistible GOP conspiracy theory that explains away Trump's Russia problem — The best/worst thing about conspiracy theories is that they only need to rely on a shred of evidence, but they can instantly confirm all of your preconceived notions.
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White House civil war breaks out over trade — ‘Fiery meeting’ in Oval Office between economic nationalists and pro-trade moderates — Read next … A civil war has broken out within the White House over trade, leading to what one official called “a fiery meeting” in the Oval Office …
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Washington Monthly and Axios


Liberal Democracy Is Suffering From a Concussion — Here's the latest in the assault on liberal democracy. It happened more than a week ago, but I cannot get it out of my consciousness. A group of conservative students at Middlebury College in Vermont invited the highly controversial author Charles Murray …


House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results — little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.
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GOP rep: Obama stayed in capital to run ‘shadow government’ — A Pennsylvania congressman has accused former President Barack Obama of staying in Washington solely to run a “shadow government” to undermine the GOP agenda. — U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly made the claim to fellow Republicans at an event Saturday north of Pittsburgh.
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Male Illinois rep asks why men should have to pay for prenatal coverage — Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., in 2014. — In the 27 hours the House Energy and Commerce Committee spent debating Republicans' Affordable Care Act revision plan, a handful of moments stand out. — This is one of them.
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Trump stands with House GOP on proposal to revise Obamacare, spokesman says
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There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble — This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by most of the American media. — Last summer, the United Kingdom voted to leave …
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Pelosi: I would have retired had Clinton won — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is publicly declaring what she's been saying privately since after the election: Had Hillary Clinton won the presidency, the longtime Democratic leader was planning to ditch Congress.