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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Bill So Bad It's Awesome  —  It has long been obvious to anyone following health policy that Republicans would never devise a workable replacement for Obamacare.  But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Trump Supporters Have the Most to Lose in the G.O.P. Repeal Bill  —  The people who stand to lose the most in tax credits under the House Republican health plan tended to support Donald J. Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, according to a new Upshot analysis.
Discussion: Vox, Common Dreams and Daily Kos
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Republican Health Care Crackup  —  The Republican health care bill could represent the moment when the old order of American politics completely cracks up, the end of a certain era in American politics.  —  That era began around 1974, when Ted Kennedy introduced a bill …
Discussion: Vox and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Top Democrat sent letter to Mike Pence in November warning of Michael Flynn's Turkey lobbying  —  President Donald Trump was not aware that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was being paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said Thursday.
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Treasury calls on Congress to raise debt limit, begins steps to delay default
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Paul Ryan PowerPoint Presentation: “This Is The Closest We Will Ever Get” To Obamacare Repeal
Discussion: Breitbart and MARK-CM
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Health care disconnect
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Speaker Ryan, this is not what conservative reform looks like
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
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 …
Heather Caygle / Politico:
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.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump is ‘making fools’ out of GOP
Discussion: The Week, Daily Wire and Raw Story
The Hill:
Right targets Ryan — not Trump — on ObamaCare plan
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump Points to Drudge's ‘Great Again’ Praise of New Jobs Report  —  President has primed his supporters for a huge jobs report  —  Donald Trump used the first federal jobs report reflecting a full month of his presidency to send a message: He's already making America great again.
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Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month
Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
America's Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
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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Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer wore an upside-down flag pin. The Internet lost its mind.
Discussion: Refinery29, Mashable and Politicus USA
Sharon Begley / STAT:
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.
CNN:
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.
Discussion: The Week
Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:
Mexican foreign secretary goes straight to the White House, skips usual channels  —  Mexico's top diplomat came to Washington Thursday for meetings with the U.S. government, sidestepping the normal channels and heading straight for the White House.  —  Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray met …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:   Rex Tillerson is off to an agonizingly slow start
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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 …
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Something good came out of Samantha Bee's attack on ‘Nazi hair’  —  Something good came out of Samantha Bee's show this week.  Kyle Coddington, who was mocked in a segment about CPAC and described as having “Nazi hair,” has received tens of thousands of dollars to support his treatment for brain cancer.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Leading Candidate for FDA Is Scott Gottlieb, Sources Say  —  Likely nominee was senior FDA executive under George W. Bush  —  Choice would represent mainstream pick for drug industry  —  Scott Gottlieb, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration …
Discussion: Politico, Axios and STAT
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Toni Clarke / Reuters:
Trump poised to nominate Scott Gottlieb to head FDA: sources
Discussion: Common Dreams
Financial Times:
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 …
Discussion: Axios
Alexandra Rosenmann / Raw Story:
Trump supporters call for ‘liberal genocide’ and deportation of Jews at Arizona Rally  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Maricopa County burnished its reputation as the Trumpiest in America last weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militiamen …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Hullabaloo
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Alphabet's Waymo asks judge to block Uber from using self-driving car secrets  —  The case of the stolen self-driving car is heating up  —  Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving spinoff from Google, is formally asking a judge to block Uber from operating its autonomous vehicles …
Discussion: SFist, BGR, Engadget and Axios
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
State Dept. seeks to keep Russian diplomat's cause of death private  —  The State Department asked the New York Medical Examiner not to publicly release information about the cause of death of Russia's ambassador to the United Nations.  —  Vitaly Churkin died unexpectedly in New York last month, one day before his 65th birthday.
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie McHugh / Breitbart:
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Daily Wire
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Contender to Run Civil Rights Post Can't Be Pigeonholed  —  Harmeet Dhillon, a trial lawyer from San Francisco, has ties to both the ACLU and Heritage Foundation  —  A media-savvy Indian-American leader of the California Republican Party who sang a Sikh prayer at last year's national convention …
Discussion: RedState
Associated Press:
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Axios and Mediaite
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache  —  On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”  Immediately afterward, it posted two startling tweets asserting that “C.I.A. hacker malware” posed a threat to journalists …
Carlos Garcia / TheBlaze:
Jorge Ramos says the ‘Trump effect’ is scaring away illegal aliens  —  Univision anchor Jorge Ramos believes he has found the explanation for the recent drop in illegal border crossings reported by immigration officials: fear or what he calls the “Trump effect.”
 
 
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New Jersey Online:
Menendez, Archbishop rally for grandpa facing deportation. Will you? | Editorial
Discussion: Daily Kos
Patrick Maguire / New Statesman:
Is Northern Ireland heading for a second election? James Brokenshire seems to think so
Discussion: The Federalist
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Bar association gives Gorsuch its best rating
USA Today:
‘Innocent until proven guilty’ should mean what it says: Column
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
A lawyer named Amal Clooney gave a powerful speech at the U.N. Some only saw her baby bump.
 Earlier Items: 
Courtney Reagan / CNBC:
Ivanka Trump's brand saw HUGE online surge in February
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/PhoneBook:
South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Conservatives want to blow up Senate rules to kill Obamacare
Discussion: Axios, The Week and The Hill
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Sam Brownback Might Not Be Governing Kansas Much Longer
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Pope signals he's open to married Catholic men becoming priests
Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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