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2:45 PM ET, March 10, 2017

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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 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
Benjamin Sommers / Washington Post:
The GOP health-care plan would quietly kill the Medicaid expansion. Here's how.
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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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
Discussion: Washington Post
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Speaker Ryan, this is not what conservative reform looks like
Discussion: Power Line
John Kasich / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: John Kasich: End the Partisan Warfare on Health Care
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Treasury calls on Congress to raise debt limit, begins steps to delay default
Discussion: Progress Pond
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Mark C. Toner / US Department of State:   Department Press Briefing - March 9, 2017
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
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump is ‘making fools’ out of GOP  —  Don't expect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to accept any bowling invitations from the White House.  —  The House minority leader said Friday that President Trump is making a mockery of Republicans by bringing conservative skeptics …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Conservatives want to blow up Senate rules to kill Obamacare  —  House Republican leaders narrowly tailored their Obamacare repeal bill to avoid violating Senate rules, but conservatives are pushing back with advice of their own: tear up the rulebook.  —  A growing number of conservative lawmakers …
Discussion: Axios, The Week and The Hill
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Steady U.S. Job Growth Sets Stage for Fed to Raise Interest Rates  —  Employers added 235,000 workers to their payrolls in February, the government reported on Friday, a hefty gain that clears the path for the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate when it meets next week.
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Ben Casselman / FiveThirtyEight:
Don't Let Trump — Or Any President — Take Credit For Strong Jobs Numbers
Patrick Maguire / New Statesman:
Is Northern Ireland heading for a second election?  James Brokenshire seems to think so  —  With power-sharing in the balance, NI minister James Brokenshire is talking up the possibility of a new poll.  —  Could Northern Ireland be set for its third assembly election in less than 12 months?
Discussion: The Federalist
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
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 …
Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Spies Live in Fear of Trump's Next Tweet  —  As Friday evening draws to a close around Washington, D.C., the city's tight-knit and secretive national security clan goes to sleep with a new unease.  It's not Syria or Iran or even North Korea they're most worried about.
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Pope signals he's open to married Catholic men becoming priests  —  Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy.  —  In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the lack of Catholic priests was an …
Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze
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.”
Discussion: Breitbart, Hot Air and BizPac Review
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Sam Brownback Might Not Be Governing Kansas Much Longer  —  Donald Trump won Kansas last November by just over 20 points, and in the coming days he's expected to give the Jayhawk State's voters their reward: a new governor.  —  The president reportedly will name Governor Sam Brownback …
Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers  —  Readers of The Right Stuff long knew that founder “Mike Enoch” had two main interests: technology and white supremacy.  Posts on the neo-Nazi site have included discussion of “a new blogging platform built on node.js,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
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
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Leading Candidate for FDA Is Scott Gottlieb, Sources Say
Discussion: STAT
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Bar association gives Gorsuch its best rating
USA Today:
‘Innocent until proven guilty’ should mean what it says: Column
Robert Cadwallader / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
It's no R2D2, but Knightscope's crime-fighting robots aid police
Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
America's Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Dem seeks to block US troops going to Syria after Marines deployed
Discussion: Common Dreams
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Shafer / KQED News:
Could Dianne Feinstein Face a Democratic Challenge in 2018?
Discussion: Politico and America Rising
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
A lawyer named Amal Clooney gave a powerful speech at the U.N. Some only saw her baby bump.
Discussion: Refinery29 and Mashable
mypalmbeachpost:
Trump in Palm Beach: Why did Russian pay so much for his mansion?
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and Politico
Courtney Reagan / CNBC:
Ivanka Trump's brand saw HUGE online surge in February
Letitia Stein / Reuters:
Americans oppose bathroom laws limiting transgender rights: poll
Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/PhoneBook:
South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee Show Apologizes to Writer for ‘Nazi Hair’ Mockery