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New York Times:
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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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
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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Politico, Axios, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review
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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
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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Raw Story, Business Insider, The Week and Axios
Oliver Darcy / Business Insider:
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 spokesperson and the reporter flatly denied.
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The Gateway Pundit
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
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 …
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer wore an upside-down flag pin. The Internet lost its mind.
Sean Spicer wore an upside-down flag pin. The Internet lost its mind.
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Snopes.com, Refinery29, Mashable and Politicus USA
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Gateway Pundit Reporter ACCOSTED, HARASSED — Screamed At in White House Press Room: “Nazi... White Supremacist!”
Gateway Pundit Reporter ACCOSTED, HARASSED — Screamed At in White House Press Room: “Nazi... White Supremacist!”
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Mediaite
Cameron Joseph / New York Daily News:
Trump team knew Flynn was possible foreign agent before Inauguration Day
Trump team knew Flynn was possible foreign agent before Inauguration Day
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National Review
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Fox News Radio correspondent confronts Gateway Pundit reporter in White House briefing room
Fox News Radio correspondent confronts Gateway Pundit reporter in White House briefing room
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The Daily Caller and Joe.My.God., more at Mediagazer »
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump taps private security director for White House job
Trump taps private security director for White House job
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Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Ezra Klein / Vox:
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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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump is ‘making fools’ out of GOP
Pelosi: Trump is ‘making fools’ out of GOP
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The Week, Daily Wire and Raw Story
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.
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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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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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 …
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump stands with House GOP on proposal to revise Obamacare, spokesman says — The White House and House Republican leaders on Friday came together behind the plan to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, including a provision that has drawn criticism from conservatives who are pressing for a more aggressive attack on the law.
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Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Male Illinois rep asks why men should have to pay for prenatal coverage
Male Illinois rep asks why men should have to pay for prenatal coverage
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Hullabaloo, Rewire, The Week and Political Wire
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
In major shift, White House privately backing earlier rollback of Medicaid expansion
In major shift, White House privately backing earlier rollback of Medicaid expansion
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Washington Post, MSNBC, Vox, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Politico, New York Magazine, The Nation, Morning Consult, Daily Kos and RedState
Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month — U.S. employers added jobs at an above-average pace for a second month on outsized gains in construction and manufacturing, showing the labor market continued its steady growth in the new year.
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Trump Points to Drudge's ‘Great Again’ Praise of New Jobs Report
Trump Points to Drudge's ‘Great Again’ Praise of New Jobs Report
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AOL, Media Matters for America, The Rush Limbaugh Show, New York Times, CNBC, Shot in the Dark and Business Insider
Patricia Laya / Bloomberg:
America's Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure
America's Labor Market Is Getting Better by Almost Any Measure
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The Last Refuge, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and New York Magazine
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.
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The Week
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.
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New York Magazine and Political Wire
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 …
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Washington Monthly and Axios
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 …
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New York Magazine, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Daily Beast, American News and Daily Wire
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 …
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Mediaite, Washington Times, The Week and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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.
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Political Wire, Daily Kos, Axios and Mediaite
Andrew Blake / Washington Times:
Roger Stone, Trump confidant, acknowledges ‘innocuous’ Twitter conversation with DNC hackers — Roger Stone, President Trump's former campaign advisor, engaged privately last year with a persona involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee, he told The Washington Times Friday …
Dino Grandoni / BuzzFeed:
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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Politico, Greentech Media and Raw Story
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
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 …
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 …
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RedState
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 …
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Associated Press:
IMMIGRATION AGENT CONVICTED OF ACCEPTING CASH BRIBES, SEX — NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been convicted of accepting cash bribes and sex in exchange for employment authorization documents. — Arnaldo Echevarria, of Somerset, New Jersey …
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Daily Wire
The Local:
Priest who dressed up as Hugh Hefner and simulated sex with male playboy bunnies seeks forgiveness — The parish priest from the Galician town of C**tis has apologised for his “misguided” carnival costume which saw him posing on a float as the Playboy founder along with men dressed as Playboy bunnies.
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USA Today:
‘Innocent until proven guilty’ should mean what it says: Column — Every state should join Nebraska and New Mexico in repealing civil forfeiture. — CONNECT — Gerald and Royetta Ostipow had no idea what civil asset forfeiture was until sheriff's deputies arrived at their farm …