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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
HHS Sec. Tom Price: ‘Nobody Will Be Worse Off Financially’ Under GOP Health Plan  —  WASHINGTON — No one will be adversely affected by the Republicans' new health care bill once its enacted, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.  —  “I firmly believe that nobody …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump economic head: Whether millions have insurance is ‘interesting’ but beside the point  —  National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn says how many people lose health coverage is really only about headlines.  —  Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace grilled Gary Cohn …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
David Edwards / Raw Story:   HHS Secretary Tom Price boldly promises ‘nobody will be worse off’ after Obamacare is repealed
Riley Beggin / ABC News:
Trump budget chief: President is focused on health care, not insurance coverage
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
New York Times:
The G.O.P.'s High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal
Discussion: Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it  —  Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) called Sunday for President Trump to either prove his claim that President Barack Obama tapped the phones in Trump Tower during last year's election campaign or drop the accusation.
Discussion: NBC News, CBS New York and IJR
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said in an interview Sunday that the Russian ambassador who met with Trump campaign officials also met with “people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.”
Eli Watkins / CNN:
McCain calls on Trump to clarify wiretapping claim  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Sunday that President Donald Trump should either retract or substantiate his claim that President Barack Obama wire-tapped him in the final weeks of the presidential campaign and added he expects …
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
New Ferguson Video Adds Wrinkle to Michael Brown Case  —  In the two and a half years since Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., the explosive case has been parsed in intricate detail.  Witnesses offered varying descriptions of the fatal encounter.
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
WikiLeaks aids doubters of Russian election hacking  —  WikiLeaks is helping to cast doubt on the conclusion of intelligence agencies that the Russian government was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee, in what appears to be the latest disinformation campaign orchestrated by Moscow.
Discussion: RedState
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Paul Sonne / Wall Street Journal:
What WikiLeaks Really Revealed About the CIA's Spying Techniques
Wall Street Journal:   Authorities Question CIA Contractors in Connection With WikiLeaks Dump
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
They are poor, sick and voted for Trump.  What will happen to them without Obamacare?  —  Another morning, another list  —  of patients and problems in the hands of 35-year-old Keisha Saunders.  Diabetes, depression, heart disease.  Robert needs lower blood pressure.  Buffy needs prescriptions filled.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Trump's budget director claims Obama was ‘manipulating’ jobs data  —  President Trump's budget director claims the Obama administration was “manipulating” jobs data.  —  Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday that he has long thought the previous administration framed data …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Intel panel calls for wiretap evidence by Monday  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and ranking member Adam Schiff  —  (D-Calif.) have asked the White House to offer by Monday any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped.  —  A congressional aide confirmed …
Mike Allen / Axios:
1 big thing: Why Preet was toast  —  Why did Trump insiders instantly know that the “Sheriff of Wall Street,” Preet Bharara of Manhattan, would be fired when he resisted President Trump's resignation order to all the holdover U.S. attorneys?  —  There's a school of thought that the whole purge …
New York Daily News:
Russian spies in New York City: Preet Bharara announces espionage charges against 3 men  —  The Cold War remains alive and well in New York City, where a trio of Russian nationals were acting as spies, federal investigators said Monday.  —  “The arrest of Evgeny Buryakov and the charges …
Discussion: Raw Story
Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
The American Left Discovers Its Inner George Wallace  —  Who would have imagined that it would come to this?  Leftish activists are campaigning to have the Confederate flag removed from statehouses, statutes of southern statesmen removed from campuses and public spaces …
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 3-12-17: Mick Mulvaney, Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep. Adam Schiff, and Rep. Elijah Cummings  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on March 12, 2017 and it will be updated.  —  ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Graham Moomaw / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Amid Trump resistance, Virginia Democrats see surge of candidates for House of Delegates  —  After retiring from her environmental law career, Mary Jo Sheeley spent much of her newfound free time volunteering for the Hillary Clinton campaign.  Upset by President Donald Trump's victory …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Resist the Internet  —  So far, in my ongoing series of columns making the case for implausible ideas, I've fixed race relations and solved the problem of a workless working class.  So now it's time to turn to the real threat to the human future: the one in your pocket or on your desk …
Brian Whitehead / Orange County Register:
Rep. Darrell Issa's town halls draw more than 1,000 people, including crowds of protesters  —  OCEANSIDE - More than 1,000 people showed up at two town halls on Saturday to hear Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, explain his stances on a variety of hot-button issues.
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Uber Gears Up to Block Bid to Form a Union in Seattle  —  Ride-hailing firm sends podcasts and messages through app to persuade drivers to remain as ‘partners’  —  Before accepting rides on his Uber app each day, Seattle driver Fasil Teka must first choose whether to listen to company-run podcasts …
Discussion: Axios
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Anti-immigrant anger threatens to remake the liberal Netherlands  —  AMSTERDAM — Xandra Lammers lives on an island in Amsterdam, the back door of her modern and spacious four-bedroom house opening onto a graceful canal where ducks, swans and canoes glide by.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Dangerous Safety of College  —  The moral of the recent melee at Middlebury College, where students shouted down and chased away a controversial social scientist, isn't just about free speech, though that's the rubric under which the ugly incident has been tucked.  It's about emotional coddling.
 
 
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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Donald Trump Jr: At Fundraiser, President's Son Says ‘Zero Contact’ With Dad
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
On ‘S.N.L.,’ Donald Trump Botches His ‘Independence Day’ Moment
David Ng / Los Angeles Times:
In liberal Hollywood, a conservative minority faces backlash in the age of Trump
Leonard Pitts, Jr / miamiherald:
‘Can we all get along?’  Apparently not  —  So this driver is stopped at an intersection.
Kurtis Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Utah on the verge of the toughest drunk-driving standard in the U.S. - .05%
Discussion: KTLA
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Trump voters would be among the biggest losers in Republicans' Obamacare replacement plan
Discussion: KTLA and The Guardian
Washington Post:
20 years after 7 Israeli schoolgirls were killed, some hail Jordanian shooter as a hero upon his release
Liam Deacon / Breitbart:
Second Explosion Rocks Sweden in 24 Hours, Suspected Bomb
 Earlier Items: 
Spiegel Online:
Can Merkel Bring Trump to Reason?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Aaron Short / New York Post:
Cuomo takes key step toward launching presidential campaign
Discussion: Political Wire
Victoria McGrane GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
An uphill climb in the Rust Belt for Democrats
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
While Democrats Fume, Trump Becomes the Jobs President
Discussion: American Thinker
The Hill:
The future of politics is grassroots
Discussion: Political Wire
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018
Discussion: Mother Jones
Max Fisher / New York Times:
What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That Doesn't Exist
New York Times:
Trump Adviser Had Twitter Contact With Figure Tied to Russians