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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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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 …
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Hullabaloo


White House Pledges No One ‘Worse Off’ in Obamacare Replacement — People on Medicaid will remain, Trump adviser Gary Cohn says — Senator fears health-care bill risks GOP House majority — Sweeping White House promises that insurance premiums will fall and more people will have coverage under …
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The Guardian, CNBC, Daily Kos and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

Price on Obamacare replacement: ‘Nobody will be worse off financially’


The G.O.P.'s High-Risk Strategy for Health Law Repeal
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Raw Story and Outside the Beltway


Democrats to turn Obamacare attacks against GOP in 2018
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Mother Jones

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 …
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US Attorney fired by Trump was banned from entering Russia by Vladimir Putin — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired by President Donald Trump over the weekend, was so despised by Vladimir Putin's …


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.
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New York Magazine, New York Daily News, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and The Root


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 …
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RedState and New York Magazine
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Kremlin spokesman: Russian ambassador met with advisers to Clinton campaign too
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RedState, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com

McCain to Trump: Retract wiretapping claim or prove it
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CBS New York, NBC News and IJR


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 …
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Political Wire


What WikiLeaks Really Revealed About the CIA's Spying Techniques — WASHINGTON—The “Vault 7” trove of documents released Tuesday by WikiLeaks has been cited by commentators to claim that the Central Intelligence Agency may have been masquerading as other foreign states while conducting its cyberhacks.
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Media Matters for America
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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.
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Balloon Juice


83% Of America's Top High School Science Students Are The Children Of Immigrants — What would we lose if immigrants could no longer come to America? Surprisingly, one of the most important things America would lose is the contributions made by their children.


‘Can we all get along?’ Apparently not — So this driver is stopped at an intersection. A pedestrian is dawdling in the crosswalk. Driver leans out the window and yells, “Get out of the street, you damned liberal!” — It's been years since I read that in a magazine.


GOP Congressman's White Supremacist Tweet: “We Can't Restore Our Civilization With Somebody Else's Babies.” — Republican Congressman Steve King, who has a history of tip-toeing around white nationalist rhetoric, fired off a tweet Sunday afternoon that reeked of white supremacist ideology.


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 …
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Washington Monthly, RedState, Associated Press and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

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 …


Donald Trump Jr: At Fundraiser, President's Son Says ‘Zero Contact’ With Dad — DALLAS — Donald Trump Jr. said he has had virtually no contact with his father since the real estate tycoon and reality star became president and ceded control of his business empire to his oldest sons.
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Washington Post and Political Wire


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 …