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Mike Kelly / USA Today:
Kellyanne Conway suggests even wider surveillance of Trump campaign — ALPINE, N.J. — The White House is offering yet another wrinkle in its attempt to support President Trump's allegation — unfounded, so far — that his campaign headquarters in Manhattan was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Spicer: Trump 'doesn't really think' Obama wiretapped him personally — White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Donald Trump “doesn't really think” that Barack Obama “tapped his phone personally,” seeming to walk back Trump's explosive and unsubstantiated claim …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping — Spicer walks back Trump's wiretapping claims — (CNN)The White House on Monday walked back key point of President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
Chris Cuomo refuses to let Kellyanne Conway wriggle away from Trump's bizarre wiretapping claims — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN host Chris Cuomo wouldn't let Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway get away with dodging his questions. — “I'm not going to discuss …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Trump whines Obamacare looks ‘so great’ now: ‘Like President Obama — when he left, people liked him’
The Daily Beast:
Conway: Magic Microwaves May Have Spied on Trump
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Andrew Malcolm / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump is doing what Obama didn't do: reach out and listen
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway: 'I don't have any evidence' of latest speculations surrounding Trump wiretapping claim
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Steve King Says Civilization Can't Be Restored With 'Somebody Else's Babies' — Representative Steve King, a Republican from Iowa who has a history of making inflammatory statements viewed by many as insensitive or outright racist, was roundly criticized on Sunday for his apparent endorsement of white nationalism.
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
King defends controversial tweet: ‘I meant exactly what I said’
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Sarah Posner / Washington Post:
Why are we hearing crickets from the GOP on Steve King's ugly Tweet?
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
King doubles down on controversial ‘babies’ tweet
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Shree:
Such a Great Country, Such Nasty Bigotry — The night of the election, my iPhone screen shattered. The joke I like to make is that there was glass shattering on November 8th but not the kind we wanted. — There's something symbolic about the shattered glass on my phone and it serves …
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Alex Samuels / The Texas Tribune:
With proposal to penalize men for masturbating, legislator aims to shake up health debate — State Rep. Jessica Farrar, a Houston Democrat, filed House Bill 4260 Friday, which would fine men $100 for masturbating. — When it comes to issues related to health, state Rep. Jessica Farrar …
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Texas state rep. proposes fines for masturbation — A Texas state representative has introduced legislation that would fine men for masturbating and require them to undergo counseling before obtaining a prescription for Viagra, in an effort to highlight anti-abortion laws that place restrictions on women.
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Bloomberg:
Kushners Set to Get $400 Million From Chinese on Marquee Tower — Family company of president's son-in-law in deal with Anbang — Plan is circulating among investors for more equity partners — A company owned by the family of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
24 million would lose health insurance coverage by 2026 under GOP's Obamacare replacement, new estimate says — Fourteen million people would become uninsured next year if the top Republican proposal to repeal and replace Obamacare is signed into law, the Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday.
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Experts: Premiums will rise under GOP health care plan
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump to host Xi at Mar-a-Lago — President Trump plans to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at the gold-plated Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida next month for a lowering-the-temperature summit with vast economic and security implications, Axios has learned.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump planning to host Chinese president at Mar-a-Lago
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Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Is Trump Trolling the White House Press Corps? — At daily briefings, Sean Spicer calls on young journalists from far-right sites. The mainstream media sees them as an existential threat. — In normal times, White House press briefings make for boring television.
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CNN:
New surveillance footage of Michael Brown sparks protests — (CNN)New video captured hours before Michael Brown was killed shows the 18-year-old exchanging marijuana for cigarillos with the clerks of a Ferguson, Missouri, store, a documentary director told CNN on Monday.
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Adelle Platon / Billboard:
Snoop Dogg on ‘Lavender’ Video Parodying Trump: 'Nobody's Dealing With the Real Issue With This F—king Clown as President' — The rapper's latest video features a Snoop Loops commercial, Michael Rapaport and a clown mocking president Donald Trump. — The concept for Snoop Dogg's new video for …
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Health Plan Would Hit Rural Areas Hard — Poor, older Americans would see largest increase in insurance-coverage costs, analysis shows — The House Republican effort to overhaul the Affordable Care Act could hit many rural areas particularly hard, according to a new analysis …
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Alex Lockie / Business Insider:
SEAL Team 6 is reportedly training for a decapitation strike against North Korea's Kim regime — The annual Foal Eagle military drills between the US and South Korea will include some heavy hitters this year — the Navy SEAL team that took out Osama bin Laden, Army Special Forces, and F-35s — South Korea's Joon Gang Daily reports.
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BBC:
Scottish independence: Nicola Sturgeon to seek second referendum — Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed she will ask for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence. — Ms Sturgeon said she wanted a vote to be held between the autumn of 2018 and the spring of the following year.
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Jordan Freiman / Death and Taxes:
Trump unfollows ‘Morning Joe’ hosts Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski on Twitter — At some point in the last 24 hours, President Trump unfollowed Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Twitter. While the pair were some of Trump's earliest supporters when he first declared …
Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden Can't Find Contractor Willing to Build Police Station in Migrant Suburb — 'It's Too Dangerous' — Plans to build a new police station in Rinkeby have been put on hold because construction companies fear for the safety of their workforce in the migrant-dominated Stockholm suburb.
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