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The Daily Beast:
Report: Trump's 2005 Taxes Revealed — Donald Trump earned more than $150 million in the year 2005—and paid just a small percentage of that in regular federal income taxes. Daily Beast contributor David Cay Johnston has obtained what appear to be the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal …
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Willa Paskin / Slate:
Rachel Maddow Turned a Scoop on Donald Trump's Taxes Into a Cynical, Self-Defeating Spectacle — At 7:36 pm Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow tweeted “BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC. (Seriously),” sending the internet into a frenzy of theorizing.
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David Cay Johnston / DCReport:
DCREPORT EXCLUSIVE: Trump Earned $153 Million In 2005; He Paid $36.6 Million In Taxes — Ten Years After His Casino Business Failed, He Was Still Writing Off Losses — In 2005, Donald J. Trump married model Melanija Knavs, his third wife. That year, the real-estate mogul …
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Jay Yarow / CNBC:
Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow
Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow
New York Times:
Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show
Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show
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Associated Press:
TRUMP EARNED $153M AND PAID $36.5M IN TAXES IN 2005
TRUMP EARNED $153M AND PAID $36.5M IN TAXES IN 2005
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's 2005 tax return leaves a lot to be desired
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Rachel Maddow Lands a Scoop, Then Makes Viewers Wait
Rachel Maddow Lands a Scoop, Then Makes Viewers Wait
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
It turns out Donald Trump didn't avoid income taxes for 18 years, after all
It turns out Donald Trump didn't avoid income taxes for 18 years, after all
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: FBI will ‘screw up big time’ by ignoring Trump wiretap questions … (R-S.C.) is firing a warning shot at the FBI following his request that the agency hand over any evidence relating to wire taps of President Trump. — “They're about to screw up big time if they keep running to the …
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Senator Graham threatens subpoena on Trump wiretapping claim — Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Congress was ready to “flex its muscles” if FBI Director James Comey did not answer questions by Wednesday about any Russian ties to the Trump campaign or provide evidence of a wiretapping warrant for Trump Tower.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Comey will testify publicly on Russia investigation next week — FBI Director James Comey has agreed to appear at a public House Intelligence Committee hearing next Monday on the investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election, Chairman Devin Nunes told reporters Wednesday.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Graham: We'll stall DOJ nominee if FBI doesn't comply on wiretaps
Graham: We'll stall DOJ nominee if FBI doesn't comply on wiretaps
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Unlikely Liberal Hero Adam Schiff Is Ready to Investigate Trump
The Unlikely Liberal Hero Adam Schiff Is Ready to Investigate Trump
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘People are scared’: Paranoia seizes Trump's White House — A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies — inside their own government. — In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Only 24% of Voters Support GOP Health Care Plan — PPP's newest national poll finds that there is very little support for the American Health Care Act. Only 24% of voters support it, to 49% who are opposed. Even among Republican voters only 37% are in favor of the proposal to 22% who are against it …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Voters wary of GOP health care bill
Poll: Voters wary of GOP health care bill
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon in College: Grateful Dead Fan, ‘Jerry Brown Liberal,’ ‘Ladies Man’ — The Stephen K. Bannon the world knows today is a hard-right nationalist and a former ringleader of far-right, race-baiting media. He's President Donald Trump's anti-immigration and incredibly powerful right-hand man …
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump: ‘Failing’ Snoop Dogg Would be in Jail if he Shot Obama in Rap Video — President Donald Trump argued that there was a cultural double standard, after rapper Snoop Dogg released a video of him pulling a gun on a man in clown makeup who looked like Donald Trump.
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Secret Service Has Its Eye on Snoop Dogg Over Video Featuring Mock Trump Shooting
Secret Service Has Its Eye on Snoop Dogg Over Video Featuring Mock Trump Shooting
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Say House Health Bill Won't Pass Without Changes — Concerns mounted after independent report showed millions would be uninsured — WASHINGTON—Republican senators, alarmed by a nonpartisan report showing millions would lose insurance under the GOP health-care plan …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon and the Making of an Economic Nationalist — The controversial White House counselor says his father's 2008 financial trauma helped crystallize his antiglobalist views and led to a political hardening; 'I'm going to be totally wiped out' — Steve Bannon has played a lead role in honing Donald Trump's message.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Lessons of Obamacare — What Republicans should have learned, but haven't. — On January 6, President Barack Obama sat down with us for one of his final interviews before leaving the White House. The subject was the Affordable Care Act — the legislation that has come to carry his name and define his legacy.
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Republicans May Be Ready To Redefine Success On Obamacare — Call it a win if they manage to pass their repeal-and-replace bill in the House. — WASHINGTON With the GOP bill facing opposition from House conservatives, and a dismal Congressional Budget Office score stirring opposition …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Cruz: WH plan for ‘third prong’ health legislation won't work in Senate
Cruz: WH plan for ‘third prong’ health legislation won't work in Senate
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Michael Harriot / The Root:
Everything You Think You Know About the Death of Mike Brown Is Wrong, and the Man Who Killed Him Admits It — Here is the story of Michael Brown's murder that we all believed: One sunny day in Ferguson, Mo., a huge behemoth of a man named Michael Brown walked into a convenience store …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Justice Department charges Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo intrusion — The Justice Department announced Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the heist of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, marking the first U.S. criminal …
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New York Times:
Neil Gorsuch Has Web of Ties to Secretive Billionaire — WASHINGTON — The publicity-shy billionaire Philip F. Anschutz inherited an oil and gas firm and built it into an empire that has sprawled into telecommunications, railroads, real estate, resorts, sports teams, stadiums …
Kevin Ambrose / Washington Post:
We checked on the cherry blossoms yesterday during the storm. It doesn't look good. — To track the blossom bloom, every week I'll post a photo of the cherry tree (above) at the Tidal Basin as we transition from winter to spring. This is the fourth week of such posts.
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Mother Jones:
Businesswoman Who Bought Trump Penthouse Is Connected to Chinese Intelligence Front Group — When a Chinese American businesswoman who sells access to powerful people recently purchased a $15.8 million penthouse in a building owned by President Donald Trump, the deal raised a key question.