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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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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger
This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Democrats urge one another not to get distracted by Trump's taxes
Democrats urge one another not to get distracted by Trump's taxes
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David Cay Johnston / DCReport:
DCREPORT EXCLUSIVE: Trump Earned $153 Million In 2005; He Paid $36.6 Million In Taxes
DCREPORT EXCLUSIVE: Trump Earned $153 Million In 2005; He Paid $36.6 Million In Taxes
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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
BuzzFeed:
An elaborate hoax based on forged documents escalates the phenomenon of “fake news” and reveals an audience on the left that seems willing to believe virtually any claim that could damage Trump. — In the third week of — January, an Israeli named Yoni Ariel flew from Tel Aviv …
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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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: I'll move to subpoena wiretap info if Comey doesn't respond today
Graham: I'll move to subpoena wiretap info if Comey doesn't respond today
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Comey will testify publicly on Russia investigation next week
Comey will testify publicly on Russia investigation next week
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
House Intelligence Chair Says He Doesn't Believe Trump Tower Was Wiretapped
House Intelligence Chair Says He Doesn't Believe Trump Tower Was Wiretapped
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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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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: ACA, Replacement Plans, Women's Health — Ashley Kirzinger, Liz Hamel, Elise Sugarman, Bryan Wu, and Mollyann Brodie — KEY FINDINGS: — The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll examines the public's early attitudes towards the House Republican plan to replace …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Poll: Trump Approval, Voter Optimism on the Rise
Poll: Trump Approval, Voter Optimism on the Rise
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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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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
BUSTED: Trump campaign chair caught in a motel room with an underage boy — Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey is under investigation by the Moore, OK police after he was caught in a Super 8 Motel room with a minor boy. — “On March 9 ... officers of the Moore Police Department were contacted …
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Abby Broyles / KFOR-TV:
Oklahoma Senator under investigation for incident at motel with teen boy
Oklahoma Senator under investigation for incident at motel with teen boy
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
The cost of failure on health care? It may be the rest of Trump's agenda. — In the roiling debate over the plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, there's a lot more at stake for President Trump than whether the bill can be saved: Its fate could also determine how much else he can get done …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Reagan Democrats give Trump a long leash - but deeply distrust GOP
The Daily 202: Reagan Democrats give Trump a long leash - but deeply distrust GOP
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
U.S. military likely to send as many as 1,000 more ground troops into Syria ahead of Raqqa offensive, officials say — The U.S. military has drawn up early plans that would deploy up to 1,000 more troops into northern Syria in the coming weeks, expanding the American presence in the country ahead …
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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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New York Times:
Into the Void, With Steve King — Many Americans have been marveling at the bald racism of Steve King, Republican member of Congress from Iowa's Fourth District, who said this over the weekend on Twitter: — “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny.
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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.
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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.
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Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal:
Startup to Serve Up Chicken Strips Cultivated From Cells in Lab — ‘Clean meat’ developers say it avoids towering costs of feeding, caring for livestock; Tyson takes note — Bay Area startup Memphis Meats says it has developed the world's first chicken strip grown from self-reproducing cells.
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
What We Can All Learn from Maddow's Trump Taxes Broadcast — If it was indeed a White House distraction, it's up to us not to be distracted. — Those of us who are fans of Kindly Doc Maddow and her electric teevee show occasionally are driven to distraction by what we can only term her opening monologue.
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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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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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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton fuels speculation of political run — When rumors started swirling after the election that Chelsea Clinton was considering her own foray into politics, it was met with eye rolls even from staunch supporters of the family. — “Think we can let the dust settle a bit …
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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 …
cms.gov:
HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACES 2017 OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD FINAL ENROLLMENT REPORT: NOVEMBER 1, 2016 - JANUARY 31, 2017 … HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETPLACES 2017 OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD — Final enrollment report: November 1, 2016 - January 31, 2017 — This report summarizes enrollment activity …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Congress leads Trump down wrong path — What is the most popular thing Donald Trump has done as president? It actually came before entering the White House when, last December, President-elect Trump announced he had persuaded the Carrier Corporation to keep in Indiana hundreds of jobs that had been slated to move to Mexico.
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