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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
Watch | Spicer: GCHQ may have helped Obama spy on Trump — The US has made a formal apology to Britain after the White House accused GCHQ of helping Barack Obama spy on Donald Trump in the White House. — Sean Spicer, Mr Trump's press secretary, repeated a claim on Thursday evening …
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White House apologizes to British government over spying claims — Spokesman for UK Prime Minister says Britain has received assurances that claims won't be repeated — Washington (CNN)The White House has apologized to the British government after alleging that a UK intelligence agency spied …
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New York Times:
White House Tries to Soothe British Officials Over Trump Wiretap Claim — WASHINGTON — The White House has tried to soothe an angry Britain after suggesting that President Barack Obama used London's spy agency to conduct secret surveillance on President Trump while he was a candidate last year.
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New York Times:
Trump Digs In on Wiretap, No Matter Who Says Differently — WASHINGTON — The former president denied it. So did the former national intelligence director. The F.B.I. director has said privately that it is false. The speaker of the House and the chairmen of the House …
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Karla Adam / Washington Post:
Britain's surveillance agency slaps down claim it was involved in Trump ‘wiretap’ — LONDON — In a highly unusual move, Britain's main surveillance agency slapped down allegations that the Obama administration used it to spy on Donald Trump during the presidential campaign, saying the claims were “utterly ridiculous.”
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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
‘Utterly ridiculous nonsense’: Britain's spy agency on Trump wiretapping claims
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Rex Tillerson Rejects Talks With North Korea on Nuclear Program — SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson ruled out on Friday opening any negotiation with North Korea to freeze its nuclear and missile programs and said for the first time that the Trump administration might …
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Tillerson says ‘all options are on the table’ when it comes to North Korea — TOKYO — The Trump administration gave its clearest signal yet that it would consider taking military action against North Korea, with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson saying Friday that “all options are on the table” to deter the threat from Pyongyang.
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Shin Hyon-hee / The Korea Herald-mobile:
US says ‘strategic patience’ on NK is over — Tillerson says military option is on the table, calls China's THAAD retaliation ‘inappropriate, troubling’ — With Washington taking a North Korea policy overhaul, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday declared that the existing …
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Tillerson says diplomacy has failed as North Korea warns of nuclear war
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Tillerson: Military action against North Korea is an option
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House to vote Thursday on GOP Obamacare replacement — House Republicans will vote Thursday on Speaker Paul Ryan's Obamacare replacement bill, two senior GOP sources told POLITICO. — The move shows that GOP leaders are confident they have the 216 votes needed to pass the bill …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Freedom Caucus aligns with Bannon in risky Obamacare gambit
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Vicky Ward / Highline:
The blow-it-all-up billionaires … Last December, about a month before Donald Trump's inauguration, Rebekah Mercer arrived at Stephen Bannon's office in Trump Tower, wearing a cape over a fur-trimmed dress and her distinctive diamond-studded glasses. Tall and imposing, Rebekah …
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Robert Barnes / LawNewz:
Five 9th Circuit Judges Dish Out Ruthless Take Down to Anti-Trump Travel Ban Decision — In one of the most ruthless opinions issued of fellow panel judges, five judges from across the political spectrum in the Ninth Circuit went out of their way to issue an opinion about a dismissed appeal …
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Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Judge Considers Ordering President Donald Trump to Double 50,000 Refugee Inflow to the United States
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
A Time to Choose for the Supreme Court
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Sources: Sean Hannity once pulled a gun on Juan Williams — Sean Hannity is surrounded by jackasses. — The Wall Street Journal columnist who called Hannity the “dumbest anchor” on Fox News is a “jackass,” according to Hannity. The forensic psychologist who suggested a blood vessel had popped inside Hannity's brain is a “jackass.”
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Phil Archer / Click2Houston.com:
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman accused of violating federal election law — HOUSTON - Steve Stockman, who served two stints in the U.S. House of Representatives, spent part of Friday in federal court. — Stockman, a Tea Party favorite who courted controversy thorough two congressional terms …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Conservative Fantasies, Colliding With Reality — This week the Trump administration put out a budget blueprint — or more accurately, a “budget” blueprint. After all, real budgets detail where the money comes from and where it goes; this proclamation covers only around a third of federal spending …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Tom Cole: Trump's Proposed Cuts To NIH, CDC Are ‘Short-Sighted’
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Liz Spayd / New York Times:
Snoop Dogg, Bow Wow and an Ill-Advised Retweet — Amid the thousands of tweets that fly from the keyboards of journalists every day, occasionally comes one that sets off an alarm: “Whoops. Should I have said that?” Wednesday afternoon, that bell should have sounded shortly …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Trumpcare's Lonely, and Seedy, Supporter — The Republican health bill doesn't have many outside supporters. Groups representing doctors, nurses, hospitals, retirees, patients of various diseases and even insurers have all criticized it. Some of the only outside praise has come …
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Meals on Wheels is ‘not showing any results’ only if you ignore all these results — At a news conference Thursday, Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's budget chief, defended proposed cuts to the Meals on Wheels program, which provides food aid to needy senior citizens, by saying the program …
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
White House: Climate funding is ‘a waste of your money’
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Whom to trust when it comes to health-care reform? Trump supporters put their faith in him. — NASHVILLE — Soon after Charla McComic's son lost his job, his health-insurance premium dropped from $567 per month to just $88, a “blessing from God” that she believes was made possible by President Trump.
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Trump's questionable Irish proverb, Paul Ryan's ‘despicable’ pint and other St. Patrick's Day mishaps — The day began with a cringe-worthy, mildly offensive Irish cliche in front of a room-full of Irish people, and it all went downhill from there. — “Top of the morning,” …
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NBC News:
Inside Breitbart News: 'We're Not A Hate Site' — As one of President Donald Trump's favorite news sources, Breitbart News has been called a lot of names, including “Trumpbart,” a “platform for the alt-right,” and anti-Semitic. — But in an exclusive interview, editor-in-chief Alex Marlow said that the site has been misunderstood.
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
In E-mails, Neil Gorsuch Praised a Leading Republican Activist Behind Voter Suppression Efforts — Gorsuch's ties to Hans von Spakovksy suggest a hostility to voting rights. — By , — Few people in the Republican Party have done more to limit voting rights than Hans von Spakovsky.
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