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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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Laptop holding Trump Tower floor plans, Hillary Clinton email investigation info stolen from Secret Service agent — A laptop computer containing floor plans for Trump Tower, information about the Hillary Clinton email investigation and other national security information was stolen …


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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Britain's surveillance agency slaps down claim it was involved in Trump ‘wiretap’
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‘Utterly ridiculous nonsense’: Britain's spy agency on Trump wiretapping claims
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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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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 ‘all options are on the table’ when it comes to North Korea
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U.S. policy of ‘strategic patience’ with North Korea over: Tillerson
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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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Freedom Caucus aligns with Bannon in risky Obamacare gambit
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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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Sen. Susan Collins says she can't support House ACA replacement in current form
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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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Judge Considers Ordering President Donald Trump to Double 50,000 Refugee Inflow to the United States
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A Time to Choose for the Supreme Court
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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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GOP rep splits with Trump on Meals on Wheels — GOP Rep. Chris Collins (N.Y.) says he disagrees with President Trump's federal budget blueprint, specifically citing its lack of funding for Meals on Wheels. — “This is the president's budget. I'm not sure where the details came from,” …
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Rep. Chris Collins on Meals on Wheels cuts: “That's not my plan”
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CNN/ORC poll: Americans break with Trump on immigration policy — All told, 60% say the government's top priority should be a plan to legalize undocumented immigrants — Washington (CNN)Americans disagree with President Donald Trump's immigration priorities, according to a new CNN/ORC poll …
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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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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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CNN host, GOP rep spar over Trump wiretap talk … CNN host Chris Cuomo and Rep. Sean Duffy — (R-Wis.) got into a headed debate Friday over President Trump's unproven claim former President Barack Obama — wiretapped him in 2016. — “Why does this make sense to you?” Cuomo asked Duffy on “New Day.”
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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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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.


Trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why — Some people are complaining that the budget proffered by the Trump administration, despite its wonderful macho-sounding name, is too vague and makes all sorts of cuts to needed programs in favor of increasing military spending by leaps and bounds.
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Glenn Beck warns travel ban could lead to ‘internment camp situation’ — Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is mounting a defense of American Muslims, warning that failure to differentiate them from “Islamists” could lead to an “internment camp situation.”
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