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11:40 PM ET, March 21, 2017

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Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
Republicans find themselves damned by 2016 attacks on Hillary Clinton  —  Donald Trump and the GOP repeatedly declared that Hillary Clinton should not be president because of an FBI investigation into her email practices.  Now that James Comey has revealed an investigation exists …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How the White House Got James Comey Wrong  —  Early on Monday morning, a couple of hours before the start of the first House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia's involvement in the Presidential election, one of Donald Trump's closest White House advisers made a startling …
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The Russians Did Not ‘Hack The Election.’ Repeat.  The Russians Did Not ‘Hack The Election’  —  After FBI Director James Comey confirmed the existence of an investigation into potential ties between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, conspiracy theorists rejoiced.  Yet it's almost certain they won't get what they desire.
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Nixon counsel during Watergate: Trump WH ‘in cover-up mode’  —  The former White House counsel to President Nixon who was charged for helping cover up the Watergate scandal says he thinks President Trump's White House is “in cover-up mode.”  —  “In fact [the White House] is in cover-up mode …
Lawrence Richard / SARAH PALIN:
CONTROVERSY: Check Which Major Foundation FBI Director Has Connections To..  —  During his congressional hearing yesterday, Director James Comey of the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not face any heat from regarding a review which was released of his “professional history and relationships.”
Discussion: Raw Story, Sarah Palin and AOL
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Palin: Comey is ‘tainted’
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Trump Warns House Republicans: Repeal Health Law or Lose Your Seats  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump offered a closing argument on Tuesday to on-the-fence lawmakers, warning House Republicans that they risked losing re-election next year if they failed to get behind legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: Axios and Occupy Democrats
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Trump Thinks Passing a Terrible Health-Care Bill Makes Sense  —  Almost every great vote-wrangling drama in Congress, especially on a high-profile issue in the first year or two of a new presidency, is eventually reduced to a simple test of strength.  Like a bad war, the original objective falls …
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Republican Opposition To Health Care Bill Cracks Open Door To Negotiations
Discussion: Vox
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Spicer: Trump ‘had some fun’ with Mark Meadows comment
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump to Republicans: Vote for Obamacare repeal or lose your seat
The Huffington Post:
Trump Fails To Close Deal On Health Care Repeal
Jed Handelsman Shugerman / Slate:
Neil Gorsuch and the “Frozen Trucker”  —  The judge's infamous dissent reveals he may not have the temperament to serve on the Supreme Court.  —  I have tried to be balanced in reviewing Judge Neil Gorsuch's record.  In a post right after his nomination, I called his decision criticizing …
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Schumer calls for delaying Gorsuch vote because of Trump-Russia probe  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a delay of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's confirmation Tuesday given the ongoing FBI investigation into potential collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
Paul Callan / CNN:
Judge Gorsuch and the frozen truck driver
Discussion: Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
Blair Miller / TheDenverChannel.com:
Former Colorado GOP chairman Steven Curtis charged with voter fraud  —  WELD COUNTY, Colo. - The former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party is charged with forgery and voter fraud for allegedly forging his wife's mail-in ballot from last year's election, according to court records and sources.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Rob Low / FOX31 Denver:
Former Colorado GOP chairman charged with voter fraud, forgery
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
A President's Credibility  —  Trump's falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.  —  If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him?  Would the rest of the world?
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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New York Times:
Devices Banned on Flights From 10 Countries Over ISIS Fears
Department of Homeland Security:
Fact Sheet: Aviation Security Enhancements for Select Last Point of Departure Airports …
New York Times:
Why Letting Go, for Trump, Is No Small or Simple Task  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is a man seriously susceptible to snagging himself in the nettles of obsession.  In the last three weeks, no compulsion has so consumed his psyche, and his Twitter account, as the deeply held …
Discussion: Axios
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
IJR suspends three over Obama conspiracy post
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
How Sean Spicer lost his credibility  —  Sean Spicer's credibility problem  —  The White House press secretary has always been a spin artist.  —  Spinning is not lying, Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers once said, but rather “marshaling the facts in service of an argument.”
Julia Horowitz / CNNMoney:
Trump's first pick for labor secretary is out as fast food CEO  —  Andrew Puzder in 60 seconds  —  President Trump's first pick to lead the Labor Department was forced to bail last month.  Now he's lost his old job, too.  —  CKE Restaurants, which owns the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. fast food chains …
Brian Ross / ABC News:
Russian mafia boss still at large after FBI wiretap at Trump Tower  —  There, indeed, was an FBI wiretap involving Russians at Trump Tower.  —  But it was not placed at the behest of Barack Obama and the target was not the Trump campaign of 2016.  For two years ending in 2013 …
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Newly Obtained Documents Prove: Key Claim of Snowden's Accusers is a Fraud  —  For almost four years, a cottage industry of media conspiracists has devoted itself to accusing Edward Snowden of being a spy for either Russia and/or China at the time he took and then leaked documents from the National Security Agency.
Will Bredderman / Observer:
GOP Congressman Warns Trump's Refusal to Retract Obama Wiretap Claim Could Endanger the Country  —  GOP Congressman Peter King of Long Island called upon President Donald Trump to rescind his recent social media assertions that former President Barack Obama bugged his phone lines during …
Discussion: The Atlantic
The Guardian:
Bank that lent $300m to Trump linked to Russian money laundering scam  —  Deutsche Bank among western institutions that processed billions of dollars in cash of ‘criminal origin’ through Latvia  —  The German bank that loaned $300m (£260m) to Donald Trump played a prominent role …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Gorsuch refuses Whitehouse's request to ask shadowy backers to reveal themselves  —  Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday pointedly refused Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse  —  's (D-R.I.) request that he publicly ask conservative donors funding …
Discussion: Hit & Run, Common Dreams and RedState
Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal:
Jared Kushner's White House Role Complicates Skyscraper Deal  —  Adviser's father talks to other investors for Manhattan building as China buyer teeters  —  More than two years ago, Charles Kushner had a vision to convert his family's trophy Manhattan office and retail skyscraper …
Discussion: CNBC and Mashable
Robert Jimison / CNN:
US infant mortality rates down 15%  —  (CNN)Infant mortality rates have reached new lows, according to a report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday.  —  From 2005 to 2014, the infant mortality rate in the US dropped 15%, from 6.86 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 5.82.
Discussion: Refinery29, AOL and New York Magazine
 
 
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Cortney O'Brien / Townhall.com:
De Blasio: We Are Preparing NYC Schools to Resist ICE Agents
Discussion: The College Fix
Morgan Watkins / Courier-Journal:
5 takeaways from Trump's visit to Louisville
Discussion: Politicus USA
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD says Latinos are reporting fewer sexual assaults amid a climate of fear in immigrant communities
Reuters:
Immigration provision cut from Obamacare rollback, angering conservatives
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump's penchant for vengeance casts shadow on health care vote
 Earlier Items: 
Seth A. Richardson / Reno Gazette-Journal:
Sharron Angle announces bid for Congress
Discussion: Daily Kos, Joe.My.God. and Towleroad
Fox News:
Chicago girl apparently gang-raped on Facebook Live, police say
Benjamin Domenech / New York Times:
How Trump Can Fix Health Care
David Smith / The Guardian:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on transgender row: ‘I have nothing to apologise for’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and theGrio
Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Fewer Americans Would Be Insured With G.O.P. Plan Than With Simple Repeal
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Trump didn't lie, Jeffrey Lord says on CNN. He just speaks a different language — ‘Americanese.’
 

 
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
Donald Trump says Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to provide “guidance from outside of Government”

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is making a 6" wall-mounted display that can control appliances, do videoconferencing, and use AI to navigate apps, and may unveil it by March

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development

 
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