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Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Manafort worked to ‘benefit Putin government’: report
Manafort worked to ‘benefit Putin government’: report
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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?
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Axios:
Why deductibles would rise under the GOP health care plan — Health care is complicated, as the president has discovered. But here is one thing that is not so complicated: if people have modest means and limited tax credits, and coverage is expensive, they will mostly buy health plans with lower premiums — and high deductibles.
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Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
We Fact-Checked Lawmakers' Letters to Constituents on Health Care — When Louisiana resident Andrea Mongler wrote to her senator, Bill Cassidy, in support of the Affordable Care Act, she wasn't surprised to get an email back detailing the law's faults. Cassidy, a Republican who is also a physician, has been a vocal critic.
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic:
What Hardcore Conservatives Really Want for Health Care
What Hardcore Conservatives Really Want for Health Care
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Erin McPike / IJR:
Trump's Diplomat — “I didn't want this job. I didn't seek this job.”
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Trump, GOP struggle to find healthcare votes — House Republican leaders on Tuesday struggled to pick up votes for their ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill, even after President Trump visited Capitol Hill to sell the plan. — With only a day before a scheduled vote on the House floor, the White House and Speaker Paul Ryan
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New York Times:
Trump Warns House Republicans: Repeal Health Law or Lose Your Seats
Trump Warns House Republicans: Repeal Health Law or Lose Your Seats
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump, GOP leaders lack votes to pass Obamacare repeal
Trump, GOP leaders lack votes to pass Obamacare repeal
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
'I'll Criticize Judges,' Trump Says, Hours After a Scolding for Doing Just That — WASHINGTON — Not even a public scolding from Judge Neil M. Gorsuch could get President Trump to stop bashing federal judges. — Hours after Mr. Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court declared during Senate …
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Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
Ryan's Leadership Is Tested by GOP's Civil War on Health Bill
Ryan's Leadership Is Tested by GOP's Civil War on Health Bill
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump puts the pressure on his party
The Note: Trump puts the pressure on his party
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: By 2 to 1 margin, registered voters reject Comey — FBI Director James Comey is unpopular across the political spectrum, according to a new poll that finds voters have a negative opinion of Comey by a more than two-to-one margin. — According to data from a Harvard-Harris Poll survey …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Approval wanes for GOP health bill — Support for the GOP proposal to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law is fading, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted just before an expected House vote on the legislation. — Voters are divided on the measure …
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Jon Reid / Morning Consult:
Voters Want GOP to Hit Brakes on Health Care Overhaul as Support Dips
Voters Want GOP to Hit Brakes on Health Care Overhaul as Support Dips
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Susan E. Rice / Washington Post:
Susan Rice: When the White House twists the truth, we are all less safe — Susan E. Rice was national security adviser from 2013 to 2017 and U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013. — Last week, the British intelligence agency GCHQ took the rare step of debunking as …
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Eyeing Trump's Budget Plan, Republican Governors Say ‘No, Thanks’ — Gov. Matt Bevin of Kentucky was unrestrained in his praise for President Trump: Opening for him at a rally on Monday, Mr. Bevin, a conservative Republican, echoed Mr. Trump's “America First” slogan and only gently noted the nagging divisions in their party.
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Washington Post:
New poll: only 3% of Trump voters regret their vote — Within weeks of the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, social media posts expressing voters' second thoughts began trending. While some Donald Trump voters felt he was backtracking on initial hard-line positions …
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Didn't Sign Trump's Ethics Pledge — The White House's former top national security official did not sign an ethics pledge ostensibly required of all Trump administration appointees barring them from ethically questionable lobbying activities, The Daily Beast has learned.
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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.
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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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Gorsuch hearings Day 3: Feinstein presses judge on abortion, physician-assisted suicide
Gorsuch hearings Day 3: Feinstein presses judge on abortion, physician-assisted suicide
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Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Grieving father: 'I don't play Trump songs anymore' — Man who attended 45 rallies now opposes Trump — GOP health care bill would end the requirement that addiction, mental health treatment be covered under Medicaid — (CNN)Last year, Kraig Moss sold the equipment for his construction business …
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Labor nominee Acosta cut deal with billionaire guilty in sex abuse case — There was once a time — before the investigations, before the sexual abuse conviction — when rich and famous men loved to hang around with Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire money manager who loved to party.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
House Obamacare repeal DOA in the Senate — Forget the House GOP's troubles passing a health care bill. The party's bigger problem looms in the Senate. — Mitch McConnell is being tasked with fixing what GOP senators and House members say is a flawed Obamacare repeal proposal …
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Ju-min Park / Reuters:
North Korea missile test fails, U.S. and South say, as tensions simmer — A North Korean missile appeared to have exploded on Wednesday just after it was launched, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said after detecting the latest in a series of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed state that have alarmed the region.
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Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
Rep. Louie Gohmert, an outspoken House Republican from Texas, is calling for a congressional investigation of John Podesta's role with Rusnano, a state-run company founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group has learned.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats gripped by special election performance anxiety — Money is flooding into Democrat Jon Ossoff's campaign. The national party has started running focus groups on his behalf. Thousands of volunteers have flocked to his team to help him win his April special election for a vacant Atlanta-area congressional seat.
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Financial Times:
European markets join selling as Trump trade falters — Uncertainty over US healthcare overhaul fuels concerns about pro-business agenda — Read next … Stock markets suffered their worst falls since the election of Donald Trump as Wall Street worries about the prospects …
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Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
An asylum seeker who forced a 10-year-old to watch pornographic films before raping her is now pleading with the Swedish government not to deport him back to Iraq. — The 45-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker known only as Ahmed was put on trial for raping the 10-year-old girl in an asylum camp in Tjörn …
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