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Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians — Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas — President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Internal White House battles spill into Treasury — The fight for the direction of Donald Trump's presidency between the Goldman Sachs branch of the West Wing and hardcore conservatives is spilling into the Treasury Department, threatening Trump's next agenda item of overhauling the tax code.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Senate committee to question Kushner over Russian meetings: report — The Senate Intelligence Committee will reportedly question White House adviser Jared Kushner as part of its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. — The committee wants to question Kushner …
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info — Washington (CNN)It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications …
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MJ Lee / CNN:
To read Trump's mind, lawmakers read ‘The Art of the Deal’ — (CNN)As members of the House Freedom Caucus plotted to seize control of Donald Trump's health care bill earlier this month, they discovered a key weakness in the President's strategy. — In a memo circulated to members …
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The aftermath of the failed health care push
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Associated Press
Francis Fukuyama / Politico:
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare
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Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Stop Blaming. Start Governing.
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Bannon Pushed Trump to Use Health Care Vote to Write Up “Enemies List”
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts — WASHINGTON — Picking themselves up after the bruising collapse of their health care plan, President Trump and Republicans in Congress will start this week on a legislative obstacle course that will be even more arduous …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The King of Crash and Burn — In the movie “Iron Man 2” (yes, superhero films are my guilty pleasure, so just bear with me) the villain, a rogue Russian scientist, informs the hero, Iron Man, of his theory on how easily he could be brought down: — “If you could make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him.
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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
White House Opens Door to Democrats in Wake of Health-Bill Failure — Move signals Trump administration is fed up with many factions in House Republican conference — WASHINGTON—The White House sent a warning shot to congressional Republicans that it may increase its outreach to Democrats …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand
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Alberto Nardelli / BuzzFeed:
The German Government Denies Reports That Trump Gave Merkel A NATO “Invoice” — “The reports about the mentioned invoice or bill are wrong,” a German government spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. — The German government has denied receiving a “bill” or an “invoice” amounting to billions of dollars “owed” by Germany to NATO.
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Ivanka Trump to attend women's economic summit in Berlin
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Reportedly Handed Merkel a $374 Billion Invoice for NATO
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Scott Pelley is pulling no punches on the nightly news — and people are taking notice — With the words “credibility questioned” prominent on the screen, Scott Pelley once again is doing what network evening-news anchors generally don't do: abandoning careful neutrality in favor of pointed truth-telling.
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CBS News:
What's “fake news”? 60 Minutes producers investigate
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60 Minutes Preview, Mike Cernovich Calls Out Scott Pelley During Heated Interview
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Liam Deacon / Breitbart:
British cultural icon and punk rock godfather John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) has hailed the “joy” of populist, anti-establishment movements across the West. — Mr Lydon backed Brexit, claimed President Donald J. Trump was unfairly smeared by the “left wing” media, and said he wanted to shake …
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Maureen Dowd / Vanity Fair:
Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse — Elon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley's latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him. And he thinks you should be frightened too. Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field …
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The Daily Caller
Thomas Groome / New York Times:
To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party — When I came to this country from Ireland some 45 years ago, a cousin, here 15 years before, advised me that Catholics vote Democratic. Having grown up in the Irish Republic, I was well disposed to Republican Party principles like local autonomy and limited government.
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Miranda Yaver / Washington Post:
States with more Planned Parenthood clinics have fewer teen births and sexually transmitted diseases — Republicans in Congress have long aimed to cut Planned Parenthood's federal funding. Despite the failure on Friday of the American Health Care Act, many observers expect Congress to try …
Heather J. Carlson / Post Bulletin:
Democrat Walz to run for governor … Tim Walz U.S. Congressman First Congressional District of Minnesota held a town hall style meeting Thursday night February 23, 2017 at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minn. This was the first such meeting held by Walz in Rochester since 2011.
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