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New York Times:
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 …
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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Political Wire, Towleroad, Raw Story and Axios
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
If Obama had acted like Trump... Right-wing media to President Obama: We are so very sorry. — That's the message I got last week from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page. — The Journal abandoned efforts to make sense of President Trump's outright fiction that Obama wiretapped him.
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Raw Story
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation
Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation
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Talking Points Memo and NBC News
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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Talking Points Memo and NPR
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero
Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, Washington Post and Mediaite
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The aftermath of the failed health care push
The Note: The aftermath of the failed health care push
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Associated Press
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
White House looks to rack up wins after health care calamity
Francis Fukuyama / Politico:
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare
Trump's a Dictator? He Can't Even Repeal Obamacare
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Associated Press
Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Stop Blaming. Start Governing.
Stop Blaming. Start Governing.
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Daily Mail and Fox News
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Bannon Pushed Trump to Use Health Care Vote to Write Up “Enemies List”
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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Axios
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand
Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand
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Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight and Balloon Juice
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
What's “fake news”? 60 Minutes producers investigate
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The Gateway Pundit and Mike Cernovich Presents …
Mike Cernovich / Mike Cernovich Presents Danger & Play:
60 Minutes Preview, Mike Cernovich Calls Out Scott Pelley During Heated Interview
60 Minutes Preview, Mike Cernovich Calls Out Scott Pelley During Heated Interview
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Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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RedState, Shakesville and Althouse
Associated Press:
Ivanka Trump to attend women's economic summit in Berlin — Ivanka Trump is planning a trip to Germany to attend a summit on the economic empowerment of women, a senior administration official said Sunday. — The first daughter was invited by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during Merkel's …
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Political Wire and AOL
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Ivanka Trump to attend women's empowerment summit in Berlin
Ivanka Trump to attend women's empowerment summit in Berlin
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New York Magazine
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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Washington Times
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Colorado mosque vandalized with Bible — Colorado police are looking into a Sunday vandalism incident in which a surveillance video caught someone throwing a bible and rocks into a mosque. — Footage captures the man heaving several large rocks and a Bible into the building's glass doors …
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