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New York Times:
Ivanka Trump, Shifting Plans, Will Become a Federal Employee — Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, is becoming an official government employee, joining her husband in serving as an unpaid adviser to her father in the White House. — Ms. Trump already has an office in the West Wing …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dem senators press ethics office over Ivanka Trump's role
Dem senators press ethics office over Ivanka Trump's role
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Devin Nunes Is Dangerous — Representative Devin Nunes obviously fancies himself Jason Bourne. To sneak onto the White House grounds for that rendezvous with an unnamed source last week, he switched cars and ditched aides, vanishing into the night. — But Senator Lindsey Graham looks at him and sees a different character.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Sean Spicer's kiss of death: ‘Phenomenal’ — The health care debacle, the travel ban setback, difficulties with Mexico, a slew of empty positions across the government — all are symptoms or causes of President Donald Trump's rocky first few weeks in office.
Fox News:
Former Obama official discloses rush to get intelligence on Trump team — A former top Obama administration official has acknowledged efforts by her colleagues to gather intelligence on Trump team ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and to conceal the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Nunes tries to blame Democrats for troubled Russia probe
Nunes tries to blame Democrats for troubled Russia probe
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Democrats Target Nunes After He Reveals Trump Transition Team Was Surveilled
Democrats Target Nunes After He Reveals Trump Transition Team Was Surveilled
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RedState
David Daleiden / The Center for Medical Progress:
PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S POLITICAL CRONIES FILE DISCREDITED CHARGES AGAINST DAVID DALEIDEN — The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news. They tried the same collusion with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and failed: both the charges and the DA were thrown out.
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Matt Hamilton / Los Angeles Times:
Antiabortion activists face 15 felony charges over undercover videos that targeted Planned Parenthood — David Daleiden, right, leaves a courtroom after a hearing in Houston last year. (Pat Sullivan / AP) — Two antiabortion activists whose controversial undercover videos accused Planned …
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YouTube:
Planned Parenthood Abortionist: “Pay Attention to Who's In the Room” to Deal With Infants Born Alive
Planned Parenthood Abortionist: “Pay Attention to Who's In the Room” to Deal With Infants Born Alive
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Andrew Dalton / USA Today:
Felony charges for 2 who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood
Felony charges for 2 who secretly filmed Planned Parenthood
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Two activists who filmed undercover videos of Planned Parenthood charged with 15 felonies
Two activists who filmed undercover videos of Planned Parenthood charged with 15 felonies
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Health care debacle takes toll on Trump — Voter perceptions of President Donald Trump's job performance have eroded following the failure of a long-promised health care bill through Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. — Trump's approval rating dropped …
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Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Red state Dems say no to Gorsuch, refuse to surrender stolen Supreme Court seat without a fight
Red state Dems say no to Gorsuch, refuse to surrender stolen Supreme Court seat without a fight
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Politico
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump's agenda is now squarely in Mitch McConnell's, and the Senate's, hands
Trump's agenda is now squarely in Mitch McConnell's, and the Senate's, hands
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Political Wire
Damon Linker / The Week:
The futility of filibustering Neil Gorsuch
The futility of filibustering Neil Gorsuch
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Houston Chronicle:
Beto O'Rourke to challenge Ted Cruz in Texas' 2018 Senate race — WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat and ex-punk rocker who pulled a stunning upset to win his House seat six years ago, plans to declare his candidacy on Friday for the Senate seat held by Ted Cruz, according to Democratic sources in Texas.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents — A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding …
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:
Chelsea Clinton: ‘I Am Not Running for Public Office’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Since the election, there's been endless chatter that Chelsea Clinton might follow in her parents' footsteps. But in an interview with Variety, she quashed those rumors. — “I am not running for public office,” Clinton said.
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them — They betrayed you for chump change — Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Interior secretary hints border wall could be on Mexican land — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said America can't give away the Rio Grande to Mexico in the process of building President Trump's signature border wall, implying the structure could wind up standing partially on Mexican land.
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Corbin Hiar / E&E News:
Zinke looks West for deputies and priorities, rejected VA job
Zinke looks West for deputies and priorities, rejected VA job
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Bloomberg:
House GOP Weighing Another Try on Obamacare Vote Next Week — Two Republicans say leaders discussing new vote after setback — Trump and Ryan pulled the bill last week, citing lack of votes — House Republicans are considering making another run next week at passing the health-care bill …
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Political Wire and Business Insider
Robert Lafranco / Bloomberg:
Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person — Amazon's founder adds $10.2 billion to his net worth this year — Warren Buffett falls $4.7 billion from peak during Trump rally — Jeff Bezos has leapt past Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett to become the world's second-richest person.
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Axios
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
How to lose friends and ‘exfoliate’ people — Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is caught between 2 worlds, and his friends are cutting ties — Signing up to carry out Donald Trump's vision of America has come at a cost to many of the president's closest allies.
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
Poll: Paul Ryan's Support Slides after Ryancare Crash — House Speaker Paul Ryan's poll rating have slid nationwide after many GOP members rejected his draft Ryancare law. — Ryan has a nationwide “favorable” rating of just 39 percent, down from the post-election peak of 46 percent in December …
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Patricia Mazzei / Naked Politics:
Paul Ryan heads to Palm Beach to meet with top donors
Paul Ryan heads to Palm Beach to meet with top donors
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ThinkProgress, Post On Politics, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump not concerned about Mar-a-lago costs, criticism — President Trump isn't concerned about the rising costs associated with his regular trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., the White House press secretary said Wednesday. — Sean Spicer addressed the topic during his briefing …
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The Hill:
How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans — The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons. False reassurance is given …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Clayton Cramer
Adelle Nazarian / Breitbart:
Menendez to AIPAC: Steve Bannon a ‘White Nationalist’ — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) took aim at President Donald Trump Chief White House Strategist Stephen K. Bannon on Tuesday, falsely claiming that “white nationalist dog whistles” were being “blown by Steve Bannon in the West Wing.”
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
A former Trump administration appointee who left without signing ethics pledge is now a lobbyist — He is the second known Trump appointee who left the administration without signing a pledge to limit his lobbying activities.
Eric Wolff / Politico:
Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’ — A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases “climate change,” “emissions reduction” or “Paris Agreement” in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO.
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Axios
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Trump's U.S. Census proposes, immediately cuts LGBT survey questions — The inclusion of LGBT categories in the Planned Subjects for the 2020 Census Report unveiled on Tuesday must have been music to the ears of LGBT advocates seeking to include sexual orientation and gender identity in federal surveys.
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Michelle Krupa / CNN:
Russian dressing is actually from Nashua, New Hampshire — (CNN)The White House press secretary tried to twist a cap on reporters' questions Tuesday about the Trump team's alleged ties to the Kremlin. — “If the President puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russia connection,” Sean Spicer said.
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Boston Herald:
Lawmaker's post warning of raids in Brockton roils ICE officials — Federal immigration officials are blasting a Brockton lawmaker for inciting “panic” after she took to Facebook to warn illegal immigrants about a rumored ICE sweep — a brazen move one fellow lawmaker said could put “lives in danger.”
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Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
New Huma Abedin Emails Reveal Additional Instances of Clinton Sending Classified Information through Unsecured Emails, Special Favors for Clinton Donors — Classified Document on Unsecured Email Included Discussion of Request for ‘Various Classified Intelligence Documents’ Concerning Guantanamo Terrorist Detainee Binyam Mohamed
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Ashley Collman / Daily Mail:
Christian student is suspended for ‘threatening’ his Muslim professor after he ‘confronted her for saying the Crucifixion was a hoax and Jesus’ disciples didn't believe he was God' — Marshall Polston, 20, was suspended from Rollins College on March 24, after his Middle Eastern humanities professor filed a police report about him
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Associated Press:
Lara Trump hired by Trump campaign's digital vendor — WASHINGTON — The digital vendor for President Donald Trump's political campaign has hired a new senior consultant: the president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. — The New Yorker, Eric Trump's wife, will serve as a liaison for San Antonio …
ABC News:
Woman in custody after ‘criminal’ incident near Capitol; police say ‘no nexus to terrorism’ — U.S. Capitol Police have apprehended a female driver after she nearly hit several officers and struck another vehicle near the U.S. Capitol, police said this morning.
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