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New York Times:
2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports — WASHINGTON — A pair of White House officials played a role in providing Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with the intelligence reports that showed President Trump …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
White House shuffles West Wing staff after health bill collapse — Less than a week after suffering a stinging defeat on health care legislation, President Donald Trump shook up his West Wing staff on Thursday, dispatching one of his top aides to shore up an outside political group …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
2 White House officials helped Nunes get intel: report — Two White House officials helped House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) acquire information that he says shows President Trump's transition team was incidentally surveilled, according to The New York Times.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Report: White House officials were Devin Nunes' ‘wiretap’ sources after all
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dem senator: Intel panel should probe financial ties between Trump, Russia
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Inside the White House's Infrastructure Plan
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Emma Dumain / Post and Courier:
South Carolina U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford: Trump threatened to back primary challenger against me … WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of crumbling negotiations over the GOP bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump said last week he wanted to oust incumbent U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford in 2018.
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Axios:
House GOP health care peacemaking deteriorates — There was an effort yesterday to get House GOP conservatives — the House Freedom Caucus and Republican Study Committee — to meet with GOP moderates — the Tuesday Group — to talk about a path forward after last week's failed health care effort.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Centrist group in House ‘will never’ meet with Freedom Caucus — The centrist Tuesday Group affirmed at a meeting Wednesday that it will not meet with the conservative House Freedom Caucus to negotiate changes to an ObamaCare replacement bill, according to Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.).
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
‘We Must Fight Them’: Trump Goes After Conservatives of Freedom Caucus
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘We must fight’ hard-line conservative Freedom Caucus in 2018 midterm elections
Neil W. McCabe / Breitbart:
Rep. Dave Brat on Trump's Anti-House Freedom Caucus Tweets: 'I Don't Know Who Has His Ear'
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Crisis of Trumpism
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Pence breaks tie in Senate vote on Planned Parenthood funding — Vice President Mike Pence and a GOP senator recovering from surgery were dramatically summoned to the Senate Thursday to advance legislation that would allow states to block federal family-planning funds to Planned Parenthood.
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Los Angeles Times:
Editorial Felony charges are a disturbing overreach for the duo behind the Planned Parenthood sting videos
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
A Liberal Fantasy Ripped from a Hollywood Script
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Mike Pence Brings Congress One Step Closer to Defunding Planned Parenthood
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Nicole Gaudiano / USA Today:
With Vice President Pence breaking tie, Senate moves against Planned Parenthood
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RedState and SARAH PALIN
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
McCaskill warns Democratic donors of pitfalls of blocking Trump nominee for high court — Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri warned Democratic donors that blocking President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee could have dire consequences, according to audio obtained by The Star.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Nuke 'Em 'Til They Glow — The Democrats must learn through pain, specifically the agony of watching Neil Gorsuch take the seat that they stompy-feet insist belongs to Merrick Garland. For too long, they've packed the bench with liberal partisans committed to exercising raw power as an end-run around democracy and the Constitution.
Raleigh News & Observer:
HB2 repeal compromise clears Senate, heads to House — RALEIGH — The state Senate on Thursday approved a compromise bill that repeals House Bill 2 but restricts future anti-discrimination ordinances in cities and counties. — Opposition and support for the bill did not fall along party lines in the 32-16 vote.
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Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo:
This Is Almost Certainly James Comey's Twitter Account — Digital security and its discontents—from Hillary Clinton's emails to ransomware to Tor hacks—is in many ways one of the chief concerns of the contemporary FBI. So it makes sense that the bureau's director, James Comey …
Nick Gutteridge / Daily Express:
EU could BREAK UP the US: Juncker in jaw-dropping threat to Trump over support for Brexit — EUROPEAN Union boss Jean-Claude Juncker this afternoon issued a jaw-dropping threat to the United States, saying he could campaign to break up the country in revenge for Donald Trump's supportive comments about Brexit.
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Theresa May's Empty Brexit Promises
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Paul Wood / BBC:
Trump Russia dossier key claim ‘verified’ — The BBC has learned that US officials “verified” a key claim in a report about Kremlin involvement in Donald Trump's election - that a Russian diplomat in Washington was in fact a spy. — So far, no single piece of evidence has been made public proving …
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Van Jones / CNN:
Trump may have signed Earth's death warrant — Van Jones is the host of CNN's “The Messy Truth.” He is president of The Dream Corps. Follow him on Twitter @VanJones68. The opinions expressed are his. — (CNN)As usual, Donald Trump is completely upside down on the facts.
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Rebecca Leber / Mother Jones:
“Irrational,” “Reckless,” “Irresponsible”: The EPA Just Accidentally Told the Truth About Trump's Climate Plan
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
EPA climate release tries to praise Trump but blasts him instead
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Time for some fame theory: Meet the eccentric liberal analyst whose unhinged tweetstorms have made him Twitter-famous — Eric Garland went to sleep on December 10 with 5,000 Twitter followers. When he woke up the next day he had 30,000. — “It was pretty awesome,” Garland told Business Insider in an interview.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Bannon May Have Violated Ethics Pledge by Communicating With Breitbart — Top Trump advisor Steve Bannon may have violated a White House ethics agreement by communicating with employees of his former media company, the vociferously pro-Trump outlet Breitbart News.
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David Ovalle / miamiherald:
Trump strategist Bannon won't be charged in Miami voter registration probe
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CNBC:
Putin says claims that Russia interfered in US elections are ‘lies’ — Accusations that Russia interfered in last year's U.S. elections are “lies” used for “domestic American politics,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. — “We said on numerous occasions and I reiterate …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Signals It Would Seek Mostly Modest Changes to Nafta — One change would be in government-procurement section of deal that could open up door for ‘Buy American’ policies — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is signaling to Congress it would seek mostly modest changes …
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New York Times:
U.S. War Footprint Grows in Middle East, With No Endgame in Sight — BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United States launched more airstrikes in Yemen this month than during all of last year. In Syria, it has airlifted local forces to front-line positions and has been accused of killing civilians in airstrikes.
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Decision Desk HQ:
Creating a National Precinct Map … In January 2011, I sent an email to the Washington State Democratic Party asking about precinct results from the 2008 presidential caucus race. State party chairman Jaxon Ravens replied simply with the question, “Why would you want them?”
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Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
I worked for Jared Kushner. He's the wrong businessman to reinvent government. — How the New York Observer could predict the fate of the Office of American Innovation. — On my first day of work as the editor in chief of the New York Observer, which had been acquired five years earlier …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why Trump's unpopularity is historically unique — President Trump is not the first president to see his approval rating drop to 35 percent, as it did in Gallup's most recent tracking poll. — But he is the first president on record to go that low without it owing to one of three things: war, Watergate or economic strife.
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