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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Rice denies Obama administration inappropriately unmasked Trump team — Former national security adviser Susan Rice on Tuesday categorically denied that the Obama administration inappropriately spied on President Trump or members of his transition team. — “The allegation is that somehow …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Susan Rice and the Latest Bogus Attempt to Justify Trump's Wiretapping Tweet
Susan Rice and the Latest Bogus Attempt to Justify Trump's Wiretapping Tweet
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Occupy Democrats, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hullabaloo and Washington Monthly
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Susan Rice's White House Unmasking: A Watergate-style Scandal
Susan Rice's White House Unmasking: A Watergate-style Scandal
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Why Is CNN Refuting The Susan Rice Story It Refuses To Cover?
Why Is CNN Refuting The Susan Rice Story It Refuses To Cover?
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Jim Norman / Gallup:
Affordable Care Act Gains Majority Approval for First Time — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty-five percent of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major turnaround from five months ago when 42% approved and 53% disapproved. This is the first time a majority of Americans …
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - April 2017: The Fall of the AHCA and Next Steps for the ACA — Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Bryan Wu, and Mollyann Brodie — KEY FINDINGS: — The latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, conducted the week after House Republicans pulled the American Health Care Act …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
How to End the Politicization of the Courts — Mainstream news coverage has a hard time making subtle distinctions between the behavior of the two political parties. When Democratic and Republican tactics are blatantly different — on voter suppression, for instance — journalists are often comfortable saying so.
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Ian Mason / Breitbart:
Go for Launch: Mitch McConnell Tees Up Showdown on Constitutional Option
Go for Launch: Mitch McConnell Tees Up Showdown on Constitutional Option
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
A (probably futile) plea for sanity in the Senate
A (probably futile) plea for sanity in the Senate
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The Senate is about to change forever
The Senate is about to change forever
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Axios:
Trumpcare revival talks falling apart ahead of Pence meeting — Attempts to reach a deal this week on health care are unraveling fast, with conservatives already blaming House Speaker Paul Ryan for blocking the White House bill, and leadership sources saying that's nonsense and that the Freedom Caucus …
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The Hill:
Centrists push back on new ObamaCare repeal plan — A new proposal from the White House and GOP leaders to revive ObamaCare repeal is facing pushback from centrist Republicans who were already wary of the legislation. — Seeking to win over conservative holdouts, Republicans have talked …
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Federal appeals court: Civil rights law covers LGBT workplace bias — A federal appeals court in Chicago ruled Tuesday that a 1964 law barring sex discrimination extends to sexual orientation, marking a major workplace victory for gays and lesbians. — The 8-3 decision by the full U.S. Court …
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Lambda Legal:
Federal Court Rules Employers Can't Fire People for Being Gay
Federal Court Rules Employers Can't Fire People for Being Gay
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
LGBT employees protected from workplace discrimination, appeals court rules
LGBT employees protected from workplace discrimination, appeals court rules
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The Slot
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone: Kushner Is Leaking Intel to Scarborough — During a segment on InfoWars today, Roger Stone, who was previously an adviser during the early months of President Trump's campaign, claimed to host Alex Jones that Trump's own son-in-law Jared Kushner was leaking information to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.
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The Daily Beast:
Assad Apparently ‘Gasses’ Civilians Days After Tillerson Hints He Can Stay in Power — Days ago, in Ankara, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled that the U.S. had no quarrel with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a man Tillerson's predecessor compared to Adolf Hitler after he slaughtered …
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Ben Popken / NBC News:
Advertisers Flee Fox's Bill O'Reilly Show Amid Sexual Harassment Lawsuits — Fox News is in a jam this week as major automakers and smaller outfits pull their ads from the network's popular “O'Reilly Factor” show, following a series of sexual harassment claims against host Bill O'Reilly.
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Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Eric Trump Offers Surprisingly Candid Thoughts On Nepotism — No modern president has put as much power in the hands of so many family members as Donald Trump. On January 9, he named son-in-law Jared Kushner as his senior advisor despite anti-nepotism laws previously believed to prevent such an appointment.
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Washington Post:
White House explores two new tax ideas — a value-added tax and carbon tax — as leading proposal to raise revenue falters — President Trump's administration is exploring the creation of two controversial new taxes — a value-added tax and a carbon tax — as part of a broad overhaul of the tax code …
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Daily Wire, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Mother Jones and Axios
Rebecca Nelson / Cosmopolitan:
Ivanka Trump's Wine-Drinking, Fur Coat-Clad Neighbor Is a Little Confused Why The Internet Loves Her — “It's so weird, because I don't even quite understand what the word ‘go viral’ means.” — On Saturday night, hundreds of people danced outside of Ivanka Trump's Washington home …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
White House: ‘The clock has now run out’ on North Korean nuclear program — Washington (CNN)A senior White House official issued a dire warning to reporters Tuesday on the state of North Korea's nuclear program, declaring “the clock has now run out and all options are on the table.”
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Can Trump Match Xi Jinping's Game?
Can Trump Match Xi Jinping's Game?
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
A Short Section In Neil Gorsuch's 2006 Book Appears To Be Copied From A Law Review Article — WASHINGTON — A short section in Judge Neil Gorsuch's 2006 book appears to copy — at times word-for-word — from a 1984 law review article by a lawyer in Indiana.
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
BILL TO IMPROVE WEATHER FORECASTS HEADS TO PRESIDENT'S DESK — WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Weather Service would have to boost research - including some from private companies - to improve forecasts and storm warnings under a bill headed to the president's desk.
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It. — Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create. — At 3:58 on a recent Wednesday afternoon in Washington, CNN's largest control room was mostly empty but for a handful of producers hunched over control panels and …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
WATCH: Boos erupt after Trump tells room full of construction workers that he won most of their votes — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked with a room full of construction union members, and things got a little awkward for him when he started boasting about his big election victory.
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Former Border Chief: Arizona Wall Put A Dramatic Stop To Illegal Crossings — A former border chief cites an Arizona wall that dramatically cut illegal immigrant crossings as proof barriers can work to keep people out in testimony prepared for a Senate hearing Tuesday.
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Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Why You Shouldn't Walk on Escalators — The train pulls into Pennsylvania Station during the morning rush, the doors open and you make a beeline for the escalators. — You stick to the left and walk up the stairs, figuring you can save precious seconds and get a bit of exercise.
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
Kirsten Gillibrand Is Becoming a Progressive Champion. Is a 2020 Run Next? — The Democrats' most unlikely holy warrior smells rebellion in the air. — As Kirsten Gillibrand ascended to the pulpit at the Bridge Street AME Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant in late February, the congregation seemed to tense with apprehension.
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Hans Fiene / The Federalist:
Why Men and Women Can Never Be ‘Just Friends’ — The latest numbers on American birth rates are in, and they yield only one reasonable conclusion: All of us need to start having more babies or else the upcoming demographic tsunami will consume our nation, cripple our social programs …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Mac Pro Lives — Let's not beat around the bush. I have great news to share: — Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honking hot-running GPUs, and which should make it easier for Apple …
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CBS News:
Ivanka Trump interview: “If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good ... then I'm complicit” — In her first interview since becoming assistant to the president, Ivanka Trump addressed critics who have said she and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, are “complicit” with President Trump.
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