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Dean Karayanis / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Looks Like Trump Is Caving on Funding the Wall — RUSH: I'm not happy to have to pass this on. I'm very, very troubled to have to pass this on. And I want to say at the outset that I hope my interpretation is wrong, and I hope this is not the case. But it looks like, from here …
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Republicans offer spending plan without border wall as Trump continues to vow that it will be built — A new Republican bid to keep the government open past Friday includes no new money for the construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, diminishing the chances of a last-minute spending fight.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan — White House officials and several Republican lawmakers claimed Tuesday they were nearing a deal on health-care legislation with the House Freedom Caucus, with at least three leading figures in the hard-line group ready to support …
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Looks like Trump is ‘caving’ on border wall — Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that it looks like President Trump is “caving” on his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a high-profile campaign promise, ahead of a Friday deadline to fund the government.
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Ali Rogin / ABC News:
GOP makes government funding offer excluding money for wall
GOP makes government funding offer excluding money for wall
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Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Blocked by Federal Judge — San Francisco, Santa Clara County win court injunctions — President argued ‘immeasurable harm to the American people’ — A San Francisco judge barred enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order withholding funds …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge blocks Trump's order on sanctuary cities
Judge blocks Trump's order on sanctuary cities
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Federal judge blocks Trump's sanctuary cities order
Federal judge blocks Trump's sanctuary cities order
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Rules That Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Is “Clearly Unconstitutional”
Federal Judge Rules That Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Is “Clearly Unconstitutional”
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Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities
Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies — Beyond proposed cut from 39.6%, president wants to slash corporate levies on firms' foreign profits — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday is planning to unveil a proposal to cut corporate taxes …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Ryan likely to get rolled on tax reform — Donald Trump is set to steamroll Paul Ryan on tax reform, the issue the speaker has devoted his political career to achieving. — But don't expect Ryan to relinquish his pet cause easily. — The White House on Wednesday will drop the outlines …
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes
Ben White / Politico:
Trump expected to include Democrat-friendly spending in tax plan
Trump expected to include Democrat-friendly spending in tax plan
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump gets booed, hissed at during Berlin event — BERLIN — Ivanka Trump arrived in Berlin on Tuesday morning armed with facts and figures to recite at what was expected to be a highbrow international summit to discuss women's entrepreneurship, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Workers endured long hours, low pay at Chinese factory used by Ivanka Trump's clothing-maker — Workers at a factory in China used by the company that makes clothing for Ivanka Trump's fashion line and other brands worked nearly 60 hours a week to earn wages of little more than $62 a week, according to a factory audit released Monday.
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Ivanka Rocks Berlin: President Trump's ‘Policies Are Central to the Economic Empowerment of Women’
Exclusive — Ivanka Rocks Berlin: President Trump's ‘Policies Are Central to the Economic Empowerment of Women’
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
In defense of Ivanka Trump after she was hissed at in Germany
In defense of Ivanka Trump after she was hissed at in Germany
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Justin Green / Axios:
Ted Cruz introduces “EL CHAPO Act” to pay for the wall — Senator Ted Cruz wants to use assets seized from drug lords such as El Chapo, the Mexican kingpin who was recently extradited to the U.S., to pay for border security and the border wall. — The idea: U.S. prosecutors …
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CNN:
White House denies House investigation request for Flynn documents — What you need to know about Michael Flynn — (CNN)The White House declined Tuesday to provide documents related to President Donald Trump's former national security adviser that the panel investigating Michael Flynn had requested …
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Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
White House Refuses to Turn Over Flynn Documents to House Inquiry — WASHINGTON — White House officials have refused to turn over documents related to the hiring and firing of Michael T. Flynn, President Trump's first national security adviser, the -House's top oversight lawmakers said Tuesday.
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The Huffington Post:
Sen. Mike Enzi: A Guy Who Wears A Tutu To A Bar ‘Kind Of Asks For It’ — The Wyoming senator was speaking to a group of high school and middle school students. — Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian …
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KWWL-TV:
Iowa State Patrol Investigators inspecting crash involving Chris Soules — The Buchanan County Sheriff's Office says Chris Soules has been arrested for leaving the scene of a deadly crash. — Soules, who's from Arlington, is well known for starring in the show “The Bachelor.”
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Marine Le Pen May Get a Lift From an Unlikely Source: The Far Left — PARIS — The far-right leader Marine Le Pen faces an uphill battle in France's presidential runoff, less than two weeks away. But she saw daylight through a small window on Tuesday, and from an unlikely source: her defeated counterpart on the far left.
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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Russian Hackers Who Targeted Clinton Appear to Attack France's Macron
Russian Hackers Who Targeted Clinton Appear to Attack France's Macron
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Mike Rowe:
This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country's war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society. Behold the latest assault from Nordstrom's. The “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans.” http://bit.ly/2oYpyBn — Finally - a pair of jeans that look …
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Has Been Denied Permanent Congressional Press Credentials — The standing committee of the US Senate Daily Press Gallery has denied Breitbart News permanent credentials to Capitol Hill, a move that would have given the right-wing news outlet more legitimacy within the Washington media.
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Washington Post:
UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus — The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests in a public plaza on campus after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon.
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Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
Hannity: No Longer Can the Slander Against Me Slide — ‘I Have Hired a Team of Some of the Best Attorneys in This Country’ — In the opening monologue of his Monday Fox News Channel broadcast, Sean Hannity, host of Hannity, confronted attacks against him and his character head-on.
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Ben Becker / WJAX:
Brawl at Orange Park Mall involved up to 60 people, Clay County Sheriff's Office says — A video of Saturday's brawl at the Orange Park Mall has gone viral — it now has more than 800,000 views on the Action News Jax Facebook page. — The Clay County Sheriff's Office said up to 60 people …
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Scott Soshnick / Bloomberg:
Jeb Bush-Derek Jeter Group Said to Win Auction for Marlins — Sale price for Major League Baseball team isn't known — Other bidders were Tagg Romney and Quogue Capital's Rothbaum — A group led by former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter has won …
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Tucker Doherty / Politico:
The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think — How did big media miss the Donald Trump swell? News organizations old and new, large and small, print and online, broadcast and cable assigned phalanxes of reporters armed with the most sophisticated polling data and analysis to cover the presidential campaign.
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Sarah Wildman / Vox:
Trump's Holocaust Remembrance Day speech was normal — for any other president — After months of missteps, the president delivers an appropriately somber speech on the Holocaust. — President Donald Trump delivered the type of strong, somber speech about the Holocaust Tuesday morning …
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Protesters Storm Heritage Foundation — Protesters demanding a “budget for the people” stormed the offices of the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. — The Twitter account “People's Action” tweeted out videos of protesters entering the building and chanting “shut it down!”
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