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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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German crowd hisses, boos at Ivanka when she defends her dad — (CNN)Ivanka Trump defended her father at a women's panel in Berlin Tuesday after attendees hissed and booed when she attempted to champion her father's commitment to women's issues. — The event opened with the first daughter explaining her role in the White House.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump booed at women's panel in Germany — Ivanka Trump faced a tough audience Tuesday after calling her father a “tremendous champion of supporting families” during a women's panel in Germany. — The first daughter spoke about about her father's attitude toward women …
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Financial Times:
Investment in women unleashes global gains
Investment in women unleashes global gains
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Conservative media figures disappointed with Trump meeting — Some conservative media figures invited to an exclusive event with President Trump Monday night left the White House frustrated and complaining that Trump's staff had intentionally sought to limit what they could report out of the meeting.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House ‘confident’ of averting shutdown as Trump shows flexibility on wall — The White House sought Monday to calm a jittery Washington ahead of a showdown with Congress over spending, and President Trump softened his demand that a deal to keep the federal government open include money …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House backtracks after Trump opens the door to delaying funding for border wall
White House backtracks after Trump opens the door to delaying funding for border wall
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Willing to Hold Off on Border-Wall Funding
Trump Willing to Hold Off on Border-Wall Funding
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump willing to delay border wall push
Trump willing to delay border wall push
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New York Times:
As North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, U.S. Fears Time Will Run Out — WASHINGTON — Behind the Trump administration's sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
O'Reilly: Fans will be ‘shaken’ when truth comes out about Fox exit — Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said he is “sad” that he's not on television anymore and admitted Monday evening he's “very surprised how it all turned out” regarding his split with his network home of more than 20 years.
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Newt Gingrich to Hannity: 'There's a War Against Fox News'
Newt Gingrich to Hannity: 'There's a War Against Fox News'
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Tantaros Adds to Fox Fight With Claim of ‘Sockpuppet’ Attack
Tantaros Adds to Fox Fight With Claim of ‘Sockpuppet’ Attack
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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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Chad Kiewiet De Jonge / ABC News:
Only 37 percent say Trump should repeal and replace Obamacare: Poll — As President Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress gear up for another attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare, an ABC News/Washington Post poll finds broad public preference for keeping and improving it …
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Public pans Republicans' latest approach to replacing Affordable Care Act
Public pans Republicans' latest approach to replacing Affordable Care Act
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: 50 Percent Have Little to No Confidence in GOP Health-Care Push
Poll: 50 Percent Have Little to No Confidence in GOP Health-Care Push
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Bloomberg:
Trump Slaps Duty on Canada Lumber, Intensifying Trade Fight — Step will raise cost of home-building, mattress box springs — Canada vows to fight back against 'unfair" import duties — U.S. President Donald Trump intensified a trade dispute with Canada, slapping tariffs of up to 24 percent …
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Bonnie Bacarisse / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Lawmaker Who Secretly Created Reddit's Women-Hating ‘Red Pill’ — Last November, voters in New Hampshire's Lakes Region re-elected to the state House of Representatives a man who appears to be one of the secret architects of the Internet's misogynistic “Manosphere.”
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
How an Alternative Donald Trump Opening Act Might Have Unfolded — The president could have taken advantage of the fact he isn't an ideological conservative or traditional Republican, but a centrist — Let's imagine an alternative opening act to the Trump presidency.
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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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Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia — Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March — PARIS—Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts …
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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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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? — Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped to start. But is the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created? — In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20 …
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The Daily Caller
Jacob Carpenter / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Prosecutors: Inmate's water cut off for 7 days before his death in the Milwaukee County Jail — An inquest has been ordered following the April 2016 dehydration death of Milwaukee County Jail inmate Terrill Thomas. Here's how an inquest works, and how the only other Milwaukee County inquest in the past decade ended.
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
The Effects of Ending the Affordable Care Act's Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments — Controversy has emerged recently over federal payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) related to cost-sharing reductions for low-income enrollees in the ACA's marketplaces.
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Wikipedia founder to fight fake news with new Wikitribune site — Crowdfunded online publication from Jimmy Wales will pair paid journalists with army of volunteer contributors … Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new online publication which will aim to fight fake news …
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Eliza Collins / USA Today:
Republicans in Congress push for religious liberty executive order — WASHINGTON — Dozens of Republican lawmakers are asking President Trump to scale back Obama-era protections for gays and lesbians in order to make good on a campaign promise to protect religious liberty.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Trump's tax plan — JUST WONDERING: What is the W.H. gov't shutdown strategy? — POLITICO names new CEO — ANNIE KARNI on Ivanka in Berlin — LUMBER WARS — B'DAY: AshLee Strong — Listen to the Playbook Audio Briefing http://bit.ly/2orock8 ... Subscribe on iTunes http …
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE - Clinton Sex Accusers Slam ‘Hypocritical’ Media over Bill O'Reilly Coverage — Speaking to Breitbart News, the victims of Bill Clinton's alleged sexual assault — Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones - blasted the news media for purportedly dismissing their own accusations …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Flynn's Turkish lobbying linked to Russia — The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has business ties to Russia, including a 2009 aviation financing deal negotiated with Vladimir Putin, according to court records.
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