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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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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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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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Republicans' new health amendment lets insurers charge sick people more, cover less
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Politico and Washington Post

Trump administration to defend contraception mandate required under Affordable Care Act
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GOP makes government funding offer excluding money for wall
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Politico, New York Times, Fox News and Hot Air


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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Judge Blocks Donald Trump's Executive Order On Sanctuary Cities
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JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
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Fellowship of the Minds and SARAH PALIN

Judge blocks Trump's order on sanctuary cities
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Vox, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Hot Air and The Resurgent

Federal judge blocks Trump's sanctuary cities order
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Federal Judge Rules That Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Is “Clearly Unconstitutional”
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, ImmigrationProf Blog and ACS Blog

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities
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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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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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Exclusive — Ivanka Rocks Berlin: President Trump's ‘Policies Are Central to the Economic Empowerment of Women’

In defense of Ivanka Trump after she was hissed at in Germany
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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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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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Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes
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Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
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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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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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Raw Story, Occupy Democrats, Refinery29 and The Root

Trump appoints Alles as Secret Service director
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New York Times and The Week


Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network — Fox News still under grand jury probe — Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs, including an anchor, joining a suit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network.
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Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
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TV Ratings: Tucker Carlson Tops in First Night at 8 O'Clock
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The Daily Caller and John Hawkins' Right Wing News


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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Business Insider, Daily Kos and Political Wire

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 …
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Trump expected to include Democrat-friendly spending in tax plan
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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 …


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.”


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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Russian Hackers Who Targeted Clinton Appear to Attack France's Macron
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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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East Bay Times


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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Politico, USA Today, CNNMoney, Washington Post, The Week, Media Matters for America and Occupy Democrats, more at Mediagazer »


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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Resurgent