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Reuters:
France's Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online — A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Le Pen Is Just A Gargantuan Polling Error Behind Macron
Le Pen Is Just A Gargantuan Polling Error Behind Macron
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. House Candidate in Montana Is Caught on Tape Praising Health Bill — WASHINGTON — When Greg Gianforte, the Republican running for an open House seat in Montana, was asked on Thursday whether he would have supported the bill repealing the Affordable Care Act that passed the House that day, he declined to answer.
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House 2018: Rating Changes in 20 Districts — Republicans' 217-213 passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday guarantees Democrats will have at least one major on-the-record vote to exploit in the next elections. Although it's the first of potentially many explosive votes …
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
“I've never seen anything like this”: progressives see huge donation spike after AHCA vote
“I've never seen anything like this”: progressives see huge donation spike after AHCA vote
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Democrats' Losses in 2010 Can Tell Us About G.O.P.'s Chances in 2018
What Democrats' Losses in 2010 Can Tell Us About G.O.P.'s Chances in 2018
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
No, the AHCA Doesn't Make Rape a Preexisting Condition — The latest less-than-truthful meme about Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed by the U.S. House on Thursday, is that it makes rape a “preexisting condition” for health-insurance purposes.
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gov. Scott Walker would consider dropping fed pre-existing condition coverage rules for Wisconsin — MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he would consider having Wisconsin opt out of the pre-existing condition policies under the Affordable Care Act, depending on the final version of legislation headed to the U.S. Senate.
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The Daily Beast:
Trump and Bannon ‘Personally Intervened’ to Save Seb Gorka … When the White House backed off its efforts to dump Sebastian Gorka on another federal agency, the controversial counterterrorism advisor had the president himself to thank, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Washington Post:
Flynn was warned by Trump transition officials about contacts with Russian ambassador — Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by senior members of then President-elect Donald Trump's transition team about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador weeks …
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Trump Army secretary nominee withdraws — DON'T MISS A BRIEF. SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
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Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
White House fires its chief usher — the first woman in that job — The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, the first woman and second African American to hold the position. — When the White House residence staff arrived at work Friday morning, they were told that Reid …
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CNN:
Republicans defend having no women in health care group — Cassidy: Health bill should pass Kimmel test — Washington (CNN)Just hours after House Republicans managed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate is signaling it will write its own proposal …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys....
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys....
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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
CNN's Hughes demands apology from ‘bully’ Sam Bee for mocking her ‘mazel tov cocktail’ defense of Trump — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN contributor and Donald Trump booster Scottie Nell Hughes thinks comedian Samantha Bee “bullied” her last weekend during the …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
FCC to investigate, ‘take appropriate action’ on Colbert's Trump rant — Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert's controversial joke about President Trump drew the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency received “a number” of complaints about Colbert's commentary earlier …
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine activists spark a state's worst measles outbreak in decades — MINNEAPOLIS — The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don't let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella — it causes autism, they said.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump budget would effectively kill drug control office — President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget would cut about 95 percent of funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, effectively ending its mission as the lead agency in charge of combating the opioid crisis and other drug epidemics …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Everybody’ has better healthcare than US — President Trump said Friday that “everybody” has better healthcare than the United States. — “Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do —everybody does. ObamaCare is dead! But our healthcare will soon be great,” Trump tweeted.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Deputy press secretary substitutes for Spicer
Deputy press secretary substitutes for Spicer
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Juan Forero / Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela Is Starving — Once Latin America's richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls. The resulting hunger and malnutrition are an unfolding tragedy.
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Georgia Can't Block New Voters From Registering in the Ossoff-Handel Runoff — In a big win for voting rights, a federal court overturns the state's 90-day registration deadline — On March 22, 2017, Jill Boyd Myers moved from Atlanta to Sandy Springs, Georgia, relocating from the Fifth Congressional District to the Sixth.
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
A new website will ship your ashes to the GOP Rep. of your choice if Trumpcare kills you — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A new website will send your cremated remains to Republicans in Congress if the American Healthcare Act (AHCA) — also known as “Trumpcare” …
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Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
This Website Will Mail Your Ashes To The GOP If Trumpcare Kills You. Really.
This Website Will Mail Your Ashes To The GOP If Trumpcare Kills You. Really.
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Anthony Cormier / BuzzFeed:
This Is The Inside Of Trump's Lawyer's Passport — Trump's lawyer gave BuzzFeed News exclusive access to his passport, saying it proves he couldn't have attended an alleged secret meeting with Russian agents. — Since the publication of an unverified 35-page dossier alleging …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News trying to pull Jesse Watters from Bill O'Reilly comedy tour — This is why Bill O'Reilly was fired — Bill O'Reilly says his former protege at Fox News, Jesse Watters, will continue to make a series of public appearances with him this year. Fox News has other ideas.
Kim Bell / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Protester featured in iconic Ferguson photo found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound — Edward Crawford died overnight.
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Media Matters for America:
Gateway Pundit Threw A Gala For The “Alt-Right” And We Were There — On April 29, about a mile away from the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, a little over a hundred members of a group who dubiously brand themselves as purveyors of the “real news” gathered …
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Watch: Chris Collins admits he didn't read health care bill — WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Collins told CNN that he didn't read the entire Republican health care bill that the House passed Thursday. — And then he told The Buffalo News that he was unaware of a key provision in the bill …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sputnik denied permanent congressional credentials — The Congressional Periodical Press Gallery committee has denied Sputnik, a Russian state-owned news website, a permanent congressional press pass. — Sputnik has the opportunity to appeal the decision, said Senate Periodical Press Gallery Director Justin Wilson.
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing H.R. 244 into Law — Today I have signed into law H.R. 244, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, which authorizes appropriations that fund the operation of the Federal Government through September 30, 2017.
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