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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 — Donald Trump was just a normal polling error behind Hillary Clinton on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. The far-right National Front candidate in France, Marine Le Pen, by contrast, is an enormous, historic polling error behind …
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Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack — PARIS — The campaign staff of the French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Friday evening that it had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation after internal campaign documents were published online on social media.
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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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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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Avik Roy / Forbes:
If The Senate Doesn't Fix The House's Obamacare Replacement, The GOP Will Pay A Steep Price
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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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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Trump Army secretary nominee withdraws — DON'T MISS A BRIEF. SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
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CNN:
Mark Green withdraws his nomination for Army secretary
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Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity
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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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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....
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House on health care bill: ‘Never underestimate this president’
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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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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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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.
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
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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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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.
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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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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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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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 …
Fox News:
George Soros battles $10B lawsuit, familiar charges of wielding political influence — A $10 billion suit against George Soros accuses the self-styled humanitarian of meddling in the politics of a poor African country in order to settle his own scores, a charge the billionaire's critics say reflects his longtime modus operandi.
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Deborah Barfield Berry / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Rep. Mo Brooks considers bid for Alabama Senate seat — WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Mo Brooks said he is “seriously” considering challenging Alabama Sen. Luther Strange in an upcoming special election and has even conducted a poll to see where he stands. — “We are very much exploring …
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