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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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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys.... (CNN)House Republicans marched to the White House on Thursday afternoon to celebrate their victory: Passage of the American Health Care Act. — President Trump welcomed them with a Rose Garden celebration.
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The Atlantic and Hullabaloo
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Cheers a Big Victory. But Has It Stirred a 'Hornet's Nest'?
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Daily Kos, Raw Story, Taylor Marsh and The Week
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House on health care bill: ‘Never underestimate this president’
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ABC News, Vox and Media Matters for America
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Democrats' Losses in 2010 Can Tell Us About G.O.P.'s Chances in 2018
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CNN and FiveThirtyEight
Ryan Grenoble / HuffPost:
This Website Will Mail Your Ashes To The GOP If Trumpcare Kills You. Really.
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air and twitchy.com
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
A Few Grafs That Explain Why America Hates Vacuous Political Reporting
Jeff Stein / Vox:
“I've never seen anything like this”: progressives see huge donation spike after AHCA vote
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Business Insider, Daily Kos, Missoulian and Washington Post
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Cook Report Moves 20 House Seats In Dems' Favor After O'Care Repeal Vote
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Washington Post and The Week
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
HHS Secretary On Premium Hikes For The Older: 'Somebody's Going To Pay'
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Daily Kos
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
No, the AHCA Doesn't Make Rape a Preexisting Condition — The latest less-than-truthful meme about Republicans' Affordable 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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Axios
Bloomberg:
Senate Moves Obamacare Repeal to Slow Lane After House Squeaker
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Mother Jones and Marginal REVOLUTION
John Kartch / Americans for Tax Reform:
List of Obamacare Taxes Repealed
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Power Line, The Daily Caller and The Last Tradition
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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ABC News, Politico, CNN, New York Times, Shareblue, The Root, The Week, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and Axios
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 …
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Axios, Washington Post, Vox, Morning Consult, Shareblue, Occupy Democrats, Mediaite, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
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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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Politico and Political Wire
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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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Raw Story, The Week and God and Country
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.
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New York Times:
Second Chance for ‘Obamacare’ Repeal. And for Reince Priebus. — WASHINGTON — The Republican health care overhaul might never become law, but it has already changed the life of one American: Reince Priebus, who knew it was his best and perhaps last hope of becoming an empowered White House chief of staff.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
'The White House just couldn't let this go' — Donald Trump had had it.
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Vox, Axios, Washington Post, Shakesville and Hullabaloo
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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Outside the Beltway and ThinkProgress
Mercury News:
Lawsuit: Boys endured public shaming, violence following racist Instagram incident — ALBANY — Four Albany High School juniors punished for their roles in a racist Instagram posting incident have sued the school district and administration, alleging their free speech rights were violated …
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KRON4.com, IJR, AOL and CBS San Francisco
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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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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Judicial Watch: Two Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago cost more than $1 million — The conservative legal watchdog organization Judicial Watch says President Trump's flights to the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for two weekends in February and March cost taxpayers $1,281,420.
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Washington Post, Judicial Watch and TheBlaze
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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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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Islamic State magazine steers followers to U.S. gun shows for ‘easy’ access to weapons — In August, a former Islamic State recruit caused a stir when he described how the terrorist organization sought to exploit America's lax gun laws. — “They say the Americans are dumb …
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Defense One and twitchy.com
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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Daily Mail, Daily Kos, NBC News, The Root, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, The FADER, Shakesville and Mediaite
Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Rape charges to be dropped against immigrant teens in Md. case — Maryland prosecutors will drop rape and sex offense charges against two immigrant teens accused of attacking a 14-year-old classmate in a high school bathroom stall, according to attorneys in a case that shocked local parents …
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ThinkProgress, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn — Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn — A word on Obamacare. I relied on it until just recently when I joined New York's staff and went on an employer's plan, and, to tell the truth …
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