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ProPublica:
Comey's Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate  —  FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his “incredibly painful” decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
KCRG-TV:
Blum walks out of interview with TV9  —  DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) - Congressman Rob Blum, who represents Iowa's First District, sat down one on one with TV9 Investigative Reporter Josh Scheinblum for an interview.  —  But the interview ended abruptly, with Rep. Blum walking out during our second question.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Iowa congressman walks out of a TV interview and into an angry town hall meeting  —  DUBUQUE, Iowa — An Iowa congressman walked out of a television interview on Monday, declining to explain why his staff is pre-screening constituents who plan to attend his town hall meetings this week.
JGoldsmith / Lawfare:
Yates Changes Her Tune  —  Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates at the Department of Labor, April 2016 / Department of Labor  —  “Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today—she said nothing but old news!”  So tweeted our President a few hours ago about today's testimony …
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
6 Takeaways From Monday's Senate Hearing on Russia
NBC News:
Flynn Never Told DIA That Russians Paid Him, Say Officials
Austin Wright / Politico:
Key moments from Sally Yates' Flynn testimony
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans: Obamacare repeal won't sink us in 2018  —  Republicans on Monday disputed forecasts that they would lose seats in 2018 because of their vote to partially repeal Obamacare.  —  Pointing to previously undisclosed voter data, Republican strategists and congressional aides …
Discussion: Political Wire and AOL
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Republican Obamacare repeal would hit N.J harder than any other state
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Left adopts shock tactics in Obamacare repeal fight
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
ACLU Makes It Official: The Only Thing Wrong With Trump's Travel Order Is Trump  —  The Democrats who attacked President Trump's travel order in front of carefully-selected Democratic judges made the extraordinary claim that the President's statements on the stump, as a candidate …
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The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Candidate Nominations
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dem senator rips GOP insurance claim: ‘What the f—k is that?’  —  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) ripped a GOP lawmaker's claim that individuals won't die without healthcare, saying, “What the f—k is that?”  —  “Like this guy, this congressman, you might as well say, 'People don't starve …
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
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Sean Cockerham / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
President Kamala Harris?  She's making the first moves.  —  LOS ANGELES  —  Now's the time prospective presidential candidates start taking the subtle but crucial behind-the-scenes steps that get them noticed by the political intelligentsia, and Sen. Kamala Harris is quietly following the script.
Brian Faler / Politico:
Republicans war over taxes  —  House Republican leaders are battling the Trump administration as well as many of their own colleagues in Congress — including the Freedom Caucus — over one of the most basic questions surrounding their tax plans this year: Should they go for a once …
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John Ivison / National Post:
White House advisors called Ottawa to urge Trudeau to help talk Trump down from scrapping NAFTA  —  White House staff called the Prime Minister's Office last month to urge Justin Trudeau to persuade President Donald Trump not to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to multiple Canadian government sources.
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Moon Jae-in Poised to Win South Korean Presidency, Exit Polls Show  —  Exit polls show huge victory for Mr. Moon, who has said that South Korea needs to learn to say ‘no’ to the U.S.
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan  —  President Trump's most senior military and foreign policy advisers have proposed a major shift in strategy in Afghanistan that would effectively put the United States back on a war footing with the Taliban.
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:   Trump Advisers Call for More Troops to Break Afghan Deadlock
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
Duke Divinity Crisis: The Documents Are Out  —  A source at DDS sends me the original e-mail exchanges that have caused the current crisis.  Here they are, chronologically presented:  —  1. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Anathea Portier-Young wrote:  —  Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is turning liberals into conspiracy theorists  —  (CNN)Much has been written about how President Trump's election has had a profound impact on the Republican party.  What's drawn less attention — but deserves more! — is how Trump is affecting Democrats.
David McCabe / Axios:
Inside Zuck's real political strategy  —  Mark Zuckerberg is on a nationwide tour that has people thinking about his political ambitions.  But events on the trip are mostly private, which Facebook says encourages the people Zuckerberg is meeting with to be candid without the press watching.
Discussion: The Week
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud: report  —  Federal investigators are looking into allegations that Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) wife, Jane Sanders, falsified loan documents while she served as the president of Burlington College, according to multiple reports.
Discussion: Political Wire, Hot Air and AOL
Bloomberg:
Obamacare Premiums Rise as Insurers Fret Over Law's Shaky Future  —  Costs up more than 20% in three states that have posted rates  —  Doubts about mandate raise premiums, health insurers say  —  Health insurers are asking for sharp increases in the cost of their Obamacare plans next year …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Vox
Politico:
Who has Trump's ear?  Often rich, white, Republican men.  —  The people who have met with Donald Trump since he became president tend to have a lot in common, according to a database POLITICO compiled from public documents, media accounts and its own reporting: They're mostly male, largely Republican and often rich.
Discussion: The Week and AOL
Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu angry Lauder advised Abbas  —  “You don't understand how much influence he has over Trump,” Netanyahu told a confidant in a private conversation Monday.  —  World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last week to help prepare …
Discussion: Israpundit
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. to run for Congress against Rep. Julia Brownley  —  Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. is running for Congress, challenging Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Westlake Village), who represents the southern central coast and most of Ventura County, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump is waging a war on millennials  —  Trumpcare is, on the whole, terrible.  But if you're a millennial, it does have one thing going for it: It's virtually the only piece of the Trump platform that advantages the young at the expense of the old.  —  The rest of the Trump agenda …
Discussion: Breitbart
 
 
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Goodbye To My Friend, Bob Owens
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:
It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
JERK ALERT: Secret Service Holds Kellyanne Conway Back From Airport Heckler
Discussion: TheBlaze
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Leaving Over Campus Carry
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Rebecca Mansour / Breitbart:
Radio talker Glenn Beck has been moved from SiriusXM's conservative talk radio channel.
Discussion: RedState
Dyana Bagby / Reporter Newspapers:
Karen Handel declines Dunwoody group's debate with Jon Ossoff
Grant Rodgers / USA Today:
Attorneys: Giant rabbit may have died while locked in freezer after United flight
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
This Republican Is an Endangered Species
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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