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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.
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Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Washington Loves General McMaster, But Trump Doesn't — The national security adviser has lost sway. The White House says everything's fine. — For the Washington establishment, President Donald Trump's decision to make General H.R. McMaster his national security adviser in February was a masterstroke.
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Flynn Never Told DIA That Russians Paid Him, Say Officials
Flynn Never Told DIA That Russians Paid Him, Say Officials
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NBC News:
Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials
Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Sally Yates is about to bring back the Russia story in a big way
Sally Yates is about to bring back the Russia story in a big way
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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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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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Washington Post:
Full transcript: Sally Yates and James Clapper testify on Russian election interference
Full transcript: Sally Yates and James Clapper testify on Russian election interference
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Key moments from Sally Yates' Flynn testimony
Key moments from Sally Yates' Flynn testimony
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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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Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Yes, It Is Definitely Possible For The House And Senate To Agree On Health Care — Senate Republicans are already working with the leader of the House Freedom Caucus. — WASHINGTON After the House passed its health care bill last week, Senators looked apt to take that dramatically conservative plan …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Divided Senate Republicans Turn to Health Care With a Rough Road Ahead
Divided Senate Republicans Turn to Health Care With a Rough Road Ahead
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The Week and Refinery29
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.
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Trump Advisers Call for More Troops to Break Afghan Deadlock — WASHINGTON — Senior Trump administration and military officials are recommending sending several thousand additional American troops to Afghanistan to try to break a military deadlock in the 15-year war there …
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan
U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan
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Washington Monthly and Political Wire
John Cicchitti / Need To Know Network:
ACLU Lawyer Says Travel Ban ‘Could Be Constitutional’ if Enacted by Hillary Clinton — Omar Jadwat, arguing before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, admitted that President Trump's order could be constitutional if Hillary Clinton had enacted the same order.
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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.
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The Week and The Daily Caller
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,
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Vox Popoli, Patterico's Pontifications, The College Fix and Power Line
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 …
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Eric Geller / Politico:
Trump's silence on French hacks troubles cyber experts — The Trump administration is so far ignoring pleas from both on and off Capitol Hill to denounce the suspected Russian-backed digital assault that appeared aimed to tilt Sunday's French presidential election toward nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Le Pen's defeat is good news for Trump
Le Pen's defeat is good news for Trump
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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 …
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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.
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.
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Greg Howard / New York Times:
Keith Olbermann Was Once Cable News's Liberal Standard-Bearer. Now He's Missing Its Boom Times. — Keith Olbermann doesn't look much like a warrior. His gray hair is giving way to white, his midsection threatens the buttons of his sport coats and he walks gingerly, with a gnarly limp from an aging knee.
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Bloomberg:
The Kushner Project Touted in China Is in Trouble at Home — Jersey City deal lost startup WeWork and city's help on bonds — Effort shows Kushner pattern of relying on Chinese investors — When Jared Kushner's sister took the stage in two Chinese ballrooms over the weekend to urge investors …
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Ali Breland / The Hill:
FCC site crashes after John Oliver segment — The Federal Communications Commission's website went down Sunday night after comedian John Oliver skewered Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to scale back net neutrality rules. — The host of HBO's “Last Week Tonight” ripped the chairman's proposals …
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Carole Cadwalladr / Observer:
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked — A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
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CANNONFIRE, Raw Story, Engadget and The Guardian
Sophia Bollag / Associated Press:
California may end ban on communists in government jobs — Being a communist would no longer be a fireable offense for California government employees under a bill passed Monday by the state Assembly. — Lawmakers narrowly approved the bill to repeal part of a law enacted during the Red Scare …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump call for Muslim ban deleted from site after reporter's question … President Trump's campaign appears to have scrubbed the 2015 press release calling for a halt on Muslim immigration to the United States following a reporter's question on Monday — as well as all its other campaign statements.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
This Republican Is an Endangered Species — MIAMI — If Democrats are going to take back the House, they're going to have to start here. — Almost two dozen interviews with voters this weekend from across GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo's sprawling district — which stretches from southwest Miami …
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Daily Kos and Washington Post