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With cameras banned, CNN sends sketch artist to White House briefing — The White House has been prohibiting cameras at some press briefings, so on Friday CNN got creative and sent a sketch artist. — Bill Hennessy, the network's regular sketch artist for Supreme Court proceedings …
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Trump loses patience with his White House counsel — White House counsel Don McGahn has largely stepped back from managing Donald Trump's response to the expanding Russia investigation, but that hasn't stopped the president from lashing out at him about it anyway.
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Trump is struggling to stay calm on Russia, one morning call at a time — President Trump has a new morning ritual. Around 6:30 a.m. on many days — before all the network news shows have come on the air — he gets on the phone with a member of his outside legal team to chew over all things Russia.
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What Happens When a Presidency Loses Its Legitimacy? — Day by day, revelation after revelation, the legitimacy of the Trump presidency is seeping away. The question of what to do about this loss is becoming ever more urgent and frightening. — The already thick cloud of discredit …

CNN brings courtroom sketch artist to White House press briefing
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Pro-Trump group launches seven-figure ad buy against GOP senator opposing repeal bill — The pro-Trump group “America First Policies” is preparing a massive seven-figure ad buy against Sen. Dean Heller — (R-NV), just hours after the GOP senator announced Friday that he would not support …
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Fifth GOP senator announces opposition to ObamaCare repeal bill — (R-Nev.) announced Friday that he is opposed to the Senate GOP's ObamaCare repeal bill in its current form, making him the fifth GOP senator to come out against the plan. — “I'm announcing today that in this form I will not support it …
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Heller Blasts Senate O'Care Bill As He Announces His Opposition To It
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Dean Heller of Nevada becomes fifth GOP senator to come out against health-care bill
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Pro-Trump group to target GOP Sen. Heller over health care bill
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Political Wire and The New Civil Rights Movement


Don't make things worse — The secrecy extended into the White House. — Rice , Haines and White House homeland-security adviser Lisa Monaco convened meetings in the Situation Room to weigh the mounting evidence of Russian interference and generate options for how to respond.
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T r u m p ' s L i e s — Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
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Poll: More Americans Believe Comey Over Trump — By a 2-to-1 margin, Americans say they are more likely to believe former FBI Director James Comey than President Donald Trump when it comes to their differing accounts of events that led up to Comey's firing, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Poll: Voters grow weary of Russia probes
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Nebraska Democratic Party official caught on tape saying he's glad Scalise got shot — FILE - In this March 8, 2017 file photo, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Scalise was shot Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., congressional officials say.
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Nebraska Democratic Party official ousted after controversial audio recording surfaces
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Johnny Depp Apologizes for Joking About Trump Assassination: ‘I Intended No Malice’ — Johnny Depp is apologizing for his comments about President Donald Trump. — The actor issued a statement exclusively to PEOPLE apologizing for the remarks he made Thursday in England at the Glastonbury Festival …
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Johnny Depp apologizes for ‘bad joke’ about Trump: ‘I intended no malice’
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‘Fox & Friends’ propagates the most astounding piece of pro-Trump propaganda yet — Merely placing sweet little questions before President Trump isn't enough anymore, apparently. These days, the treatment dished out by the “Fox & Friends” crew to Trump needs to include a bit of slander for the opposition.
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Fox News' embarrassing, false attack on James Comey
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Texas, three more states on California's banned travel list — California is restricting publicly funded travel to four more states because of recent laws that leaders here view as discriminatory against gay and transgender people. — All totaled, California now bans most state-funded travel to eight states.
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California attorney general adds 4 states to state travel ban
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California restricts state travel to Texas, other states over LGBT laws
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - June 2017: ACA, Replacement Plan, and Medicaid — Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Liz Hamel, Bryan Wu, and Mollyann Brodie — KEY FINDINGS: — As the Senate prepares to hold a vote on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) …
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Crazy waivers: the Senate bill invites states to gut important health insurance rules
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The health bill might pass because Trump has launched the era of Nothing Matters politics
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Public support for ‘single payer’ health coverage grows, driven by Democrats — A majority of Americans say it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. And a growing share now supports a “single payer” approach to health insurance …
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Bipartisan support for some gun proposals, stark partisan divisions on many others
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National Review and Pew Research Center


White House frustration grows with Tillerson over jobs for Trump allies — The White House is becoming increasingly frustrated with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and a close-knit circle of aides over the slow pace of hiring and a chokehold on information and access to Tillerson …
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Raw Story and Political Wire


Gowdy: Oversight panel won't pursue Russia, obstruction probes — Newly-elected House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy does not plan to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election or questions of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.
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Joe Biden's beef with Bill Ackman sparks heated exchange and presidential chatter — Some say former Vice President Joe Biden is too old to run for president in 2020, but he still knows how to throw a verbal punch — just ask financier Bill Ackman. — Continue Reading Below
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Jane Sanders Lawyers Up — Bernie Sanders was in the midst of an interview with a local TV reporter early last month when the senator fielded an unexpected question about an uncomfortable matter. — “There's an implication, and from at least one individual, an explicit argument …
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Cosby juror says he didn't believe ‘well-coached’ Constand — PITTSBURGH — A juror in Bill Cosby's sex assault trial said Thursday that he did not believe the testimony of accuser Andrea Constand because she willingly went alone to the entertainer's home and brought him gifts on more than one occasion.
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The banquet business was booming at Mar-a-Lago. Then Trump became president. — For eight straight years, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society held its Palm Beach fundraiser gala at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club. — But then Trump became president. — And, at this year's gala, his security put a damper on the silent auction.
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Aftermath Of Alexandria Shooting Showed The Left's Cultural Bullying At Its Worst — The behavior of many on the Left this week sent a message that not only do they not ‘get’ the other half of the country, they don't want to. That's a recipe for losing elections.
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