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Trump will scrap critical Obamacare subsidy — President Donald Trump plans to cut off subsidy payments to insurers selling Obamacare coverage in his most aggressive move yet to undermine the health care law. — The subsidies, which are worth an estimated $7 billion this year and are paid …
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Cutting off the cost-sharing payments. — Politico just broke the news that the Trump administration will terminate the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing payments, further destabilizing the already-fragile exchanges on the eve of open enrollment. Although state regulators and insurers …
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Trump Unveils Full-Bore Obamacare Sabotage
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Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare Again
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Trump will pull Obamacare subsidies in another attack on health law
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Trump administration hints at enforcing ObamaCare mandate
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Harvey Weinstein's Contract Allowed for Sexual Harassment — Harvey Weinstein may have been fired illegally by The Weinstein Company, a company that wrote a contract that said Weinstein could get sued over and over for sexual harassment and as long as he shelled out money, that was good enough for the Company.
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Oliver Stone on Harvey Weinstein: “It's Not Easy What He's Going Through” — The director addressed the international media at the Busan International Film Festival, where he is serving as chair of the event's competition jury. — Oliver Stone intitially declined to condemn Harvey Weinstein …
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Will Harvey Weinstein Finally Kill the Old Boys' Network?
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Can the company Harvey Weinstein founded survive his scandal?
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Harvey Weinstein: English actor says alleged sexual assault ruined film career
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Jane Fonda: I knew about Weinstein, and I'm ‘ashamed’ I didn't say anything
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Amazon TV Producer Goes Public With Harassment Claim Against Top Exec Roy Price (Exclusive) — “You will love my d**k,” Price allegedly said to Isa Hackett, a producer on ‘The Man in the High Castle,’ who details a July 2015 incident at Comic-Con in San Diego.
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Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort — Russian efforts to meddle in American politics did not end at Facebook and Twitter. A CNN investigation of a Russian-linked account shows its tentacles extended to YouTube, Tumblr and even Pokémon Go.
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Trump's pick for NOAA chief causes a storm — As a top executive at AccuWeather, Barry Myers has pushed for limits on the kinds of products that the National Weather Service offers to the public, saying they offered unfair competition to his industry. — Now, President Donald Trump's nomination …
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California Journal They survived six hours in a pool as a wildfire burned their neighborhood to the ground — (Video by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) — Jan Pascoe and her husband, John, were trapped. The world was on fire, and Jan was hyperventilating from fear.


Roger Goodell Has a Secret Defender on Twitter: His Wife — When media outlets wrote about the NFL commissioner, an anonymous tweeter hit back — When National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is under attack, as he so often is these days, @forargument is there to fight back.
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Inside American Caitlan Coleman's five-year ordeal as a Taliban prisoner — It must have felt like such an exciting time: Caitlan Coleman and her husband, Joshua Boyle, were embarking on a six-month adventure through Central Asia. — But their exuberant trip ended in a nightmare …
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Kidnapped Canadian-American family freed in Pakistan gun battle after 5 years in captivity
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Background check chief has ‘never seen’ mistakes and omissions at level of Jared Kushner forms — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)The head of a government bureau responsible for clearing background checks told lawmakers Wednesday he has “never seen that level of mistakes” when asked …
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Where's Zinke? The interior secretary's special flag offers clues — At the Interior Department's headquarters in downtown Washington, Secretary Ryan Zinke has revived an arcane military ritual that no one can remember ever happening in the federal government.
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As Trump slams media, an Indiana lawmaker has drafted a bill to license journalists — An Indiana lawmaker has drafted a bill that would require professional journalists to be licensed by state police. — Rep. Jim Lucas had the measure drawn up earlier this year and said he may file …
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Exclusive: Sources say California Senate leader to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein — Kevin de Leon asserts DACA is constitutional — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)California Democratic state Senate president Kevin de León intends to enter California's 2018 Senate race …

I've Normalized Trump — On Wednesday, Baby Donald threw a one-two punch at the press that sent it on a quick trip to the mat, stunned and bleeding. In a tweet, responding to an NBC News story he insisted was inaccurate, the president called for the revocation of the network's broadcast licenses.
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Presidential Executive Order Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States — PROMOTING HEALTHCARE CHOICE AND COMPETITION ACROSS THE UNITED STATES — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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Trump's New Executive Order Makes It Easier to Buy Insurance Outside of Obamacare
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Oops: Rick Perry just called Puerto Rico a ‘country’ — A new poll shows that 55 percent of Americans think the Trump administration hasn't done enough to help Puerto Rico, and that 52 percent believe Trump doesn't even care about the U.S. territory's problems after Hurricane Maria.
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Ethics investigators suggest Rep. Chris Collins may have engaged in insider trading — WASHINGTON — Congressional ethics investigators have concluded there is “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y. engaged in insider trading and either took or requested official actions …
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Trump to extend March 5 deadline to end DACA protections if Congress doesn't act, GOP senator says — TULSA — President Trump will extend a March 5 deadline to end protections for young undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to act by then, according to a Republican senator who spoke directly with the president about the issue.
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Mnuchin won't fill No. 2 Treasury post as Brooks opts out of the running — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has no plans to fill the No. 2 slot in his department after two candidates for the job dropped out of the running. — The department made the surprising announcement …
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The Trump Administration Wants Refugees to Fit In or Stay Out — An obscure new policy would give priority to refugees who seem like they might “assimilate.” — Out in New York Harbor in 1903, the bronze plaque with Emma Lazarus's poem “The New Colossus” was affixed to the Statue of Liberty.


Charity once led by Roy Moore has listed its headquarters for sale, a move that could bring him $540,000 windfall — A charity once led by U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has put its historic building in Montgomery, Ala., up for sale, a transaction that could bring Moore $540,000 …
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