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2:10 PM ET, January 27, 2017

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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare  —  PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party's quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and NPR
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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
In private meeting, Pence vows ‘full evaluation of voting rolls’ over claims of fraud  —  In a private meeting with congressional Republicans this week, Vice President Pence vowed that the Trump administration would pursue a wide-ranging probe of voting rolls in the United States …
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Trump argument bolstered: Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds  —  Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.
Michael Waldman / New York Times:
Voting Fraud Inquiry?  The Investigators Got Burned Last Time  —  For days President Trump has promoted the absurd notion that three million to five million people voted illegally in the presidential election.  —  On Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump went further.
Discussion: Althouse and Talking Points Memo
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Mexico Tantrum  —  Less than a week into the job, President Trump on Thursday raised the specter of a trade war with America's third-largest partner, Mexico, as the White House warned that the United States could impose a 20 percent tariff on Mexican imports.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump won't attend Alfalfa Club dinner  —  President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night, an exclusive black-tie dinner — and White House roast — that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended.  —  Instead of the president himself …
Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Rod Blagojevich's 20-year-old daughter Amy unloads on Barack Obama  —  Patti Blagojevich with her daughters Annie, center, and Amy on Aug. 9, 2016, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's resentencing.  —  Scratch the Obamas off Amy Blagojevich's Christmas card list.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Washington Post:
Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd  —  On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.
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Sheila Weller / Vanity Fair:
How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case  —  With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.
Discussion: The Week, theGrio and Raw Story
Mikhail Gorbachev / TIME:
Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War’  —  Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union and is the author of The New Russia.  —  The world today is overwhelmed with problems.  Policymakers seem to be confused and at a loss.
Mike Allen / Axios:
The Bannon coup  —  White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything.  — They wrote the Inaugural speech and set in fast motion a series of moves to cement Trump as an America-first Nationalist.
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Huge shakeup at ‘Today’ to make way for Megyn Kelly  —  More On:  —  NBC is canceling the third hour of “Today” to make way for new star Megyn Kelly, sources exclusively confirm to Page Six.  —  We're told Kelly will take over either the 9 a.m. hour from Tamron Hall and Al Roker or will replace Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
‘Calexit’ supporters can start work to make ballot  —  Californians who want their state to secede from the United States can now start collecting signatures to put the initiative on the 2018 ballot.  —  The Yes California Independence Campaign has been around for at least two years …
Discussion: RedState
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: March for Life demonstrators ‘have my full support’  —  President Donald Trump said Friday that demonstrators gathering for the annual March for Life on the National Mall “have my full support.”  —  “The #MarchForLife is so important.  To all of you marching —  you have my full support!
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law  —  There's one fundamental difference between the new White House and the old when it comes to immigration: Barack Obama ordered his administration not to enforce a number of immigration laws.  Donald Trump has ordered his administration to enforce them.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A viral Washington Post story about State Department resignations is very misleading  —  On Thursday morning, the Washington Post published a piece with an explosive headline: “The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.”  The piece alleged that Undersecretary …
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Campaign Staffer Who Posted Racist Comments Joins The Administration  —  An email shows the staffer is one of 15 joining the Education Department.  —  Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  PHILADELPHIA A staffer on Donald Trump's campaign who posted racist material …
Michael Wolff / Newsweek:
Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump is obsessed with the media.  And the media is obsessed with Trump.  Let's take it as a given that this obsession is unhealthy.  The last time there was such a level of neurotic fixation and overwhelming distrust between a president …
Discussion: The Federalist and Politico
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary — and we're seeking Republicans to oppose her … Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Thursday night that no Democrat will vote to confirm Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire tapped by President Trump to be his education secretary.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Little Mexican War  —  The President is treating our neighbor like Obama treated Israel.
Discussion: NBC News
Democracy Now:
Shailene Woodley on Malia Obama's Presence at Sundance Standing Rock Solidarity Event Against DAPL  —  This is viewer supported news.  Please do your part today.  —  The Sundance Film Festival has been abuzz this year with sightings of former first daughter Malia Obama.
Discussion: AOL and Heat Street
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed  —  PHILADELPHIA — From the time he became their candidate until he took the oath of office, congressional Republicans treated President Trump's policy pronouncements — largely out of step with Republican dogma — as essentially a distraction.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POWER DINNER: Jared and Ivanka break bread with TIM COOK and LISA JACKSON — PHILLY UPDATE: Peace...for now — PUTIN and TRUMP's Saturday phone date — RYAN INTVW: Today at 3 — B'DAY: Keith Olbermann  —  By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com …
Discussion: Business Insider
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
New U.S. U.N. envoy warns allies: back us or we'll take names  —  The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, pledged on Friday to overhaul the world body and warned U.S. allies that if they do not support Washington, then she is “taking names” and will respond.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chicago Tribune:
ABC says Trump claimed 2 were shot dead in Chicago during Obama's speech.  But it never happened.  —  President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with automobile leaders on Jan. 24, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.  —  An ABC News transcript of its interview …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A GOP Regulatory Game Changer  —  Legal experts say that Congress can overrule Obama regulations going back to 2009.
 
 
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Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
White House stops ads, outreach for last days of 2017 ACA enrollment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Dani Rodrik / Dani Rodrik's weblog:
What did NAFTA really do?  —  Brad De Long has written …
Discussion: bradford-delong.com and Eschaton
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's ‘escort’ claims
Bloomberg:
Trump Poised to Deliver on ‘Extreme Vetting’ Pledge for Refugees
Jina Moore / BuzzFeed:
The White House Has Finally Said More About What Its Global Anti-Abortion Rule Means
Discussion: The Guardian
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
Still slow: U.S. economy grew 1.6% in 2016
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 Earlier Items: 
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing conditions bill
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Women's March Featured Speaker Who Kidnapped And Tortured A Man
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook wants you to watch longer videos, so it's going to show you longer videos
Bloomberg:
Trump Will Keep Vow on Jerusalem Embassy Move, Giuliani Says
Nicholas Weaver / Lawfare:
President Trump's Insecure Android
Discussion: Wired and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic:
‘Look, a Bird!’ Trolling by Distraction
Discussion: Defense One