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4:25 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.
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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 …
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Another Bogus Obamacare Argument From Donald Trump And Paul Ryan
Discussion: The Week
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says ‘torture’ works, but he'll defer on decision over tactics to his defense secretary  —  President Trump said Friday that he continues to believe torture methods can be effective to combat terrorism, but he pledged to defer over whether to implement such tactics to Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, who has opposed them.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
President Trump and Mexican president speak by phone amid crisis in relations
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Mexico's Vicente Fox to Trump: We are ‘ready for the trade war’
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump: Telephone call with Mexican president was ‘very friendly’
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
Fortune:   Mexico's Richest Man Carlos Slim Just Called a Rare Press Conference
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Week: Governing Without a Script  —  The new president seems to be running his administration much like he ran his company and campaign, eager to weigh in on every issue and willing to make last-minute calls  —  A directive to revive two controversial oil pipelines awaited …
Discussion: The Week
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump and the Republicans Are on a Suicide Mission Together  —  And we'll all have to live with the fallout.  —  One of the things supposedly driving President Donald Trump to distraction, in what should be a celebratory first week in office, is that he isn't getting a honeymoon period from the media and the general public.
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
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.
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Jim Miller / Sacramento Bee:
Calexit backers can begin collecting signatures to qualify for 2018 ballot  —  Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment seeking California's secession from the U.S. can begin collecting voter signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot, the secretary of state's office said Thursday.
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Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
‘Calexit’ supporters can start work to make ballot
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, RedState and Hot Air
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain warns Trump he'll fight on lifting Russian sanctions  —  (R-Ariz.) is urging President Trump not to make a “reckless” move to lift Russian sanctions, warning that he would work in Congress to reinstate the sanctions as law.  —  “For the sake of America's national security and that of our allies …
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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.
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 …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The end of Sarah Palin is here … Remember how former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was going to use her political celebrity to build an army of like-minded politicians via her political action committee?  —  Yeah, not so much.  —  Michael Beckel of the Center for Public Integrity flagged for me this news …
Discussion: Heat Street
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's ‘escort’ claims  —  First lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a “high-end escort.”
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.
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
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump thinks he is the modern Andrew Jackson.  Here is why he isn't.  —  It's rapidly become conventional wisdom that President Trump is the modern-day incarnation of Andrew Jackson.  Establishment Republicans, long unsure of how to understand Trump and his successes in any sort …
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.
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
No Mention Of Jews In Trump Holocaust Statement Breaks With Tradition  —  President Donald Trump did not explicitly mention Jews in his Friday statement commemorating the millions exterminated by the Nazis, an omission that the Anti-Defamation League called “troubling” and out of step with past presidential statements.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
New wave of anti-evolution bills hit states  —  New legislation introduced in a handful of states would allow alternatives to the theory of evolution to be taught in classrooms, the latest wave of measures backed by religious conservatives targeting broadly accepted scientific curriculum.
Discussion: Argus Leader and Raw Story
 
 
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Didn't Think Madonna Was ‘Disgusting’ When He Lied About Her Wanting to Date Him
Discussion: Mediaite, Gothamist and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't Photoshop an image of the president's hand
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
New U.S. U.N. envoy warns allies: back us or we'll take names
Discussion: Daily Kos
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Huge shakeup at ‘Today’ to make way for Megyn Kelly
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law
Bloomberg:
Trump Poised to Deliver on ‘Extreme Vetting’ Pledge for Refugees
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Daily Kos and New York Times
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
POWER DINNER: Jared and Ivanka break bread with TIM COOK and LISA JACKSON …
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A GOP Regulatory Game Changer
Jina Moore / BuzzFeed:
The White House Has Finally Said More About What Its Global Anti-Abortion Rule Means
Discussion: The Guardian
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing conditions bill
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Little Mexican War
Discussion: NBC News
Michael Wolff / Newsweek:
Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump
Discussion: The Federalist and Politico