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12:55 PM ET, March 15, 2017

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Willa Paskin / Slate:
Rachel Maddow Turned a Scoop on Donald Trump's Taxes Into a Cynical, Self-Defeating Spectacle  —  At 7:36 pm Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow tweeted “BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns.  Tonight, 9pm ET.  MSNBC.  (Seriously),” sending the internet into a frenzy of theorizing.
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The Daily Beast:
Report: Trump's 2005 Taxes Revealed  —  Donald Trump earned more than $150 million in the year 2005—and paid just a small percentage of that in regular federal income taxes.  Daily Beast contributor David Cay Johnston has obtained what appear to be the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal …
David Cay Johnston / DCReport:
DCREPORT EXCLUSIVE: Trump Earned $153 Million In 2005; He Paid $36.6 Million In Taxes  —  Ten Years After His Casino Business Failed, He Was Still Writing Off Losses  —  In 2005, Donald J. Trump married model Melanija Knavs, his third wife.  That year, the real-estate mogul …
Jay Yarow / CNBC:
Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
This 2005 Donald Trump tax return is a total nothingburger
New York Times:
Trump Wrote Off $100 Million in Losses in 2005, Leaked Forms Show
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:   The Note: Trump's 2005 tax return leaves a lot to be desired
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Rachel Maddow Lands a Scoop, Then Makes Viewers Wait
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
‘People are scared’: Paranoia seizes Trump's White House  —  A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies — inside their own government.  —  In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump rejects push to oust NSC aide
Discussion: Washington Post
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: FBI will ‘screw up big time’ by ignoring Trump wiretap questions … (R-S.C.) is firing a warning shot at the FBI following his request that the agency hand over any evidence relating to wire taps of President Trump.  —  “They're about to screw up big time if they keep running to the …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Comey will testify publicly on Russia investigation next week  —  FBI Director James Comey has agreed to appear at a public House Intelligence Committee hearing next Monday on the investigation into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election, Chairman Devin Nunes told reporters Wednesday.
Doina Chiacu / Reuters:
Senator Graham threatens subpoena on Trump wiretapping claim
Discussion: The Week
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Graham: We'll stall DOJ nominee if FBI doesn't comply on wiretaps
Discussion: RedState and ThinkProgress
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Only 24% of Voters Support GOP Health Care Plan  —  PPP's newest national poll finds that there is very little support for the American Health Care Act.  Only 24% of voters support it, to 49% who are opposed.  Even among Republican voters only 37% are in favor of the proposal to 22% who are against it …
Discussion: Political Wire, Daily Kos and Mediaite
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: ACA, Replacement Plans, Women's Health
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon in College: Grateful Dead Fan, ‘Jerry Brown Liberal,’ ‘Ladies Man’  —  The Stephen K. Bannon the world knows today is a hard-right nationalist and a former ringleader of far-right, race-baiting media.  He's President Donald Trump's anti-immigration and incredibly powerful right-hand man …
Los Angeles Times:
Trump to shelve fuel mileage rules, inviting a fight with California  —  Highway 101 in San Francisco.  The White House is expected to issue an executive order that would revoke California's ability to set its own fuel-efficiency standards.  (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Trump targets Obama's global warming emissions rule for cars
Discussion: RedState and Washington Post
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump: ‘Failing’ Snoop Dogg Would be in Jail if he Shot Obama in Rap Video  —  President Donald Trump argued that there was a cultural double standard, after rapper Snoop Dogg released a video of him pulling a gun on a man in clown makeup who looked like Donald Trump.
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Secret Service Has Its Eye on Snoop Dogg Over Video Featuring Mock Trump Shooting
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Say House Health Bill Won't Pass Without Changes  —  Concerns mounted after independent report showed millions would be uninsured  —  WASHINGTON—Republican senators, alarmed by a nonpartisan report showing millions would lose insurance under the GOP health-care plan …
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Wall Street Journal:
White House May Let States Put Work Requirements on Medicaid Recipients
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matt Fuller / The Huffington Post:
Republicans May Be Ready To Redefine Success On Obamacare  —  Call it a win if they manage to pass their repeal-and-replace bill in the House.  —  WASHINGTON With the GOP bill facing opposition from House conservatives, and a dismal Congressional Budget Office score stirring opposition …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Wall Street Journal:
The Health Bill's Fiscal Bonus
Discussion: Hot Air
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon and the Making of an Economic Nationalist  —  The controversial White House counselor says his father's 2008 financial trauma helped crystallize his antiglobalist views and led to a political hardening; 'I'm going to be totally wiped out'  —  Steve Bannon has played a lead role in honing Donald Trump's message.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Justice Department charges Russian spies and criminal hackers in Yahoo intrusion  —  The Justice Department announced Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies and two criminal hackers in connection with the heist of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014, marking the first U.S. criminal …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Lessons of Obamacare  —  What Republicans should have learned, but haven't.  —  On January 6, President Barack Obama sat down with us for one of his final interviews before leaving the White House.  The subject was the Affordable Care Act — the legislation that has come to carry his name and define his legacy.
Discussion: Axios and Eschaton
New York Times:
Neil Gorsuch Has Web of Ties to Secretive Billionaire  —  WASHINGTON — The publicity-shy billionaire Philip F. Anschutz inherited an oil and gas firm and built it into an empire that has sprawled into telecommunications, railroads, real estate, resorts, sports teams, stadiums …
Mother Jones:
Businesswoman Who Bought Trump Penthouse Is Connected to Chinese Intelligence Front Group  —  When a Chinese American businesswoman who sells access to powerful people recently purchased a $15.8 million penthouse in a building owned by President Donald Trump, the deal raised a key question.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Harriot / The Root:
Everything You Think You Know About the Death of Mike Brown Is Wrong, and the Man Who Killed Him Admits It  —  Here is the story of Michael Brown's murder that we all believed: One sunny day in Ferguson, Mo., a huge behemoth of a man named Michael Brown walked into a convenience store …
Discussion: Washington Post
Kevin Ambrose / Washington Post:
We checked on the cherry blossoms yesterday during the storm.  It doesn't look good.  —  To track the blossom bloom, every week I'll post a photo of the cherry tree (above) at the Tidal Basin as we transition from winter to spring.  This is the fourth week of such posts.
Discussion: DCist
 
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Chuck Todd: Media must improve reporting on rural America
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Jacob Bunge / Wall Street Journal:
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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Plea deal reached for man who fired shots inside DC pizzeria
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and DCist
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
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Yachts of Trump financial backer, Russian oligarch seen close together
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Chelsea Clinton fuels speculation of political run
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ICE agents make arrests at courthouses, sparking backlash from prosecutors and attorneys
mypalmbeachpost:
Official: Tax Mar-a-Lago owner to help pay for cost of Trump visits
Discussion: Raw Story
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
Snow forces two congressmen on a bipartisan road trip from Texas to D.C. — singing along the way
Discussion: Mashable
Ken Ward Jr / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
WV Senate bill eliminates mine safety enforcement
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
John Wagner / Washington Post:
The cost of failure on health care? It may be the rest of Trump's agenda.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
O'Malley tests 2020 waters with Iowa poll
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Daily Caller and The Week
Daily Express:
Dutch election polls LIVE: Updates as Geert Wilders takes on Mark Rutte in Netherlands
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
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