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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
How a secret Freedom Caucus pact brought down Obamacare repeal — Speaker Paul Ryan and House leaders had been toiling behind closed doors for weeks assembling their Obamacare repeal bill as suspicion on the far-right simmered to a boil. — So on March 7, just hours after Ryan unveiled …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump shifts blame to conservatives on health care bill failure — President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to call out the House Freedom Caucus, saying Democrats are “smiling” because the group of conservative lawmakers' opposition to the Republican proposal on health care “saved” Obamacare and Planned Parenthood.
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The Hill, New York Times, Politico, Fox News and RedState
Axios:
Trump rewrites his playbook — Amid high-stakes postmortems that include conversations with President Trump about White House staffing and operations, aides are rewriting their plans for the next legislative fight — with a weakened president and speaker, emboldened House hardliners, and a party at war with itself.
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The Times & The Sunday Times:
Germany slams ‘intimidating’ £300bn White House bill — Donald Trump handed the German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — thought to be for more than £300bn — for money her country “owed” Nato for defending it when they met last weekend, German government sources have revealed.
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ThinkProgress, Political Wire and Raw Story
WLWT Digital / WLWT-TV:
Police: At least 15 shot, 1 fatally, at Cincinnati nightclub — News conference expected at 11 a.m. — CINCINNATI — A shooting that left one person dead and at least 14 others wounded stemmed from a conflict earlier in the day, Cincinnati police said.
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ThinkProgress, Associated Press, CBS Baltimore, Bearing Arms and Mediaite
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CNN:
Cincinnati nightclub shooting: One killed, 14 injured — (CNN)One person was killed and 14 injured in a shooting at a crowded hip-hop nightclub about 1 a.m. Sunday in Cincinnati. — Several victims are undergoing surgery, Cincinnati Police Sgt. Eric Franz told CNN.
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USA Today, The Root, New York Magazine, The FADER and IJR
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other — The first cocktail party at Barack Obama's new office last month was certainly more casual than any he had hosted in recent years. The wine bore a random assortment of labels, as if assembled potluck-style.
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Hollywood Reporter:
Trump Urges Followers to Watch Fox News Host Who Demands Paul Ryan Resign — Judge Jeanine Pirro opened her show demanding that Ryan step down for his “failure” over Trump's health care bill. — President Donald Trump tweeted a message on Saturday encouraging his followers …
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Shareblue, The Daily Caller, Mother Jones, RedState, BizPac Review, Mashable, The FADER, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
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David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
A Weakened Trump Outsources Demand for Ryan Resignation to Fox News Host
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ThinkProgress, The Hill, Vox and Progress Pond
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald, This I Will Tell You — We've known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. — You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? — Don't worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician.
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The Moderate Voice
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Trump vs. Congress: Now What? — After the president suffered his first defeat on Capitol Hill, can the White House still make good on its legislative promises? — On Monday, Jan. 9, less than two weeks before President Trump's inauguration, the House speaker, Paul Ryan …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Boris Epshteyn, Trump TV Surrogate, Is Leaving White House Job — Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once a frequent presence on TV himself, is leaving his job, according to three people with knowledge of the move.
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Dana Schuster / New York Post:
Huma Abedin ‘working hard’ on marriage with Anthony Weiner — Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner in May of 2016. — Getty Images — Fool me once, shame on you. Fool Huma Abedin four times, and she'll still take you back. — After years of public humiliation by her sext-a-holic husband …
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New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com and BizPac Review
Daily Mail:
Three people are arrested after Trump supporters are doused with pepper spray as they clash with protesters during Make America Great Again march in Huntington Beach — A man in a black mask reportedly pepper sprayed Trump supporters at a Make American Great Again March
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Vox Popoli and The Last Tradition
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Cindy Carcamo / Los Angeles Times:
Violence erupts at pro-Trump rally in Huntington Beach
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Breitbart, BizPac Review, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, twitchy.com, Heat Street, RedState, Mediaite, KTLA and AOL
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Passing Tax Reform Will Be As Difficult As Repealing Obamacare — As you switch your attention from this past week's spectacularly-failed effort by House Republicans and the Trump administration to repeal and replace Obamacare to the GOP's next big legislative priority of corporate tax reform …
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
President Trump And America's National Nervous Breakdown — There's an old Sprite commercial, from the 1990s, in which it's a hot summer day on a city basketball court. Someone cracks open a Sprite, then jumps and cannonballs into the blacktop. It's OK, though, because the asphalt has become a swimming pool.
Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
With GOP Plan Dead, Trump Eyes Other Ways to Reshape Health Care — Republicans have ability to make changes to Affordable Care Act, but do so at their own risk — With the collapse of Republicans' health plan in the House on Friday, the Trump administration is set to ramp up its efforts …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Islam and the Jihad in London — It's not non-Western. It's anti-Western. — It was a careful choice of words, Bernard Lewis being nothing if not careful. In 2004, the West audibly gasped when its preeminent scholar of Islam famously told the German newspaper Die Welt …
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Daily Mail and Power Line
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Oliver Jj Lane / Breitbart:
Britain's Mainstream Media Blames ‘Racism’ for Westminster Attack
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Alexandra Caldas / Uticaod:
Colgate visit: Biden speaks of past, present, future — “At the end of the day, I just couldn't do it,” former Vice President Joe Biden said about running a campaign to be president. “So I don't regret not running. Do I regret not being president? Yes.”
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Guardian and Political Wire
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Biden: I regret not running for president
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Washington Post and Talking Points Memo
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