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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal  —  Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.  —  House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Republicans' new health amendment lets insurers charge sick people more, cover less  —  House Republicans are floating a new amendment to their health care bill, one that would likely cause even more Americans to lose coverage than the last version.  —  The American Health Care Act …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Freedom Caucus leaders back new health-care plan  —  White House officials and several Republican lawmakers claimed Tuesday they were nearing a deal on health-care legislation with the House Freedom Caucus, with at least three leading figures in the hard-line group ready to support …
Discussion: Axios and The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans to Seek Tax Rate of 15% on Owner-Operated Companies  —  Beyond proposed cut from 39.6%, president wants to slash corporate levies on firms' foreign profits  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Wednesday is planning to unveil a proposal to cut corporate taxes …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump to propose large increase in deductions Americans can claim on their taxes  —  President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Ryan likely to get rolled on tax reform  —  Donald Trump is set to steamroll Paul Ryan on tax reform, the issue the speaker has devoted his political career to achieving.  —  But don't expect Ryan to relinquish his pet cause easily.  —  The White House on Wednesday will drop the outlines …
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump's Desperation Is Exposing His Deep Ignorance  —  His plan for a corporate tax cut probably won't work, even with full Republican support, because he doesn't know the rules in Congress.  —  After pitching himself to voters as a hard-nosed negotiator who could easily wring …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump has a plan to change the tax code to make himself much, much richer
Discussion: CNBC
Kartikay Mehrotra / Bloomberg:
Trump's Sanctuary Cities Order Blocked by Federal Judge  —  San Francisco, Santa Clara County win court injunctions  —  President argued ‘immeasurable harm to the American people’  —  A San Francisco judge barred enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order withholding funds …
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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ORDER ON SANCTUARY CITY FUNDING
Dean Karayanis / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Looks Like Trump Is Caving on Funding the Wall  —  RUSH: I'm not happy to have to pass this on.  I'm very, very troubled to have to pass this on.  And I want to say at the outset that I hope my interpretation is wrong, and I hope this is not the case.  But it looks like, from here …
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Republicans offer spending plan without border wall as Trump continues to vow that it will be built  —  A new Republican bid to keep the government open past Friday includes no new money for the construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, diminishing the chances of a last-minute spending fight.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Limbaugh: Looks like Trump is ‘caving’ on border wall
CNN:
White House denies House investigation request for Flynn documents  —  What you need to know about Michael Flynn  —  (CNN)The White House declined Tuesday to provide documents related to President Donald Trump's former national security adviser that the panel investigating Michael Flynn had requested …
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Andrew Rafferty / NBC News:
House Oversight Leaders: Flynn May Have Broken Law, Didn't Report Foreign Payments
Aidan Quigley / Politico:
Trump appoints Alles as Secret Service director
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Marisa Schultz / New York Post:
Flynn likely broke the law by not disclosing Russia payments: House panel
Discussion: The Resurgent and theGrio
Justin Green / Axios:
Ted Cruz introduces “EL CHAPO Act” to pay for the wall  —  Senator Ted Cruz wants to use assets seized from drug lords such as El Chapo, the Mexican kingpin who was recently extradited to the U.S., to pay for border security and the border wall.  — The idea: U.S. prosecutors …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Ivanka Trump gets booed, hissed at during Berlin event  —  BERLIN — Ivanka Trump arrived in Berlin on Tuesday morning armed with facts and figures to recite at what was expected to be a highbrow international summit to discuss women's entrepreneurship, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Workers endured long hours, low pay at Chinese factory used by Ivanka Trump's clothing-maker
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News anchor joins lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment at network  —  Fox News still under grand jury probe  —  Fox News' legal troubles grew even larger Tuesday, with new plaintiffs, including an anchor, joining a suit alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the network.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
The Huffington Post:
Sen. Mike Enzi: A Guy Who Wears A Tutu To A Bar ‘Kind Of Asks For It’  —  The Wyoming senator was speaking to a group of high school and middle school students.  —  Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) told a group of high school and middle school students last week that it's fine to be a member of the lesbian …
Washington Post:
UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus  —  The University of California at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests in a public plaza on campus after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon.
Discussion: East Bay Times
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico  —  Canada's foreign minister: Lumber tax will hurt Americans  —  The US just lost a trade battle with Mexico.  It's the first loss of the Trump era.  —  Mexico and the US have fought for years over tuna.  The US insists that any Mexican tuna sold …
Discussion: Politicus USA, FEE and Occupy Democrats
KWWL-TV:
Iowa State Patrol Investigators inspecting crash involving Chris Soules  —  The Buchanan County Sheriff's Office says Chris Soules has been arrested for leaving the scene of a deadly crash.  —  Soules, who's from Arlington, is well known for starring in the show “The Bachelor.”
Mike Rowe:
This morning, for your consideration, I offer further proof that our country's war on work continues to rage in all corners of polite society.  Behold the latest assault from Nordstrom's.  The “Barracuda Straight Leg Jeans.” http://bit.ly/2oYpyBn  —  Finally - a pair of jeans that look …
Star Tribune:
Trump administration to defend contraception mandate required under Affordable Care Act  —  President Donald Trump promised religious groups he would reverse the Obama administration's requirement that employers provide birth control to their employees under the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: RedState
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Trump has yet to signal his approach to Obamacare birth-control mandate
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Survivor's Guilt and the Media  —  Emotional manipulation is not a great look.  —  If you can summon the resolve, pity the political media.  Their jobs aren't easy.  To do them well means they will satisfy few and enrage the vocal, and none is as noisy today as the last of the Clinton family's courtiers.
Ben Becker / WJAX:
Brawl at Orange Park Mall involved up to 60 people, Clay County Sheriff's Office says  —  A video of Saturday's brawl at the Orange Park Mall has gone viral — it now has more than 800,000 views on the Action News Jax Facebook page.  —  The Clay County Sheriff's Office said up to 60 people …
 
 
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