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The Daily Beast:
Trump and Bannon ‘Personally Intervened’ to Save Seb Gorka … When the White House backed off its efforts to dump Sebastian Gorka on another federal agency, the controversial counterterrorism advisor had the president himself to thank, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump budget would effectively kill drug control office — President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget would cut about 95 percent of funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, effectively ending its mission as the lead agency in charge of combating the opioid crisis and other drug epidemics …
Dan Merica / CNN:
Deputy press secretary substitutes for Spicer
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. House Candidate in Montana Is Caught on Tape Praising Health Bill — WASHINGTON — When Greg Gianforte, the Republican running for an open House seat in Montana, was asked on Thursday whether he would have supported the bill repealing the Affordable Care Act that passed the House that day, he declined to answer.
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House 2018: Rating Changes in 20 Districts — Republicans' 217-213 passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday guarantees Democrats will have at least one major on-the-record vote to exploit in the next elections. Although it's the first of potentially many explosive votes …
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
“I've never seen anything like this”: progressives see huge donation spike after AHCA vote
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Democrats' Losses in 2010 Can Tell Us About G.O.P.'s Chances in 2018
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Cheers a Big Victory. But Has It Stirred a 'Hornet's Nest'?
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
No, the AHCA Doesn't Make Rape a Preexisting Condition — The latest less-than-truthful meme about Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA), passed by the U.S. House on Thursday, is that it makes rape a “preexisting condition” for health-insurance purposes.
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gov. Scott Walker would consider dropping fed pre-existing condition coverage rules for Wisconsin — MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he would consider having Wisconsin opt out of the pre-existing condition policies under the Affordable Care Act, depending on the final version of legislation headed to the U.S. Senate.
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David Nather / Axios:
Scott Walker considers waiving pre-existing condition rules
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Trump Army secretary nominee withdraws — DON'T MISS A BRIEF. SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
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Travis J. Tritten / Washington Examiner:
Army secretary nominee Mark Green: Public healthcare stops people from being saved by Christianity
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Washington Post:
Flynn was warned by Trump transition officials about contacts with Russian ambassador — Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by senior members of then President-elect Donald Trump's transition team about the risks of his contacts with the Russian ambassador weeks …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
White House fires its chief usher — the first woman in that job — The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, the first woman and second African American to hold the position. — When the White House residence staff arrived at work Friday morning, they were told that Reid …
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Reuters:
France's Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online — A large trove of emails from the campaign of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron was posted online late on Friday, 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose the country's next president in a run-off against far-right rival Marine Le Pen.
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Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine activists spark a state's worst measles outbreak in decades — MINNEAPOLIS — The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don't let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella — it causes autism, they said.
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Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
CNN's Hughes demands apology from ‘bully’ Sam Bee for mocking her ‘mazel tov cocktail’ defense of Trump — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN contributor and Donald Trump booster Scottie Nell Hughes thinks comedian Samantha Bee “bullied” her last weekend during the …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
FCC to investigate, ‘take appropriate action’ on Colbert's Trump rant — Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert's controversial joke about President Trump drew the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency received “a number” of complaints about Colbert's commentary earlier …
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Jfarrell / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Court Rules State Department Must Release Clinton Emails Detailing Obama Response to Benghazi — Trump Administration Asks Court Again to Keep Records Secret — Group Argues Agency Violating FOIA to Cover for Hillary Clinton — (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today announced …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Judicial Watch: Two Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago cost more than $1 million
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News trying to pull Jesse Watters from Bill O'Reilly comedy tour — This is why Bill O'Reilly was fired — Bill O'Reilly says his former protege at Fox News, Jesse Watters, will continue to make a series of public appearances with him this year. Fox News has other ideas.
Anthony Cormier / BuzzFeed:
This Is The Inside Of Trump's Lawyer's Passport — Trump's lawyer gave BuzzFeed News exclusive access to his passport, saying it proves he couldn't have attended an alleged secret meeting with Russian agents. — Since the publication of an unverified 35-page dossier alleging …
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
Georgia Can't Block New Voters From Registering in the Ossoff-Handel Runoff — In a big win for voting rights, a federal court overturns the state's 90-day registration deadline — On March 22, 2017, Jill Boyd Myers moved from Atlanta to Sandy Springs, Georgia, relocating from the Fifth Congressional District to the Sixth.
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys.... (CNN)House Republicans marched to the White House on Thursday afternoon to celebrate their victory: Passage of the American Health Care Act. — President Trump welcomed them with a Rose Garden celebration.
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Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Watch: Chris Collins admits he didn't read health care bill — WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Collins told CNN that he didn't read the entire Republican health care bill that the House passed Thursday. — And then he told The Buffalo News that he was unaware of a key provision in the bill …
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Kim Bell / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Protester featured in iconic Ferguson photo found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound — Edward Crawford died overnight.
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn — Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn — A word on Obamacare. I relied on it until just recently when I joined New York's staff and went on an employer's plan, and, to tell the truth …
Media Matters for America:
Gateway Pundit Threw A Gala For The “Alt-Right” And We Were There — On April 29, about a mile away from the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, a little over a hundred members of a group who dubiously brand themselves as purveyors of the “real news” gathered …
New York Times:
Second Chance for ‘Obamacare’ Repeal. And for Reince Priebus. — WASHINGTON — The Republican health care overhaul might never become law, but it has already changed the life of one American: Reince Priebus, who knew it was his best and perhaps last hope of becoming an empowered White House chief of staff.
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Juan Forero / Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela Is Starving — Once Latin America's richest country, Venezuela can no longer feed its people, hobbled by the nationalization of farms as well as price and currency controls. The resulting hunger and malnutrition are an unfolding tragedy.
New York Times:
Senate Asks Trump Associates for Records of Communication With Russians — WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee, seeking to accelerate its broad investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, has asked a number of high-profile Trump campaign associates to hand …
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Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Rape charges to be dropped against immigrant teens in Md. case — Maryland prosecutors will drop rape and sex offense charges against two immigrant teens accused of attacking a 14-year-old classmate in a high school bathroom stall, according to attorneys in a case that shocked local parents …
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