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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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Mark Scott / New York Times:
U.S. Far-Right Activists Promote Hacking Attack Against Macron  —  After months of trying to move the political needle in favor of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, American far-right activists on Saturday threw their weight behind a hacking attack against her rival …
Reuters:
French candidate Macron claims massive hack as emails leaked
Discussion: Politico
James McAuley / Washington Post:
France starts probing ‘massive’ hack of emails and documents reported by Macron campaign
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Le Pen Is Just A Gargantuan Polling Error Behind Macron
Aurelien Breeden / New York Times:
Macron Campaign Says It Was Target of ‘Massive’ Hacking Attack
Discussion: The Week and Mother Jones
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:   Trumpcare Destroys Any Notion That American Conservatism Gives a Damn
BBC:
Macron condemns ‘massive’ hacking attack
Discussion: The Verge and The Atlantic
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Blame it on Trumpcare  —  Call it Obamacare, Trumpcare or GOPcare, but Republicans now own health care.  —  The House Republican vote Thursday to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act means the GOP now has to answer for every problem with the health care law: the premium increases due …
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CNN:
Republicans defend having no women in health care group  —  Cassidy: Health bill should pass Kimmel test  —  Washington (CNN)Just hours after House Republicans managed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Senate is signaling it will write its own proposal …
Wall Street Journal:
Ending ObamaCare, Part One
Discussion: Instapundit
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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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Gov. Scott Walker would consider dropping fed pre-existing condition coverage rules for Wisconsin
David Nather / Axios:
Walker considers waiving pre-existing condition rules
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Georgia special election smashes all-time spending record  —  It's official: Georgia's special election will be the most expensive House race in U.S. history.  —  Candidates and outside groups have aired or reserved more than $29.7 million worth of TV ads in the race to replace HHS Secretary Tom Price …
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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 …
Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:
This Teen's Dad Told Her She Was Dead To Him For Going To Prom With A Black Friend  —  Anna Hayes is a high school senior from a small town in southern Arkansas called Lake Village.  She told BuzzFeed News that racism is a big issue in her community. … Unfortunately, Anna said that bigotry extends to her own family.
Discussion: Raw Story and PerezHilton
New York Times:
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Charged With Murder  —  BALCH SPRINGS, Tex. — A police officer in a Dallas suburb who fired his rifle into a car full of teenagers leaving a party last Saturday, killing a boy in the front passenger seat, was charged with murder on Friday.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: RADAR
New York Times:
Trump's 2nd Nominee for Army Secretary Withdraws  —  WASHINGTON — Mark E. Green, President's Trump's second nominee to be secretary of the Army, withdrew from consideration on Friday.  In a statement, Mr. Green said his nomination had become a distraction because of “false and misleading attacks against me.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
‘The time has come to treat the Second Amendment as a real constitutional right’  —  From today's Fisher v. Kealoha opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (and Judge Alex Kozinski's separate opinion, though he also joined the panel opinion) — like many judicial opinions …
Discussion: Above the Law
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Kurt Eichenwald: I Want Republicans To Watch Their Families Lose Insurance And Die  —  MSNBC Guest Reamed Out After Dropping The S-Bomb On Live TV  —  ICE Seeks To Deport Soccer Coach Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 7-Year Old Girl  —  'IT'S RACISM!'  Wanda Sykes Knows The Real Reason Republicans Want To Repeal Obamacare
Discussion: Geller Report
Tom Ciccotta / Breitbart:
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, has announced that they will fund ‘100 percent’ of financial aid packages for students that are in the country illegally.  —  Although international students are expected to pay full tuition, undocumented undergraduate students at Emory will have …
JSOnline:
Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national  —  By Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  Long a player on the national stage, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee has been quietly using its vast resources to construct state …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and EXPOSEDbyCMD
 
 
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Deborah Barfield Berry / The Montgomery Advertiser:
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Fox News:
George Soros battles $10B lawsuit, familiar charges of wielding political influence
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sputnik denied permanent congressional credentials
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Jimmy Kimmel / National Review:
The Dangers of Empathy  —  It can distract us from rational thought …
Jeff Diamant / Pew Research Center:
Though still conservative, young evangelicals are more liberal than their elders on some issues
Discussion: LifeNews.com
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:
The Senate filibuster may trigger a constitutional crisis
Discussion: American Greatness
Fox News:
Comey pressed for anti-Trump dossier in classified Russia report, sources say
Discussion: Raw Story
Media Matters for America:
Gateway Pundit Threw A Gala For The “Alt-Right” And We Were There
Juan Forero / Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela Is Starving  —  Once Latin America's richest country …
Discussion: IJR and Hot Air
Kim Bell / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Protester featured in iconic Ferguson photo found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound