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+23 +1Behind Kushner Companies, a Chinese agency skirts visa-for-investment rules
While Jared Kushner’s family company apologized this week for mentioning the White House adviser’s name when wooing Chinese investors to fund a New Jersey real estate project, one Chinese immigration agency was touting its role in the deal. By Alexandra Harney.
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+32 +1‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care,’ GOP lawmaker says. He got booed.
Rep. Raúl Labrador, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, made the comment at a town hall meeting in Lewiston, Idaho.
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+33 +1Here Are The National Monuments At Risk Under Donald Trump
‘This should never have happened.’ —President Donald Trump. By Gabriel H. Sanchez.
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+24 +1Flint activist who fought poisoned water now faces foreclosure for overdue water bill
The city has warned 8,000 residents that they could face foreclosure over refusing to pay for poisoned water. By Bryce Covert.
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+16 +1Republicans sweat surprisingly close Kansas congressional race
Kansas has been reliably Republican in federal elections, but GOP operatives head into Tuesday uncertain of an easy victory when the deep-red state holds the first congressional election since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. By Bryan Lowry.
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+2 +1The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency
How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency. By Jane Mayer.
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+22 +1GOP’s strange new politics: Going after seniors
People 60 and older don’t get picked on much in politics. Seniors have long been a sort of untouchable “third rail.” That just changed with the GOP health bill. By Danny Westneat.
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+19 +1America’s Empty-Church Problem
The culture war over religious morality has faded; in its place is something much worse. By Peter Beinart.
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+38 +1Amazon launched a fake radio station to promote ‘The Man in the High Castle.’ Angry Trump supporters thought it was real.
#ResistanceRadio, the campaign's sponsored hashtag, spread quickly on Twitter.
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+17 +1CBO report: 14 million fewer insured by 2018 under GOP health care bill
14 million more Americans would be uninsured under the House Republican health care bill than under Obamacare in 2018, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said Monday.
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+19 +1The Republican health plan is a huge betrayal of Trump’s campaign promises
Donald Trump’s embrace of the American Health Care Act, authored by Paul Ryan and other House Republicans seemingly in collaboration with establishment-minded members of his administration, represents a massive betrayal of his own clear and repeated promises to the American people. To an extent, sophisticated political journalists always knew Trump was likely to break those promises. And his embrace of conventional, conservative House Republicans such as...
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+31 +1The EPA’s Science Office Removed “Science” From Its Mission Statement
A group of scientists concerned about Trump have discovered a doozy. By Emily Atkin.
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+21 +1Maybe It's a Bad Sign When Hospitals Come Out Against Your Healthcare Plan
But what do hospitals know about healthcare? Oh, right.
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+11 +1The White House copied and pasted a paragraph from an ExxonMobil press release into a Trump statement
The Exxon release was published an hour before the White House statement
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+7 +1The Return of American Race Laws
The campaign to deport millions is a first step toward the clash of civilizations that the white supremacists in the White House believe is inevitable at home and abroad. By Chris Hedges.
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+5 +1Top Counterintel Official Denies Any Drop In Morale Among Intel Community Since Trump Took Over
A top counterintelligence official has denied any morale drop among the intelligence community following President Donald Trump's ascent to the White House. "I don’t see a dip in morale," Bill E
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+24 +1Ryancare: You Can Pay More for Less!
For Paul Ryan & Co., success means having you pay more for less.
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+35 +1Senate confirms Jeff Sessions as attorney general
The vote followed a bitter debate over the Alabama senator’s willingness to maintain the independence of the Justice Department.
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+15 +1FCC Rescinds Claim that AT&T and Verizon Violated Net Neutrality
Republican Ajit Pai halts Wheeler's net neutrality investigation of zero-rating.
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+11 +1Gallup: Donald Trump reaches majority disapproval rating in record time
The majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump and the work he did during his first week in the White House, according to a Gallup poll tracking presidents’ approval ratings. As of Saturday, the Gallup daily tracking poll showed that Trump had a disapproval rating of 51 percent, while his approval rating was at 42 percent. His average approval rating over his first week in office was 45 percent while the average disapproval rating was 48 percent.
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