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Republicans Just Overcame A Major Hurdle As They Work To Repeal And Replace Obamacare
It came down to the wire: Vice President Mike Pence had to break a tie, and Sen. John McCain, who has brain cancer, had to be flown in from Arizona to vote yes.
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Minneapolis Mayor Defends Response To Police Shooting Of Yoga Teacher
In a new interview on the podcast Pod Save the People, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges acknowledged that her reaction to the killing of Justine Damond, a white woman, is different than that of a 2015 incident involving a black man — but she contends it's because the community asked her for stronger responses to shootings.
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Donald Trump Has Your Full Attention. Can Anyone Else Be Heard?
In the age of Trump, global players — from tech companies to governments — have to shout.
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Trump’s New Lead Lawyer Denies The Legal Team Is Looking Into Pardons
“There is nothing going on on pardons, research — nothing,” John Dowd told BuzzFeed News on Friday morning.
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Transgender People Are Taking Legal Action Over North Carolina's New Bathroom Law
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican lawmakers repealed one anti-transgender law and replaced it with another.
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The Senate Just Confirmed Trump's Controversial Blogging Nominee To A Federal Appeals Court
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Kentucky lawyer John Bush to a federal appeals court, over objections from Democrats and civil rights groups that his pseudonymous blogging and other public comments made him unfit for the job.
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Trump Is Angry At Everyone — But He's Really Upset His Pick Isn't Running The Russia Investigation
The bottom line in a wild New York Times interview is that Trump is upset that he didn’t pick the person making the calls on the investigation into his campaign.
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Sen. John McCain Has Been Diagnosed With Brain Cancer
The senior senator from Arizona and two-time presidential candidate announced the diagnosis Wednesday. The news prompted an outpouring of support.
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New Report: About A Third Of Democratic State Party Staffers Are Minorities
But, according to the new report from advocacy firm Inclusv, almost 40% of the staffers of color came from either Florida, California, Ohio, North Carolina, or Virginia.
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Supreme Court Won't Stop Order That Exempts Grandparents From Trump's Travel Ban
The court did, however, put on hold a lower court's provision that expanded protections for would-be refugees affected by Trump's 120-day refugee ban.
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Trump Election Commission: A White House Team Will Handle Voter Data
The director of White House Information Technology explained the new plan in a court filing for a privacy lawsuit that has been filed against the commission.
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After 2016 Hacks, House Democratic Committee Switches To Encrypted Messaging
The DCCC has moved to Wickr, an end-to-end encrypted messaging system, for all internal communications. They're first to do so after a year in which hacking dominated the news.
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What If Trump TV Was Good?
What Russia has going for it. From the NewsFeed with @BuzzFeedBen podcast.
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Mitch McConnell Just Wants To Repeal Obamacare Now That Replacing It Won't Happen Anytime Soon
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would now vote on a bill to fully repeal Obamacare, but delay repeal by two years.
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Meet America’s Least Angry, Most Popular Republican Governors
Democrats may be eager to capitalize on Trump’s unpopularity, but the Republican governors in blue-state Massachusetts, Maryland, and Vermont are some of the most popular in the country — even if Trump’s populist anger has left uncertain the political future of their approach. “There’s no reason to be angry.”
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Trump Hired A Veteran White-Collar Defense Lawyer To Work In The White House
The president is adding Ty Cobb, a veteran white-collar defense lawyer in Washington, DC, to the White House counsel's office. His law firm, Hogan Lovells, announced the news internally on Friday.
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The Russian Lawyer And The Lobbyist From The Trump Jr. Meeting Had A Busy Month In America Last Summer
Natalia Veselnitskaya was not only at the Trump Tower meeting that's dominated the news this week. She spent the first half of June appearing at several key moments for Russian relations in the US — often with the lobbyist revealed on Friday also to have been at the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Reverse New Limits On Travel Ban
A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday provided exemptions from the travel ban for grandparents and some other family members, as well as additional exemptions for some refugees. The Justice Department asked the justices on Friday night to remove those exemptions. The court called for a response from Hawaii by noon Tuesday.
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Lana Del Rey Knows Exactly What To Do With This Year
Lana Del Rey seems relaxed, serene, having the time of her life.
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While Donald Trump Jr. Was Emailing Last Year, Republicans Were Being Convinced Of The Trump "Pivot"
In the days that Donald Trump Jr. emailed about a meeting with a "Russian government lawyer," Republican leaders were working hard to convince each other that the rogue primary campaign was at its end.
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Federal Judge Says Trump Travel Ban Can't Keep Out Grandparents And Other Family Members
The executive order cannot be used to "exclude grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States," US District Judge Derrick Watson ruled. Watson also placed additional restrictions on which would-be refugees can be excluded under the order.
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The Senate Just Revealed Its Latest Bill To Repeal And Replace Obamacare
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the revised health care bill to GOP senators Thursday and a preliminary vote on the bill is expected next week.
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Paul Ryan’s Political Team Is Still Raising A Lot Of Money
His operation has raked in roughly as much through the first half of 2017 — $10.3 million in the second quarter — as it did through the first half of 2016, an election year.
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These Two Democrats Just Filed To Impeach Trump — But Don't Expect It To Go Anywhere
Two House Democrats have filed articles of impeachment, but they won't be the ones who get President Donald Trump booted from the White House.
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White House Official On The Rock 2020: "I'll Believe It When I See It"
Someone registered "Run the Rock 2020" to draft Dwayne Johnson to run for president against Donald Trump — but the White House isn't exactly worried about the Moana star as a potential challenger.
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What The Donald Trump Jr. Emails Don’t Say
Was there any other communication in June 2016 besides the emails that Trump Jr. posted to Twitter on Tuesday? Lawyers for the parties involved did not answer questions on the subject.
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Donald Trump Jr. Has Hired A Lawyer Who Has Handled Organized Crime And Cybercrime Cases
Donald Trump Jr. has hired New York criminal defense lawyer Alan Futerfas, as the president’s son faces scrutiny for his meeting last year with a Russian lawyer.
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This Music Publicist Says He Set Up The Donald Trump Jr. Meeting With A Russian Lawyer
"The A Team - headed to the White House!" Rob Goldstone wrote on the night of Trump's election victory. Over the weekend, Goldstone — who represents the musician son of a billionaire in Russia — said he helped arrange a June 2016 meeting between the president's son and a Russian lawyer who had been working to change US policy.
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Voters Are Withdrawing Their Registration Over Trump's Election Commission. Democrats Say That's A Bad Idea.
In Colorado, hundreds of voters are withdrawing their voter registration after the state said it would comply with the commission's request for voter information.
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