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• White House ramping up search for communications director after Spicer's rocky start

  07-02-2017 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House is ramping up its search for a new communications director in an effort to lighten the load of embattled White House press secretary Sean Spicer, multiple sources told CNN.
  
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• DeVos makes 5, but Trump still way behind on Cabinet nods

  07-02-2017 23:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With Betsy DeVos confirmed, President Donald Trump's Cabinet is now five down and 10 to go.
  
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• House Freedom Caucus set to unveil Obamacare repeal and replace plan

  07-02-2017 23:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are developing their own legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare and plan to unveil it as early as next week.
  
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• Cruz, Sanders to debate Obamacare at CNN town hall

  07-02-2017 23:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Under President Donald Trump, the Republican Party is gearing up to overhaul Obamacare -- the sweeping health care law enacted in 2010 that covers some 20 million Americans.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. takes over Washington hotel near White House

  07-02-2017 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr. has taken the reins of the Trump International Hotel near the White House after critics charged it was a conflict of interest for U.S. President Donald Trump to run the hotel while also running the federal government that is leasing the building to his company. A filing with the District of Columbia government last week showed that the younger Trump took over as president of the company that runs the luxury hotel as well as a restaurant and spa in the building. The filing left u
  
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• Paris, Orlando on White House's list of 'under-reported' attacks

  07-02-2017 22:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The White House has issued a list of 78 terror attacks to support US President Donald Trump's claim that the media is failing to adequately report them.
  
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• Aides help temper Trump's Obamacare rhetoric

  07-02-2017 22:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's rhetoric on the timeline for repealing and replacing Obamacare has changed, and it's no accident.
  
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• Trump falsely claims US murder rate is 'highest' in 47 years

  07-02-2017 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump continues to decry a record-high murder rate that simply doesn't exist.
  
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• What's at stake in Melania Trump lawsuit: The first lady's reputation, earning potential

  07-02-2017 21:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  First lady Melania Trump is -- in and of herself -- a "brand," one that could elicit lucrative endorsement opportunities, according to a lawsuit refiled by her attorneys on Monday.
  
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• Second Lady Karen Pence hires chief of staff

  07-02-2017 21:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Karen Pence has made her first official hire as second lady, appointing Kristan King Nevins as her chief of staff, the office of the vice president announced Tuesday.
  
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• Trump administration will uphold election system's designation as critical infrastructure

  07-02-2017 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Tuesday said he backed a decision in the Obama administration's final days to designate elections systems as critical infrastructure in order to boost their cyber defenses, after the government concluded Russian hackers tried to influence the 2016 presidential race. Some conservative states, such as Georgia, had expressed concerns that the Obama administration move amounted to a federal takeover of elections tra
  
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• Duffy: 'There's a difference' on white terror and Muslim terror

  07-02-2017 21:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Sean Duffy said Tuesday "there is a difference" between terror acts by white people and those committed by Muslims.
  
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• Trump teeing up a softer diplomatic approach with Japan

  07-02-2017 21:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is turning on the charm. Or at least, he's turning on his golf cart.
  
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• Trump, Japan's Abe to spend time at Trump resort in Fla. after meeting: White House

  07-02-2017 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has invited Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend after the two leaders meet on Friday in Washington, the White House said on Tuesday. "This is a testament to the importance the United States places on the bilateral relationship and the strength of our alliance and the deep economic ties between the United States and Japan," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said at a White House press briefing.
  
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• GOP senators aim to cut legal immigration by half

  07-02-2017 20:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As the immigration debate rages with a focus on building a wall along the US-Mexico border, two Republican senators proposed a bill Tuesday that would take on an entirely different issue: legal immigration.
  
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• Senate breaks filibuster of Sessions, final vote expected Wednesday

  07-02-2017 19:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Jeff Sessions took a step closer to becoming the nation's top law enforcement officer when the Senate voted Tuesday to advance his nomination for attorney general to a final vote.
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan says not supporting stronger presidency sends 'positive signal' to militant groups

  07-02-2017 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Turks on Tuesday to vote in favor of strengthening the presidency in a referendum, saying failure to do so would encourage militant groups trying to divide the nation. Erdogan said he was still evaluating a parliamentary bill on constitutional changes to create an executive presidential system in Turkey and would give a response this week. Once Erdogan approves the bill, a referendum will be held most likely in April, which, if passed, could lead to him hol
  
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• GOP senator: DeVos will have to be 'exposed' public schools to see how successful they are

  07-02-2017 19:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Deb Fischer, who voted to confirm to Betsy DeVos as the secretary of education Tuesday, said DeVos will need to be exposed to public schools to see how successful they are in educating children.
  
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• DeVos confirmed as education secretary

  07-02-2017 18:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's selection for education secretary, billionaire mega-donor Betsy DeVos, appears to be his most embattled Cabinet pick, but Senate Republicans have largely held tight in their support.
  
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• Trump administration will not undo election system's designation as critical: official

  07-02-2017 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Tuesday he would not seek to reverse a decision made in the Obama administration's final days to designate U.S. election systems as critical infrastructure, despite concerns from some conservative states that the change amounted to a federal takeover. "I would argue that, yes, we should keep that in place." In January, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had determined state election systems s
  
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• Homeland chief: I should have delayed order on immigration

  07-02-2017 18:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly took responsibility on Tuesday for the quick rollout of President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban executive order, saying he wished he had delayed enacting it.
  
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• Obama's kitesurfing adventure with Richard Branson

  07-02-2017 18:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  #IslandLife was good to Barack Obama.
  
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• France's Macron seen beating Le Pen, Fillon trails in 1st round of election: poll

  07-02-2017 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron are set to make it through to the presidential election's knockout round in May, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday, with Macron comfortably winning the runoff. The IFOP rolling poll of voting intentions showed Le Pen garnering 26 percent of the vote in the April 23 first round, up 0.5 percent since Monday, while Macron would get 21 percent, also up 0.5 percent. Conservative candidate Francois Fillon was placed on 18.5
  
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• Trump defends travel ban ahead of court hearing

  07-02-2017 17:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Tuesday his travel ban is "common sense" and that the challenge to the ban may make it to the Supreme Court.
  
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• Trump's claim that media under-covers terrorism is baloney

  07-02-2017 17:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Peter Bergen searched a popular media database and found that the 78 terrorist incidents cited by the White House as under-covered by the media in fact were the subject of 78,000-plus articles.
  
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• Ryan insists Obamacare replacement will pass this year

  07-02-2017 17:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan insisted Tuesday he intends to pass legislation to dismantle Obamacare and replace it with a new system in 2017 despite suggestions by President Donald Trump that such a move might have to wait until next year.
  
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• WH official: We'll say 'fake news' until media realizes attitude of attacking the President is wrong

  07-02-2017 17:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Monday that the administration will continue using the term "fake news" until the media understands that their "monumental desire" to attack the President is wrong.
  
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• Trump travel ban oral arguments: what you need to know

  07-02-2017 17:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three federal judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are set to hear oral arguments at 6 p.m. ET Tuesday in the challenge to President Donald Trump's travel ban.
  
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• Trump 'shows true face of US,' says Iran's Supreme Leader

  07-02-2017 17:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that he's grateful to President Donald Trump for showing "the true face of the US."
  
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• The name on everyone's lips: Trump

  07-02-2017 17:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  He's everywhere.
  
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• Biden to split time between Delaware, Pennsylvania universities

  07-02-2017 16:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden will split his post-White House time between a foreign policy institute at the University of Pennsylvania and a domestic policy institute at the University of Delaware, the two universities announced on Tuesday.
  
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• Barack Obama's kitesurfing adventure with Richard Branson

  07-02-2017 16:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  #IslandLife was good to Barack Obama.
  
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• Former President Obama is having so much fun kitesurfing with Richard Branson - For The Win

  07-02-2017 15:48 via ftw.usatoday.com
  
  Former President Obama is having so much fun kitesurfing with Richard Branson
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  Former President Barack Obama has apparently taken up kitesurfing, according to a video posted by billionaire Richard Branson. “Loved offering Barack Obama the chance to learn how to kitesurf,” Branson wrote on Twitter.
  
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• Barack Obama's kitesurfing adventure with Richard Branson - CNN

  07-02-2017 15:47 via cnn.com
  
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  Barack Obama's kitesurfing adventure with Richard Branson
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  Washington (CNN) #IslandLife was good to Barack Obama. Before returning to Washington, the former president dove into an aquatic and athletic challenge with his friend, Virgin Group founder and billionaire Richard Branson, while vacationing on the ...
  Barack Obama Went from the White House to Whitecaps on Billionaire Richard Branson's Private IslandTIME
  Barack Obama and Billionaire Richard Branson Just Had a Kitesurfing Competiti
  
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• Chris Murphy on Russia-Trump relationship: 'This is as scary as it gets'

  07-02-2017 15:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sen. Chris Murphy said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's latest words comparing the United States to Russia are "as scary as it gets."
  
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• Al Qaeda leader mocks 'the new fool of the White House' after Yemen raid

  07-02-2017 15:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Days after a raid on an al Qaeda compound in Yemen led to the first US military combat death under Donald Trump, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released an audio message taunting the new American President.
  
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• From disputes to a breakup: wounds still raw after U.S. election

  07-02-2017 14:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Burning passions over Donald Trump's presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide. For Gayle McCormick, it is particularly wrenching: she has separated from her husband of 22 years. "It totally undid me that he could vote for Trump," said McCormick, 73, who had not thought of leaving the conservative Republican before but felt "betrayed" by his support for Trump.
  
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• Debate Night: Read this before you watch Sanders vs. Cruz on CNN

  07-02-2017 14:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Obamacare has made health insurance more affordable, Democrats argue. Some 20 million more people now have coverage thanks to the Affordable Care Act.
  
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• Obama accepted $30K in gifts during his last year in office - New York Post

  07-02-2017 13:15 via nypost.com
  
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  Obama accepted $30K in gifts during his last year in office
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  President Obama accepted personal gifts worth $30,000 during his final year office, newly released disclosure forms reveal. Obama took in eleven gifts, including including a five-volume set of his family genealogy from the president of the Church of ...
  President Obama accepted $30000 worth of gifts in final year in officeWashington Timesall 4 news articles »
  
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• Ginsburg talks partisan rancor, Electoral College and kale

  07-02-2017 13:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As Washington prepares for the contentious hearings of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a wistful Ruth Bader Ginsburg lamented Monday night on how the confirmation process has changed, recalling that one Republican senator who supported her back in 1993 "today wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole".
  
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• Darrell Issa worried about the pace of Trump's executive actions

  07-02-2017 13:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  California Rep. Darrell Issa says he is concerned about the pace in which President Donald Trump's executive actions have been issued during his first two weeks in office.
  
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• DeVos hangs in balance before tight Senate vote

  07-02-2017 12:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's selection for education secretary, billionaire mega-donor Betsy DeVos, appears to be his most embattled Cabinet pick, but Senate Republicans have largely held tight in their support.
  
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• Rosie O'Donnell open to play Steve Bannon on "SNL"

  07-02-2017 12:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rosie O'Donnell, a long-time foe of President Donald Trump, says she'd be up for playing his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, on "Saturday Night Live."
  
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• France's Macron dismisses affair as rival Fillon battles scandal

  07-02-2017 12:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sudip Kar-Gupta PARIS (Reuters) - France's presidential election campaign lurched deeper into uncertainty on Tuesday after centrist Emmanuel Macron was forced to deny an extramarital affair while financial scandal continued to dog conservative rival Francois Fillon and his party. Macron has become favorite to win by a thin margin since a scandal two weeks ago surrounding the work of Fillon's wife, Penelope, knocked the former prime minister off the top spot. Late on Monday, the centrist forme
  
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• Couple calls it quits over Trump: Wounds still raw after bitter U.S. election

  07-02-2017 12:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Burning passions over Donald Trump's presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide. For Gayle McCormick, it is particularly wrenching: she has separated from her husband of 22 years. "It totally undid me that he could vote for Trump," said McCormick, 73, who had not thought of leaving the conservative Republican before but felt "betrayed" by his support for Trump.
  
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• Is the former Obama White House photographer trolling President Trump? - Washington Post

  07-02-2017 12:01 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  Is the former Obama White House photographer trolling President Trump?
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  Pete Souza marked his transition from official presidential photographer to just another guy on Instagram with an image of apparent finality: President Barack Obama looking out over the White House as he flew away in a helicopter. But Souza's story of ...and more »
  
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• France's Fillon still struggling to win over most voters: poll

  07-02-2017 11:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sixty-five percent of French voters still want the French right-wing to replace Francois Fillon with another candidate, even though Fillon has the backing of most people from within his political camp, an opinion poll said on Tuesday. The Harris Interactive poll said 65 percent of voters still believed the French mainstream right should choose a candidate other than Fillon, who has been hit by allegations of paying his wife unjustifiably large sums of money for work done for him. The poll, howev
  
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• Magistrate orders French ex-president Sarkozy to stand trial

  07-02-2017 11:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - A magistrate has ordered former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to stand trial over irregularities in the funding of his failed 2012 re-election bid, a judicial source said on Tuesday. The charge against Sarkozy, who led France for five years from 2007, exposes the 62-year old conservative politician to a one-year prison sentence if convicted. One of two magistrates handling the case ordered the trial on the charge that Sarkozy spent way more than he was
  
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• France's Macron dismisses talk of gay extra-marital relationship

  07-02-2017 11:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Emmanuel Macron, the independent centrist who is favorite to win the French presidential election, has dismissed rumors he has a gay relationship outside his marriage to Brigitte Trogneux. In comments on Monday, tweeted by his spokeswoman, Macron brushed off rumors he was in a relationship with Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gallet.
  
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• He's everywhere

  07-02-2017 11:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  He's everywhere.
  
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