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Bridge officially burned.

The White House on Monday made it clear: President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is in Trump’s bad...
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The Trump administration gets slammed with its first lawsuit from an insurer over the cut subsidies.

In the wake of a surprisingly robust open enrollment period, the small health insurance co-op Maine Community Health Options (MCHO) became...
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The Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now says it can only guarantee full funding for all states through late January, sparking uncertainty for millions of low-income families across the country.

In a hastily-thrown-together funding package passed just before Christmas, Congress agreed to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program for six...
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Have fun handling that on your own, Milo!

Milo Yiannopoulos’ lawyers will no longer represent the far-right provocateur in his $10 million breach-of-contract suit against publishing giant Simon...
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So apparently Trump officials were told to help with a book they now call “fake” and “a grotesque work of fiction.”

Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka wrote Monday that he had been told to participate in Michael Wolff’s blockbuster book,...
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“We cannot stand silent.”

The CEO of Macmillan, the parent company of the publisher behind Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,”...
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“How does Trump’s heavy dependence on Russian money and employees with deep ties to Russia connect to the very pro-Russia line he took during the campaign and his campaign’s willingness to work with the Russian disruption campaign in 2016?”

A week ago I said we were at the end of the beginning of the Trump/Russia story. The big question...
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NBC said the tweet was “in reference to a joke made during the monologue and not meant to be a political statement.”

NBC on Monday deleted and explained away a tweet it had published during the Golden Globes Sunday night referring to...
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Bannon’s backtracking doesn’t quite square with the “Fire and Fury” author’s version of the story.

Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” on Monday said former White House strategist Steve...
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In fact, “it has been noted by reporters many times that they wish he would slow down because they sometimes have trouble keeping up with him,” according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Donald Trump’s work schedule following a report in Axios that Trump...
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“If the entire psychiatric profession got together and examined Trump and pronounced him entirely free of any mental illness, his behavior wouldn’t be any less whacked or dangerous in a President.”

We are now back on to the feverish debate about whether or not Donald Trump is mentally ill or suffering...
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An update on POTUS’s reality show-based attack on the media:

President Donald Trump on Sunday evening said that he would push back the presentation of his so-called “Fake News Awards”...
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Trump’s lawyers are reportedly discussing several potential formats for an interview, such as responding to written questions instead of doing an in-person interview.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump are engaged in initial talks with the FBI about a possible interview with special counsel...
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“I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time,” CNN’s Jake Tapper told the aide.

White House aide Stephen Miller was escorted off the set of CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday after host...
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Obama will join Letterman on January 12 for the show's premiere.

NEW YORK (AP) — David Letterman has lined up former president Barack Obama to be his first guest when he...
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Pot growers and business owners are now terrified of getting raided by the feds.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The buzz kill long dreaded in the marijuana industry came just days after California opened what...
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