Tom Price belongs to a doctors group with unorthodox views on government and health care; Trump questions credibility of senator who disclosed comments by Judge Gorsuch; Trump’s claim that the number of officer deaths in 2016 increased 56 percent from 2015; White House says Conway has been ‘counseled’ after touting Ivanka Trump’s products; Perriello comes out against pipeline and, in a shift, says he is skeptical of offshore drilling; An Arizona mom is deported. How many others might face the same fate?; Republicans expected more bite on Iran after Trump’s barking; Should House Democrats write off rural congressional districts?; Sessions’s first comments as attorney general inflated U.S. crime problem; Sheldon Adelson to have dinner with Trump, adviser says; Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to meet with Trump at the White House Monday;
 
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Democrat moves to force House debate on Trump’s alleged business conflicts and Russia ties
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) filed a “resolution of inquiry,” a tactic used to force presidents and executive-branch agencies to share records with Congress.
Tom Price belongs to a doctors group with unorthodox views on government and health care
Tom Price has a history of bashing the mission and bureaucrats of the department he would lead if confirmed.
 
Trump questions credibility of senator who disclosed comments by Judge Gorsuch
But a Trump ally helping guide the Supreme Court nomination process confirmed the judge's remarks.
 
Trump’s claim that the number of officer deaths in 2016 increased 56 percent from 2015
Trump’s grim statistic seemed too remarkable to be correct, but it was — earning him the prized Geppetto Checkmark.
 
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White House says Conway has been ‘counseled’ after touting Ivanka Trump’s products
Experts in ethics law say her comments clearly violated rules designed to separate government policy from private business dealings.
 
Perriello comes out against pipeline and, in a shift, says he is skeptical of offshore drilling
As a congressman, the Democrat backed oil and gas drilling off Virginia’s coast.
 
An Arizona mom is deported. How many others might face the same fate?
Thanks to the black box that is the government, it's impossible to know.
 
Republicans expected more bite on Iran after Trump’s barking
The GOP doesn't think Trump's Iran sanctions matched his get-tough talk, and want to see more punitive action
 
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Should House Democrats write off rural congressional districts?
It’s a question being posed by Rep. Sean Maloney in his independent autopsy of 2016
 
Sessions’s first comments as attorney general inflated U.S. crime problem
The rise in murders, he said, was part of a “permanent trend."
 
Sheldon Adelson to have dinner with Trump, adviser says
Billionaires Sheldon and Miriam Adelson were major Trump donors last year.
 
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to meet with Trump at the White House Monday
Trudeau has begun to position himself as a Trump foe on the world stage, delivering indirect but unmistakable criticisms of the new U.S. president's policies.
 
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