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POSTED: March 14, 2017, 7:30 am

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Today in Black History: Musical prodigy, producer, and arranger Quincy Jones is born on this date in 1933 in Chicago.

The New York Times


National

24 Million Fewer Could Receive Health Coverage

Document: C.B.O. Rates Republican Health Care Plan


Financial Savings, but at What Cost?

Fact Check: Trump’s Critiques of the Affordable Care Act

EDITORIAL: Trading Health Care for the Poor for Tax Cuts for the Rich

Health Policy Expert Is Confirmed as Medicare and Medicaid Administrator


Using Air Quotes, White House Walks Back ‘Wiretap’ Talk


Republicans Rebuke Iowa Representative

Federal Inquiry of Fox News Advances Without Bharara

It’s Democrats’ Turn to Hint at a Shutdown, Over Border Wall Funding


Local


Regents Drop Teacher Literacy Test Seen as Discriminatory


As Drug Deaths Soar, Mayor Offers Plan to Cut Toll

Manhattan’s Other Bus Terminal, Running Years Late

New York City Sues Verizon, Claiming Broken Promises of Fios Coverage


The Christian Science Monitor


Trump vs. the media: the war over facts


No taxes for teachers: California tries to hold on to good educators

Teachers' new Catch-22: Students want to talk politics, but their parents don't

FIRST LOOK Are this Iowa congressman's views on immigration racist?


Obamacare overhaul: Why GOP says it's not about the number of people covered (+video)


The Star Ledger


Christie blames U.S. attorneys for getting fired by Trump

Christie: N.J. jobs growth rate now better than U.S.

Sheriff's officer sentenced for having sex with drug offender


Man admits robbing same 7-Eleven 3 times in 4 days


Former Atlantic City casino to be sold, become huge indoor water park



Philly.com

248 foreign nationals apprehended in Pa., Del., N.J., W.Va., in two-week sweep by ICE


Where Philly-area Republicans stand on the Obamacare repeal


Philly School District savings means headaches for charter schools

Got truth? Knight offers $1 million for ideas to promote 'real' news


Bill Cosby jury will be picked in Allegheny County


The Cleveland Plain Dealer


Ohio senators looking to fill federal judgeships in Cleveland, Columbus

Trump should invest $200 billion in transit, association says

Ohio energy bill hearings begin today, would end rules on efficiency and renewable energy

Cleveland police seek help to find missing man

State to delay its ESSA plan, will examine testing, teacher evaluations

Ohio businesses could get $1 billion rebate from workers' compensation surplus


The Chicago Tribune


Durbin, Duckworth push Rauner on GOP health care plan

Fardon issues fiery letter on exit as U.S. attorney in Chicago

IRS strips tax-exempt status from Richard Spencer's white nationalist nonprofit

Congressman Gutierrez briefly detained during sit-in at Chicago ICE office


Recruit booted from Chicago police academy wins second chance after legal battle


Chicago Police recruits rarely flunk out, raising concerns about training


The Detroit Free Press


Six days after wind storm, 7,000 remain without power in metro Detroit

Detroit City Council OKs budget that funds more officers


Idea of letter grades for Michigan schools dies


50 metro Detroit faith leaders are inspired by the sanctuary movement



The Los Angeles Times


A side-by-side comparison of Obamacare and the GOP's repeal plan

Issa's own poll suggests that Trump is a burden

David Lazarus: Either Paul Ryan is full of it or he has no idea what he's talking about

Law enforcement divided over California's sanctuary frenzy


Closing arguments in Baca obstruction retrial offer conflicting motives for actions of former L.A. County sheriff



The Washington Post


24 million more uninsured by 2026 under GOP plan, CBO says

Losers in the GOP’s health plan? Some of the most pro-Trump places in America.


Defunding Planned Parenthood could lead to thousands more births, CBO projects


Perspective: The most interesting numbers in CBO’s score of the Republicans’ health care bill (and the policy and politics they imply)

White House budget director’s 4-Pinocchio claims about the Obamacare legislative process


Democrats hope to use Obamacare rewrite to turn activism into change

In wake of CBO analysis of health-care bill, Ryan-aligned group launches TV ads seeking to give GOP lawmakers cover

Virginia Republican Rep. Rob Wittman opposes GOP health care plan

White House attacks on budget office could set up future battles on agenda


Justice Dept. seeks more time after Congress requests proof of Trump wiretap


Court document: Former officer Darren Wilson says Ferguson officers used n-word to refer to African-Americans


White-supremacist signs posted at George Washington University

Alexandria school activists pressure council for millions more for buildings

DeVos tells big-city school superintendents she believes in ‘great public schools’ — but some remain skeptical


USA Today

Texas bill targets the 'very personal' lives of men


N.J. congressman wants details on Michael Flynn's lobbying status







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