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Kochs: Health plan not mean enough

Chief lieutenants in the Koch brothers’ political network lashed out at the Senate Republican health care bill on Saturday as not conservative enough, becoming a powerful outside critic as GOP leaders try to rally support for their plan among rank-and-file Republicans. Tim Phillips, who leads Americans For Prosperity, the Koch network’s political arm, called the Senate’s plans for Medicaid “a slight nip and tuck” of President Barack Obama’s health care law, a ...

by DOUG THOMPSON - Opinion

Donald Trump constantly reminds us of an old joke: How do we know he is lying? Because his lips are moving. For a month after his firing of FBI Director James Comey, Trump kept dangling a lie that h ...

by ERIC TUCKER and JAKE PEARSON

Robert Mueller, the somber-faced and demanding FBI director who led the bureau through the Sept. 11 attacks, and James Comey, his more approachable and outwardly affable successor, may be poles apart stylistically but both command a wealth of respect in the law enforcement and legal community. That ...

Five GOP Senators oppose health care bill

by ALAN FRAM and REGINA GARCIA CANO

Nevada Republican Dean Heller became the fifth GOP senator to declare his opposition to the party’s banner legislation to scuttle much of Barack Obama’s health care overhaul on Friday, more than enough to sink the measure and deliver a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump unless som ...