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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories A proposal by President Trump’s administration would undo the Affordable Care Act’s five-year-old mandate for birth control coverage.  Two conversations President Trump spoke about — with the head of the Boy Scouts and the president of Mexico — were not fabricated, Sarah Sanders said.  White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller tore into CNN’s Jim Acosta without really engaging in substance.  Calling the current system broken, President Trump said the aim of the leg

Posted at 8:30 pm on August 1, 2017 by Patterico More #FAKENEWS!! from the leftists at . . . Sports Illustrated? My lede was partially ironic but I don’t follow sports journalism, so others will have to educate me as to whether SI is a hotbed of #FAKENEWS commies. Evaluating the article on its face, we don’t know who is claiming Trump said this.

Posted at 10:00 pm on August 1, 2017 by Joe Cunningham Following the hilariously short term of Anthony Scaramucci (negative sixteen days, given his job didn’t officially start until August 15), there have been some rumors floating around about who would take over as White House communications director. One of the favorites has been Kellyanne Conway, who has been a frequent mouthpiece for the Forces of Chaos that have enveloped the White House. However, given some recent media, I think Corey Lewandowski has got to be looking to get back into the game.

Posted at 11:00 pm on August 1, 2017 by Susan Wright I honestly can’t tell at this point if Trump lies because he knows his fawning base will believe anything he says, without question, and it’s just sport for him, or if he lies because of some pathological root. Either way, it’s a day ending in a “y” so there’s another Trump lie being talked about. Apparently, after the nonsensical speech Trump delivered to the Boy Scout Jamboree several weeks ago, where he railed on “fake news,” talked about yachts and wild cocktail parties, and got the crowd to boo the mention of f

Posted at 11:30 pm on August 1, 2017 by Jennifer Van Laar Most policies coming out of Los Angeles make RedState readers’ (and writers’) heads spin. This one will too, but since we’re getting a glimpse into the logic train that is “progressive” policy it’s a tad more entertaining. Some Angelenos on the city council thought (as summarized by me): And thus, city workers and contractors began re-striping roads in the Playa del Rey, or Silicon Beach, area of Los Angeles, which is just north of LAX and just south of Santa Monica. It’s all worked out just perfectly, right?

Posted at 11:59 pm on August 1, 2017 by Sarah Lee As the U.S prepares to answer yet another illegal ICBM launch from North Korea’s belligerent leader Kim Jong Un by launching their own missile off the coast of California Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz unveiled a specific, thoughtful and balanced approach toward dealing with the tiny country hellbent on stirring up trouble in a Tuesday op-ed at the W

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein brushed off President Trump's attacks on Attorney General MORE in an interview published Tuesday, saying the morale at the Justice Department remains “pretty good,” despite the president's comments. “I don’t think that anything that happens in the news media distracts our people from doing their work on a daily basis,” Rosenstein told The Wall Street Journal in the interview. “The attorney gen

Former Vice President Business Insider in an interview last month. Trump's controversial decision to pull out of the agreement made the U.S.

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Anthony Scaramucci, who recently resigned as White House communications director, said Tuesday he was largely "joking" in the comments he made to a New Yorker reporter about other Trump administration officials. "Most of what I said was humorous and joking," Scaramucci told the Huffington Post on Tuesday, referring to his now infamous phone call to Ryan Lizza. "Legally, it may have been on the record, but the spirit of it was off.