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After weeks of internal debate, House Republicans have released their plan for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. It faces challenges from within the GOP, from interest groups — and the public.

Trump’s previous executive order caused chaos at airports and inspired protests and dozens of lawsuits. The new version omits Iraq, doesn’t apply to existing visas and isn’t in effect immediately.

In a series of tweets early Saturday morning, Trump alleged that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before Election Day, calling him a “bad (or sick) guy.” Obama’s spokesman calls the claim “simply false.”

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, tells NPR only the Kremlin’s intelligence services, or people connected to it, could be responsible for his unexplained illnesses.

In the White House’s letter to the Office of Government Ethics this week about Kellyanne Conway, there’s a passage that is potentially far more significant than a clothing endorsement.

Growing public support for the Affordable Care Act seems to be at odds with the GOP’s plans to repeal and replace it.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she hopes she’ll finally get approval for a road to connect King Cove to the all-weather airport in Cold Bay with the new secretary. Zinke seems sympathetic to the need for what she called a “life-saving road,” Murkowski said.

A group of U.S. senators – including one Alaskan – is asking the Justice Department to keep existing guidance on marijuana laws. The request came in a letter signed by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Elizabeth Warren, D-Ma., and nine other senators. They asked U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to continue upholding the Cole Memo — a 2013 document stating that Federal officials will not take enforcement action in states that have opted to legalize and regulate cannabis.

Sessions, who says he never met with Russian operatives about the campaign, has been under pressure for contact he had with the Russian ambassador last year.