President Trump met Friday with House Republican leaders to discuss their effort to pass a sweeping overhaul of the Affordable Care Act amid mounting criticism from conservatives urging them to go further, reports The Washington Post.

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House Republicans scored a pre-dawn triumph Thursday in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but hospitals, doctors and consumer groups mounted intensifying opposition to the GOP health care drive, reports AP.

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The White House is downplaying reports that then-candidate Donald Trump met the Russian ambassador to the United States at a 2016 campaign event, just before Trump delivered a speech that called for “an easing of tensions” with Russia, reports Good Morning America.

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