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Former President Obama visits Omaha Sunday for Buffett lunch

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FILE - In this March 6, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions waits to make a statement at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in Washington. Sessions is seeking the resignations of 46 United States attorneys who were appointed during the prior presidential administration, the Justice Department said Friday, March 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The Latest: Trump tried to call prosecutor before firing

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2009, file photo, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., center, listens during President Barack Obama's speech on health care to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. It took former President Barack Obama and his Democrats more than a year to pass the Affordable Care Act, a slow and painstaking process that allowed plenty of time for a fierce backlash to ignite, undermining the law from the very start. Some congressional Republicans are expressing some amazement at finding themselves, eight years later, undoing the law Democrats forged through those many months of turmoil and debate. “I’m pleasantly surprised,” said Wilson, who gained notoriety for yelling “You lie!” at Obama during the health care speech in 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

GOP acts fast on health care, aims to avoid ire Dems faced

By ERICA WERNER - Associated Press

From left, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 10, 2017, to discuss progress on the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as &quot;Obamacare.&quot; (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives want health bill changes, House leaders resist

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

GOP rep backs off claim Obama running ‘shadow government’

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Alaska senators meet with president, appeal for lands access

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

Van Jones, left, a CNN commentator and family friend who once worked as an environmental adviser to the Obama administration, arrives at the Carver County Justice Center for a hearing on Prince's estate, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Chaska, Minn. All the musician's siblings want the judge to declare the trust company Comerica as a &quot;personal representative,&quot; or executor, of the estate. But they're divided on whether to name anyone as co-executor. Four of the six siblings back longtime Prince lawyer L. Londell McMillan. But Tyka Nelson and Omar Baker object. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)

Van Jones returns to ridiculous and warns of Donald Trump clones

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Vice President Mike Pence joins the Senate GOP leadership, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., as Republicans introduce their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature health care law, Tuesday, March 7, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: GOP’s health overhaul clears 2nd committee

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King: House proposal to replace ACA would ‘hammer Maine’

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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with leaders from small community banks, Thursday, March 9, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Claims of president’s defenders on wiretaps

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

Editorials from around New England

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (right) believes President Trump will break from former President Barack Obama's fondness for legislating from the executive. Mr. Paxton, a Republican, decried what he called Mr. Obama's "post-constitutional" use of the executive. (Associated Press)

Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, says Donald Trump will return powers back to the states

By Alex Swoyer and Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Walker calls Trump wiretapping accusations “serious”

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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., speaks during a news conference on the American Health Care Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Industry groups oppose GOP health bill, Ryan seeks unity

By ALAN FRAM and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

U.S. Black Hawk helicopters were deployed to reassure NATO's European allies after Russia's invasion in Ukraine. (Associated Press/File)

House approves $578 billion to keep armed forces operating

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

LePage: GOP health plan caters to big-government lobbyists

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

All seafood importers will have to track and report where all fish were caught under the Obama-era Seafood Traceability Rule. (Associated Press)

Environmental groups hope to intervene on seafood importing court case that Trump will abandon

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this March 1, 2017, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Fishermen sue Trump over Obama’s New England marine monument

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s blame off base on Guantanamo

By BEN FOX - Associated Press

New Obama books to be published by imprint of previous books

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press