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Pence's office advertises meeting with Peruvian president who resigned 3 weeks ago amid scandal The vice president's office updated his itinerary early Friday morning before his departure to the Summit of the Americas. By John Wagner  •  Read more » Monkey Cage • Analysis Did you attend the March for Our Lives? Here's what it looked like nationwide. It was the 3rd-largest demonstration in the past 15 months — and probably in U.S. history. By Kanisha Bond, Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman  •  Read more »   PowerPost • Perspective Trump doesn't ignore fair housing and public assistance programs — unfortunately The day before the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act,, the president issued an executive order that makes it more difficult for poor people to get public assistance. By Joe Davidson  •  Read more »   The Fix • Analysis Almost no one in James B. Comey's new book comes off as virtuous — except maybe Obama The former FBI director's version of the unvarnished truth is that when he's investigating Republicans, they pressure him. When he's investigating Democrats, they pressure him. By Amber Phillips  •  Read more »   Post-ABC poll: Majority of Americans support Mueller's probe of Russia, Trump campaign The results come as some allies of the president push for the president to cripple the inquiry, which Trump called 'never ending and corrupt.' By Scott Clement and Emily Guskin  •  Read more »   The Fix • Analysis 3 big takeaways from James Comey's new book The super-condensed version of "A Higher Loyalty," by the former FBI director fired by Trump. By Callum Borchers  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Monkey Cage • Analysis Attacking Syria wasn't legal a year ago. It's still not. Congress hasn't authorized it. By Andrew Rudalevige  •  Read more »   Fact Checker • Analysis Fact-checking Mark Zuckerberg's testimony on Facebook and data collection Facebook's Zuckerberg gave several spotty answers to questions about the company's data collection practices. By Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly  •  Read more »   Trump expected to pardon former Cheney aide 'Scooter' Libby Bush had commuted Libby's sentence in disclosing a CIA agent's name, but refused to pardon. By Josh Dawsey and Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Trump orders review of Postal Service's business model President's executive order on task force headed by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin follows criticism of Amazon. By Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey  •  Read more »   FBI raid sought Trump lawyer's communications with bank that loaned him money against his taxi business The request indicates that prosecutors may be examining money that Cohen obtained by using his taxi companies as collateral. By Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Carol D. Leonnig  •  Read more »   Trump's allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made by his attorney Lawyer Michael D. Cohen occasionally taped conversations with associates, according to people familiar with his practice. By Ashley Parker, Carol D. Leonnig, Josh Dawsey and Tom Hamburger  •  Read more »   Speaker Ryan resists calls to step aside for quicker transition to new GOP House leader McCarthy and Scalise are front-runners to lead the fractious caucus, with Republican lawmakers increasingly worried about a lame-duck speaker hurting fundraising. By Mike DeBonis and Seung Min Kim  •  Read more »   PowerPost Conor Lamb is sworn in as congressman, pledging to 'make our institutions work again' The Democrat won the Pennsylvania district that backed Trump by 20 percent. By David Weigel  •  Read more »   Recommended for you     Get the 5-Minute Fix newsletter Keeping up with politics is easy now, three days a week. Sign Up  »

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