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Republican Representative Ted Poe resigned from the House Freedom Caucus on Sunday in disagreement over the conservative group's role in sinking President Trump healthcare plan. He suggested his resignation was because he wanted to vote for the Republican healthcare proposal which was adamantly opposed by the right-wing caucus.

“I have resigned from the House Freedom Caucus,” Poe said in a statement. Poe broke with the House Freedom Caucus’s views of the GOP healthcare proposal and planned to vote for the bill, which House leaders ultimately pulled from the floor on Friday.

For those curious if today's healthcare vote will take place during market hours, the answer is: it will be dicey. An email from the majority whip Steve Scalise notes that the tentative timing of today's vote will be sometime between 3:45pm and 4:45pm, with a walk off the Floor expected between 4:30pm and 5:30pm.

And in what may be more important news, CNBC's John Harwood reports that "Ryan/Trump have whittled hard no's in House Freedom Caucus down to around 18", with the outstanding question "How many moderates join them?"

A 39-year-old transgender who was born male has won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia.  Former male Laurel Hubbard has broken four national records by winning gold at the Australasian Championships in Melbourne. [...]

Unemployed quarterback Colin Kaepernick “won’t play again“, with one NFL team executive calling the controversial quarterback “an embarrassment to football” and another declaring “his career is over, nobody will touch him.” After refusing to stand for the national anthem before games last year, desperate Colin Kaepernick has now promised NFL team executives that he will stand with everyone else in 2017 – if only they will give him a chance and sign him. “Kaepernick’s goose is cooked.

President Donald Trump will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel later this month for a full and frank discussion about Germany’s failed immigration policies. Trump, who has repeatedly attacked Merkel for “destroying Germany,” will meet with the German leader on March 14 in Washington. The Express reports: The pair haven’t got off to the best start after President Trump blasted the beleaguered German leader for “ruining” Germany over her open door refugee policy. They will meet on March 14, according to US officials.