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Avik Roy / Forbes:
GOP's Obamacare Replacement Will Make Coverage Unaffordable For Millions — Otherwise, It's Great  —  That's not an ironic headline.  Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in their American Health Care Act, the full text of which was published Monday evening.
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
One tweet that explains Republicans' big health care bill challenge  —  The day after unveiling their new bill to replace Obamacare, the Republican authors of the Affordable Health Care Act find themselves in a bind.  —  Even if the new bill has the votes in the House, it will also have to pass the Senate.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is McConnell Rushing Through a Trumpcare Bill Everybody Hates?  —  Following the unveiling of the House Republican plan to shrink Obamacare dramatically, two surprising things happened.  The first is that the conservative-movement apparatus has lined up rapidly against the bill.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ann Coulter Wants to Know Who Wrote ‘This Piece of Crap Obamacare Replacement Bill’  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that what the House GOP released last night is the Obamacare repeal that everyone's been waiting for.  —  And while Vice President Mike Pence said today …
Sophia Crabbe-Field / Democracy Journal:
A Hidden Harm of the Obamacare Replacement  —  The central premise of the Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA) plan is to force Americans to pay more for their health care or, as Republicans would say, have “more skin in the game.”  Put another way, the AHCA drastically increases the cost of health care for all Americans.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Republican Obamacare plan signals that liberalism has already won  —  In releasing their healthcare plan on Monday, House Republican leaders sent a signal loud and clear: liberalism has already won.  —  Barring radical changes, Republicans will not be passing a bill that ushers in a new era of market-based healthcare.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
10 million may lose health insurance coverage under GOP's Obamacare replacement plan, S&P says
Discussion: Political Wire
Heritage Action for America:
GOP PLAN FAILS TO MOVE PAST OBAMACARE'S PROGRESSIVE PROMISE
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Club for Growth opposes GOP Obamacare replacement
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Reuters
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Mike Pence warns GOP lawmakers against healthcare revolt
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and The Daily Signal
The Hill:
First ObamaCare votes put vulnerable GOPers on the spot
Discussion: Vox and Talking Points Memo
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Can the Freedom Caucus bully Donald Trump?
Discussion: New York Magazine
Chris Massie / CNN:
Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he's ‘very discouraged and disappointed’ by GOP health care plan
New York Times:
WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents  —  WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smart phones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:   FBI prepares for new hunt for WikiLeaks' source
Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Posts Thousands of Purported CIA Cyberhacking Documents
Andrew Griffin / The Independent:
WikiLeaks publishes massive trove of CIA spying files in ‘Vault 7’ release
Discussion: Q13 FOX News, The Week and IJR
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Wikileaks Dump Shows CIA Could Turn Smart TVs into Listening Devices
BostonGlobe.com:
R.I. lawmaker surprised by ‘insane amount of drinking’ at State House  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island lawmaker says she's surprised by the “insane amount of drinking” that goes on in the State House.  —  Providence Democratic Rep. Moira Walsh tells WPRO-AM that lawmakers have “file cabinets full of booze.”
Discussion: Political Wire
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Doug MacGunnigle / WPRO-AM:   Rep Walsh - “Insane amount of drinking” at the State House
Max Bearak / Washington Post:
Khizr Khan's claim that the U.S. is restricting his travel may be unraveling  —  Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father whose impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention last July called on Americans to reject a ban on Muslims entering the United States, claimed that his …
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Trump's Wiretap Tweets Raise Risk of Impeachment  —  The sitting president has accused his predecessor of an act that could have gotten the past president impeached.  That's not your ordinary exercise of free speech.  If the accusation were true, and President Barack Obama ordered …
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump campaign approved adviser's trip to Moscow  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski approved foreign policy adviser Carter Page's now-infamous trip to Moscow last summer on the condition that he would not be an official representative of the campaign, according to a former campaign adviser.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Al Franken: I think Jeff Sessions committed perjury  —  Washington (CNN)Minnesota Sen. Al Franken said he now believes that Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearing when he did not disclose meetings with a Russian ambassador.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Grants Oval Office Meeting to TMZ Founder  —  Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has spent his time meeting with heads of state, titans of industry, economic advisers and public health specialists.  —  And the founder of TMZ.  —  Mr. Trump, in a meeting last Wednesday …
David Lat / Above the Law:
And The Nominee For Solicitor General Is....  The long and winding road to a nominee for Solicitor General of the United States is about to come to an end.  According to sources familiar with the process, Noel Francisco, the former Jones Day partner who is currently serving as acting Solicitor General …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Liberals threaten to primary over Gorsuch
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants  —  This week, liberals savagely mocked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson for allegedly comparing slaves to immigrants.  It looks like they've completely forgotten about all the times Barack Obama did the exact same thing.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Trump's split screen: A two-hour virtual conversation between the president and ‘Fox and Friends’  —  Early Tuesday morning, President Trump tuned into “Fox and Friends.”  —  For several days, Trump's staff kept him away from television cameras.  He spent the weekend hidden away …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Sean Spicer Inaccurately Claims Paul Ryan's Health Care Bill ‘Fully’ Repeals Obamacare  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer falsely stated that the healthcare bill from House Speaker Paul Ryan represents what will eventually be a full repeal of Obamacare.
Discussion: Politicus USA
Senator Bernie Sanders:
What should we do if the president is a liar?  —  We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in a post written yesterday by Amber Phillips of The Washington Post.  In her piece, Phillips criticizes me for lowering the state of our political discourse …
Associated Press:
Montgomery Co. police charge man with impersonating officer  —  GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Montgomery County police have arrested and charged a man they say impersonated a police officer.  —  Police say 35-year-old Itai Ozderman is also facing gun charges.  —  Police say detectives learned …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
A Lefty Legend Pleads for a Return to a New Deal Ethos  —  WASHINGTON — Charles Peters, the renowned Washington Monthly editor, is going on 91, does not get around very easily and was disgusted enough by President Trump's address to Congress to let loose a few profanities in his gentle West Virginia drawl.
 
 
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Annie Karni / Politico:
White House official terrorizes network green rooms
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
E.P.A. Head Stacks Agency With Climate Change Skeptics
Silvio Cascione / Reuters:
Brazil's worst-ever recession unexpectedly deepens in late 2016
Discussion: NPR and Forbes
Zahraa Alkhalisi / CNNMoney:
Nike has a new product for Muslim women: The ‘Pro Hijab’
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Week
Rong-Gong Lin II / Los Angeles Times:
A section of the San Andreas fault close to L.A. could be overdue for a major earthquake
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Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Since Trump, Quiet Upstate Road Becomes a Busy Exit From U.S.
Martin Matishak / Politico:
CIA providing raw intelligence as Trump-Russia probes heat up
Discussion: ABC News
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Anderson Cooper: I muted Trump on Twitter
Discussion: Washington Times and IJR
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog News:
Newsmax/WSJ: Trump met Russian Amb. Kislyak last April
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Extra:
Alec Baldwin Might Not Play Trump on ‘SNL’ Much Longer
Elaina Plott / Washingtonian:
Is Katrina Pierson Actually Doing Anything?
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Eugene Scott / CNN:
Chaffetz: Low-income Americans will have to choose health care over iPhones
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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