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Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son's Birth & Heart Disease … Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family.
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care Plan — After weeks of negotiations, last week House Republicans reached a compromise that they said could finally allow them to repeal and replace Obamacare. It involves letting states opt out of certain Obamacare provisions …
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Washington Post, Politico and Vox
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Republican Says Obamacare Repeal Will Help People Who Have ‘Done Things The Right Way’ — Rep. Mo Brooks is saying openly what many Republicans probably think. — Most Republicans in Washington are trying furiously to convince the public that their Obamacare repeal proposal wouldn't punish people …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and Axios
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trumpcare's long odds in the Senate, explained by a Republican senator — “I expect the Senate to do something different. I don't expect we'll vote on the House bill as it is.” — Congressional Republicans and the White House are making another huge push this week to move their Obamacare repeal bill …
NBC News:
GOP Health Care Bill: A Running Count of Republicans Voting No on Round Three
GOP Health Care Bill: A Running Count of Republicans Voting No on Round Three
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Vox, New York Times, Business Insider, CNN and NBC News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Jimmy Kimmel's powerful, heartfelt Obamacare plea crystallizes the GOP's dilemma
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP suffers surprise defection on Obamacare repeal
GOP suffers surprise defection on Obamacare repeal
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Axios, Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Common Dreams, The Hill, CNN, The Week, Washington Post, Daily Kos, NBC News, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Political Wire and Business Insider
New York Times:
Ivanka Trump's West Wing Agenda — A month before Donald J. Trump was elected president, he and his aides watched his daughter's coolly composed surface crack open. — Inside Trump Tower, the candidate was preparing for a debate when an aide rushed in with news that The Washington Post …
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Axios, Business Insider, New York Magazine, The Week, Raw Story, AOL and Eschaton
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Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It
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The Daily Caller
Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Ethics office says it wasn't consulted about Ivanka Trump job
Ethics office says it wasn't consulted about Ivanka Trump job
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Raw Story
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's dizzying day of interviews — President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen. He said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles and oppresses his people …
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New York Times, CNN, The Guardian, Taylor Marsh, TheBlaze, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Political Wire, Washington Free Beacon and Reuters
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: For whom the president saves his praises
The Note: For whom the president saves his praises
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Politico, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’ — WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States needed “a good ‘shutdown’” this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules …
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Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
One Move That Could Solve the GOP's Tax-Cut Math Problem (Maybe)
One Move That Could Solve the GOP's Tax-Cut Math Problem (Maybe)
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New York Magazine, New York Times, Mother Jones and Political Wire
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump: The US government needs a good ‘shutdown’ if Senate rules don't change
Trump: The US government needs a good ‘shutdown’ if Senate rules don't change
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Power Line
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Dawdling Congress tests Trump's patience
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Adviser Jared Kushner Didn't Disclose Startup Stake — Investments show ties to Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Peter Thiel as well as a number of loans — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, didn't identify on his government financial disclosure form …
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Axios, Business Insider, The Week and Raw Story
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Colbert Demolishes Trump for Insulting ‘Face The Nation’ Host John Dickerson … President Donald Trump insulted Face The Nation host John Dickerson and Stephen Colbert is pissed. — As the Late Show host explained in his monologue on Monday, during his CBS colleague's Sunday morning interview …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Wilbur Ross Says Syria Missile Strike Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ at Mar-a-Lago — Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.
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The Guardian, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, CNN, USA Today, Politicus USA, Shakesville, The Hill, RT, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, The Week, KTLA, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Poll: Ossoff in dead heat with Handel in Georgia's 6th — An internal poll conducted for Democrat Jon Ossoff's campaign shows him locked in a dead heat with Republican Karen Handel in the June 20 runoff to represent Georgia's 6th District. — The poll was conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research …
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Politicus USA, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Zpolitics
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider:
Jon Ossoff's campaign readies a $5.2M ad blitz
Jon Ossoff's campaign readies a $5.2M ad blitz
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Daily Kos and Political Insider blog
Meg Kinnard / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-South Carolina Police Officer To Plead Guilty In Fatal Shooting Of Walter Scott — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer is pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed as the man ran from a 2015 traffic stop …
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Democrats confident they can block Trump's agenda after spending-bill win — Democrats believe they have set the stage to block President Trump's legislative priorities for years to come by winning major concessions in a spending bill to keep the government open.
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Josh Magness / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
No money for Trump's wall, plus 6 other GOP issues missing from $1T spending bill
No money for Trump's wall, plus 6 other GOP issues missing from $1T spending bill
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Power Line and The Last Tradition
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Orioles' Adam Jones berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park — BOSTON — Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of fan abuse he has heard in his career.
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CBS Chicago, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Associated Press, Deadspin, The Root, TMZ.com and CBS Philly
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
“If You Keep F**king With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live” … When Donald Trump's — casino business went bankrupt in 2009, a lawyer whose clients stood to lose more than a billion dollars told police and the FBI that he got a menacing phone call from a man with a thick New York accent who threatened his family.
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BillMoyers.com, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
travel.state.gov:
Europe Travel Alert — The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout Europe. — This Travel Alert expires on September 1, 2017. — Recent, widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate …
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Mediaite
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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
U.S. issues travel alert for Europe, citing threat of terrorist attacks
U.S. issues travel alert for Europe, citing threat of terrorist attacks
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Scared Monkeys
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Trump farmers now worry he was serious about NAFTA repeal — Washington (CNN)Bob Hemseath, whose corn-farming business hinges on the whims of mother nature, is comfortable with uncertainty. — But as the fourth-generation farmer heads onto his northeast Iowa farm for the 2017 planting season …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly will travel to Russia for Putin — MORE FROM: … Megyn Kelly is getting off to a great start at NBC. Page Six has exclusively confirmed that she will travel to Russia next month to moderate a session with President Vladimir Putin at a key international conference.
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Rebekah L. Sanders / Arizona Republic:
Were up to 58,000 citizens in Maricopa County denied right to vote? — Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes is spoiling for a fight over voter-registration procedures meant to keep undocumented immigrants from voting. — The newly elected Democrat says the restrictions may have denied …
Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Speculation is stirring about a Seth Moulton presidential bid — He has won praise from a neoconservative magazine editor, taken star turns on HBO and “This American Life,” and likened President Trump's political ascendance to that of Adolf Hitler's. — Just months into his second term …
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly / Breitbart:
California May Place ‘Third Gender’ Option on State Documents — A bill under consideration in California would place a third gender option on state documents — which, if it passes would make California the first state in the country to do so. — The effort, however, is not being pushed by the …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Dawn Rhodes / Chicago Tribune:
Northwestern journalism school lets accreditation lapse — Northwestern University's main campus in Evanston. — In a nontraditional move, officials at Northwestern University's prestigious journalism and communications school have decided not to renew the program's accreditation, letting the designation lapse.
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