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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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ABC News, Washington Post, Vox, STAT and Boing Boing
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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, Shakesville, Politico and Vox
NBC News:
GOP Health Care Bill: A Running Count of Republicans Voting No on Round Three — House Republicans are ready for round three. — Feeling close to having enough support to pass its embattled health care bill, the party has revved up its whip operation in the hope of getting a vote on the amended plan this week.
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Vox, New York Times, New York Magazine and CNN
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Republican Says Obamacare Repeal Will Help People Who Have ‘Done Things The Right Way’
Republican Says Obamacare Repeal Will Help People Who Have ‘Done Things The Right Way’
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and Axios
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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The Atlantic, Axios, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Common Dreams, The Hill, CNN, The Week, Daily Kos, NBC News, Mother Jones, Political Wire, Business Insider and Bloomberg
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
GOP Says It's Getting Close On Health Care, But The Votes Still Aren't There
GOP Says It's Getting Close On Health Care, But The Votes Still Aren't There
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ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Daily Kos, New York Magazine and NBC News
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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New York Magazine, Axios, Business Insider, 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
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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Business Insider, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Axios, The Week and Raw Story
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Report: Kushner didn't disclose investment in startup with Goldman Sachs, Soros links — Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner failed to disclose his stake in a real-estate startup with ties to Goldman Sachs and billionaire investor George Soros, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal.
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RedState
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, Portland Mercury, Taylor Marsh, TheBlaze, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire 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, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
One Move That Could Solve the GOP's Tax-Cut Math Problem (Maybe) — Some Republicans weigh 15-year, 20-year or 30-year budget window to let Congress pass longer temporary tax cut — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has said he wants to cut taxes, big-league, and Republicans …
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Vox, New York Magazine, New York Times, Mother Jones and Political Wire
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’
Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’
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ABC News, RedState, Vox, Washington Post, Political Wire, Morning Consult, New York Magazine, Hot Air, NBC News and TheBlaze
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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Washington Post, The Atlantic, Power Line and Talking Points Memo
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Dawdling Congress tests Trump's patience
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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CNN, The Guardian, AOL, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, USA Today, Politicus USA, Shakesville, RT, The Hill, 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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Washington Post, The Daily Caller, 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
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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NBC News, CBS Chicago, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Associated Press, Deadspin, The Root, TMZ.com and CBS Philly
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
Robert P. Jones / New York Times:
The Collapse of American Identity — After the British writer G. K. Chesterton visited the United States for the first time, he remarked that America was “a nation with the soul of a church.” — Mr. Chesterton wasn't referring to the nation's religiosity but to its formation around a set …
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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 …
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.
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.
Tommy Christopher / Shareblue:
Rep. Cummings busts Pence: “I warned the vice president directly” about Michael Flynn — Among the many scandals dogging Donald Trump's administration is the failure to properly vet disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who had ties to foreign governments and received payments …
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Hullabaloo
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 …
Pat Pheifer / Star Tribune:
Minnesota GOP, DFL rebuke racist Facebook post about Ellison — State Republican and DFL leaders condemned Facebook post, which was removed. — The Facebook page from Minnesota's Seventh Congressional District Republican Party on Monday night featured a post with racist …
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Talking Points Memo, City Pages and Washington Times
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 …
Washington Times:
A pity party for the unloved press — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — There was a broken heart for every wine glass and beer bottle at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, where the White House Correspondents Association dined at their slimmed-down annual imitation of Hollywood glitz, grandeur and glamour.