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11:50 AM ET, May 4, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Little-Noted Provision of GOP Health Bill Could Alter Employer Plans  —  Many people who obtain health insurance through their employers could be at risk of losing protections that limit out-of-pocket costs due to a provision proposed in the House Republican health-care bill.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
A Little-Noticed Target in the House Health Bill: Special Education  —  WASHINGTON — While House Republicans lined up votes Wednesday for a Thursday showdown over their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Vickie Glenn sat in her Murphysboro, Ill., office and prayed for it to fail.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Congressional exemption from GOP healthcare plan to be addressed separately  —  As Republicans rush to vote on their latest ObamaCare repeal-and-replace plan, it appears to still include a waiver exempting members of Congress and their staffs from losing the healthcare bill's popular provisions.
Discussion: Slate and Daily Kos
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
GOP's Obamacare replacement bill would protect just 5 percent of people with pre-existing conditions: Analysis  —  The Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare does not allocate nearly enough money to protect people with pre-existing health conditions from potentially higher insurance premiums, an analysis finds.
Discussion: Axios
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP Health-Care Bill Is an Abdication of Responsibility and a Moral Disgrace  —  In John Boehner's angry, rousing 2010 floor speech denouncing the Affordable Care Act - the one in which he famously shouted “hell no!” repeatedly - the Republican House leader ended on a magnanimous note.
Discussion: Common Dreams, NBC News and Daily Kos
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The New Study That Shows Trumpcare's Damage  —  When Massachusetts expanded health insurance a decade ago, state officials unknowingly created an experiment.  It's turned out to be an experiment that offers real-world evidence of what would happen if the House Republicans' health bill were to become law.
Discussion: Vox
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: 10 storylines to follow as the House votes on health care
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Congress is voting Thursday on a bill to replace Obamacare. The CBO still hasn't scored it.
The Hill:
GOP rushing to vote on healthcare without analysis of changes
Discussion: RedState, Betsy's Page and The Week
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:   The Note: The health care costs for Republicans
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The GOP's health-care rush reeks of hypocrisy and recklessness
Discussion: Vox, Hot Air and Political Wire
David Nather / Axios:
What to know about today's House health care vote
Discussion: CNBC and Jamie Dupree
New York Times:
With $8 Billion Deal on Health Bill, House G.O.P. Leader Says ‘We Have Enough Votes’
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Obamacare Repeal Is Really Just A Giant $1 Trillion Cut To Health Care Programs
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Joe and Mika Are Getting Hitched  —  After years of rumors, gossip, and intrigue, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reveal their engagement, how it all went down, and the unlikely guy (Donald Trump) who asked to oversee their vows.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged  —  MORE FROM: … The first couple of cable news Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged to be married, sources have exclusively confirmed to Page Six.  —  The MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-hosts got engaged this past weekend during …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged  —  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged.  —  The news puts an end to years of speculation about a romance between the MSNBC co-hosts.  The engagement was confirmed by two “sources with knowledge of the situation.”
Discussion: twitchy.com
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Trump has a dangerous disability  —  It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump's inability to do either.  This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability.  It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft …
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
Macron's ‘Deplorables’ Moment?  Establishment Candidate Brands 8m Le Pen Voters ‘Hateful Cowards’  —  French Presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron this week lashed out at Front National voters, branding them “anti-France” and “true enemies”.  —  In a moment resembling Hillary Clinton's infamous …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Gateway Pundit
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Emmanuel Macron is 39 and his wife is 64. French women say it's about time.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
French Sports Personalities Call for Voting Macron Over Le Pen
Discussion: Politico and FiveThirtyEight
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump to visit the Vatican on first foreign trip as president  —  President Donald Trump will visit Israel, the Vatican and Saudi Arabia later this month on his first foreign trip as president, according to two White House officials.  —  Trump's tour will conclude with his stops at a NATO meeting …
Discussion: Axios, The Daily Caller, The Week and IJR
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
Pentagon Pulls Security Clearance of Trump White House Aide  —  The Pentagon this week suspended the security clearance of a White House National Security Council analyst that U.S. officials say was the target of political retribution by government bureaucrats opposed to President Trump's appointees.
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama's $400,000 speech could prompt Congress to go after his pension  —  WASHINGTON — Last year, then-president Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have curbed the pensions of former presidents if they took outside income of $400,000 or more.  —  So now that former president Barack Obama …
Amanda Knox / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Amanda Knox: Donald Trump supported me when I was wrongly accused of murder.  What do I owe him?  —  Amanda Knox cries following the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, Italy, on Oct. 3, 2011.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Alex Jones Will Never Stop Being Alex Jones … AUSTIN —  It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn't stop getting punched in the face.  —  Out on the cracked asphalt of Austin Public Access Television's parking lot, under the sprawling Texas live oaks, Jones was very much losing …
Daily Mail:
Queen calls her entire household to ‘highly unusual’ emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace today but mystery surrounds the reason why  —  By , REBECCA ENGLISH ROYAL CORRESPONDENT and RICHARD KAY FOR THE DAILY MAIL  —  Speculation amongst Buckingham Palace staff is rampant this morning …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mashable
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
During Testimony, FBI Director Highlights Arrests of Michigan Doctors For Performing Female Genital Mutilation  —  Testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey highlighted a series of cases being investigated and referred for prosecution by agents across the country.
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Stephen Colbert reacts to online backlash over Trump jokes  —  Stephen Colbert responded Wednesday to the online backlash and #FireColbert internet campaign that cropped up after he made insult-laden jokes about President Trump.  —  Colbert will open his show Wednesday night by saying …
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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Colbert finally (and unapologetically) responds to #FireColbert backlash: ‘I would do it again’
Cassandra Fairbanks / Big League Politics:
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Screenshots Reveal BuzzFeed Director Wishing for Trump Assassination  —  BuzzFeed News, the outlet behind the infamous and absurd “Golden Showers” dossier has more than a bit of disdain for President Donald Trump — as proven through these leaked conversations from their private workplace chat.
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Groups brace for Trump's religious liberty order  —  Civil rights groups are bracing for President Trump to sign an executive order on religious liberty that they fear will give individuals and organizations a sweeping license to discriminate against women and LGBT Americans.
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Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Can the Democrats Convince Millennials to Vote in 2018?
Bloomberg:
House GOP Eyes Fast-Tracking $500 Billion in Federal Budget Cuts
Discussion: Politicus USA
T. S. Last / Albuquerque Journal:
Soda tax goes flat in Santa Fe
 Earlier Items: 
Christopher Ruddy / New York Times:
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Daily Mail:
Obama's sex and drugs past laid bare in new biography
Discussion: IJR, The Last Tradition and PinkNews
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
First on CNN: Rice refuses Senate request to testify on Russian hacking
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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