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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House 2018: Rating Changes in 20 Districts — Republicans' 217-213 passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday guarantees Democrats will have at least one major on-the-record vote to exploit in the next elections. Although it's the first of potentially many explosive votes …
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New York Magazine and Rewire
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
About that Rose Garden health care photo with all the white guys.... (CNN)House Republicans marched to the White House on Thursday afternoon to celebrate their victory: Passage of the American Health Care Act. — President Trump welcomed them with a Rose Garden celebration.
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The Atlantic and illegal immigration …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
G.O.P. Cheers a Big Victory. But Has It Stirred a 'Hornet's Nest'? — WASHINGTON — No one knows better than House Democrats how a contentious health care vote can exact a steep political price — losing control of the House in the first midterm election of an untested new president's tenure for example.
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Taylor Marsh, Raw Story, The Week and Daily Kos
New York Times:
In Rare Unity, Hospitals, Doctors and Insurers Criticize Health Bill — It is a rare unifying moment. Hospitals, doctors, health insurers and some consumer groups, with few exceptions, are speaking with one voice and urging significant changes to the Republican health care legislation that passed the House on Thursday.
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Daily Kos, Common Dreams, The Week, DCReport.org, New York Magazine, Slate, Politico and Outside the Beltway
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
A Few Grafs That Explain Why America Hates Vacuous Political Reporting — As you may have heard, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives today passed a bill that would take health insurance away from more than 20 million people and make health insurance that many people have worse …
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Washington Examiner, The Talking Dog, Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Bloomberg:
Senate Moves Obamacare Repeal to Slow Lane After House Squeaker
Senate Moves Obamacare Repeal to Slow Lane After House Squeaker
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Cook Report Moves 20 House Seats In Dems' Favor After O'Care Repeal Vote
Cook Report Moves 20 House Seats In Dems' Favor After O'Care Repeal Vote
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The Week
Avik Roy / Forbes:
If The Senate Doesn't Fix The House's Obamacare Replacement, The GOP Will Pay A Steep Price
If The Senate Doesn't Fix The House's Obamacare Replacement, The GOP Will Pay A Steep Price
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
What the GOP's Health-Care Gamble Means for 2018
What the GOP's Health-Care Gamble Means for 2018
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FiveThirtyEight, The Week, VTDigger, Motherboard, NPR and New York Magazine
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
31 seconds of the healthcare vote that shows why people hate politics
31 seconds of the healthcare vote that shows why people hate politics
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Balloon Juice
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
The House G.O.P.'s Shameful Health-Care Victory
The House G.O.P.'s Shameful Health-Care Victory
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US News, Hullabaloo, Business Insider, ThinkProgress, Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Guardian
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
White House fires its chief usher — the first woman in that job — The White House has fired its chief usher, Angella Reid, the first woman and second African American to hold the position. — When the White House residence staff arrived at work Friday morning, they were told that Reid …
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Talking Points Memo, Shareblue, The Root, The Week, The Daily Caller and Axios
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Anti-vaccine activists spark a state's worst measles outbreak in decades — MINNEAPOLIS — The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don't let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella — it causes autism, they said.
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ThinkProgress
New York Times:
Second Chance for ‘Obamacare’ Repeal. And for Reince Priebus. — WASHINGTON — The Republican health care overhaul might never become law, but it has already changed the life of one American: Reince Priebus, who knew it was his best and perhaps last hope of becoming an empowered White House chief of staff.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
'The White House just couldn't let this go' — Donald Trump had had it. — The Obamacare repeal bill that the president had just boasted was on the cusp of passage was suddenly in trouble again, and the president demanded to talk to the influential congressman who dropped a bombshell hours earlier …
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Washington Post, Shakesville, Axios, Vox, Hit & Run and bradford-delong.com
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
No, Reince Priebus Did Not Screw Up That Football Analogy
No, Reince Priebus Did Not Screw Up That Football Analogy
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Business Insider, RealClearPolitics, Althouse, Washington Post, Mediaite, Lawyers, Guns & Money, ThinkProgress and The Week
Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl admits Fox News hired him to dig up dirt on women making sexual harassment claims — Federal investigators looking into sexual harassment settlements and alleged intimidation tactics at Fox News are eyeing mayoral hopeful Bo Dietl's work for the network, according to reports.
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Political Wire
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Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Watch: Chris Collins admits he didn't read health care bill — WASHINGTON - Rep. Chris Collins told CNN that he didn't read the entire Republican health care bill that the House passed Thursday. — And then he told The Buffalo News that he was unaware of a key provision in the bill …
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Shareblue, ThinkProgress, Syracuse Post-Standard, Business Insider, The Hill, Daily Kos, ACASignups.net, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and CNBC
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Islamic State magazine steers followers to U.S. gun shows for ‘easy’ access to weapons — In August, a former Islamic State recruit caused a stir when he described how the terrorist organization sought to exploit America's lax gun laws. — “They say the Americans are dumb …
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Defense One and twitchy.com
Dan Merica / CNN:
Deputy press secretary substitutes for Spicer — Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sean Spicer won't be at the podium Friday, but he doesn't have the day off. — Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Donald Trump's deputy White House press secretary, will do her first on-camera briefing …
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Mediaite, Joe.My.God. and Washington Free Beacon
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: I'm staying at NJ golf club to avoid disrupting NYC, save money
Trump: I'm staying at NJ golf club to avoid disrupting NYC, save money
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Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze, CBS New York and Joe.My.God.
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Another Hate Crime Hoax: Church Organist Admits He Vandalized His Own Church with Trump and Nazi Slogans — An Indiana community was shocked after a local church was vandalized with Nazi slogans and Donald Trump graffiti, but now police say it is a hate crime hoax and the church was not attacked by an outsider.
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TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Moonbattery
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Yet Another Hate Crime Turns Out To Be A Hoax
Yet Another Hate Crime Turns Out To Be A Hoax
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, WALV-TV and Geller Report
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's forbidden love: Single-payer health care — President Trump claimed a victory Thursday after the House approved a more free-market approach to health care. — Then he capped it off by praising a country with government-run, universal health care.
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Hot Air, Common Dreams, Red Alert Politics, New York Magazine, CBS Philly and New York Times
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New York Times:
Senate Asks Trump Associates for Records of Communication With Russians — WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee, seeking to accelerate its broad investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election, has asked a number of high-profile Trump campaign associates to hand …
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Business Insider
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senator: ObamaCare repeal must pass ‘Jimmy Kimmel test’ — Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said on Friday that a Senate plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare should pass the “Jimmy Kimmel test,” after the comedian revealed his son was born with a heart defect. — “I ask does it pass the Jimmy Kimmel test?
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Political Wire
Jasmin Fox-Skelly / BBC:
There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up — Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms — Throughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses.
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The Daily Caller and Axios
Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Rape charges to be dropped against immigrant teens in Md. case — Maryland prosecutors will drop rape and sex offense charges against two immigrant teens accused of attacking a 14-year-old classmate in a high school bathroom stall, according to attorneys in a case that shocked local parents …
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Washington Free Beacon
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Maxine Waters to present ‘fight the system’ trophy at MTV Movie Awards — Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is set to present one of the popcorn trophies at the upcoming MTV TV and Movie Awards to those who “fight the system.” — Sources close to MTV tell ITK that the 78-year-old California Democrat …
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RedState
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump budget would effectively kill drug control office — President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 budget would cut about 95 percent of funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, effectively ending its mission as the lead agency in charge of combating the opioid crisis and other drug epidemics …
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Business Insider and Axios
Jack Montgomery / Breitbart:
German Police Arrest Suspected Islamic State ‘Emir’ Who May Have Entered the Country as a Migrant — German police have arrested a suspected Islamic State militant commander, who is believed to have pledged allegiance to Ab Bakr al-Baghdadi, near the city of Leipzig.
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Geller Report