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9:25 AM ET, May 7, 2017

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
House Republicans Go Off the Cliff  —  OVER the last seven years, the Republican Party has engaged in increasingly elaborate political suicide attempts.  The G.O.P. has nominated cranks and erstwhile witches and Todd Akin in winnable Senate races.  It has engaged in Somme-esque trench warfare within …
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
House Republicans face voters in home districts angry over health care bill  —  Rep. Tom Reed of New York, who was among the Republican members of Congress to vote for a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, held a string of hometown forums on Saturday where he was lambasted by crowds …
Discussion: Axios
Peter Suderman / New York Times:
The House Health Care Disaster Is Really About Taxes  —  I have been a critic of Obamacare since it became law, but the Republican alternative is worse in nearly every way.  —  The American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed in the House last week, would worsen Obamacare's problems rather than fix them.
New York Times:
‘No District Is Off the Table’: Health Vote Could Put House in Play  —  WASHINGTON — In a suburban Chicago district, Kelly Mazeski, a breast cancer survivor, used the day of the vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act to announce her House candidacy, vowing to make Representative Peter Roskam pay for his vote …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Marc K. Siegel / New York Times:
What the Republican Health Plan Gets Right
Discussion: Unfogged
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Cruz: ‘Catastrophic’ if Senate fails to pass ObamaCare repeal
Discussion: RedState
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
House Republicans face voters in home districts angry over health care bill
Discussion: Associated Press
WBAY-TV:
WATCH: Governor, Outagamie Co. Executive get into spat over health care
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed:   Here's What Is Actually True And False About The Republicans' Health Care Plan
Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast:
Did Macron Outsmart Campaign Hackers? … PARIS—It was the dog that didn't bark in the night, and its bite may be less impressive still.  As a tale of hacking and political subversion unfolded in France on Friday and Saturday, it looked like a re-run of the American experience.
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BBC:
French election: Hollande vows ‘response’ to Macron hack attack
Discussion: Observer
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘This is not the story we want’: Reporters chased out of meeting with Kushner family pitching Chinese investors  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Reporters attempting to cover a pitch to wealthy Chinese investors at a seminar on visas from members of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's family …
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CNNMoney:
Kushner family in Beijing: ‘Invest $500,000 and immigrate’ to US  —  Ivanka defends husband's White House role  —  The Kushner family hopes to lure investments from wealthy business owners in China with the promise of American visas.  —  Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House adviser …
New York Times:   Jared Kushner's Sister Highlights Family Ties in Pitch to Chinese Investors
Only A Game:
A Day (And A Cheeseburger) With President Trump  —  Three years ago, golf writer James Dodson was invited to play golf with Donald Trump.  Rain cut short the outing, but Dodson came away with stories ... and a cheeseburger.
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
TRUMP Act would put Trump's New York tax returns online  —  How New York State could release Trump's taxes  —  Some Democratic state senators in New York are trying an end run to get Donald Trump's taxes into the public view by introducing legislation that would reveal his state tax returns for the last five years.
Discussion: The Hill and AOL
Ai Weiwei / New York Times:
How Censorship Works  —  BEIJING — In the space of a month in 2014, at separate art exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai that included my work, my name was blotted out — in one case by government officials and by exhibitors themselves in the other case.  Some people might take such treatment in stride, as nothing to get huffy about.
Fox News:
Trump's triumph: ObamaCare repealed by the House  —  What happened Thursday in the House of Representatives was an extraordinary victory for President Donald J. Trump.  —  The Art of the Deal has clearly come to Washington.  —  The effort to repeal ObamaCare seemed to have foundered on a handful of votes.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz / New York Times:
Don't Let Facebook Make You Miserable  —  IT is now official.  Scholars have analyzed the data and confirmed what we already knew in our hearts.  Social media is making us miserable.  —  We are all dimly aware that everybody else can't possibly be as successful, rich, attractive, relaxed …
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Discussion: Associated Press, IJR and The Root