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Senate GOP Plans Health-Care Vote Next Week — Senate GOP leaders are planning to vote next week on legislation to repeal large chunks of the Affordable Care Act, even though they don't yet appear to have secured enough support to pass it.
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The Not-So-Secret Truth About the Senate GOP's Secret Health Care Bill — The details matter. But at its core, it's still a massive tax cut paid for by depriving millions of health care. — Senate Republicans are hurling themselves toward passing an incredibly unpopular set …
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Worrying numbers on health care plan for ‘swing vote’ senators
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Senate GOP considers deeper Medicaid cuts than House bill
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Democrats to halt Senate business over Obamacare repeal
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Spicer searching for candidates to take over White House briefing — White House press secretary Sean Spicer is leading a search for his own replacement on the briefing room podium as part of a larger plan to shake up the White House communications operation, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.
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Trump Weighs New Role for Press Secretary Sean Spicer — President's spokesman may move into more senior position — New spokesman may be hired, though discussions aren't final — The White House is weighing whether to move Press Secretary Sean Spicer into a more senior role focused …
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In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors
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Expanded role for Spicer, oversee all Trump communications operations
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Sean Spicer takes on new WH role, may no longer give press briefings
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CNN's Acosta: Spicer is ‘kind of useless’
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VIDEO: It Took Two Hours To Walk From Jon Ossoff's House to Georgia's Sixth District — Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff can't vote for himself on Tuesday because he doesn't live in the congressional district that he is running to represent. — Ossoff has downplayed his inability to vote for himself …
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Can the New Activist Passion of Suburban White Women Change American Politics?
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Georgia special election tweets traced to one source
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Otto Warmbier, American student detained in North Korea for 17 months, dies — Otto Warmbier, the American student who was imprisoned in North Korea for more than 17 months and was returned home to Ohio last week, has died, his family said Monday. — “It is our sad duty to report that our son …
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Tour group says no more Americans to North Korea after Warmbier's death
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Otto Warmbier dies days after release from North Korean detainment
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Otto Warmbier dies days after being released by North Korea
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Killing of a Muslim teenager in Virginia is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say … The death of a Virginia teenager who police say was attacked near a mosque in the Sterling area is not being investigated as a hate crime, authorities said Monday.
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Coalition Defends Partner Forces from Syrian Fighter Jet Attack — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — SOUTHWEST ASIA — At approximately 4:30 p.m. Syria time, June 18, Pro-Syrian regime forces attacked the Syrian Democratic Forces-held town of Ja'Din, South of Tabqah, wounding a number of SDF fighters and driving the SDF from the town.
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Pentagon working to re-establish ‘deconfliction’ line with Russia
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Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview got lots of attention, but not many viewers — Jones vs. Kelly: Battle between new and old media — Megyn Kelly's much talked about interview with Alex Jones got plenty of attention for Kelly and NBC, both good and bad, but not many viewers.
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Megyn Kelly just helped some guy get thousands of new followers


It's so hot in Phoenix, they can't fly planes … PHOENIX — The extreme heat forecast for Phoenix on Tuesday has caused the cancellation of 20 American Airlines flights out of Sky Harbor International Airport. — According to a statement from American Airlines, the American Eagle regional flights use …
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MICHAEL FLYNN, RUSSIA AND A GRAND SCHEME TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE ARAB WORLD — SPYTALK MICHAEL FLYNN RUSSIA SAUDI ARABIA — In 2015 and 2016, according to his filing, Flynn was an adviser to X-Co Dynamics Inc./Iron Bridge Group, which at first glance looks …
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Three shootings in 8 hours. Eight wounded. Some tourists say they won't be back. — “Multiple people down!” Bubba Hinson exclaimed as he live-streamed a video of what started as a mob stalling traffic, but turned into a mass shooting on Ocean Boulevard early Sunday morning.
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The Trump Administration Has A New Plan For Dealing With Russia — A classified document by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lays out a new path for Russia and the US. But does the president, weighed down by scandal and investigation, support it? — As the White House fends off accusations …
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Poll: Americans say U.S. political debate is increasingly uncivil — Members of Congress are getting positive ratings for the way they responded to the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, last week. President Trump gets slightly lower — though still net positive — evaluations for his response …
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Let's Consider Secession — This past week has made me realize the situation in this country is unlikely to get better. We have 320 million people who hate each other and the left shows no signs of toning down rhetoric after last week's mass assassination attempt. If anything, too many of them regret there were no deaths.
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Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware — By: John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Bahr Abdulrazzak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, and Ron Deibert — Read Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert's blog post on the report. — Lea la investigación de R3D …
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Mexico accused of spying on journalists and activists using cellphone malware
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Democrats just got some very good news from the Supreme Court on gerrymandering — The Supreme Court just made a major decision without actually issuing a decision. On Monday morning, the justices announced that they would take up a case out of Wisconsin that could result in a ruling …


GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American Voters — Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was exposed this month after a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee stored internal documents on a publicly accessible Amazon server.
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A Top Presidential Public Defender Was Also a Twitter Critic — WASHINGTON — In April, Mark Corallo, the spokesman for President Trump's personal legal team, used Twitter to suggest — twice — that Vice President Mike Pence, not Mr. Trump, should be the Republican nominee for president in 2020.
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Black Monday for the Climatistas — Most climatistas are going to call today “Black Monday,” because today has dealt a double-whammy of what Al Gore would call inconvenient news. — • First, an article out today in Nature Geoscience ponders the problem of why observed temperatures …
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Why Bernie Sanders Shouldn't Run for President Again — If his movement is to survive, it will need a new generation of leaders. — “That man is like superhuman,” Joy Manbeck told The New York Times at the annual People's Summit in Chicago earlier this month. “He still plays basketball.
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