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Wall Street Journal:
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 Hill:
GOP considers cancelling August recess to salvage agenda — Alarmed by the stalemate on healthcare reform, lack of progress on tax reform and appropriations bills that are far behind schedule, Republican lawmakers across Congress are increasingly willing to consider cancelling the month-long August recess.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Senate GOP considers deeper Medicaid cuts than House bill — A leading option in the Senate's ObamaCare repeal debate is to make even deeper cuts to Medicaid spending than the bill passed by the House, according to lobbyists and aides. — The proposal would start out the growth rate …
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Vox, Washington Post, Axios, Business Insider, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats to halt Senate business over Obamacare repeal — Democrats will grind Senate business to a halt in a protest against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare. — Beginning Monday night, Democrats will start objecting to all unanimous consent requests in the Senate, according to a Democratic aide.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Worrying numbers on health care plan for ‘swing vote’ senators
Worrying numbers on health care plan for ‘swing vote’ senators
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Political Wire and Fusion
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Spicer searching for candidates to take over White House briefing — White House press secretary Sean Spicer is leading a search for his own replacement at the briefing room podium as part of a larger plan to shake up the White House communications operations, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
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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Fox Business:
Sean Spicer takes on new WH role, may no longer give press briefings
Sean Spicer takes on new WH role, may no longer give press briefings
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Heat Street, Mediaite and twitchy.com
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
CNN's Acosta: Spicer is ‘kind of useless’
CNN's Acosta: Spicer is ‘kind of useless’
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Raw Story, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Congressional shooting clouds final days of Georgia special election — THE BIG IDEA: — JOHNS CREEK, Ga.—When Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel went table to table greeting patrons at Marlow's Tavern on Friday night, almost everyone asked her about the letters.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why The Georgia Special Election Matters
Why The Georgia Special Election Matters
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Politico, Daily Wire, Washington Monthly and The Week
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The 15 Best-Educated Districts in the U.S., and Why It Matters in the Georgia Race
The 15 Best-Educated Districts in the U.S., and Why It Matters in the Georgia Race
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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Shawn Musgrave / Politico:
Georgia special election tweets traced to one source
Georgia special election tweets traced to one source
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ABC News
Tara Fowler / ABC News:
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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Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Former North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier dies
Former North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier dies
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Mediaite and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview a ratings flop
Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview a ratings flop
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly just helped some guy get thousands of new followers
Megyn Kelly just helped some guy get thousands of new followers
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BuzzFeed:
A Muslim Teen Was Kidnapped And Murdered Outside A Virginia Mosque — A man has been charged with murder after police found the body believed to be that of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, who went missing after leaving a mosque this weekend. Police said they currently had no information to indicate that this was a hate crime.
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Fairfax County Police … and Refinery29
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Washington Post:
Officials: 17-year-old Muslim girl assaulted and killed after leaving Virginia mosque
Officials: 17-year-old Muslim girl assaulted and killed after leaving Virginia mosque
Washington Post:
Killing of a Muslim teenager in Virginia is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say
Killing of a Muslim teenager in Virginia is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say
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The Daily Caller and Lawyers, Guns & Money
FCPD Media Relations / Fairfax County Police …:
Man Charged with Assaulting and Killing a 17-Year-Old Girl
Man Charged with Assaulting and Killing a 17-Year-Old Girl
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Infowars, twitchy.com, New York Times, WTVR-TV, KTLA and The Guardian
Tom Batchelor / The Independent:
Russia to treat US jets in Syria as ‘targets’ after America guns down first regime warplane — Communication channel between Washington and Moscow to be suspended immediately — Russia has said it will treat US warplanes operating in parts of Syria where its air forces are present as …
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United States Central Command:
Coalition Defends Partner Forces from Syrian Fighter Jet Attack
Coalition Defends Partner Forces from Syrian Fighter Jet Attack
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New York Times, CNN, Hit & Run, Just Security, FDD's Long War Journal and The Guardian
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon working to re-establish ‘deconfliction’ line with Russia
Pentagon working to re-establish ‘deconfliction’ line with Russia
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Politico, The Guardian and Raw Story
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump defiant as pressure grows — Washington (CNN)America is edging ever closer to a new long, national nightmare, given President Donald Trump's explosive response to signs that special counsel Robert Mueller is approaching the epicenter of White House power.
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Raw Story and The Guardian
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Mueller team lawyer brings witness-flipping expertise to Trump probes
Mueller team lawyer brings witness-flipping expertise to Trump probes
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Politicus USA and The Daily Caller
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
We need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel
We need a Robert Mueller resignation or a second special counsel
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The Daily Caller and Scared Monkeys
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to hear potentially landmark case on partisan gerrymandering — The Supreme Court declared Monday that it will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment
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Power Line, Daily Wire and Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
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.
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
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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The Atlantic, Axios, Raw Story and The Week
Lynn Thompson / The Seattle Times:
Mother with knife killed by police was pregnant and had mental-health issues, family says — Seattle police on Sunday shot and killed a 30-year-old old woman who had called officers to report an attempted burglary and then displayed a knife, SPD said. Police took three children from the home …
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Gizmodo:
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.
Emily Weaver / myrtlebeachonline:
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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RedState, Washington Post, The Root, The Daily Caller and AOL
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
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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Washington Post, Mediaite and The New Civil Rights Movement
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
George W. Bush and Barack Obama Both Popular in Retirement — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former President George W. Bush's national image continues to improve in his retirement, with his favorable rating rising seven percentage points over the past year to 59%. This continues the fairly steady improvement …
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Politicus USA and Politico
Tom DiChristopher / CNBC:
Energy Secretary Rick Perry says CO2 is not the main driver of climate change — Energy Secretary Rick Perry says he does not believe CO2 emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change. — That view is at odds with the conclusions of the Environmental Protection Agency …
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