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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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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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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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Slate, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Axios, Vox, Business Insider, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
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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Fusion and Political Wire
The Hill:
GOP considers cancelling August recess to salvage agenda
GOP considers cancelling August recess to salvage agenda
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Politico, Fox News, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Daily Kos, IJR, Infowars, Vox, rubber hose and The Week
Haley Byrd / IJR:
House Republicans to Send McConnell a Letter Demanding Conservative Provisions in Senate Health Bill
House Republicans to Send McConnell a Letter Demanding Conservative Provisions in Senate Health Bill
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Health care bill deadline looms while senators on both sides wait to see draft
Health care bill deadline looms while senators on both sides wait to see draft
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Associated Press and Daily Kos
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 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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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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Zero Hedge, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Axios, more at Mediagazer »
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
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors
In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors
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The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Weekly Standard
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, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Fusion and Political Wire
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Congressional shooting clouds final days of Georgia special election
The Daily 202: Congressional shooting clouds final days of Georgia special election
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Can the New Activist Passion of Suburban White Women Change American Politics?
Can the New Activist Passion of Suburban White Women Change American Politics?
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The Intercept and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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
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
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Why The Georgia Special Election Matters
Why The Georgia Special Election Matters
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Bipartisan Report, Daily Wire, Washington Monthly, Politico and The Week
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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CBS News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon and New York Magazine
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Otto Warmbier dies days after release from North Korean detainment
Otto Warmbier dies days after release from North Korean detainment
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Refinery29, TheBlaze and The Week
Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Otto Warmbier dies days after being released by North Korea
Otto Warmbier dies days after being released by North Korea
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Axios
WTTG-TV:
Man charged with murder of Muslim teen; road rage appears to have led to killing, police say — Authorities: Teen slain after leaving mosque, man arrested — Police charge man with murder in death of missing teen — HERNDON, Va. - A man has been charged with murder after police …
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Washington Post:
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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Fairfax County Police …, BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, Infowars, Refinery29, The Root, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Daily Wire
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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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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Forbes, TheBlaze and New York Magazine
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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CNN, Reuters, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and ThinkProgress
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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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The Guardian, Politico and Raw Story
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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Public Affairs / SPD Blotter:
Fatal Officer Involved Shooting Investigation in Sand Point
Fatal Officer Involved Shooting Investigation in Sand Point
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Washington Post, The Guardian, NPR and KTLA
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 Daily Caller, The Root, TheBlaze and AOL
CBS News:
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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Political Wire
John Scott Railton / The Citizen Lab:
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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David Agren / The Guardian:
Mexico accused of spying on journalists and activists using cellphone malware
Mexico accused of spying on journalists and activists using cellphone malware
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The Gateway Pundit
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
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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Mediaite, Washington Post 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
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
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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MIT Technology Review and The Daily Caller
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.
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo — Six senators are calling on the secretaries of State and Treasury to review whether a potential Russian takeover of petroleum company Citgo could threaten national security and violate economic sanctions.