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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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Jeffrey Young / HuffPost:
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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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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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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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Senate GOP considers deeper Medicaid cuts than House bill
Senate GOP considers deeper Medicaid cuts than House bill
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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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Paola Chavez / ABC News:
The Note: Dem win in Georgia would be Trump's first big loss — WHAT TO KNOW TODAY — Sprinting to the finish: House seats are at stake today in Georgia and South Carolina, with Georgia the main event. Polls are open in both races from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Trump's agenda on the line in a hard-fought Georgia House race — SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — President Trump faces a high-stakes political test Tuesday in a special congressional election that has turned into a referendum on his leadership and could have significant consequences for his stalled agenda on Capitol Hill.
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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
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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors — The Senate bill to scale back the health-care law known as Obamacare is being written in secret by a single senator, Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and a clutch of his senior aides.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Weighs New Role for Press Secretary Sean Spicer
Trump Weighs New Role for Press Secretary Sean Spicer
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Expanded role for Spicer, oversee all Trump communications operations
Expanded role for Spicer, oversee all Trump communications operations
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Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Tour group says no more Americans to North Korea after Warmbier's death — The travel company that took University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier to North Korea said Monday that it is wrangling with the 22-year-old's death and will no longer take Americans to North Korea.
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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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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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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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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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Zachary Hansen / USA Today:
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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The Week
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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Daily Wire and Political Wire
Jeff Stein / Newsweek:
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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David Agren / The Guardian:
Mexico accused of spying on journalists and activists using cellphone malware — Targets received SMS messages with links which installed software that recorded keystrokes and compromised contact lists … The Mexican government has deployed sophisticated software to spy on journalists …
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John Scott Railton / The Citizen Lab:
Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware
Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware
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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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
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 …
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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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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 and The New Civil Rights Movement
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
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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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
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.
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