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Barack Obama:
Our politics are divided. They have been for a long time. And while I know that division makes it difficult to listen to Americans with whom we disagree, that's what we need to do today. — I recognize that repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has become a core tenet of the Republican Party.
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Rand Paul / U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky:
Sens. Paul, Cruz, Johnson, and Lee Issue Joint Statement on Senate Health Bill — WASHINGTON - Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Thursday responding to the release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017:
Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/WSJ Poll: Public Overwhelmingly Disapproves of House Health Care Bill — Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. — This new poll comes as Senate Republicans unveil their own health care legislation on Thursday.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McConnell's Calculation May Be That He Still Wins by Losing — WASHINGTON — When it comes to managing Republicans' best interests, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, rarely loses. So it is possible that Mr. McConnell views the potential failure of a hastily written health care bill as an eventual boon.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A Message to Trump Voters on the Occasion of This Healthcare Bill — You pulled the lever. This is what you were voting for. — Hello, suckers. — Yeah, you. All of you. All of you people who've been buying what the radicalized Republican party has been selling you since Reagan rode out of Trickledown Gulch back in 1980.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here comes the Senate GOP's health bill. It's a cruel and cynical shell game.
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Better Care Reconciliation Act: the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, explained
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Coverage Losses Under the Senate Health Care Bill Could Result in 18,100 to 27,700 Additional Deaths in 2026
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David Nather / Axios:
The Senate health bill is out. Here's your speed read
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The conservative health care problem
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New York Times:
Senate Health Care Bill Includes Deep Cuts to Medicaid
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Bloomberg:
Trump Said to Not Have Recordings of Conversations With Comey — President Donald Trump doesn't have recordings of his conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey, according to a person familiar with the matter, capping weeks of speculation about whether such tapes exist.
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Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - James Comey visits The New York Times as President Trump admits he did NOT record their conversations and questions what else ousted FBI director leaked to the press — The former FBI director was spotted at The New York Times' Times Square office on Thursday He was accompanied …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump was trying to ‘rattle’ Comey with tapes claim
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republican Coal King Sues HBO Over John Oliver's Show … A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight. — The suit, filed on June 21 in the circuit court of Marshall County, West Virginia …
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Scott Cohn / CNBC:
Trump's Carrier jobs deal is just not living up to the hype — Carrier, a division of UTC, will employ about 1,069 people for 10 years in exchange for $7 million in incentives. But there are crucial details in the fine print. — State and local governments spend at least $70 billion …
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Robert Fife / Globe and Mail:
Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breaking kill shot in Iraq — OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF — The Globe and Mail (includes correction) — A sniper with Canada's elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,540 metres.
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Sam Stein / HuffPost:
All That Stands Between Democrats And A Massive Freakout Is This Man — The pressure is on Ralph Northam to score a win in his race for Virginia governor. Barack Obama is going to come off the sidelines to help. — Having lost a series of tantalizingly close congressional elections …
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BBC:
Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger — A well-known lifestyle blogger in France has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser. — Rebecca Burger's death was announced on Facebook in what her family called a “domestic accident”.
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Earl Rinehart / The Columbus Dispatch:
Westerville man charged with threatening Rep. Steve Stivers — A voice mail that threatened U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers and his family landed a Westerville man in federal court Wednesday, charged with a crime that carries a 10-year prison term if he is convicted.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Pelosi Strikes Back: 'I Think I'm Worth the Trouble' — WASHINGTON — Pushing back on criticism from fellow party members after the Democratic loss in a Georgia special election this week, Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she's “worth the trouble” as Democrats' leader in the House.
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WBRC-TV:
Alabama residents serve as Bill Cosby spokespeople — Birmingham native Andrew Wyatt was on hand with Cosby for the entire trial and acted as a spokesperson for the comedian's family. Ebonee Benson is also from Birmingham.
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Chris Francescani / ABC News:
2 Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Trump Told Democrats He Wants To Do Something About Deported Veterans. His Staff Was Less Open. — Sources say Democrats raised the issue of deported veterans in a private dinner last week. The president expressed support for doing something but his staff quickly told him it was complicated.
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Aarati Soman / Facebook:
Giving People More Control Over Their Facebook Profile Picture — Part of our goal in building global community is understanding the needs of people who use Facebook in specific countries and how we can better serve them. In India, we've heard that people want more control over their profile pictures …
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Heather Kelly / CNNMoney:
Mark Zuckerberg explains why he just changed Facebook's mission
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CNN:
Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians — Coats and Rogers said interactions with Trump about the Russia investigation were odd, uncomfortable — (CNN)Two of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Former CIA officer accused of selling top secret information to China — A former CIA officer sold top secret and other classified documents to Chinese intelligence officials, according to charges filed Thursday in Alexandria federal court. — Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, of Leesburg, Va. …
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Patrick Smith / Telegraph:
Johnny Depp slams Donald Trump at Glastonbury and asks: ‘When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?’ — In a year that he would like to forget, which included his acrimonious divorce to Amber Heard, Johnny Depp appeared at a Q&A at the new Cinemageddon stage at Glastonbury.
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Pew Research Center:
America's Complex Relationship With Guns — An in-depth look at the attitudes and experiences of U.S. adults — As a nation, the U.S. has a deep and enduring connection to guns. Integrated into the fabric of American society since the country's earliest days, guns remain a point of pride for many Americans.
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Morgan True / VTDigger:
Sanders lawyered up in federal probe of Burlington College — BURLINGTON — Jane Sanders has hired attorneys to represent her in a Justice Department probe of a land deal she orchestrated while president of the now-defunct Burlington College. — A former college employee who coordinated …
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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Was Silenced. Then She Silenced Us. — Last week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee while she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Half of Americans want Democrats to control Congress as Trump struggles, poll shows — Americans now say by 50 percent to 42 percent they want Democrats to control Congress after the 2018 elections, according to a new NBC/WSJ poll. — As President Donald Trump continues to struggle …
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Tae Kim / CNBC:
McDonald's hits all-time high as Wall Street cheers replacement of cashiers with kiosks — Cowen says McDonald's will upgrade 2,500 restaurants to its “Experience of the Future” technology by year-end, which includes digital ordering kiosks. — The firm raises its rating on McDonald's …
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sarah Palin's Latest Business Venture: Running a Right-Wing Content Farm — In the last 24 hours, Sarah Palin has tweeted the following phrases: “Oh boy.” “Ouch!” “That's gotta hurt...salt in the wounds!” “YES!” and “Another win for America!” — These brief declarations have been accompanied …
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