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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill — Senate leaders on Wednesday were putting the final touches on legislation that would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care system by dramatically rolling back Medicaid …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Media Bias Toward “New” News Helped the GOP Hide Its Secret Health Care Plan — Until a modest breakthrough this week, supporters of the Affordable Care Act had spent the month of June desperately trying to make issue of the Senate Republicans' secret plan to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post
Bloomberg:
Senate GOP Health Bill to Break With House on Key Points
Senate GOP Health Bill to Break With House on Key Points
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and No More Mister Nice Blog
New York Times:
Senate Leaders Unveil Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
Senate Leaders Unveil Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
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USA Today, JustOneMinute, Right Wing Watch, Fusion, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Monthly
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.
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Breitbart, Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Daily Kos
CNN:
Senate finally unveils secret health care bill
Senate finally unveils secret health care bill
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Refinery29, TheBlaze, Joe.My.God., The Hill and Politicus USA
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Senate version of Trumpcare may phase out Medicaid — entirely
The Senate version of Trumpcare may phase out Medicaid — entirely
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Rasmussen Reports, Bloomberg Government and Axios
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Here's what's in the Senate health-care bill
The Health 202: Here's what's in the Senate health-care bill
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Hit & Run, NBC News, New York Magazine and The Week
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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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Mueller's Trump investigation will be a ‘personal vendetta’
Gingrich: Mueller's Trump investigation will be a ‘personal vendetta’
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RedState
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
WATCH: Morning Joe panel slams ‘dear leader’ Trump with horrifying 2-minute mashup of his Iowa lies — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A “Morning Joe” panel examined President Donald Trump's lie-filled rally in Iowa, where his supporters cheered each falsehood and jeered when he attacked the media.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — Time to show their work: Senate Republicans share their health care draft this morning after negotiating it behind closed doors. The bill is expected to roll back Medicaid expansions but more gradually …
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Politico and Associated Press
CNN:
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, The Hill, IrishCentral, NBC News and Washington Post
Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Cher Turns on Nancy Pelosi After Ossoff Loss
Cher Turns on Nancy Pelosi After Ossoff Loss
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Political Insider blog, Conservative News Today, The Hill, The Daily Beast and Scared Monkeys
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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NBC News, Fox News, WTVR-TV, KTLA, KFOR-TV, The Daily Caller, Fox 59, Boing Boing and WPMT FOX43
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Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Whipped cream dispenser explodes, killing French Instagram fitness model — A popular fitness blogger and Instagram model in France died after a pressurized canister used for dispensing whipped cream exploded, hitting her in the chest. — Rebecca Burger's death from the Saturday incident …
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The Guardian
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Trump said on Wednesday that he was crafting legislation to bar new immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years. He announced the proposal in a conquering-hero-returns speech in Iowa …
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New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite, AOL, The Week and Joe.My.God.
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Graham Russell / The Guardian:
Trump says he doesn't want a ‘poor person’ handling economy
Trump says he doesn't want a ‘poor person’ handling economy
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Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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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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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Business Insider, AOL and Daily Mail
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Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Report says Canadian sniper has shattered world record for the longest confirmed kill in history
Report says Canadian sniper has shattered world record for the longest confirmed kill in history
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Clayton Cramer
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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Politico, New York Times, NBC News and NPR
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln — Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper. — But before we run out of the essentials, let's finally admit …
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Shot in the Dark
Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
D.C. cops used ‘rape as punishment’ after Inauguration Day mass arrests, lawsuit says — Wide array of unconstitutional tactics alleged in suit over chilling round-up that hit peaceful protesters, journalists, and anarchists alike. — When black-clad marchers began smashing windows in Washington …
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Raw Story
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Jon Ossoff spent six times more than Karen Handel but complains about ‘money in politics’ — Down south in Georgia last night, a woman overcame the odds to win a seat in Congress and prove that money can't always buy elections. Unfortunately for Democrats, that underdog named Karen Handel is a Republican.
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Irresistible — Georgia's Karen Handel pins another defeat on the anti-Trump left.
Irresistible — Georgia's Karen Handel pins another defeat on the anti-Trump left.
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Instapundit
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
FBI Fired Sebastian Gorka for Anti-Muslim Diatribes … The inflammatory pundit Sebastian Gorka worked for the FBI while he was a paid consultant to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, lecturing bureau employees on counterterrorism issues. — Until the FBI terminated Gorka for his over-the-top Islamophobic rhetoric.
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Wired and Media Matters for America, more at Mediagazer »
Chris Francescani / ABC News:
2 Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says — In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a juror in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case said that after dozens of hours of grueling deliberations in a tiny room, 10 of the 12 jurors agreed he was guilty on two counts.
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FiveThirtyEight, The Root, Associated Press and Althouse
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Ex-Homeland Security official says politics molded Russia response — Former President Obama's Homeland Security secretary on Wednesday defended his response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, arguing the last administration's careful characterization was intended to ensure …
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Politico, NBC News, Raw Story and Bipartisan Report
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Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
Obama White House Knew of Russian Election Hacking, but Delayed Telling
Obama White House Knew of Russian Election Hacking, but Delayed Telling
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The Atlantic, RealClearPolitics, Scared Monkeys, AOL, CNN, Fox News Insider, Bipartisan Report and Washington Free Beacon