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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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Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span. — Mitch McConnell is winning, yet again. — Senate Republicans are reportedly close to voting on a bill that would repeal Obamacare and potentially strip insurance from millions of Americans. Under normal circumstances …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul calls to slow down ‘rushed’ ObamaCare repeal process
Rand Paul calls to slow down ‘rushed’ ObamaCare repeal process
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate Republicans are about to find out what's in their bill
Senate Republicans are about to find out what's in their bill
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New York Times:
Abortion Adds Obstacle as Republicans Plan to Unveil Health Bill
Abortion Adds Obstacle as Republicans Plan to Unveil Health Bill
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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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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans set to release health-care bill, but divisions remain
Senate Republicans set to release health-care bill, but divisions remain
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
What's in the Senate's secret Obamacare repeal bill
What's in the Senate's secret Obamacare repeal bill
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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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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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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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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
WATCH: Morning Joe panel slams ‘dear leader’ Trump with horrifying 2-minute mashup of his Iowa lies
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Pelosi faces growing doubts among Dems after Georgia loss
Pelosi faces growing doubts among Dems after Georgia loss
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Nancy Pelosi Faces Heat From Democrats After Georgia Loss
Nancy Pelosi Faces Heat From Democrats After Georgia Loss
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Irresistible — Georgia's Karen Handel pins another defeat on the anti-Trump left.
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Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Jon Ossoff spent six times more than Karen Handel but complains about ‘money in politics’
Jon Ossoff spent six times more than Karen Handel but complains about ‘money in politics’
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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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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.
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
The GOP's Suburban Nightmare — Surveying the Democratic wreckage after a disastrous 1952 campaign, Robert Taft, the typically taciturn Ohio Republican senator, made a bold prediction about the opposition. “The Democratic Party,” the one-time Senate majority leader asserted …
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 …
Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Trump appointee is a Saudi government lobbyist — Richard Hohlt earning six figures from kingdom bent on influencing Trump — President Donald Trump talks with Saudi King Salman as they pose for photos with leaders at the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trumps suggests creating law that has been enacted since 1996 — President Trump in a rally on Wednesday evening said immigrants who enter the United States should not be eligible for welfare benefits for five years, though such a law has already existed for 20 years.
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Daily Wire, NPR and Above the Law
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Hugh Hewitt to Host Show on MSNBC — MSNBC is expanding weekend news with live programming until 9 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday nights, TVNewser has learned. — As part of the expansion, conservative radio talk show host and MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt is getting a half hour show, airing Saturdays at 8 a.m. ET.
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New York Times:
White House Tries to Get G.O.P. to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill — WASHINGTON — The White House is quietly lobbying House Republicans to weaken a bill overwhelmingly passed by the Senate last week that would slap tough new sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election …
Laura Beth Nielsen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The case for restricting hate speech — Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2010. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) — As a sociologist and legal scholar, I struggle to explain the boundaries of free speech to undergraduates.
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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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Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Not quite half of American teens have had sex by 18. That's actually low. — American teens may be becoming more conservative about sex. — According to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report reflecting data from 2011 to 2015, about 42 percent of girls and about 44 percent …
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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