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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
Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Senate Releases Healthcare Bill — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the draft for the Senate's healthcare reform bill Thursday. — The Senate's bill features more generous tax credits for low-income and older Americans, a slower rollback of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, and repeals most of Obamacare's taxes.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week, Politicus USA and Daily Kos
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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Washington Post, 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, The FADER, JustOneMinute, Hit & Run, Right Wing Watch, Fusion, Daily Kos, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Monthly
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
What's In the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill
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
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Daily Kos
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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Washington Examiner, The Atlantic, Balloon Juice, NBC News, New York Magazine, The Week and New York Times
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
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi defends leadership after special election losses — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) defended her leadership on Thursday amid suggestions from some Democrats that it may be time for her to step aside after more than a decade leading the caucus.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows
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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
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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Fox News, NBC 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
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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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.
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, CBS Sacramento 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
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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Washington Times
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
Alex Clark / Breitbart:
5 Times the Far-Left Mocked and Criticized Now Deceased Otto Warmbier — The sorrowful reaction to Otto Warmbier's death on Monday was not universal. Many from across the political spectrum, including the president, voiced their support for Warmbier and his family throughout his ordeal at the hands of North Korea.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Caller
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Harvey Day / Daily Mail:
North Korea calls Donald Trump a ‘psychopath’ …
North Korea calls Donald Trump a ‘psychopath’ …
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Washington Post, Agence France-Presse, AOL and SARAH PALIN
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