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2:30 PM ET, June 22, 2017

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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The conservative health care problem  —  Even before the Senate health care bill is released, conservatives already want to amend it.  Sen. Ted Cruz may try to amend the bill to let insurers sell health plans that don't comply with Affordable Care Act rules — but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and FiveThirtyEight
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here comes the Senate GOP's health bill.  It's a cruel and cynical shell game.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  President Trump has privately described the GOP repeal-and-replace bill that recently passed the House as “mean,” and he said he hopes the Senate version has more “heart.”
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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator: I would not call this ‘ObamaCare repeal’
Discussion: RedState
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Senate health bill met with protests, mixed reactions
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill
Bloomberg:   Senate Health Plan Draft Relies on Subsidies GOP Has Faulted
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump was trying to ‘rattle’ Comey with tapes claim  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he thinks President Trump was trying to “rattle” former FBI Director James Comey by suggesting there might be recordings of their conversations.  —  “I think he was, in his way …
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Trump: ‘I did not make, and do not have’ Comey tapes
Associated Press:
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: 'I just don't want a poor person' in top economic roles
Discussion: Daily Wire
Graham Russell / The Guardian:
Trump says he doesn't want a ‘poor person’ handling economy
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Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Whipped cream dispenser explodes, killing French Instagram fitness model
Discussion: The Guardian
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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Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Report says Canadian sniper has shattered world record for the longest confirmed kill in history
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
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
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Gives Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt a Show  —  The commentator is joining MSNBC's Saturday morning lineup, a move that is sure to raise eyebrows at the network and among the network's left-leaning fans.  —  MSNBC, which has been soaring lately in both ratings and in advertising prices …
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CNN:
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go  —  (CNN)A small group of House Democrats are publicly saying it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to step aside as the face of the party ahead of the 2018 midterms following Tuesday night's disappointing loss in a special election for a Georgia House seat.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
After 4 special election losses, panic is setting in on the left
Discussion: Axios and CNBC
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.
Discussion: Washington Times
Jack Heretik / Washington Free Beacon:
Gowdy Wonders Why DNC Didn't Turn Over Hacked Server: 'There May Be Something They Didn't Want Law Enforcement to See'  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) wondered Wednesday why the Democratic National Committee did not turn over its hacked computer server to authorities after the organization …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump: Russian interference is ‘all a big Dem HOAX!’
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.
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
Genital mutilation scandal widens to include mothers  —  Detroit — Two mothers were indicted Wednesday and accused of participating in a widening conspiracy that ended with their daughters' genitalia allegedly mutilated by a doctor.  —  The indictment expanded the nation's …
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
A Cyberattack 'the World Isn't Ready For'  —  NEWARK — There have been times over the last two months when Golan Ben-Oni has felt like a voice in the wilderness.  —  On April 29, someone hit his employer, IDT Corporation, with two cyberweapons that had been stolen from the National Security Agency.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Election hackers altered voter rolls: report  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Spare Me The Principles Lecture  —  I think it was mildly amusing that some loud right-wingers spent a minute disrupting a bunch of New York liberals' conservative murder porn party.  —  There, I said it.  And now, according to some people on the conservative side, I'm not a conservative anymore.
 
 
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Carla Babb / Voice of America:
Pentagon: Islamic State Problem ‘Not Getting Better’ in Afghanistan
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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Wisconsin lawmakers advance bill to suspend or expel students who disrupt campus speakers
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
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