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Ron Johnson / New York Times:
Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails — Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.” As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up” — A large health plan is privately expressing concern that a little-noticed provision in the Senate health bill could drive up premiums for small business health plans. — Sign up for VoxCare
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Media Matters for America
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Kellyanne Conway Defends Medicaid Cuts, Says Adults Can Always Find Jobs — Reality check: Most of them have jobs already. — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Sunday came right out and said what so many Republicans are probably thinking that taking Medicaid away from able-bodied adults …
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New York Times:
Senate Leaders Try to Appease Members as Support for Health Bill Slips — WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their health care bill even as opposition continued to build outside Congress and two Republican senators questioned whether the bill would be approved this week.
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Los Angeles Times, Axios and The Week
Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:
Trump advisers claim GOP health care bill won't cut Medicaid. It will.
Trump advisers claim GOP health care bill won't cut Medicaid. It will.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans face key week as more lawmakers waver in support for health-care bill
Senate Republicans face key week as more lawmakers waver in support for health-care bill
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American Prospect, Axios and ABC News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump group gives Heller a 2nd chance on health bill — Many Republicans wondered this weekend if it made sense for America First Policies, the outside group backing President Trump, to run attack ads against Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) for wavering on healthcare, when his vote is desperately needed.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump political arm to GOP: Get in line — A new campaign by top White House allies targeting the GOP's most vulnerable senator over health care sends a loud message to those resistant to the Trump agenda: We're coming after you. — America First Policies, a White House-backed outside group led …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Why Dems can't break through on Obamacare repeal
David Lat / Above the Law:
No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow — Based on this weekend's reunion of his law clerks, reports of AMK's retirement are greatly exaggerated. — [Please note the UPDATES I have added, and will continue to add, at the end of this story.]
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Can Republicans stanch the bleeding on health bill?
The Note: Can Republicans stanch the bleeding on health bill?
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The Hill
Harriet Sinclair / Newsweek:
Gay Pride marchers with Jewish flags told to leave Chicago parade — U.S. LGBT PRIDE LGBT ISRAEL-PALESTINE — Jewish people celebrating LGBT Pride in Chicago were told not to display Star of David flags because other people found them ‘offensive.’ — The Jewish Star of David flag …
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Haaretz:
Chicago ‘Dyke March’ Bans Jewish Pride Flags: ‘They Made People Feel Unsafe’
Chicago ‘Dyke March’ Bans Jewish Pride Flags: ‘They Made People Feel Unsafe’
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Rachel Cromidas / Chicagoist:
Photos: Dyke March Drew Hundreds To Rally In Little Village Saturday, Amid Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
Photos: Dyke March Drew Hundreds To Rally In Little Village Saturday, Amid Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
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Mediaite
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Kushner firm's $285 million Deutsche Bank loan came just before Election Day — One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner's real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan. — The loan came at a critical moment.
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Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:
CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage — The decision came after the network deleted and retracted a post on Friday. — CNN is imposing strict new publishing restrictions for online articles involving Russia after the network deleted a story and then issued a retraction late Friday …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump's Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies — In the span of 72 hours, President Trump described the email hacking that roiled the 2016 campaign as a Democratic “hoax” and as clear aggression by Russia that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, failed to address.
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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Moscow Is Finally Recalling Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — After nearly ten years at the nexus of US-Russia relations, Washington's most radioactive diplomat is headed home … Ending one the most turbulent tenures of a Washington-based ambassador in recent memory …
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Newsweek, RedState, The Week, Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Axios
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump insisted he won popular vote in our first meeting — Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Sunday evening at New York City's 92 Street Y, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi described her first meeting with President Donald Trump — “Don't tell anybody I told you this,” …
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Raw Story
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Italian Runoff Elections Boost Center-Right Parties — ROME — Center-right parties scored victories Sunday evening in runoff elections in more than 100 Italian towns and cities, a result that emboldened right-wing parties, raised the prospect of shifting coalitions and took the political temperature …
Washington Post:
Europe has been working to expose Russian meddling for years — RIGA, Latvia — As the United States grapples with the implications of Kremlin interference in American politics, European countries are deploying a variety of bold tactics and tools to expose Russian attempts to sway voters and weaken European unity.
Associated Press:
The Latest: N Ireland party leader ‘delighted’ with UK deal — The Latest on British politics (all times local): — The leader of a Northern Ireland-based party says that she struck a deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives to support her minority government.
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Axios
New York Times:
Where Trump Zigs, Tillerson Zags, Putting Him at Odds With White House — WASHINGTON — When Rex W. Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, arrived in Washington five months ago to become the secretary of state, his boosters said he brought two valuable assets to a job …