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10:30 AM ET, June 25, 2017

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Jordan Rau / New York Times:
Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes  —  ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses.  She has raised four children and buried two husbands.  —  But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates  —  A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders' health-care bill could damage the nation's social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure's passage as their colleagues on the right.
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
The Kabuki Theater of the AHCA  —  The United States has never had a Senate leader as ruthless, as willing to bend, distort and break the rules, traditions and precedents of the Senate as Mitch McConnell.  And the Senate has probably never had a majority leader as effective at accomplishing …
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Koch political leader says GOP healthcare bill not conservative enough  —  Leaders in the Koch brothers' influential political network bashed the new Senate Republican health care legislation attempting to replace the ObamaCare for not being conservative enough, The Associated Press reports.
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Koch network withholding support of Senate health-care bill, pushing for changes  —  COLORADO SPRINGS — The Koch network is working with conservative allies behind the scenes to make changes to the Senate health-care bill that was unveiled this week, declining to endorse the measure as it stands.
Discussion: Political Wire
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team
Discussion: ABC News
Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
Grassley: Schumer Knew Trump Was Not Under Investigation When He Publicly Claimed Otherwise [VIDEO]  —  Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley called out Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Thursday for lying when the New York Democrat claimed that President Donald Trump was under investigation and Schumer knew otherwise.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:   Schumer: ‘Unseemly’ to confirm Gorsuch amid FBI probe of Trump campaign
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Sketchy firm behind Trump dossier is stalling investigators  —  A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.
Discussion: Instapundit
Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:
Congress Needs to Forget Trump and His Tweets and Pass the Big Bills  —  Democrats want to derail any positive activity by the Republican Congress by investigating a phantom Russian crime.  But why do people like Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) step in front of a microphone and say, “I'm not a fan of the daily tweets.”
Michael Hechtman / New York Post:
100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison  —  John “Sonny” Franzese in 1966 (left) and 2010 (right). … Geriatric gangster John “Sonny” Franzese — the oldest guest of the federal prison system — is a free man at the age of 100.  —  The Colombo family underboss …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump  —  As Goldman Sachs's long-suffering No 2., Cohn approached his board about his future.  He didn't get the answer he wanted.  And then Jared Kushner swooped in.  This is how Goldman Sachs took over the White House.
Discussion: Axios
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Islamic State Poster Shows Car Crushing Skulls: ‘Run Over Them Without Mercy’  —  A pro-Islamic State media operation called the Nashir News Agency published a poster calling for more vehicular jihad in the last few days of the Ramadan holiday season, depicting an SUV driving across a mountain …
Michael Kruse / Politico:
I Found Trump's Diary—Hiding in Plain Sight  —  Legally risky, undiplomatic and sometimes wrong, Trump's Twitter feed is a document for the ages.  And historians don't want to lose it.  —  Lots of people want President Trump to stop tweeting.  Mitch McConnell wants him to stop tweeting.
United States Senator Mike Lee:
The Missing Ingredient in BCRA: Humility  —  No, the Senate healthcare bill released yesterday does not repeal Obamacare.  It doesn't even significantly reform American healthcare.  —  It cuts taxes.  It bails out insurance companies.  It props up Obamacare through the next election.
Discussion: CNN, RedState and Weekly Standard
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
In Health Care Attacks, Democrats Risk Inciting Further Violence
CBS Philly:   Hillary Clinton: GOP Is ‘Death Party’ If Health Care Bill Passes
Jeff Brady / NPR:
Some U.S. States Relax Restrictions On Cladding Suspected In Grenfell Tower Fire  —  The type of siding or “cladding” used on the Grenfell Tower in London — and suspected in the massive fire that killed dozens of residents — is not allowed on the exterior of tall buildings across most of the U.S.
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Atlantic
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New York Times:   Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety
 
 
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Brad Wilmouth / newsbusters.org/feed/all:
On CNN, Montel Williams: GOP Would Send 140 Million to ‘Death’ With Health Plan
Discussion: Daily Kos
Business Insider:
Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Beyond opposing Trump, Democrats keep searching for a message
Discussion: IJR and Liberal Values
John Shinal / CNBC:
Mark Zuckerberg's snub of White House could backfire as Europe goes after US Internet giants
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Scott Schwebke / Orange County Register:
Man believed dead is alive - family buries wrong person after mix-up
Jerusalem Post:
Reports that Trump considering pulling out of peace talks ‘nonsense,’ US official says
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Premiums and Tax Credits under the Affordable Care Act vs. the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act: Interactive Maps
Discussion: Balkinization
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