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2:40 AM ET, June 26, 2017

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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 …
RELATED:
New York Times:   Senate Leaders Try to Appease Members as Support for Health Bill Slips
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway on Senate health bill: ‘These are not cuts to Medicaid’
Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:
Trump advisers claim GOP health care bill won't cut Medicaid. It will.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans face key week as more lawmakers waver in support for health-care bill
Discussion: Axios
Eli Watkins / CNN:   Tom Price promises GOP won't pull ‘rug out’ on health care
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’  —  Dyke March organizers removed participants waving Jewish Pride flags because they were ‘triggering’  —  Three people carrying Jewish Pride flags were asked to leave the annual Chicago Dyke March on Saturday.
Discussion: Breitbart and twitchy.com
Rachel Cromidas / Chicagoist:   Photos: Dyke March Drew Hundreds To Rally In Little Village Saturday, Amid Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Week and Balloon Juice
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 …
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.
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,” …
Discussion: 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 …
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.]
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Video shows a teen falling off a Six Flags ride — and a crowd gathering to catch her … A teenage girl escaped serious injury Saturday evening after falling 25 feet from an amusement park ride in Upstate New York — and into the arms of a crowd that had gathered below to catch her.
Discussion: Mashable and Loren Lent
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.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Ernst polls supporters on Obamacare repeal plan  —  Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who has not yet taken a position on Senate Republicans' ObamaCare repeal and replace plan, is polling her constituents to gauge their feelings on the bill.  —  “Traveling across Iowa on my 99 county tour …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Paper ballots are hack-proof.  It's time to bring them back.  —  We like to tell citizens that every vote counts.  But actually, no vote counts unless it is counted.  —  I've been talking about the importance of protecting against voting-machine hacks since 2002.  And now, finally, people are starting to take me seriously.
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:
Leaked CNN Memo: Top Execs to Review All Russia Stories After Very Fake News Retraction  —  CNNMoney Executive Editor Rich Barbieri has sent an internal memo to all staff instructing them that all Russia-related stories must be cleared by him or another high-ranking executive …
WCIV:
Woman charged after tearing Confederate flag off truck, hitting man  —  A woman is facing charges after police say she tore a Confederate flag “tag” off a truck and then backed into the truck's owner.  —  According to a release from Charleston police, 43-year-old Ann Lee Walters is charged …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pro-Trump group's health care offensive warns GOP senators to 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.
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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Awr Hawkins / Breitbart:
NY County DA: National Reciprocity Helps Islamic State
Discussion: The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Ohio Government Websites Hacked With Pro-Islamic State Messages
Discussion: CNN, New York Post, The Week and Mediaite
Tony Lee / Breitbart:
Maxine Waters Reacts to Senate Health Bill: Drag Trump ‘to Impeachment’
Brad Wilmouth / NewsBusters:
Maher Likens GOP Plan to ‘Zodiac Killer’; Frets Too Many ‘Waste-Making’ Kids
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Spicer: Trump's strategy on Comey tapes worked
Discussion: RedState and IJR
CNN:
Pilot urges prayers as ‘technical issue’ forces turnaround
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Democrats ‘better stand for something,’ says party's Senate leader
Discussion: twitchy.com and TheBlaze
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Antithesis of Obstruction
Discussion: neo-neocon
Kai-Fu Lee / New York Times:
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats field a glut of House candidates in 2018 but remain divided on how to win
Intern / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:
Restaurant owner says nearby Confederate flag is hurting his business
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill
Discussion: The Week
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Donald Skunks the Democrats
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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