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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
McConnell warns Trump, GOP on health bill failure — Mitch McConnell is delivering an urgent warning to staffers, Republican senators and even the president himself: If Obamacare repeal fails this week, the GOP will lose all leverage and be forced to work with Chuck Schumer.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
How the Logic of Tribalism Is Driving the Health-Care Debate — I'm just thinking out loud here. But it seems to me this is one of those moments in American politics where no one can simply say what they really think or want. As Yuval noted yesterday, big chunks of the GOP-controlled Congress …
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Axios:
Senate delays health care vote until after recess — Senate Republican leaders have done an abrupt about-face on the health care bill: They're now planning to delay the vote to take up the bill until after the July 4 recess, according to two senior GOP aides.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Senate GOP ‘very close’ to agreement on health bill — President Trump said Tuesday afternoon that Senate Republicans are getting “very close” to an agreement that would allow them to pass their embattled plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare. — “I think the Senate bill is going to be great …
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
How Governors From Both Parties Plotted to Derail the Senate Health Bill — WASHINGTON — A once-quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington on Tuesday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months …
New York Times:
Vote Delayed as G.O.P. Struggles to Marshal Support for Health Care Bill
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP yanks Obamacare repeal bill
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New York Times:
On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer's Role
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pro-Trump group launches TV, radio ads against Heller over health bill
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Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Republican senators hit by calls from voters worried about Obamacare repeal bill
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate GOP isn't backing down from health care vote
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Mitch McConnell Isn't Playing 13-Dimensional Chess
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It's fake. — The framed copy of Time Magazine was hung up in at least four of President Trump's golf clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump golf clubs displaying fake Time magazine cover
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump blasts media after CNN retraction: ‘They are all Fake News!’ — President Trump on Tuesday blasted several publications after CNN retracted a story published last week tying a top Trump ally to a Russian investment bank. — “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC?”
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
White House: CNN ‘a Disgrace to All of Media, to All of Journalism’
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Gorka: O'Keefe CNN Video Fake News Scandal ‘Complete Vindication for the President’
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamation — Sarah Palin is suing The New York Times for defamation, according to documents filed on Tuesday obtained by The Daily Caller. — The lawsuit has to do with an editorial the NYT ran on June 14 that falsely smeared Palin as inciting …
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New York Post:
Sarah Palin sues NY Times for tying political ad to mass shooting … Former Governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation over a recent editorial tying one of her political action committee ads to a 2011 mass shooting …
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Washington Post:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort files as foreign agent for Ukraine work — A consulting firm led by Paul Manafort, who chaired Donald Trump's presidential campaign for several months last year, retroactively filed forms Tuesday showing that his firm received $17.1 million …
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New York Times:
Trump Campaign Chief's Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party — Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed on Tuesday that his consulting firm …
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump lawyer's firm steered millions in donations to family members, files show — Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal Jay Sekulow approved plans to push people to give to his Christian nonprofit, which then paid big sums to his family … More than 15,000 Americans were losing …
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Washington Post:
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now. — Scrambling to line up support for the Republican health-care bill, President Trump got on the phone Monday with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and urged him to back the measure. — The president's personal plea was not enough.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Chaffetz calls for $2,500 legislator housing stipend
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Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
Obamas under fire from the left for never ending, sizzling ultra-luxury vacations — The Democratic base is growing increasingly frustrated with former President Barack Obama's actions after leaving office, including a seemingly endless tour of millionaire and billionaire luxury retreats …
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Telegraph:
Man hit by bus as he crosses road - before dusting himself down and walking into pub — CCTV footage shows man hit by bus in Reading — A man was knocked down by an out-of-control bus - before miraculously getting up and walking into a pub. — Simon Smith said he is lucky to be alive …
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Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
How Donald Trump is killing romance — In the treacherous, amusing and sometimes rewarding world of online dating, Donald Trump has become the newest way to find - or reject - a romantic match. — “Did you vote for or do you support Trump? Then I'm not your man.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump praises female reporter's ‘nice smile’ on call to Irish PM … President Trump singled out a female journalist during a phone call with the new Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, on Tuesday, telling Varadkar, “She has a nice smile on her face. So I bet she treats you well.”
Buzz Bissinger / Vanity Fair:
Cover Story: Serena Williams's Love Match — A STAR IS BORN Serena Williams, photographed in Highland Beach, Florida. — Last January, on the eve of the Australian Open, Serena Williams handed her fiancé, Alexis Ohanian, a paper bag containing six positive pregnancy tests.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Roger Stone set to testify next month in House Russia probe — Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone is set to appear July 24 before the House Intelligence Committee, which is examining contacts between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign, according to Stone's attorney.
The Daily Beast:
White House Threatened Syria While Trump Yawned, Insiders Say … Hours before the White House issued an ominous warning to Syria's dictator against launching another chemical assault, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave the same message to Bashar Assad's patron in Moscow, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
At least 1 US nuclear plant's computer system was hacked — Federal authorities are investigating a breach into computer systems of at least one U.S. nuclear power plant, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. — There is no evidence that any particularly sensitive or operational systems were breached.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
'It's the End of Small Talk in Washington' — There may be no city as unsettled by Donald Trump as the one he just moved to. A social anthropology. — During the 1968 riots, Washington, D.C., was ablaze with arson and looting when an aide burst in to tell President Lyndon B. Johnson …
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Alison R. Parker / Shareblue:
Sen. Mazie Hirono: “I'll be back ASAP” after cancer treatment to fight for health care — Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono won't let anything keep her away from the fight to protect health care coverage — not even her cancer treatments. — As Senate Republicans continue to barrel ahead …
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