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New York Times:
On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer's Role — WASHINGTON — President Trump began his all-hands meeting with Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday by saying they were “very close” to passing a health care bill, just as efforts to fast-track a vote this week collapsed.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside the GOP's surprise health care flop — Senate Republicans had no inkling of what they were walking into on Tuesday afternoon as they filed into the Mike Mansfield room on the Capitol's second floor. — Mitch McConnell's 51 colleagues, from his most junior members to his closest lieutenants …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness — Top GOP officials and senators say White House chaos and impulsiveness are crippling efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, unraveling long-laid plans and needlessly jeopardizing incumbents. — There's a widespread sense …
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Political Wire
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 …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McConnell's Reputation as a Master Tactician Takes a Hit — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has long enjoyed a reputation as a master tactician. But when it comes to repealing the Affordable Care Act, he seems to have miscalculated in the first round of play.
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Washington Post:
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now.
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now.
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New York Magazine
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
‘Repeal and replace’ was once a unifier for the GOP. Now it's an albatross.
‘Repeal and replace’ was once a unifier for the GOP. Now it's an albatross.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine and Outside the Beltway
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Senate GOP ‘very close’ to agreement on health bill
Trump: Senate GOP ‘very close’ to agreement on health bill
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RedState and Political Wire
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The new health care deadline: Get a deal by Friday
Avik Roy / New York Times:
The Senate's Secretly Bipartisan Health Bill
The Senate's Secretly Bipartisan Health Bill
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Vox and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pro-Trump group pulls ads criticizing Heller over Obamacare
Pro-Trump group pulls ads criticizing Heller over Obamacare
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ThinkProgress and Vox
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pro-Trump group launches TV, radio ads against Heller over health bill
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
Republican senators hit by calls from voters worried about Obamacare repeal bill
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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
Trump golf clubs displaying fake Time magazine cover
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Raw Story, RedState, Occupy Democrats and The Week
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 …
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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 …
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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Circa:
WATCH | Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is being investigated by the Office of U.S. Special Counsel for violating The Hatch Act that prohibits FBI agents from campaigning in partisan races. — The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government's main whistleblower agency …
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The Gateway Pundit
Emily Smith / New York Post:
CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story — The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump's — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned. — SEE ALSO
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Raw Story, The Last Tradition, The Gateway Pundit, Althouse, Mediaite, NewsBusters, Washington Post, NPR, The Resurgent and Axios
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
The White House is now using James O'Keefe videos to attack the press — This particular attack on the press garnered a response. — At Tuesday's White House press briefing, Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used a question from Breitbart News to attack the entire press corps.
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Media Matters for America, YouTube, Gizmodo, Towleroad, twitchy.com, Washington Times and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »
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George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Could Donald Trump Be the End of CNN?
Could Donald Trump Be the End of CNN?
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
White House: CNN ‘a Disgrace to All of Media, to All of Journalism’
White House: CNN ‘a Disgrace to All of Media, to All of Journalism’
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Power Line, The Last Tradition, Fox News Insider, New York Times, MILO NEWS, Conservative News Today, Mediaite, Daily Wire, Mother Jones and IJR
Reuters:
Helicopter attacks Venezuela court, Maduro denounces coup bid — A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by “terrorists” seeking a coup.
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CNN, The Guardian, The Week and Fusion
Mike Wilson / Dallas Morning News:
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns — Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true. — An eight-paragraph Washington Post article …
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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Occupy Democrats, The Gateway Pundit, AOL, Washington Free Beacon and Media Matters for America
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.”
Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
My father is one of the vulnerable seniors most at risk from GOP's cruel Medicaid cuts — Tell your story and act on behalf of those you love who are unable to act for themselves. — More than 1.4 million Americans are receiving nursing home or other long-term care paid for by Medicaid.
Axios:
Full-court diplomacy (even secret talks with North Korea) — Our Expert Voices conversation on North Korea — The United States has never arrayed all of our tools and advantages simultaneously and overwhelmingly to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
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Politico
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow's family has been paid millions from charities they control — President Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow was on his weekday radio show this month, defending the president vociferously, when he took a pause to highlight a charity that has brought Sekulow and his family millions of dollars.
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Media Matters for America and The Guardian