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USA Today:
Poll: Only 12% of Americans support the Senate health care plan — Just 12% of Americans support the Senate Republican health care plan, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds, amid a roiling debate over whether the GOP will deliver on its signature promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 27 percent favor Senate GOP health care plan, as vote gets delayed — By two-to-one, American voters oppose the Senate health care bill to replace the Affordable Care Act — even as a majority wants to repeal at least some of the existing law.
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill — Americans broadly disapprove of the Senate GOP's health care bill, and they're unhappy with how Republicans are handling the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why the GOP's Plan for Health Care Hit a Wall
Why the GOP's Plan for Health Care Hit a Wall
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base As Independents' Disapproval Grows
Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base As Independents' Disapproval Grows
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Outside the Beltway and Politicus USA
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Entire Trump Agenda Is at a Tipping Point — Earlier this month, a senior White House official deeply involved in enacting President Trump's agenda on Capitol Hill laid out the Administration's ideal legislative schedule for the rest of this year. — “Between now and the August recess …
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Bloomberg:
Key Republicans Want to Scrap Health Bill's Tax Cuts for Wealthy — Collins, Rounds suggest eliminating repeal of investment tax — McConnell negotiating with Republicans to win over holdouts — Several Senate Republicans began to question Wednesday whether their health-care bill …
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Washington Post and The Week
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why I'm Not Betting Against Mitch McConnell — If you're planning to watch Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cajole a clutch of disaffected Republican colleagues into casting a “yes” vote for the moribund health care bill, arm yourself with a scorecard and calculator.
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ABC News and New York Magazine
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
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Shareblue and Politicus USA
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
McConnell is trying to revise the Senate health-care bill by Friday
McConnell is trying to revise the Senate health-care bill by Friday
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Burr: Senate panel to get Comey memos — The Senate Intelligence Committee has reached an agreement to receive memos written by former FBI Director James Comey detailing his interactions with President Donald Trump, Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told POLITICO on Wednesday.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Backs Off Plan to Attack Comey's Conduct — Donald Trump's lawyers will postpone filing a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department, according to a person familiar with the decision — a bid to stop antagonizing the special counsel who's investigating ties between …
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Julia Angwin / ProPublica:
Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children — In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims.
CNN:
Officials struggle to convince Trump that Russia remains a threat — Trump blasts Obama on Twitter, demands apology — Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump lashes out at former President Barack Obama for failing to take a harder line against Russia for election meddling …
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Reuters:
U.S. unveils enhanced airline security plan to avoid laptop ban — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday unveiled enhanced security measures for foreign flights arriving in the United States in what officials said was a move that aims to end a limited in-cabin ban on laptops …
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
How the Trump administration plans on implementing its limited travel ban
How the Trump administration plans on implementing its limited travel ban
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Politico and Associated Press
Stephanie Beasley / Politico:
US to expand laptop ban to all flights that flunk safeguards
US to expand laptop ban to all flights that flunk safeguards
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Axios
Emma Pettit / Arkansas Online:
Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered — A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, police said.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Former WH press secretaries: End live daily press briefings — Two former press secretaries to Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — said on Wednesday that the White House should embargo all video from press briefings for later use, preventing the video from being broadcast live.
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Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed:
A Teen Was Charged With Killing Her Boyfriend During A Failed YouTube Stunt — A 19-year-old woman in Minnesota has been charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting her boyfriend as the couple attempted to record a YouTube stunt, authorities said. — Monalisa Perez was arrested …
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Refinery29, New York Magazine, The Verge and Daily Wire
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump claims GOP has a ‘big surprise’ on healthcare — President Trump claimed Wednesday that Senate Republicans have a “big surprise” on their healthcare bill, while also declaring the measure is coming “along very well.” — “Healthcare is working along very well,” Trump said after meeting …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vice Retracts Articles About Donald Trump's Animatronic Robot at Disney World — NY Digital Editor @xpangler — Vice Media's Motherboard tech site has retracted two articles — supposedly revealing discord at Disney Parks about Donald Trump's presence in the Hall of Presidents attraction …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
This is how Trumpism died — Donald Trump won the battle. The Republican Party won the war. — Donald Trump's enthusiastic support for the Senate health care bill is proof that there is no such thing as Trumpism, and there never will be. — Health care was the issue on which Trump …
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CNNMoney:
News outlets respond to Trump's intensifying war on media — Instead of selling Americans on the GOP's health care bill, President Trump is selling resentment of the media. — The President is telling people not to believe the journalists who are reporting on the bill.
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Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC:
Condoleezza Rice: Trump stands for American values and seeks to act in the best interests of the US — President Trump may sound different than other presidents, but he puts the nation first, the former secretary of State argues. — Russia, in the context of the election meddling …
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NBC News:
FBI Interviews Employees of Russia-Linked Cyber Security Firm Kaspersky Lab — FBI agents on Tuesday paid visits to at least a dozen employees of Kaspersky Lab, a Russia-based cyber-security company, asking questions about that company's operations as part of a counter-intelligence inquiry …
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Axios
Justin Miller / American Prospect:
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion — This article appears in the Summer 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. — Near midnight on Tuesday, June 6, a number of Republicans in the Kansas legislature did something that few other elected Republicans had done in years: They acted responsibly.
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Washington Monthly
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The GOP health bill is doomed to toxic unpopularity, no matter how it's changed — The Senate Republican health bill is very unpopular. But many people have been overthinking why it is unpopular and have therefore missed why it cannot be amended to be made popular, as Republican leaders want to do.
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Wrestling's new villain named himself ‘Progressive Liberal.’ Hillary's on his shirt. — It was a strange sight, even for the “sport” of professional wrestling. — A wrestler holding a microphone faced an Appalachian crowd before a match and began unleashing a torrent of insults …
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Senate Dems propose incentives to reduce state prison populations — Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal Wednesday to push back against Attorney General Jeff Sessions — 's “tough on crime” policies. — Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal
Mari A. Schaefer / Philly.com:
Protests planned at Gettysburg battlefield this weekend — Officials in Gettysburg are bracing for protests this weekend coinciding with the 154th anniversary of the Civil War battle. — The Sons of Confederate Veterans and a group called Real 3% Risen have received special use permits …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
What the latest James O'Keefe video leaves out — Conservative activist James O'Keefe caused a stir on Tuesday with the release of a secretly recorded video that purports to show a CNN producer casting doubt on his network's coverage of possible collusion between President Trump's associates and Russian officials.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
DOJ hosts Pride party honoring transgender student from bathroom case — The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday hosted an event honoring a transgender teenager who sued in order to use the mens' restroom at his high school. — The event came despite the Trump administration rescinding …
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RedState
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Authorities to investigate Jay Sekulow nonprofit after ‘troubling’ revelations — Authorities in two states are looking into a nonprofit led by an attorney to Donald Trump, after the Guardian reported it had steered tens of millions of dollars to the attorney, his family and their businesses.
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