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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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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
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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Washington Monthly
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.
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
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why I'm Not Betting Against Mitch McConnell
Why I'm Not Betting Against Mitch McConnell
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New York Magazine
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill
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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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Washington Post, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA, Take Care Blog and Axios
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
McConnell wants revised health care bill by Friday; Holdouts contemplate Plan B
McConnell wants revised health care bill by Friday; Holdouts contemplate Plan B
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Politico
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump's Ignorance Is Becoming a National Crisis
Donald Trump's Ignorance Is Becoming a National Crisis
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Vox, Shareblue, Washington Post and Daily Kos
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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The Atlantic, Business Insider, CNBC, BostonGlobe.com and Politico
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Yes, the Senate health care plan is actually monstrous.
Yes, the Senate health care plan is actually monstrous.
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bradford-delong.com, The Week and Vox
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
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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Axios, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and IJR
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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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New York Magazine, Raw Story, IJR and Political Wire
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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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and Raw Story
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, NBC News, The Verge, New York Magazine, Daily Wire and Althouse
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds give up fight against Redskins trademarks — The Trump administration is throwing in the towel in the fight to strip the Washington Redskins football team of its trademarks. — The Justice Department sent a letter to a federal appeals court Wednesday afternoon conceding …
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ABC News, New York Magazine and TheBlaze
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Mike Laanela / CBC News:
Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from global searches
Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from global searches
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The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Leah Schnurr / Reuters:
Canada's top court rules Google must block some results worldwide
Canada's top court rules Google must block some results worldwide
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The Daily Caller, Hit & Run and Engadget
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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Shakesville
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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.
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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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
LaVoy Finicum shooting: FBI agent indicted for alleged false statements — Slow-motion video of gunshot FBI allegedly lied about in LaVoy Finicum confrontation — An FBI agent has been indicted on federal accusations that he lied about firing at Robert “LaVoy” Finicum last year …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
FBI agent faces 5-count indictment in LaVoy Finicum shooting investigation
FBI agent faces 5-count indictment in LaVoy Finicum shooting investigation
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Daily Wire
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.
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Justice Gorsuch Wastes No Time Stirring Up Trouble — His dissent in a gay-rights case reads like a rallying cry for conservative resistance. — It's customary for new Supreme Court justices to ease into the job. Not so Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has flung himself into his truncated first term like a whirlwind.
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Rewire, Washington Post and Take Care Blog
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Gorsuch's First Anti-Gay Dissent Has a Huge Factual Error—and Terrible, Dishonest Logic
Gorsuch's First Anti-Gay Dissent Has a Huge Factual Error—and Terrible, Dishonest Logic
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Above the Law and Los Angeles Times
CNN:
Obama's jeans game gets strong(er) — (CNN)"The truth is, generally I look very sharp in jeans." — Barack Obama, 2014. — While the statement wasn't one of then-President Obama's most important pronouncements during his time in office, it was one of the most questionable, from a truth perspective.
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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The Daily Caller, The Verge, Engadget and Fox News Insider
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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
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 …
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NewsBusters, SI.com, The Hill, Mediaite and Breitbart
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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, SARAH PALIN and Associated Press
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.
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
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
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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NBC News and Washington Post
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
CNN Anchor: Trump Putting Journalists In Danger; “Declaration Of War On Media” Has “Emboldened” War Zones — CNN's Clarissa Ward, a foreign correspondent, served as guest co-host on Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's News Day. Ward fretted “people” in war zones have been “emboldened” …