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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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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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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.
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 …
Discussion: Shakesville
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.
Discussion: ABC News and New York Magazine
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
Discussion: Shareblue and Politicus USA
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base As Independents' Disapproval Grows
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Yes, the Senate health care plan is actually monstrous.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com and Vox
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump teases ‘big surprise’ on Senate Obamacare repeal effort
Discussion: Washington Post
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump's Ignorance Is Becoming a National Crisis
Discussion: Vox, Shareblue and Daily Kos
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Don't be fooled: the Senate's Obamacare repeal effort remains very alive
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and The Week
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Paul: ‘Weak-kneed’ GOP colleagues ‘need to get over themselves’
Discussion: Fox News Insider and RedState
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 …
Reuters:
Bush administration official blasts Trump over Russia
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
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 …
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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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
How the Trump administration plans on implementing its limited travel ban  —  The president's limited travel ban could go into effect as early as tomorrow morning, 72 hours after the Supreme Court ruling.  —  The Departments of Homeland Security and State are operating under that 72-hour window …
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Mike Laanela / CBC News:
Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from global searches  —  'We have just beaten Google in the Supreme Court of Canada.  It's about as good as it gets'  —  The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a B.C. court ruling that ordered Google to remove the website of a company from its global search results.
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Leah Schnurr / Reuters:
Canada's top court rules Google must block some results worldwide
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 …
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 …
Brian Karem / Playboy:
We Stood Up to the Administration Today Because Free Press is Crucial … Monday night, the White House Press Office sent out its daily guidance telling us of significant events the next day.  A press briefing was not among them, but we were promised notification by the following morning.
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Alex Xenos / newsbusters.org/feed/all:
CNN Reporter Thinks Trump Admin Is Endangering Media, Compares to ‘War Zone’
Discussion: NewsBusters
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: SI.com, The Hill, Mediaite and Breitbart
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
 
 
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Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
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