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9:50 PM ET, June 28, 2017

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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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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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.
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
Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump's Ignorance Is Becoming a National Crisis  —  Even Republicans are fed up with the president's ham-fisted attempts to set health-care policy.  —  Health-care policy, Donald Trump has admitted, is more complex than he once assumed.  “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated …
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
Discussion: Shareblue and Politicus USA
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump to warring GOP senators: I'm on your side
Discussion: Vox and ABC News
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why I'm Not Betting Against Mitch McConnell
Discussion: ABC News and New York Magazine
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump claims GOP has a ‘big surprise’ on healthcare
Discussion: Shakesville and Washington Post
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
McConnell wants revised health care bill by Friday; Holdouts contemplate Plan B
Discussion: Politico
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Yes, the Senate health care plan is actually monstrous.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com, The Week and Vox
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
McConnell is trying to revise the Senate health-care bill by Friday
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 …
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.
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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Reuters:
Senate Intelligence panel will see Comey Trump memos
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
Msft-Mmpc / Windows Security:
New ransomware, old techniques: Petya adds worm capabilities  —  ★★★★ ★  —  On June 27, 2017 reports of a ransomware infection began spreading across Europe.  We saw the first infections in Ukraine, where more than 12,500 machines encountered the threat.
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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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:   CNN Politics: 'Obama's Jeans Game Gets Strong(er)'
Nino Bucci / Sydney Morning Herald:
Cardinal George Pell charged with at least three serious sex offences  —  Cardinal George Pell, Australia's highest ranking Catholic will face at least three serious sex assault charges, including at least one count of rape.  —  Victoria Police has confirmed Cardinal Pell has been charged …
Discussion: Daily Mail
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Jacqueline Williams / New York Times:
Australian Cardinal, a Top Adviser to Pope, Is Charged With Sexual Assault
Discussion: The Guardian, ABC and Fusion
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 …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump seizes the advantage in war with media  —  White House staffers were ‘elated’ when they heard that three CNN journalists had resigned over a botched story.  —  Donald Trump and his allies believe he's gained a tactical advantage in his war with the media.
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Associated Press:
With 40 months to go, Trump holds re-election fundraiser
Discussion: ABC News
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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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.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Gorsuch's First Anti-Gay Dissent Has a Huge Factual Error—and Terrible, Dishonest Logic  —  On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled the Constitution requires states to list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificates.  The decision was predictable: In Obergefell v. Hodges …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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” …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: NBC News and Axios
 
 
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Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:
FAKE NEWS, FAKE FOLLOWERS: TwitterAudit Reports CNN Has 17 Million Fake Twitter Followers
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Joshua Gillin / @politifact:
Newt Gingrich misleads with point that House health care bill grows Medicaid spending
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
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Discussion: Washington Post and NBC News
Arne Delfs / Bloomberg:
Video Feed of Commerce Chief Wilbur Ross Cut Off Mid-Speech in Berlin
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We Stood Up to the Administration Today Because Free Press is Crucial
 

 
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