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11:05 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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Vox, The Mahablog, Shareblue and Raw Story
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.
Alvin Chang / Vox:
We fixed Donald Trump's misleading chart that claims Republicans are increasing Medicaid funding
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why I'm Not Betting Against Mitch McConnell
Discussion: ABC News and New York Magazine
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump to warring GOP senators: I'm on your side
Discussion: Vox and ABC News
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
Discussion: Shareblue and Politicus USA
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
McConnell wants revised health care bill by Friday; Holdouts contemplate Plan B
Discussion: Politico
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump claims GOP has a ‘big surprise’ on healthcare
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: The Week
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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
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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)'
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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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
Lawrence Smith / WDRB 41 Louisville News:
Gov. Matt Bevin publicly signs bill allowing Kentucky's public schools to teach the Bible  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) — Public schools in Kentucky can soon teach reading, writing and the book of Revelation.  —  At the Capitol on Tuesday, Gov. Matt Bevin gave his public “Amen” to a bill allowing Bible courses in public schools.
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.
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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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 …
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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Rene Marsh / CNN:   First on CNN: DHS to announce new aviation security measures
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 …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Tillerson blows up at top White House aide  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's frustrations with the White House have been building for months.  Last Friday, they exploded.  —  The normally laconic Texan unloaded on Johnny DeStefano, the head of the presidential personnel office …
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.
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.
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
Arne Delfs / Bloomberg:
Video Feed of Commerce Chief Wilbur Ross Cut Off Mid-Speech in Berlin  —  Organizers fade out Wilbur Ross video feed to cheers, applause  —  Episode hints at German frustration ahead of G-20 summit  —  The U.S. commerce secretary was cut off in mid-speech during a video feed to an event hosted …
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 …
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
 
 
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Lori Falce / Centre Daily Times:
Penn State announces student, faculty, community advisory group on Greek issues
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
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Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds give up fight against Redskins trademarks
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:
FAKE NEWS, FAKE FOLLOWERS: TwitterAudit Reports CNN Has 17 Million Fake Twitter Followers
Discussion: MILO NEWS
Joshua Gillin / @politifact:
Newt Gingrich misleads with point that House health care bill grows Medicaid spending
 Earlier Items: 
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Yes, the Senate health care plan is actually monstrous.
John Binder / Breitbart:
Joy Behar Feels ‘Sorry’ for Melania Trump: She Had to Sleep with Donald ‘At Least Once’
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The GOP health bill is doomed to toxic unpopularity, no matter how it's changed
Ezra Klein / Vox:
This is how Trumpism died  —  Donald Trump won the battle.
NBC News:
FBI Interviews Employees of Russia-Linked Cyber Security Firm Kaspersky Lab
Discussion: NBC News and Axios