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On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer's Role — WASHINGTON — President Trump began his all-hands meeting with Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday by saying they were “very close” to passing a health care bill, just as efforts to fast-track a vote this week collapsed.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside the GOP's surprise health care flop — Senate Republicans had no inkling of what they were walking into on Tuesday afternoon as they filed into the Mike Mansfield room on the Capitol's second floor. — Mitch McConnell's 51 colleagues, from his most junior members to his closest lieutenants …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness — Top GOP officials and senators say White House chaos and impulsiveness are crippling efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, unraveling long-laid plans and needlessly jeopardizing incumbents. — There's a widespread sense …
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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.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
How Governors From Both Parties Plotted to Derail the Senate Health Bill — WASHINGTON — A once-quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington on Tuesday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months …
Washington Post:
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now.
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New York Magazine
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
‘Repeal and replace’ was once a unifier for the GOP. Now it's an albatross.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McConnell's Reputation as a Master Tactician Takes a Hit
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Senate GOP ‘very close’ to agreement on health bill
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times, Claiming Editorial Defamed Her — Sarah Palin, former vice-presidential candidate, filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Company on Tuesday, saying the newspaper had published a statement about her in a recent editorial that it “knew to be false.”
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Sarah Palin sues NY Times for tying political ad to mass shooting
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamation
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Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It's fake. — The framed copy of Time Magazine was hung up in at least four of President Trump's golf clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Trump Campaign Chief's Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party — Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed on Tuesday that his consulting firm …
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Mediaite and Political Wire
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WATCH | Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is being investigated by the Office of U.S. Special Counsel for violating The Hatch Act that prohibits FBI agents from campaigning in partisan races. — The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government's main whistleblower agency …
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Emily Smith / New York Post:
CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story — The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump's — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned. — SEE ALSO
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Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s newest congressman still hasn't taken his oath. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to know why — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) wants to know why Rep.-elect Jimmy Gomez hasn't been sworn in, saying the seat's “elongated vacancy” is “an abdication” of his responsibilities.
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Washington Free Beacon
Mike Wilson / Dallas Morning News:
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns — Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true. — An eight-paragraph Washington Post article …
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Brooks's prior attacks on Trump could hurt in Alabama Senate race — (R-Ala.) is locked in the race toward a contentious August primary to fill the Senate seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions — . But Brooks's previous attacks on President Trump could pose a problem …
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Raw Story
Reuters:
Helicopter attacks Venezuela court, Maduro denounces coup bid — A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by “terrorists” seeking a coup.
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RT, CNN, The Guardian, The Week and Fusion
Jake Sherman / Politico:
TICK-TOCK on the GOP's health-care ‘flop’ — HOW TRUMP can turn it around — PRO-TRUMP group pulls ads — FAHRENTHOLD strikes again — SPOTTED last night in ASPEN — B'DAY: Ashley Hickey Marquis — DRIVING THE DAY — BULLETIN — WJLA: “Officials: Amtrak train hits, kills 2 CSX employees on tracks in D.C. …
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Morning Consult
Janosch Delcker / Politico:
Merkel to Trump: We provide you jobs — There is 10 times more German direct investment in the US than the other way around, German chancellor said. — BERLIN — Germany creates American jobs, Angela Merkel said Tuesday, in response to criticism from the White House over Germany exporting significantly more than it imports.
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The Daily Caller
Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
Obamas under fire from the left for never ending, sizzling ultra-luxury vacations — The Democratic base is growing increasingly frustrated with former President Barack Obama's actions after leaving office, including a seemingly endless tour of millionaire and billionaire luxury retreats …
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Occupy Democrats, The Gateway Pundit, AOL, Washington Free Beacon and Media Matters for America
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump praises female reporter's ‘nice smile’ on call to Irish PM … President Trump singled out a female journalist during a phone call with the new Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, on Tuesday, telling Varadkar, “She has a nice smile on her face. So I bet she treats you well.”
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
How Donald Trump is killing romance — In the treacherous, amusing and sometimes rewarding world of online dating, Donald Trump has become the newest way to find - or reject - a romantic match. — “Did you vote for or do you support Trump? Then I'm not your man.
Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
My father is one of the vulnerable seniors most at risk from GOP's cruel Medicaid cuts — Tell your story and act on behalf of those you love who are unable to act for themselves. — More than 1.4 million Americans are receiving nursing home or other long-term care paid for by Medicaid.
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