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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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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.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why the GOP's Plan for Health Care Hit a Wall — One key reason Senate Republicans have been forced to retract and retool their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act is that the legislation favors one pole of the party's modern coalition so emphatically over the other.
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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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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Fewer than 4-in-10 voters back GOP health bill
Poll: Fewer than 4-in-10 voters back GOP health bill
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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 …
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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.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
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Vox:
208,500 additional deaths could occur by 2026 under the Senate health plan
208,500 additional deaths could occur by 2026 under the Senate health plan
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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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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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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.
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Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
10 Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol destroyed; suspect in custody for apparent repeat offense — The new Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol was destroyed by a car overnight less than 24 hours after installation on the Capitol grounds. — A suspect is in custody, Michael Reed, 32, of Van Buren.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Paul: ‘Weak-kneed’ GOP colleagues ‘need to get over themselves’ — (R-Ky.) says some of his “weak-kneed” Republican colleagues need to remember what they stand for regarding the repeal of ObamaCare. — During a Wednesday interview on Fox News, Paul — an opponent of the Senate GOP's healthcare bill …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump teases ‘big surprise’ on Senate Obamacare repeal effort
Trump teases ‘big surprise’ on Senate Obamacare repeal effort
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Washington Post
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’
CNN Reporter Thinks Trump Admin Is Endangering Media, Compares to ‘War Zone’
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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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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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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
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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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Leftists Promising to ‘Desecrate Graves’ and Protest During 154th Anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg — During the first days of July, 154 years ago, a great battle was fought in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during our Civil War. — Today, as the anniversary approaches …
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Mari A. Schaefer / Philly.com:
Protests planned at Gettysburg battlefield this weekend
Protests planned at Gettysburg battlefield this weekend
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SARAH PALIN and The Daily Caller
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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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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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 …
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘This thing needs to end right now’: CNN's Cuomo shuts down GOP senator whining about fake news — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — CNN's Chris Cuomo has grown very tired of Republicans shooting down any facts that go against their political messaging as “fake news.”
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The Week
Stephanie Beasley / Politico:
US to expand laptop ban to all flights that flunk safeguards — The Trump administration is threatening to expand its laptop ban to all U.S.-bound flights from anywhere in the world if airlines fail to take additional security measures against concealed explosives, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to announce today.
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Axios
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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John Binder / Breitbart:
Joy Behar Feels ‘Sorry’ for Melania Trump: She Had to Sleep with Donald ‘At Least Once’ — Left-wing comedian Joy Behar took aim at First Lady Melania Trump during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers Tuesday night. — During Behar's interview with Meyers, the comedian ruthlessly attacked …
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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 …
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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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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