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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 …
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.
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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ABC News and New York Magazine
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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Washington Post, HuffPost, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA, Take Care Blog, Axios, The Week and NPR
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.
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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The Atlantic, Business Insider, CNBC, BostonGlobe.com and Politico
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
Growing group of senators oppose health care bill
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Shareblue and Politicus USA
Mike Ciandella / NewsBusters:
ABC, CBS, NBC Hyped ObamaCare as ‘Reform,’ Not GOP Plan
ABC, CBS, NBC Hyped ObamaCare as ‘Reform,’ Not GOP Plan
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The Daily Caller
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Paul: ‘Weak-kneed’ GOP colleagues ‘need to get over themselves’
Paul: ‘Weak-kneed’ GOP colleagues ‘need to get over themselves’
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Fox News Insider and RedState
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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Outside the Beltway and Politicus USA
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 …
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Business Insider
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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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Axios, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and IJR
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.
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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New York Times, NPR, WTVR-TV, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, KFOR-TV, Sputnik International, Raw Story, The Resurgent, NBC News, TheBlaze, Friendly Atheist and Michael Reed
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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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The Daily Caller, The Verge, Fox News Insider and Engadget
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Stephanie Beasley / Politico:
US to expand laptop ban to all flights that flunk safeguards
US to expand laptop ban to all flights that flunk safeguards
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Axios
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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John Bowden / The Hill:
Former WH press secretaries: End live daily press briefings
Former WH press secretaries: End live daily press briefings
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NY State of Politics, Fox News Insider, IJR, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and Mediaite
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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NewsBusters
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 …
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Shakesville
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Mari A. Schaefer / Philly.com:
Protests planned at Gettysburg battlefield this weekend — Officials in Gettysburg are bracing for protests this weekend coinciding with the 154th anniversary of the Civil War battle. — The Sons of Confederate Veterans and a group called Real 3% Risen have received special use permits …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, IJR, SARAH PALIN and The Daily Caller
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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Leftists Promising to ‘Desecrate Graves’ and Protest During 154th Anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg
Leftists Promising to ‘Desecrate Graves’ and Protest During 154th Anniversary of Battle of Gettysburg
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MILO NEWS
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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RedState, The Daily Caller, The Last Refuge, twitchy.com and The Gateway Pundit, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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The Verge, New York Magazine and Daily Wire
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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New York Magazine, Raw Story, IJR and Political Wire
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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Shareblue, The Hill, RedState, Mashable, Washington Post, CNBC, LifeZette, Mother Jones, Axios, Towleroad, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Associated Press, SARAH PALIN and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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
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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New York Times, Washington Post and NBC News
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.
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Washington Monthly
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and CNBC
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.
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo, USA Today, Axios, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, JONATHAN TURLEY, Right Wing Watch, Fox News and Scared Monkeys
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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Talking Points Memo