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Trump tweets shocking assault on Brzezinski, Scarborough — Trump attacks ‘Morning Joe’ hosts on Twitter — Even by President Trump's standards, these tweets were shocking. — On Thursday morning, while MSNBC's “Morning Joe” was on the air, Trump posted a pair of hateful tweets about co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-lift’ — President Trump on Thursday assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski in unusually personal and vulgar terms, the latest of a string of escalating attacks by the president on the national news media.
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NBC exec: ‘Beneath my dignity’ to respond to Trump attacks on Mika Brzezinski — A top NBC spokesman said Thursday that it was “beneath my dignity” to respond to President Trump's attacks on Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe.” — Trump attacked Brzezinski as …
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‘Out of his mind’: MSNBC's Mika unloads on Trump and his ‘lobotomized’ staffers over Tillerson reports — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hammered President Donald Trump over reports that his secretary of state feels sidelined by White House political operatives.
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Politicus USA and The Daily Banter


Portman and McConnell clash over health bill — Senate Republicans' health care fight is getting personal. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Rob Portman, close allies and typically mild-mannered men, got into a heated exchange over Medicaid at a meeting earlier this week.
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Daily Kos and U.S. Senator Shelley …
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Trumpworld's push to get a Senate health deal — Everyone is making calls — based on calculations of who's got the most leverage with certain senators down to personal relationships. President Trump, Vice President Pence, Senate Majority Leader McConnell, and officials including White …


Beleaguered health care bill gets new terms in effort to secure votes — White House, Senate GOP agree to add $45 billion to address opioid crisis, near agreement on Health Savings Account money. — Senate Republicans and the White House have agreed to add at least $45 billion …
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Key Republicans Want to Scrap Health Bill's Tax Cuts for Wealthy
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We fixed Donald Trump's misleading chart that claims Republicans are increasing Medicaid funding
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How the push for a Senate health-care vote fell apart amid GOP tensions
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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 …


The Latest: No problems reported so far on travel ban — The Latest on the Trump administration's revived travel ban for visitors from six mostly Muslim countries (all times local): — The U.N. refugee agency says it hopes for a “generous approach” from the United States …
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A Stunt Turns Deadly for a Couple Seeking YouTube Fame — Over the past several weeks, Monalisa Perez of Halstad, Minn., and her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III, began their quest for YouTube fame by creating and posting videos of mostly harmless pranks: Mr. Ruiz climbing onto a tenuous tree branch …
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Health care state-of-play: More meetings, but only among Republicans — Medicaid cuts could cost opioid addicts — Washington (CNN)There was more optimism than progress for the Senate health care bill Wednesday as Republicans regrouped after kicking a health care vote until after the July 4 recess.
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As GOP buckles down on health care, conservative media loses interest
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EVEN TRUMP CAN'T MAKE GOLDMAN SACHS POPULAR — Having pulled off the monumental achievement of getting elected with zero help from Wall Street, President Trump is at risk of throwing it all away. He seems to be turning his White House over not only to liberal Democrats …


Pence to Replace His Chief of Staff — WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff will depart the White House in the coming weeks and will be replaced by a long-serving aide, in the first major staff change of his office, officials said on Thursday.
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Trump rips media, mocks Pelosi at closed-door fundraiser — President Donald Trump, facing dimming approval ratings and a stalled legislative agenda, rolled out his greatest hits on Wednesday evening - ripping into CNN, assailing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and hailing his party's string of special election wins.
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San Francisco To Pay Undocumented Immigrant $190K For Violating Sanctuary Policy — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — San Francisco taxpayers could soon pay $190,000 in a lawsuit settlement with an undocumented immigrant who claimed he was reported to federal immigration authorities in violation …
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The Daily Caller and Daily Wire
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House set to vote on 'Kate's Law'
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House Russia probe eyes longtime Trump bodyguard-turned-White House aide Keith Schiller — Congressional investigators now want to interview Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump's longtime bodyguard-turned-White House aide, as part of their investigation into Russian interference …
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Talking Points Memo, The Week, Raw Story, Political Wire, Business Insider and Associated Press


U.S. says its warning appears to have averted Syrian chemical attack — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Wednesday that the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad appeared so far to have heeded a warning this week from Washington not to carry out a chemical weapons attack.
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Iraq declares end of caliphate after capture of Mosul mosque
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Pentagon plan to defeat ISIS looks very much like Obama's approach
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The Stranger …, Just Security, Al Jazeera English and The Daily Caller


Trump's Obama Obsession — Donald Trump has a thing about Barack Obama. Trump is obsessed with Obama. Obama haunts Trump's dreams. One of Trump's primary motivators is the absolute erasure of Obama — were it possible — not only from the political landscape but also from the history books.
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Politicus USA and Raw Story


White House could offer to roll back sanctions in first Trump-Putin meeting — G20 meeting of two presidents could see Russia regain access to diplomatic compounds blocked after interference in 2016 US election, say former officials … Donald Trump has told White House aides to come …
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Washington Post and The Hill
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Spurned by Trump, Senate Democrats Take a Harder Line — WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Trump won the White House, a cluster of Senate Democrats began the search for common cause with the unlikely new president, scouring the populist policy agenda that dominated his campaign.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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Stop going to the White House press briefings — With all the legitimate gripes reporters have with this White House, perhaps the least worthy of your (or their) time and attention is the WWE-style smackdown over briefings. Every day, the White House hides or dodges. Every day, reporters protest and whine.


Bridges takes chilled approach in heated political rhetoric … Jeff Bridges played a president in “The Contender,” a political flick released nearly two decades ago in the wake of President Bill Clinton's White House scandals. — But when it comes to critiquing the role of today's real-life president …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Washington Times