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MedStar Washington Hospital Center:
Condition Update: Rep. Steve Scalise Progress — Congressman Steve Scalise has been readmitted to the Intensive Care Unit at MedStar Washington Hospital Center due to new concerns for infection. His condition is listed as serious. We will provide another update tomorrow, July 6.
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David Caplan / ABC News:
Rep. Scalise ‘out of bed’ and ‘getting better,’ says fellow congressman — Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot in the hip June 14 when a gunman opened fire at a baseball practice of Republican lawmakers in Virginia, has been readmitted to the intensive care unit in serious condition …
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Clarence Williams / Washington Post:
Rep. Steve Scalise is readmitted to MedStar Intensive Care amid concerns for infection — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was wounded by a gunman in Alexandria last month, was readmitted to MedStar Washington's Intensive Care Unit on Wednesday, said officials from the hospital and his congressional office.
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Madison Park / CNN:
Rep. Steve Scalise back in intensive care unit — (CNN)Rep. Steve Scalise has been readmitted to the intensive care unit “due to new concerns for infection,” a statement from his office said. — His condition is listed as serious, according to the statement.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Rep. Scalise readmitted to intensive care unit
The Hill:
Voter fraud commission may have violated law — President Trump's voter fraud commission may have violated the law by ignoring federal requirements governing requests for information from states. — The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity asked all 50 states …
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Michael Chertoff / Washington Post:
Trump's voter data request poses an unnoticed danger — to national security — Michael Chertoff, U.S. homeland security secretary from 2005 to 2009, is executive chairman of the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management advisory firm. — The Trump administration's Presidential Advisory Commission …
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Washington Post:
Why almost every state is partially or fully rebuffing Trump's voter fraud commission
Why almost every state is partially or fully rebuffing Trump's voter fraud commission
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Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Trump Voter Fraud Commission Was Cautioned About Seeking Sensitive Voter Information
Trump Voter Fraud Commission Was Cautioned About Seeking Sensitive Voter Information
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Celeste Katz / Mic:
Trump election integrity commission member: “We should have predicted” the backlash
Trump election integrity commission member: “We should have predicted” the backlash
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
At Least 44 States Refuse to Hand Over All Data to Trump's “Fraud” Commission
At Least 44 States Refuse to Hand Over All Data to Trump's “Fraud” Commission
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
The Network Against the Leader of the Free World — Jeffrey A. Zucker hasn't been getting a lot of sleep lately. But he says that's nothing new. — “I don't sleep that much anyway,” Mr. Zucker, the president of CNN, said on Wednesday in his fifth-floor office, just off the network's glassy Midtown Manhattan newsroom.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby — Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates — Earlier today, the United States filed …
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Sarah Posner / Washington Post:
Trump's tweets have suddenly grown a lot more dangerous — The Los Angeles Times reports Wednesday morning that foreign policy experts are worried that President Trump could be caught flat-footed at his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg on Friday.
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NBC News:
Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests — A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Right threatens McConnell's Obamacare repeal — Conservative groups are aggressively backing Sens. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz in their bid to move the Senate Republicans' Obamacare repeal bill further to the right, setting up a major confrontation between the party's warring factions next week.
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
CNN Is Standing By Its Controversial Reddit User Story — CNN executives thought they were showing restraint by not identifying Reddit user HanAssholeSolo. But a strange contingency line has set off the pro-Trump social internet. — When a CNN reporter tracked down the Reddit user …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's aides build their own empires in the West Wing — Top White House officials have broken from tradition by hiring chiefs of staff and personal PR people to support their policy goals. — President Donald Trump won office on promises to shake up how Washington works …
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Tyler Fisher / Politico:
Trump Organization renews rights to TrumpTowerMoscow.com
Trump Organization renews rights to TrumpTowerMoscow.com
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Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Kids in pro-Trump rural areas have a lot to lose if GOP rolls back Medicaid — Dr. Traci Acklin, a pediatrician in Montgomery, W.Va., peers into Connor Prather's ear. The 1-year-old, who is covered by Medicaid, has had persistent ear infections, which will require surgery. (Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times)
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Dems try new slogan: ‘Have you seen the other guys?’ … The campaign arm for House Democrats on Wednesday tried out a new slogan: “I mean, have you seen the other guys?” — The sticker slogan, one of several floated as part of a fundraising effort by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Chelsea Handler to Debate Tomi Lahren Live at Politicon — Comedian and TV host Chelsea Handler will take on controversial conservative pundit Tomi Lahren in a live conversation later this month at Politicon, The Daily Beast has learned. The third annual political convention …
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Hopes of ‘Trump Bump’ for U.S. Economy Shrink as Growth Forecasts Fade — The promise of faster economic growth has become a study in the triumph of hope over experience. — While the June jobs report, coming on Friday, is expected to show that hiring continued at a healthy pace last month …
Joey Millar / Daily Express:
Bill Gates in HUGE borders U-turn: ‘Brussels must make it HARDER for migrants to reach EU’ — BILL GATES has made a massive open-borders U-turn and urged Brussels to make it more “difficult” for migrants to reach Europe. — GETTY — Bill Gates has made a massive U-turn on Europe's migrant policy
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Washington Post:
At G-20 summit, it looks more and more like Trump against the world — President Trump and key global leaders are on a collision course ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Germany this week, with Trump's unapologetic “America First” mantra on trade and climate change running into emboldened, and increasingly united, opposition overseas.
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