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Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: Graham, Cassidy unveil details of alternative health care plan — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)With the prospects for passing the current Senate Republican health care bill still in jeopardy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Republican Senators Left Exposed in Health Care Ad Wars — By now, we know that Republicans in the Senate are having a tough time coming to agreement on a health care bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the drastic step this week of cancelling at least the first two weeks …
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Reuters and New York Times
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Draft GOP health bill will include Cruz provision — A controversial idea championed by Sen. Ted Cruz will be included in today's draft of the GOP health care bill, according to three sources familiar with the bill. It's similar to the provision Cruz worked on with Sen. Mike Lee …
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Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Daily Kos and NBC News
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Dark cloud hangs over Trump's visit to City of Lights — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — Bonjour! President Trump is in Paris today and Friday at the invitation of his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, for the Bastille Day celebrations and to hold a one-on-one meeting.
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Mediaite, Shareblue, The Root, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, NBC News, Axios, Washington Free Beacon and Washington Post
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Senate Republicans release new Obamacare repeal bill
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IJR and Business Insider
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Doctors make last-ditch effort to sink GOP health-care bill
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Mother Jones
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Competing plans deal Senate health-care push a surprise setback
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Political Wire and New York Magazine
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
New GOP healthcare bill includes version of Cruz amendment
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The Atlantic and RedState
New York Times:
Senate G.O.P. Leaders Unveil Health Care Bill to Try Winning Over Skeptics
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CNBC
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Senate moderates sidelined in new Obamacare repeal bill
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Washington Monthly, Vox, Business Insider, Political Insider blog, Washington Post, Political Wire and Alaska Dispatch News
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Republicans Stare Down Failure On Health Care With No Real Plan B
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Balloon Juice, Media Matters for America and Mother Jones
Reuters:
Highlights of Reuters interview with Trump — 7 MIN READ — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here are highlights of the Reuters Oval Office interview with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday. — ON WHETHER HE WAS AWARE HIS SON DONALD TRUMP JR. WAS MEETING WITH A RUSSIAN LAWYER — “No. That I didn't know.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Conspiracy or Coincidence? A Timeline Open to Interpretation — WASHINGTON — At 6:14 p.m. on June 7, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. clicked the send button on an email to confirm a meeting with a woman described as a “Russian government attorney” who would give him “information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia.”
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JustOneMinute, Los Angeles Times, Politico, BillMoyers.com, The Colorado Independent, Just Security, Washington Post, AOL, National Review and Vox
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Hunts for ‘Traitors’ While the President ‘Growls’ at the TV … Three days after the Donald Trump Jr. email revelations broke, the White House seems stuck in purgatory, with aides still deeply unsure about who leaked the damaging information, and the president still yelling at the TV.
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Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Kos, New York Times, IJR, AOL, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Rusty Surette / KBTX-TV:
Rep. Flores says President Trump's children should be removed from White House — A Republican U.S. Representative from the Brazos Valley believes the President's children should be removed from the White House. — Rep. Bill Flores, District 17, made the remarks on Wednesday …
Shane Harris / WSJ:
Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began — U.S. intelligence starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed meetings with Trump associates — WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies starting …
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Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Suburban Guerrilla …, Mediaite, Raw Story, CNBC, Business Insider, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and Wall Street Journal
Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
Was Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian Connect in U.S. Illegally?
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Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, TheBlaze, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's lawyers try to control unruly White House
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Axios, Raw Story, Weekly Standard, New York Magazine and Politicus USA
Mark Katkov / NPR:
Justice Department Releases Sessions' Disclosure Form, A Day Late — Updated 11 a.m. — A day late, the Justice Department complied this morning with a federal court order and released part of a security clearance form dealing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with foreign governments.
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Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, National Security, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and Outside the Beltway
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The Hill:
Exclusive: DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team — The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump — 's inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” before she embarked on a lobbying campaign …
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Ordered by court to disclose his Russia contacts, Sessions releases blank sheet of paper — What's he hiding? — In response to a court order directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to disclose the part of his security clearance form detailing his Russia contacts, the Department of Justice released a mostly blank page of paper.
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Talking Points Memo, American Oversight, CNN, Daily Kos, Business Insider, Raw Story, Just Security, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Shareblue and TheBlaze
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Sheldon Silver's Conviction Is Overturned — A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly speaker who obtained nearly $4 million in illicit payments in return for taking official actions that benefited others …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency and New York Magazine
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Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
‘He is a monkey’: Federal appeals court appears doubtful that a monkey who took a selfie can sue — An Indonesian macaque named Naruto allegedly grabbed a photographer's camera and snapped a self-portrait in 2011. (Wikimedia) — A federal appeals court appeared highly skeptical Wednesday …
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Monkey selfie photographer says he's broke: 'I'm thinking of dog walking'
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Althouse
Patrick Wilson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Corey Stewart to announce run Thursday for Tim Kaine's Senate seat — Receive daily news emails sent directly to your email inbox — A month after nearly toppling Ed Gillespie in the GOP race for governor with a campaign centered on the Confederate flag and restricting immigration …
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IJR, Hampton Roads Daily Press and The Daily Caller
U.S. Department of Justice:
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible for $1.3 Billion in Fraud Losses — Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action in Department of Justice History — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services …
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Axios, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon and STAT
Craig Unger / New Republic:
Trump's Russian Laundromat — How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House. — In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City.
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