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12:35 PM ET, July 15, 2017

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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
‘Simply Unworkable’: Insurers Blast New Provision In Senate Health Bill  —  The industry sounds just as angry as the patient advocates.  —  Two organizations representing the U.S. health insurance industry just called a new provision of the Senate Republicans' health care proposal …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and CNBC
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New York Times:
Governors From Both Parties Denounce Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The nation's governors, gathered here for their annual summer meeting, came out strongly on Friday against the new Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, ratcheting up the pressure …
Discussion: Political Wire
Anna Wilde Mathews / Wall Street Journal:
Insurers Oppose Cruz Amendment to Republican Health-Care Bill  —  Provision would allow insurers to sell plans that aren't compliant with Affordable Care Act  —  Insurers are ramping up their opposition to a new amendment in the Senate Republican health bill that would allow them to sell plans …
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Here are the hidden horrors in the Senate GOP's new Obamacare repeal bill
Discussion: Salon, Vox and New York Times
Edward Price / Politico:
Why Does Jared Kushner Still Have a Security Clearance?  —  With nearly each passing day, the public learns more sordid details of the Russia scandal engulfing the Trump administration.  It's far from clear just how deep the Russia affair goes; in today's climate, one progressive's collusion …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
White House shakes up legal team as probe gathers steam
LawNewz:
LawNewz Prediction: President Trump Fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller Within 100 Days
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Russian Lawyer And The Lobbyist From The Trump Jr. Meeting Had A Busy Month In America Last Summer  —  The meeting at Trump Tower was just one moment of a busy series of days in June 2016 for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer at the center of the story that has dominated the past week with new revelations daily.
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Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Washington Post:
Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
DNC worried about voters unregistering in Colorado  —  Top officials in the Democratic National Committee are worried about a sudden drop in voter registrations in Colorado, concerned that President Donald Trump's new election commission is encouraging Democrats across the country …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Couldn't We Just Trade Presidents?  —  Why can't Emmanuel Macron be our president?  —  American citizens watching Donald Trump's visit to Paris must have wondered how we got the wrong guy.  Macron seemed so smart, so charming.  The fact that he didn't father any children would not normally …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP's moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Monthly
David Brooks / New York Times:
Moral Vacuum in the House of Trump
New York Times:
Dropping the Bluster, Trump Revives Banter With Reporters  —  WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump who turned up in the press cabin of Air Force One on Wednesday evening, as his plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Paris, was starkly different from the one who publicly pillories …
Discussion: Althouse
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘Lie after lie after lie’: Fox News's Shepard Smith has a Cronkite moment on Russia … Between its “Fox and Friends” morning show and Sean Hannity at night, Fox News has become a haven for those who think this whole Russia thing is nonsense.  On Friday morning, Steve Doocy even declared that …
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Media Matters for America:
Fox's Shepard Smith slams Trump lies over Russia meeting: The deception “is mind boggling”
Discussion: Washington Post and twitchy.com
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
In memo, Trump administration weighs expanding the expedited deportation powers of DHS  —  The Trump administration is weighing a new policy to dramatically expand the Department of Homeland Security's powers to expedite the deportations of some illegal immigrants.
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:   First DREAMer deported under Trump files court documents disputing administration's account
New York Post:
Teen who blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ at cop's funeral booted from apartment  —  Julien Rodriguez (left) and Miosotis Familia  —  A cop-hating Bronx teen has been kicked out of his apartment for repeatedly blasting the rap song “F-k Tha Police” from the window as thousands of NYPD cops gathered …
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
What Is Donald Trump Saying to Emin Agalarov in This Video?  —  As controversy around Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer continues to plague the White House, the Trumps' relationship with the Agalarov family is coming under more scrutiny.
Discussion: The Guardian and NBC News
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Someone complained about Dunkin' Donuts hot cups on Facebook and a war broke out  —  It's safe to say this person will never be the Mayor of Dunkin' Donuts.  —  When a customer took to the company's Facebook page Sunday to complain that an employee used a hot cup to insulate an iced coffee …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Australia-U.S. refugee swap again in doubt as officials exit Nauru  —  5 MIN READ  —  SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials interviewing refugees held in an Australian-run offshore detention center left the facility abruptly, three detainees told Reuters on Saturday …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Karen Crouse / New York Times:
At U.S. Women's Open, Presidential Air Is Stirred by a Gust of Commotion  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Lexi Thompson, at No. 3 the highest-ranked American in the women's world rankings, was preparing to hit her third shot, from just off the green, on the par-5 15th hole at Trump National Golf Club …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Russia says it's ‘ready to take reciprocal measures’ if U.S. does not return compounds  —  Russia said Friday that it is “ready to take reciprocal measures” if the United States does not return property in this country seized in December as part of the Obama administration's response …
 
 
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Fox News:
Acid becoming weapon of choice among teens in London amid growing attacks
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Ben Strauss / Politico:
'Mr. President, You Know What It's Like To Be a Black Man'
Discussion: New York Magazine
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
Liu Xiaobo's Dying Words for His Wife
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan
Discussion: IJR and Axios
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence will join GOP leaders for fundraiser benefiting his PAC
Discussion: Business Insider
 Earlier Items: 
Jane Kay / Reveal:
Trump administration suddenly pulls plug on teen pregnancy programs
Discussion: Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Rewire
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Roger Stone's Testimony in House Russia Probe Delayed After Radio Tirade
Discussion: RedState
Jim Tankersley / Vox:
The Senate health care bill is getting dangerous for Donald Trump
John Bowden / The Hill:
Kushner's lawyer dropping out of representing him: report
Discussion: IJR and RedState
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
The Projection President
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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