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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 …
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Here are the hidden horrors in the Senate GOP's new Obamacare repeal bill — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) defends his handiwork after a new version of the Senate GOP's repeal plan for Obamacare was unveiled Thursday. (Michael Reynolds / EPA) — Senate Republicans unveiled a new …
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 …
Michelle Rindels / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval unmoved on health bill after meeting with White House officials; Price advises governors to disregard CBO — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said a closed-door breakfast meeting on Saturday between Trump Administration officials and a large number of governors hasn't changed his position …
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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 …
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’ — BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken. Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts programs sympathetic to Iran. — A new building goes up?
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 …
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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 …
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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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Associated Press:
Venus Williams falls in Wimbledon final to Garbine Muguruza — LONDON (AP) — Through it all, Venus Williams kept working, kept striving, kept eyeing yet another Wimbledon championship. — Through it all, through the difficult days of adjusting to life with an energy-sapping autoimmune disease …
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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 …
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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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 …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Dems want scrutiny of Ivanka Trump over Kushner's Russian contacts
Dems want scrutiny of Ivanka Trump over Kushner's Russian contacts
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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 …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities — Predictably and sensibly, a three-judge panel of the nation's second-most-important court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, recently dismissed, unanimously, a lawsuit brought by a Yemeni man …
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 …
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