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3:40 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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Salon, Vox, NBC News and Politico
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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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
White House launches aggressive push to flip GOP governors opposed to Senate health bill
New York Times:
Governors From Both Parties Denounce Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
Discussion: USA Today and Political Wire
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 …
Stanford News:
Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies  —  Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died July 15 after a long battle with cancer.  Mirzakhani was 40 years old.
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?
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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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: NBC News
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
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 …
 
 
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities
Fox News:
Acid becoming weapon of choice among teens in London amid growing attacks
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Australia-U.S. refugee swap again in doubt as officials exit Nauru
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
What Is Donald Trump Saying to Emin Agalarov in This Video?
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller
Edward Price / Politico:
Why Does Jared Kushner Still Have a Security Clearance?
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Ben Strauss / Politico:
'Mr. President, You Know What It's Like To Be a Black Man'
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Liu Xiaobo's Dying Words for His Wife
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Ryan Browne / CNN:
US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan
Discussion: Axios and IJR
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence will join GOP leaders for fundraiser benefiting his PAC
Discussion: Business Insider
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
In memo, Trump administration weighs expanding the expedited deportation powers of DHS
LawNewz:
LawNewz Prediction: President Trump Fires Special Counsel Robert Mueller Within 100 Days
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP's moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr.
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Roger Stone's Testimony in House Russia Probe Delayed After Radio Tirade
Discussion: RedState
 

 
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