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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McConnell defers vote on Senate health-care bill as McCain recovers from surgery — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) put off plans late Saturday to vote on a bill to overhaul the nation's health-care system this week, after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced he would be at home recovering …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
McCain to miss week, likely delaying healthcare vote — (R-Ariz.) will miss this week's votes in the Senate after undergoing surgery on Friday, depriving Republicans of a key vote on healthcare. — McCain's absence means Senate Republicans almost certainly will not have the 50 votes they'd need to win a procedural vote.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: Senate to ‘defer’ on Obamacare repeal vote — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delayed a vote to repeal and replace Obamacare scheduled for early next week after Sen. John McCain announced he'd be out due to surgery, costing Republicans sufficient votes to move forward.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain's surgery puts Obamacare repeal vote in doubt
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New York Times:
Soviet Veteran Who Met With Trump Jr. Is a Master of the Dark Arts — MOSCOW — Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in June 2016, had one consistent message for the journalists who met him over the years at the luxury hotels where he stayed in Moscow …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Couldn't We Just Trade Presidents? — Why can't Emmanuel Macron be our president?
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Paid Don Jr.'s Lawyer $50,000 Two Weeks Before Email Scandal … About two weeks before the release of emails showing Donald Trump Jr. seeking opposition research from attorneys representing the Russian government, his father's reelection campaign began paying the law firm …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
MSNBC interview goes off the rails when Joy Reid holds Trump supporter's feet to the fire on Russia — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — An interview on AM Joy grew heated Saturday morning when host Joy Reid refused to let a defender of President Donald Trump duck answering questions …
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Russian lawyer obtained Hill hearing seat from former Florida Trump campaign chair's husband — The husband of the former Florida chair of the Trump campaign obtained a front-row seat to a June 2016 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney …
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New York Times:
Trump's Re-Election Campaign Doubles Its Spending on Legal Fees — WASHINGTON — President Trump's re-election campaign more than doubled its spending on legal fees over the past few months as its lawyers assisted the campaign in its handling of investigations into interactions between the president's associates and Russia.
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Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Trump re-election campaign doubles spending on legal fees
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
Trump campaign and fundraising committees raise $13.9 million in second quarter
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Washington Post:
Poll finds Trump standing weakened since springtime … President Trump's standing with the American people has deteriorated since the spring, buffeted by perceptions of a decline in U.S. leadership abroad, a stalled presidential agenda at home and an unpopular Republican health-care bill …
Reed Abelson / New York Times:
In Clash Over Health Bill, a Growing Fear of ‘Junk Insurance’ — Julie Arkison remembers what it was like to buy health insurance before the Affordable Care Act created standards for coverage. The policy she had was from the same insurer that covers her now, but it did not pay for doctor visits …
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
‘Simply Unworkable’: Insurers Blast New Provision In Senate Health Bill
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Here are the hidden horrors in the Senate GOP's new Obamacare repeal bill
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Anna Wilde Mathews / Wall Street Journal:
Insurers Oppose Cruz Amendment to Republican Health-Care Bill
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Comey's Writing a Book, and Publishers Are Eager to Pay Big Money for It — James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who was fired in May by President Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Kamala Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons — MORE FROM: … The Democrats' “Great Freshman Hope,” Sen. Kamala Harris, is heading to the Hamptons to meet with Hillary Clinton's biggest backers. — The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday …
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Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Catholic journal criticizes Trump ‘value voters’ — Things Donald Trump has said about the Pope — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Two close confidants of Pope Francis have written an article in a Jesuit journal that strongly criticizes some American religious supporters of President Donald Trump …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hillary's White House would be no different from Trump's — Nepotism, self-enrichment, clashes with Congress — that'd be Hillary in the Oval Office. — Getty Images — MORE FROM: … It wouldn't have taken much for Hillary Clinton to prevail on Election Night.
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