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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect — WASHINGTON — Two more Republican senators declared on Monday night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
GOP health care bill collapses — President Donald Trump's top legislative priority was dealt a potentially fatal blow Monday night as two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the party's health care overhaul. — Trump quickly called on Republicans to simply repeal Obamacare …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill — House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
After O'Care Plan Falters, McConnell Says He'll Push For Vote On Repeal Only — Not long after the defections of two more Senate Republicans made the GOP Obamacare replacement bill dead in the water, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Monday night he would let members vote for a …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
BCRA is dead but Obamacare repeal is still alive — Conservative defections can't really kill repeal. — Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) said they will join Rand Paul (R-KY) and Susan Collins (R-ME) in opposing the motion to proceed on Mitch McConnell's Obamacare repeal bill.
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United States Senator Mike Lee:
Sen. Mike Lee to Vote No on Senate Health Bill
Sen. Mike Lee to Vote No on Senate Health Bill
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Two more GOP senators defect on healthcare bill
Two more GOP senators defect on healthcare bill
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Axios:
Republicans scramble for new direction on health care
Republicans scramble for new direction on health care
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Washington Post, Politico, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Two more Senate Republicans oppose health-care bill, leaving it without enough votes to pass
Two more Senate Republicans oppose health-care bill, leaving it without enough votes to pass
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Weekly Standard, FiveThirtyEight and Mother Jones
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Conceded in a Memo That Comey Was Having Major Impact … Donald Trump's presidential campaign acknowledged in an internal memo that former FBI Director James Comey's 11th hour decision to reopen an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private email helped shift the results.
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
Trump Jr. attorney offers details about 8th person at meeting — Trump shifts focus from Russia investigation — (CNN)Donald Trump Jr.'s attorney, Alan Futerfas, has told CNN he has spoken by phone to the eighth person in the room during the meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016.
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Dallas Morning News:
Let's outline Trump's achievements during his first six months in office — President Donald Trump's first six months have been defined by his often angry and tasteless tweets, his ham-handed efforts to denigrate and undercut the multiple investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 election …
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Raw Story
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting
Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Who was the 8th person in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians?
Who was the 8th person in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians?
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The Daily Caller
Max Boot / Foreign Policy:
What Did Trump Know About His Son's Meeting, and When Did He Know It?
What Did Trump Know About His Son's Meeting, and When Did He Know It?
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Raw Story, Vox, NPR and Talking Points Memo
Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Christie on Trump Jr. meeting: 'None of it's positive'
Christie on Trump Jr. meeting: 'None of it's positive'
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Wall Street Journal:
The Trumps and the Truth — The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency. — Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn't abide Hillary Clinton's legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling.
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Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump the foul-mouthed germophobe fired Chris Christie because New Jersey governor arranged for Obama to call his phone NOT The Donald's on election night — A new book reveals how Trump fell out with his then transition boss Chris Christie over whose cellphone to use on election night
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Seeks to Close Federal Election Agency — House Republicans are pressing to defund the sole federal agency that exclusively works to ensure the voting process is secure — WASHINGTON—House Republicans are seeking to defund the U.S. Election Assistance Commission …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Former Clinton and Romney campaign chiefs join forces to fight election hacking — The former managers of Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns are leading a new initiative called “Defending Digital Democracy” in the hopes of preventing a repeat of Russia's 2016 election interference.
Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort — Loans issued by a bank run by former campaign adviser Steve Calk are focus of subpoena — New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, but Only Reluctantly — WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Monday to certify again that Iran is complying with an international nuclear agreement that he has strongly criticized, but only after hours of arguing with his top national security advisers …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. certifies that Iran is meeting terms of nuclear deal
U.S. certifies that Iran is meeting terms of nuclear deal
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Liberals can win again if they stop being so annoying and fix their ‘hamburger problem’ — I've been haunted by a claim my KCRW colleague Rich Lowry made on our radio show a few weeks ago: Democrats keep coming up short in elections because they won't give any ground on “cultural issues” …
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Coast Guard wants to kick boats off Potomac River when president is golfing — The Trump family has offended many sectors of establishment Washington since their arrival in the nation's capital, from Langley's spymasters to mansion-dwellers in the District's Kalorama neighborhood.
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Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Tillerson to Shutter State Department War Crimes Office — Critics charge top U.S. diplomat with giving the green light to perpetrators of mass atrocities. — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is downgrading the U.S. campaign against mass atrocities, shuttering the Foggy Bottom office …
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New York Times:
Trump Says He Has Signed More Bills Than Any President, Ever. He Hasn't. — WASHINGTON — To hear President Trump tell it, his first six months in the White House should be judged in part by the legislation he has signed into law. — At rallies, in speeches and on Twitter …
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular — Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight — Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House — For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.
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The Gateway Pundit and Politicus USA
New York Times:
As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away — Tens of thousands of people who took out private loans to pay for college but have not been able to keep up payments may get their debts wiped away because critical paperwork is missing.
Apple:
Apple previews new emoji coming later this year — In celebration of World Emoji Day, Apple is sharing some of the new emoji coming to iOS, macOS and watchOS later this year. — The new emoji make it easier for users to express themselves with greater diversity, additional animals and creatures, new smiley faces and more.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other — The House is mad at the Senate. The Senate is mad at the House. Various factions in the House and Senate are mad at each other or mad at their leaders. — Republican lawmakers have yet to turn on President Trump in any meaningful way.
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Ben Strauss / Politico:
Is the President Fit? — Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart. He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).
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