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Jeff Stein / Vox:
GOP senators are rushing to pass Graham-Cassidy. We asked 9 to explain what it does. — Republican senators are struggling to articulate why they are rushing to pass their last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare over the next 10 days before running into their September 30 deadline.
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Avalere Health:
Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Bill Would Reduce Federal Funding to States by $215 Billion — New analysis from Avalere finds that the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ) bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would lead to a reduction in federal funding to states …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
I've covered the GOP repeal plans since day one. Graham-Cassidy is the most radical. — Other Republican plans create a poorly funded version of Obamacare. This one blows the law up entirely. — I have spent the bulk of 2017 writing about the different Republican plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Repeal first, ask questions later — Senate Republicans are on the verge of passing a sweeping health care bill not only without knowing what's in it, but without particularly caring. The political abstraction of “Obamacare” — and the seven years of promises to “repeal Obamacare” …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Jimmy Kimmel: new Obamacare repeal bill flunks the Jimmy Kimmel Test
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
The Sponsors Of Obamacare Repeal Are Trying To Fool America — And Fellow Republicans
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Sarah Frostenson / Politico:
Graham-Cassidy health care bill: What you need to know
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Washington Post:
Another execrable health-care bill proves bad ideas never die
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Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Jimmy Kimmel gets heated about health-care bill, says Sen. Bill Cassidy ‘lied right to my face’
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans rip Rand for rejecting Obamacare repeal
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Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel's Office Interviewed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein — Interview could be a sign that Rosenstein isn't seen as a central witness, as he hasn't withdrawn himself from his oversight role — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office has interviewed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller team's focus on Manafort spans 11 years — Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is reaching back more than a decade in its investigation of Paul Manafort, a sign of the pressure Mueller is placing on President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.
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Bobby Moynihan / CBS News:
Surveillance of Paul Manafort occurred during 2016 campaign
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Price's private-jet travel breaks precedent — In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.
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Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
John Kerry doesn't rule out 2020 White House run — Former senator and Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday he has no plans to run for president in 2020, but didn't rule out the idea. — “I don't have any plans right now, honestly,” Kerry said on MSNBC when asked if he might make another run.
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
‘Holy Sh**’: Trump at the U.N.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Trump Is Using Targeted Facebook Ads To Reassure Supporters He Will Build The Border Wall — The personal Facebook pages of the president and vice president are running dark post ads that promise “A WALL (NOT A FENCE),” while asking for donations. — President Donald Trump …
The Daily Beast:
Russians Appear to Use Facebook to Push Pro-Trump ‘Flash Mobs’ in Florida … Suspected Russia propagandists on Facebook tried to organize more than a dozen pro-Trump rallies in Florida during last year's election, The Daily Beast has learned. — The demonstrations—at least …
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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Networks Pass on Sean Spicer for Paid Contributor Role — The big five news organizations have passed on offering former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer a job as an exclusive paid contributor, network sources confirmed to NBC News Tuesday. — Since Spicer exited the White House …
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CNBC:
Trump using campaign, RNC funds to pay Russia probe legal bills: Reuters, citing sources — The U.S. Federal Election Commission allows the use of private campaign funds to pay legal bills arising from being a candidate or elected official. — Trump would be the first U.S. president …
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Shannon Pettypiece / Bloomberg:
For Trump Aides Caught in Russia Probe, Legal Bills and Paranoia
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CNN:
Trump judicial nominee said transgender children are part of 'Satan's plan', defended ‘conversion therapy’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)In a pair of 2015 speeches, President Donald Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas described transgender children as evidence of “Satan's plan …
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The Daily Beast:
Seb Gorka Joins Pro-Trump Group Founded by Pizzagate Truthers and a Seth Rich Conspiracy Theorist … Seb Gorka may have left the Trump White House. But he's still working for a conspiracy theorist. — The controversial former White House adviser has officially signed …
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Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Linda Hamilton Set to Return to ‘Terminator’ Franchise (Exclusive) — With James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger involved, it's a reunion more than 25 years in the making. — She'll be back. — After waving hasta la vista, baby, more than 25 years ago, Linda Hamilton is returning …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Trump rebounds after polling slide — President Donald Trump's summer swoon appears to be over. — After months of declining poll numbers, the president's approval ratings have stabilized — and even ticked up slightly — over the past month. — Following a low of 39 percent …
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CNN:
Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico with 155-mph winds — San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)Hurricane Maria made landfall Wednesday morning in southeast Puerto Rico as a strong Category 4 storm, the National Hurricane Center said. — Maria slammed the island with winds of 155 mph …
Benjamin Haas / Politico:
The Electoral College Is a National Security Threat — In Federalist No. 68, his pseudonymous essay on “The Mode of Electing the President,” Alexander Hamilton wrote that the Electoral College could shield the United States “from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.”
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: ‘I have decided’ on Iran deal — but won't share yet — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has made up his mind on whether the U.S. will remain party to the Iran nuclear deal — but won't say just yet what that decision is. — “I have decided” Trump repeated three times …
John Daniszewski / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Lavrov hints US-Russia ‘tit-for-tat’ could end — https://apnews.com/8968dc489ef64986a76a 3dec7fac0423 — Link copied! — NEW YORK (AP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told The Associated Press in an interview that he heard positive news in President Donald Trump's …
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Jesse Singal / New York Times:
Undercover With the Alt-Right — Last September, Patrik Hermansson, a 25-year-old graduate student from Sweden, went undercover in the world of the extreme right. Posing as a student writing a thesis about the suppression of right-wing speech, he traveled from London to New York to Charlottesville …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson rolls into an ethical ditch — In a GQ profile, writer Stephen Rodrick questions Fox News host Tucker Carlson about a certain blogger who once questioned the host's demagoguery regarding two teenage immigrants who'd been charged with rape which allegedly took place at Rockville High School.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
The US Government-In-Exile Has A New President — Clinton and Bloomberg share a stage in 2009. — Chris Hondros / Getty Images — The annual Manhattan conference hosted for a decade by the Clinton Global Initiative became a kind of shorthand for what some hated about the Clintons …
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