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Haley Byrd / IJR:
Republicans Attempt to Buy Murkowski's Vote in New Draft of Health Care Bill — A Republican Senate aide told Independent Journal Review Thursday that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) are attempting to buy Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's support through new changes …
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
State-by-State Estimates of Changes in Federal Spending on Health Care Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill — A new health care bill recently introduced by a number of senators led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy would repeal major elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) …
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Alaska could get relief from Senate repeal bill's Medicaid cuts — The Senate's Obamacare repeal bill may protect Alaska and up to four other sparsely populated states from major cuts to Medicaid through 2026, a potential boon to the home of pivotal GOP swing vote Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
CNN to host town hall debate Monday with Graham, Cassidy, Sanders and Klobuchar
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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That's Hard.
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote
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Associated Press:
Kim Jong Un: ‘Deranged’ Trump will ‘pay dearly’ for threat — UNITED NATIONS — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said, in a statement carried by the state news agency, that the U.S. president will “pay dearly” for his threats.
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
There is No Trump Doctrine, Only Contradictions and Bluster — The things our President says. At a lunch with African leaders on Wednesday, Donald Trump praised the continent's business potential by noting that many of his friends were “going to your countries to get rich.”
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump imposes new sanctions on North Korea, administration seeks to rally support for confronting Pyongyang
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Mark Zuckerberg:
I just went live a minute ago. Here's what I said: — Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave. It was really special to be with Priscilla and August after she was born, and to get to spend some more time with Max. — While I was out on leave …
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Colin Stretch / Facebook:
Facebook to Provide Congress With Ads Linked to Internet Research Agency
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Ali Watkins / Politico:
Facebook agrees to release Russian-purchased ads, pledges deeper look at 2016 election
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Elliot Schrage / Facebook:
Hard Questions: More on Russian Ads
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Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook will give ads linked to Russian government to Congress
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Mueller requested phone records about Air Force One statement — The special counsel has also recently made requests for documents concerning a statement made by Sean Spicer in the days preceding James Comey's firing as FBI director. — Special counsel Robert Mueller has sought phone records concerning …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Another potential Mueller honey pot: Spicer's notebooks — The Watergate resonance of the Bob Mueller probe rose this week with a CNN report that the special counsel has details of wiretaps of “former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election.”
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Catherine Thorbecke / Yahoo:
Sean Spicer defends brief WH tenure: I 'don't think' I lied to American people
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times — Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has taken at least 24 flights on private charter planes at taxpayers' expense since early May, according to people with knowledge of his travel plans and a review of HHS documents.
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Maria Danilova / Associated Press:
On work trips, DeVos flies on her plane at own expense
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The Unz Review:
America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars — Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East? — I spoke recently at a conference on America's war party where afterwards an elderly gentleman came up to me and asked, “Why doesn't anyone ever speak honestly about the six-hundred-pound gorilla in the room?
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Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson offers epic apology after tweeting anti-Semitic story: ‘One should not tweet while moving’ — Valerie Plame Wilson offered another apology Thursday hours after tweeting an anti-Semitic article titled “America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars,” …
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Jonathan Capriel / Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa girl, 4, dies of gunshot reaching for candy — TAMPA — One day last week, 4-year-old Yanelly Zoller reached into her grandmother's purse looking for candy, her father says. — Instead, she found a gun. She accidently pulled the trigger and was shot in the chest.
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Aaron Hernandez Found to Have Severe C.T.E. — Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who committed suicide in April while serving a life sentence for murder, was found to have a severe form of C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Quietly Built A Massive List With The Personal Information Of Thousands Of People — The list began traveling the dark corners of the internet around April as a scattered collection of names, addresses, phone numbers and social media accounts. It's now a massive organized database of thousands of people.
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CNN:
Senate candidate Roy Moore in 2005: ‘Homosexual conduct should be illegal’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Roy Moore, a Republican US Senate candidate in Alabama, said in a 2005 interview that he believes “homosexual conduct” should be illegal. — Moore, a hardline conservative Christian …
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Instagram uses ‘I will rape you’ post as Facebook ad in latest algorithm mishap — Then the Facebook-owned company made it an ad … Instagram used a user's image which included the text “I will rape you before I kill you, you filthy whore!” to advertise its service on Facebook …
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New York Times:
Skadden, Big New York Law Firm, Faces Questions on Work With Manafort — The Justice Department wants information about Skadden's work on behalf of a Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine. — September 21, 2017 — Mueller Seeks White House Documents Related to Trump's Actions as President
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Manafort planning to leave US — as Mueller's team prepares to indict him in Russia probe — Paul Manafort is planning to leave the country soon, after he was reportedly notified that he will be indicted by federal prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Keith Matheny / Detroit Free Press:
Study: Flint water killed unborn babies; many moms who drank it couldn't get pregnant — Babies born in Flint after switch to river water also nearly 150 grams lighter than those born in other areas of Michigan, and gained less weight. — CONNECT — The city of Flint saw fewer pregnancies …
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