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Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Sen. Graham implores colleague to vote for GOP health bill — https://apnews.com/a017d33b2344493e8098 d47ed2ceb087 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — In an overheard phone call Wednesday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham leaned on a fellow senator to back his GOP health care bill despite “all its imperfections.”
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Behind the Senate GOP's high-stakes health-care gamble: Unrelenting criticism back home — (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE/Rex/Shutterstock) — Senate Republicans have made a calculated decision: Better to fail again trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act then not to try at all.
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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. — In 2003, health care policy makers in Massachusetts agreed that the state should build a system to expand coverage to its uninsured residents. — It took four years before Romneycare was fully up and running.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill — WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry, after cautiously watching Republican health care efforts for months, came out forcefully on Wednesday against the Senate's latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act …
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Ryan Struyk / CNN:
Republicans' new health care plan would need to move faster than 96% of laws
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP takes heavy fire over pre-existing conditions
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Threatens ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: 'I'll Pound You When I See You'
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Dan Boyd / Albuquerque Journal:
Gov. Martinez gives thumbs-down to latest GOP health care bill
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Lanhee J. Chen / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Get One Last Chance on ObamaCare Reform
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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Jimmy Kimmel Has No Moral Authority On Health Care Just Because His Son Had Heart Surgery. Here's Why.
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans aren't voting for Graham-Cassidy. They're just voting for Obamacare repeal.
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Chuck Grassley: Fulfilling campaign promise just as important as ‘substance’ of health bill
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Washington Post:
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign — FILE - In this July 17, 2016 file photo, then-Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland as Rick Gates listens at back left.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Mueller Seeks White House Documents Related to Trump's Actions as President — Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, is interested in Mr. Trump's firing of his F.B.I. director and national security adviser and other events. — September 20, 2017 — Republican Leaders Defy Bipartisan Opposition to Health Law Repeal
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Manafort used Trump campaign account to email Ukrainian operative
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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 — Sean Spicer acknowledges that he's “made mistakes,” but says that for those who “want some blanket apology — that's not happening.” — “I made mistakes,” Spicer, who's been out at the White House for less than a month, told ABC News' Paula Faris.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
LEAKED: Watch MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell's Unhinged Outtakes...for Eight Crazy Minutes (UPDATE) — Lawrence O'Donnell had a really bad night on August 29, 2017. — We draw that conclusion based on the above clip obtained by Mediaite, showing behind the scenes footage of a furious O'Donnell absolutely …
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Chairman Clayton Issues Statement on Cybersecurity — Discloses the Commission's Cyber Risk Profile, Discusses Intrusions at the Commission, and Reviews the Commission's Approach to Oversight and Enforcement — SEC Chairman Jay Clayton today issued a statement highlighting the importance …
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NBC News:
Trump Leaning Toward Decertifying Iran Nuclear Deal, Say Sources — President Donald Trump is leaning toward decertifying the Iran nuclear deal and putting the decision of whether the United States withdraw from the accord in the hands of Congress, according to four sources …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Roy Moore disrupts Alabama Senate race — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington — DECATUR, Ala. — With the thunder and fire of an old-time revivalist, U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore rose before the assembled souls at the Redemption Baptist Church, a front-runner in the polls days …
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Ryan Dailey / Tallahassee Democrat:
Parents divided in opinion after gender neutral teacher sends home note with 5th graders — A new fifth grade teacher at Canopy Oaks Elementary is asking students to use gender-neutral pronouns in the classroom. — Math and science teacher Chloe Bressack sent the request home in a letter to parents headlined “About Mx.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ Poll: Public Likes Trump's Bipartisan Move — But Little Else — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's approval rating has inched up, and more than 70 percent of Americans support his recent deal with Democratic leaders to provide hurricane relief and keep the government open for 90 days …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
‘The View’ co-host: Trump making ‘phallic reference’ with ‘Rocket Man’ talk — A co-host on ABC's “The View” weighed in on President Trump referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man,” with one host theorizing that the characterization is actually a “phallic reference to masculine dominance.”
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea is likely to fire more missiles after Trump's speech, experts say
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Turning Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in iOS 11's Control Center Doesn't Actually Turn Off Wi-Fi or Bluetooth — Turning off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when you're not using them on your smartphone has long been standard, common sense, advice. Unfortunately, with the iPhone's new operating system iOS 11 …
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Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Black employees of BLT Prime, in Trump International Hotel, allege racial discrimination — Dominique Hill and Irving Smith Jr. had good jobs. — Last year, Hill worked as a bartender at P.F. Chang's in Tysons Corner and Smith had recently been promoted to bartender at Wildfire grill, also in Tysons.
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Dean Obeidallah / CNN:
Kimmel more effective than Dems on healthcare — Dean Obeidallah: On healthcare, Jimmy Kimmel is better at getting the message out on GOP hypocrisy than the Democrats — We can thank Kimmel for making it clear that Cassidy and the GOP are playing politics with our healthcare
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