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2:40 PM ET, September 21, 2017

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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.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
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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) …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans aren't voting for Graham-Cassidy.  They're just voting for Obamacare repeal.  —  “Apparently no one cares what the bill actually does.”  —  Senate Republicans are once again just a few votes away from repealing and replacing Obamacare.  It's a plan that senators themselves struggle …
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 …
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Threatens ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: 'I'll Pound You When I See You'
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote
Dan Boyd / Albuquerque Journal:
Gov. Martinez gives thumbs-down to latest GOP health care bill
Discussion: The Hill
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP takes heavy fire over pre-existing conditions
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Cassidy-Graham could still blow up in the GOP's face. Here's how.
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.
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Ex-CIA chief stuns Nicole Wallace: It's ‘absolutely’ possible Russia ‘dispatched Manafort to the Trump campaign’  —  As headlines surrounding former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, a former defense and intelligence official raised the possibility that Special Counsel Robert Mueller …
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Kara Zupkus / Washington Examiner:
Corey Lewandowski: If Paul Manafort, Roger Stone colluded to influence 2016 election …
Discussion: IJR, AOL, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
New York Times:
Law Firm Faces Questions for Ukraine Work With Manafort  —  WASHINGTON — Five years ago, Paul Manafort arranged for a prominent New York-based law firm to draft a report that was used by allies of his client, Viktor Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, to justify the jailing of a political rival.
Discussion: Raw Story
Daily Oklahoman:
Neighbor of disabled man shot and killed by police says family will hire attorney  —  A man who witnessed a police officer shoot and kill his disabled neighbor said he does not think the shooting was justified and that the family of the man killed is planning to hire an attorney.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and fox8.com
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James Doubek / NPR:
Oklahoma City Police Fatally Shoot Deaf Man Despite Yells Of 'He Can't Hear'
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Neighbors yell 'he can't hear you' before Oklahoma City officer fatally shoots deaf man
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?
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.
Reuters:
China's central bank tells banks to stop doing business with North Korea: sources  —  BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's central bank has told banks to strictly implement United Nations sanctions against North Korea, four sources told Reuters, amid U.S. concerns that Beijing has not been tough enough …
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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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Geoffrey Skelley / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Unsweet Home Alabama
Discussion: Financial Times and US News
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Charles Robinson / Yahoo Sports:
Memo: NFL players ask Roger Goodell for support in racial equality campaign  —  Current and former NFL players campaigning for racial equality and criminal justice reform  —  wrote a lengthy memo to league commissioner Roger Goodell officially seeking overt league support in their effort …
John Burnett / Around the Nation : NPR:
Border Patrol Arrests Parents While Infant Awaits Serious Operation  —  When 2-month-old Isaac Enrique Sanchez was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes vomiting, dehydration and weight loss in infants, his parents were told that their son's condition was curable.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Julia Horowitz / CNNMoney:
Bill Gates: Sorry about Control-Alt-Delete  —  Bill & Melinda Gates: Keeping score of global goals  —  Bill Gates is sorry that he made it so annoying to log in to your computer.  —  The billionaire Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30) co-founder admitted Wednesday that the Control-Alt-Delete function originally used …
Discussion: AOL
Ben Strauss / Politico:
Jim Acosta Is the White House's Favorite Reporter  —  As he walked to work down Pennsylvania Avenue, Jim Acosta, CNN's senior White House correspondent, was wondering if today would be the day he busted out of the doghouse.  —  It was an afternoon in early September and it had been three weeks since …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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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Jason Stein / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Legislature's lawyers: Some provisions in Wisconsin's Foxconn law could be unconstitutional
Michael Biesecker / Associated Press:
Federal employees ordered to attend anti-leaking classes
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Everton Bailey Jr. / Oregonian:
Oregon lawmakers demand investigation, apology over mistaken ICE stop
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Brandon Riddle / Arkansas Online:
Events  —  A former art teacher at a northeast Arkansas high school …
Discussion: AOL, IJR and TheBlaze
Keith Matheny / Detroit Free Press:
Study: Flint water killed unborn babies; many moms who drank it couldn't get pregnant
Discussion: The Week
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Princeton's campus newspaper disbands editorial board after string of right-leaning opinions
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
CNN:
Hurricane Maria rips Caribbean, leaves Puerto Rico powerless for months
Discussion: Orlando Weekly, FOX6Now.com and AOL
Molly Redden / The Guardian:
Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades
Discussion: Shakesville
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Politics of Contempt
NBC News:
Trump Leaning Toward Decertifying Iran Nuclear Deal, Say Sources