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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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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
'I'm very happy with my image': Sean Spicer speaks
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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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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Threatens ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: 'I'll Pound You When I See You' … “I had an interesting day today, I'll tell ya,” offered Jimmy Kimmel. — The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host opened his monologue late Wednesday night by addressing the Graham-Cassidy health-care bill …
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Dan Boyd / Albuquerque Journal:
Gov. Martinez gives thumbs-down to latest GOP health care bill
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
The unlikely group who brought Obamacare repeal back to life
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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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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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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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Ryan Struyk / CNN:
Republicans' new health care plan would need to move faster than 96% of laws
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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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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
State-by-State Estimates of Changes in Federal Spending on Health Care Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP takes heavy fire over pre-existing conditions
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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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Lanhee J. Chen / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Get One Last Chance on ObamaCare Reform
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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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Kara Zupkus / Washington Examiner:
Corey Lewandowski: If Paul Manafort, Roger Stone colluded to influence 2016 election …
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Geoffrey Skelley / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Unsweet Home Alabama — The state's brutal primary runoff battle for the GOP Senate nomination enters its final days — In the midst of a grueling campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, Alabama's political sweet tea has acquired a distinctly sour taste.
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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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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 …
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.
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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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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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Sam Kriss / HuffPost:
What Should Have Happened In Hillary Clinton's Useless Book — An artless and inauthentic memoir, written by the absence of Clinton. … At 2 in the morning after Election Day in 2016, the absence of Hillary Clinton walked onto a stage at the Javits Center in Manhattan. The absence of Hillary Clinton is vast.
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CNN:
Hurricane Maria rips Caribbean, leaves Puerto Rico powerless for months — San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN)Hurricane Maria was battering the Dominican Republic on Thursday morning in its deadly tear across the Caribbean — as the long-term devastation in Puerto Rico was just coming into focus.
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Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Politics of Contempt — The polemicist attributes Trump's election to ‘white supremacy,’ and liberals can't get enough. — The great jazz musician Miles Davis was known for his boorishness, especially toward his white fan base. Davis would play his trumpet …
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Bloomberg:
Mark Zuckerberg's Fake News Problem Isn't Going Away — Technically speaking, Mark Zuckerberg has been on paternity leave. In late August his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave birth to their second child, a girl. But though Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Facebook Inc. …
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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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Molly Redden / The Guardian:
Trump is assembling the most male-dominated government in decades — A new analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian has found 80% of nominations for top jobs in the Trump administration have gone to men — They were military and business leaders, political insiders, novices and lords of finance.
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