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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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Axios and Political Wire
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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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Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
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) …
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Talking Points Memo, FiveThirtyEight, No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Post
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Cassidy-Graham could still blow up in the GOP's face. Here's how. — THE MORNING PLUM: — If this morning's reporting is accurate, zombie Trumpcare still appears to have a reasonable chance of passing. But there is one scenario in which the Cassidy-Graham repeal bill could not just fail …
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote
Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote
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ABC News and Whatever Source Derived
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Threatens ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: 'I'll Pound You When I See You'
Jimmy Kimmel Threatens ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: 'I'll Pound You When I See You'
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Alaska could get relief from Senate repeal bill's Medicaid cuts
Alaska could get relief from Senate repeal bill's Medicaid cuts
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The Week and Washington Post
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans aren't voting for Graham-Cassidy. They're just voting for Obamacare repeal.
Republicans aren't voting for Graham-Cassidy. They're just voting for Obamacare repeal.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill
Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill
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Dan Boyd / Albuquerque Journal:
Gov. Martinez gives thumbs-down to latest GOP health care bill
Gov. Martinez gives thumbs-down to latest GOP health care bill
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The Hill
Rachael Bade / Politico:
The unlikely group who brought Obamacare repeal back to life
The unlikely group who brought Obamacare repeal back to life
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New York Times, ABC News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Hill and Washington Examiner
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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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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John Irish / Reuters:
Iran regional behavior means nuclear deal not enough: Macron
Iran regional behavior means nuclear deal not enough: Macron
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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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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider and Jezebel
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Ex-CIA chief stuns Nicole Wallace: It's ‘absolutely’ possible Russia ‘dispatched Manafort to the Trump campaign’
Ex-CIA chief stuns Nicole Wallace: It's ‘absolutely’ possible Russia ‘dispatched Manafort to the Trump campaign’
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Washington Monthly
Kara Zupkus / Washington Examiner:
Corey Lewandowski: If Paul Manafort, Roger Stone colluded to influence 2016 election …
Corey Lewandowski: If Paul Manafort, Roger Stone colluded to influence 2016 election …
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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.
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Raw Story
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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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Roy Moore disrupts Alabama Senate race — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington
Roy Moore disrupts Alabama Senate race — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington
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Geoffrey Skelley / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Unsweet Home Alabama
Unsweet Home Alabama
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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.
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James Doubek / NPR:
Oklahoma City Police Fatally Shoot Deaf Man Despite Yells Of 'He Can't Hear'
Oklahoma City Police Fatally Shoot Deaf Man Despite Yells Of 'He Can't Hear'
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Ellie Silverman / Washington Post:
Neighbors yell 'he can't hear you' before Oklahoma City officer fatally shoots deaf man
Neighbors yell 'he can't hear you' before Oklahoma City officer fatally shoots deaf man
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New York Times, The Root and ThinkProgress
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?
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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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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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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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.
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 …
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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 …
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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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Politico:
Facebook to release to Congress Russian-purchased ads linked to 2016 election — Facebook has struck a deal with Capitol Hill investigators to release advertisements purchased by Russians to influence the 2016 campaign and some associated information with them, according to two people familiar with the matter.