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How will the Graham-Cassidy proposal affect the number of people with health insurance coverage?  —  Editor's Note: … On September 13, Senators Graham and Cassidy, together with two other Republican colleagues, introduced legislation that would repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Politico:
Trump publicly backs healthcare effort, privately harbors doubts  —  While the president appears all in some in the White House wonder about Graham-Cassidy's contents and its chances.  —  In public, President Donald Trump is all-in on the Senate's final chance to repeal Obamacare.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies  —  Graham-Cassidy, the health bill the Senate may vote on next week, is stunningly cruel.  It's also incompetently drafted: The bill's sponsors clearly had no idea what they were doing when they put it together.  Furthermore, their efforts to sell the bill involve obvious, blatant lies.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Collins ‘leaning against’ GOP health care bill  —  https://apnews.com/41a6c9068d454a15a47e c728fa51a4fc  —  Link copied!  —  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Latest on health care legislation (all times local):  —  Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says she's “leaning against” …
Discussion: Political Wire
Joe Lawlorstaff / Press Herald:
Sen. Collins says she's leaning against voting for Graham-Cassidy health care bill  —  The Republican from Maine listed serious deficiences in her party's latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.  —  U.S. Sen. Susan Collins all but said she would vote “no” …
Discussion: Political Wire
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval doubles down on criticism of Heller-sponsored measure; state analysis highlights up to $2 billion loss  —  Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday that the flexibility fellow Republican Sen. Dean Heller promised will be good for Nevada in a health-care bill he's sponsoring is a “false choice” …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
CNN:
Axelrod: I cried when they passed Obamacare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
This Republican health-care bill is the most monstrous yet
Discussion: TVNewser, CNN, KTLA, Daily Kos and Forbes
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump says this is all a hoax.  Mueller, Congress and Facebook disagree.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and three congressional committees are investigating Russian interference in the election, but President Trump is still telling his fans it's a “hoax.”
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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Monitored Manafort After He Left Trump Campaign  —  The surveillance came as part of a counterintelligence probe into Russian interference with presidential election  —  U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump's campaign manager …
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
As Russia probe closes in, Trump wakes up early to obsess about Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Salon, New York Times and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Trump's Travel Ban to Be Replaced by Restrictions Tailored to Certain Countries  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's ban on travelers from six majority-Muslim countries is set to be replaced as soon as this weekend with more targeted restrictions on visits to the United States that would vary by country …
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Travel Ban Decision Could Set Off New Wave of Turmoil
Discussion: Axios
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump aides begin looking for the exits  —  A fast-growing number of White House staffers are starting to look for the exits, even though the one-year mark of President Donald Trump's first term is still months away.  —  Many who joined the administration in January did so with the explicit idea …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Bob Grip / WALA-TV:
Roy Moore leads Luther Strange in FOX10 News poll  —  If the Alabama GOP Senate runoff election were held today, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore would defeat incumbent Senator Luther Strange, according to an exclusive, FOX10 News/Strategy Research statewide poll, conducted Wednesday.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Donald Trump Can't Lose
Discussion: CNN
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Strange has ‘gained mightily’ since my endorsement
Discussion: ABC News
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
How Tom Price decided chartered, private jets were a good use of taxpayer money  —  After Tom Price was sworn in as health and human services secretary, the Georgia Republican faced an inconvenience known to millions of Americans: His flight was delayed, an aide said, and he was forced to spend hours at an airport.
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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Sebastian Gorka Gave A Classified “Tirade” About Radical Islam  —  The former Trump aide delivered a two-and-a-half-hour speech to students at a US Army elite special operations center, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.  People who were there said it was a fiery speech …
Discussion: Axios
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Kim Jong Un Calls President Trump ‘Dotard’ and ‘Frightened Dog’  —  North Korea's leader called President Donald Trump “a frightened dog” and a “gangster fond of playing with fire” in an official statement released Thursday.  —  Kim Jong Un responded to Trump's United Nations speech in a dispatch written in the first person.
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BBC:
Uber London loses licence to operate  —  Uber will not be issued a new private hire licence, Transport for London (TfL) has said.  —  TfL concluded the ride-hailing app firm was not fit and proper to hold a London private hire operator licence.  —  It said it took the decision on the grounds of …
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Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal:
London Won't Reissue Uber's License, Saying It Is Unfit to Operate
Discussion: Instapundit
Scott Schwebke / Orange County Register:
End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County  —  Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The insane news cycle of Trump's presidency in 1 chart  —  If it feels like the Trump presidency has been hit by non-stop scandals and crises from day one, it's probably because it has been.  The Google News Lab looked at the search trends for stories about 40 of the biggest news events of Trump's presidency from Jan. 20 until Sept. 1.
Discussion: Mashable
Politico:
Obama-era school sexual assault policy rescinded  —  The Trump administration announced today that it is now rescinding Obama-era school sexual assault guidance and issuing a question-and-answer document while a formal review is undertaken.  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said a new direction …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Protesters disrupt James Comey's Howard University convocation speech  —  Former FBI director James Comey struggled on Friday to give the convocation address at Howard University, speaking over a group of about 20 students who sang and chanted continuously throughout the speech.
TMZ.com:
Woman from Video Yelling About Service Dog in Restaurant Defends Herself  —  The woman who was recorded going OFF on restaurant diners about a veteran's service dog being allowed inside says the clip of her profanity-laced tirade doesn't tell the full story.
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Root
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Sorry I can't go to your thing.  I must call my senator to plead for my life.  —  An email template from the near future.  —  I am sorry I cannot make it to your event, but I have to call Congress every eight minutes to plead for my life.  —  Would I like to go to your wedding/bar mitzvah …
New York Times:
Fighting Breaks Out at Turkish President's Speech in New York  —  Violence broke out at a New York hotel Thursday afternoon when protesters disrupted a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.  —  In the middle of Mr. Erdogan's speech, delivered in Turkish, a man …
Brownsville Herald:
De Leon apologizes; Leaked audio clips of foul language, slurs go viral  —  City Commissioner Cesar De Leon was apologetic Wednesday after multiple social media users this week shared audio clips of him using derogatory slurs to describe two assistant district attorneys.
 
 
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Meet the judicial renegade overseeing Sen. Menendez's trial
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Washington Post:
White House plan for tax cuts moves forward
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Steve Bannon held secret meeting in Beijing
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