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Poll: Most disapprove of Graham-Cassidy health care bill — Most Americans — 52 percent — disapprove of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, according to a CBS News Poll conducted between Sept. 21 and 24. — Only 20 percent of those polled said they approved of the Republican legislation aimed …
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Here's the new Graham-Cassidy bill — Here's a copy of the revised health care bill Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy are set to introduce tomorrow. A senior GOP aide confirmed its authenticity. More analysis to come.
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Americans back DACA by a huge margin (POLL) — A vast 86 percent of Americans support a right to residency for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, with support crossing the political spectrum. Two-thirds back a deal to enact such legislation in tandem with higher funding for border control.
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GOP health bill in major peril as resistance hardens among key senators — The floundering Republican attempt to undo the Affordable Care Act met hardening resistance from key GOP senators Sunday that left it on the verge of collapse even as advocates vowed to keep pushing for a vote this week.
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A New Obamacare Repeal Draft Is Out And It Attacks Pre-Existing Protections More Severely
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Graham, Cassidy revise Obamacare repeal bill, appealing to holdouts
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Tom Brady on K&C: ‘I certainly disagree with what [Donald Trump] said’ — On Friday night, President Donald Trump had some pointed comments towards the NFL when it comes to players protesting during the national anthem. — “Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners …
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Monday Morning QB: Response to President Trump Made Roger Goodell ‘Proud of Our League’
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The Latest: More reaction from Trump on NFL players
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NASCAR owners say they wouldn't tolerate national anthem protests at races
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The Politicization of Everything — Everybody loses in the Trump-NFL brawl over the national anthem.
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The NFL Protests Are Patriotic
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Amid Trump's NFL war, photos of Martin Luther King Jr. ‘taking a knee’ resurface
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Trump Wins When The NFL Takes A Knee
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Trump's NFL comments prove he doesn't get American values
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Kushner used private email to conduct White House business — Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December …
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GOP leaders circulating plan that could end up as massive tax cut for the wealthy
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Puerto Rico's Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria — YABUCOA, P.R. — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him. — “How do you calculate everything?”
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Clinton: Trump should send Navy to help Puerto Rico
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A Divider, Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach — WASHINGTON — Over the course of just 17 hours this weekend, President Trump assailed John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Stephen Curry, the National Football League, Roger Goodell, Iran and Kim Jong-un — the “Little Rocket Man.” And that was on his day off.
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Is Trump All Talk on North Korea? The Uncertainty Sends a Shiver
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Team Trump Forced to Defend His ‘Nutty’ NFL Tweets... Again
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Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook — Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled …
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Mark Zuckerberg Can't Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
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New Order Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a new order banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting their citizens into the country.
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Deadly Tennessee church shooting: Sudanese immigrant arrested, FBI launches civil rights investigation — One woman was killed and seven other people were hurt after a suspect identified as a Sudanese immigrant opened fire at a Tennessee church Sunday, police said, as the FBI confirmed it's launched …
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Tennessee Church Shooting Suspect Is A Sudanese Bodybuilder
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Far-right party AfD in disarray a day after historic German election result — German far-right leader walks out of presser — Berlin (CNN)The leadership of the hardline Alternative for Germany party was in disarray Monday, a day after its historic breakthrough in the German elections delivered …
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Axios and Wall Street Journal


John McCain fights back — You'd never know it but before work, Sen. John McCain starts his day with chemo and radiation. McCain tells 60 Minutes that he feels more energetic and engaged because of his diagnosis — On Friday, John McCain announced that he will once again vote against repeal …
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Conservative, Inc., Is Being Replaced By Us Militant Normals — I guess now we're not supposed to be fighting culture wars anymore - man, it's so hard to keep up with these ever-changing new rules! I'm old enough to remember way back to 2016, before Trump got nominated …


The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing — Amazon comes to conquer brick-and-mortar retail, not to bury it. In the last two years, the company has opened 11 physical bookstores. This summer, it bought Whole Foods and its 400 grocery locations.

The Daily 202: Why the divider in chief embraces culture wars — THE BIG IDEA: The most fitting slogan for Donald Trump's populist campaign, which continues nearly a year after the 2016 election ended, might be “us against them.” I don't know Latin, but I do know that what we saw …