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Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Senate Republicans Pull Their Last Obamacare Repeal Bill Before The Vote … Senate Republican leaders decided on Tuesday to not hold a vote on a last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare before a critical, end-of-the-month deadline. — Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate won't vote on last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill — The Senate will not vote on Republicans' latest bill to repeal Obamacare this week, putting an end, for now, to the GOP's seven-year campaign promise to dismantle the health care law. — The decision was reached at a party lunch Tuesday …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate won't vote on Graham-Cassidy
Senate won't vote on Graham-Cassidy
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CNN:
Senate won't vote on GOP health care bill
Senate won't vote on GOP health care bill
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Trump rips ‘so-called Republicans’ over ObamaCare repeal
Trump rips ‘so-called Republicans’ over ObamaCare repeal
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The GOP can't quit Obamacare repeal because of their donors
The GOP can't quit Obamacare repeal because of their donors
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Some Republicans want to merge tax reform, health care
Some Republicans want to merge tax reform, health care
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Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Senate GOP Aborts Vote On Last-Ditch Obamacare Repeal Bill
Senate GOP Aborts Vote On Last-Ditch Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Jared Kushner's lawyer, fooled by ‘email prankster,’ offers window into private email controversy — Abbe Lowell, a top Washington lawyer, exchanged emails on Monday with a prankster posing as his client Jared Kushner, at one point telling the prankster he needed to see “all emails” …
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New York Times:
At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts
At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Hillary Clinton Calls Kushner Email Revelations ‘The Height Of Hypocrisy’
Hillary Clinton Calls Kushner Email Revelations ‘The Height Of Hypocrisy’
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New York Times:
Nearly Half of Americans Don't Know Puerto Ricans Are Fellow Citizens — More than three million Americans in Puerto Rico are struggling to meet basic needs after a devastating strike from Hurricane Maria, but their plight seems to be attracting far less public or political attention …
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Susanne Ramirez de Arellano / The Guardian:
Puerto Rico is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. Where is the media? — The destruction in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria has received relatively little attention. Are our disasters not important enough? — Hurricane Maria - the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 89 years …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Sure Trump Knows Puerto Ricans Are Americans — “He doesn't think that has any political relevance and it's certainly not personally important,” she added. — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday launched a blistering attack against President Donald Trump …
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The White House Is Not Ignoring Puerto Rico
The White House Is Not Ignoring Puerto Rico
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New York Times:
In Battered Puerto Rico, Governor Warns of a Humanitarian Crisis
In Battered Puerto Rico, Governor Warns of a Humanitarian Crisis
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Romney: Put aside controversies, prioritize Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
Romney: Put aside controversies, prioritize Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Blumenthal: ‘99 percent sure’ of Russia indictments — Criminal charges against two former top advisers to President Donald Trump are virtually certain, Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday. — Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort are almost sure to be indicted as a result …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Republicans agree to raise bottom tax rate, double standard deduction — Top White House and GOP leaders have agreed to raise the lowest individual tax rate from 10 to 12 percent, paired with doubling the standard deduction, 5 senior Republicans tell us. — Why this matters …
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Tax Plan to Allow for Top Individual Rate Above 35% — Framework would give Congress discretion; current top rate is 39.6% — WASHINGTON—The Republican tax plan being released Wednesday will open the door to a top individual tax rate that is higher than the 35% that has been in previous plans …
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Trump's State-Tax Plan Could Cause Headaches for 52 Republican Lawmakers
Trump's State-Tax Plan Could Cause Headaches for 52 Republican Lawmakers
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
GOP tax plan will skip details on how to pay for it
GOP tax plan will skip details on how to pay for it
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Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea seeks help from Republican analysts: 'What's up with Trump?' — BERN, Switzerland — North Korean government officials have been quietly trying to arrange talks with Republican-linked analysts in Washington, in an apparent attempt to make sense of President Trump and his confusing messages to Kim Jong Un's regime.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Dunford: North Korea has not mobilized military for U.S. attack
Dunford: North Korea has not mobilized military for U.S. attack
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Alabama Senate GOP frontrunner: Constitution was written to “foster Christianity” — HOMEWOOD, Alabama — Judge Roy Moore, the leading candidate in an Alabama Senate Republican primary held on Tuesday, pulled a laminated copy of Joseph Story's 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution out of his dusty maroon briefcase.
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Karma Allen / ABC News:
Ala. Senate candidate pulls out his gun during campaign rally
Ala. Senate candidate pulls out his gun during campaign rally
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Again Criticizes Jeff Sessions Over Russia Probe — At White House dinner Trump knocks attorney general and said his NFL feud ‘has really taken off,’ guests say — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Monday again indicated he was dissatisfied with his attorney general …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Law Professors Plan To Take A Knee To Protest Jeff Sessions' Speech On Campus Free Speech — Faculty members at Georgetown University Law Center have signed a letter condemning what they say is the “hypocrisy” of Sessions speaking about free speech. The speech is only open to a select group of law students.
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CBS Pittsburgh:
Fire Chief ‘Embarrassed,’ ‘Regrets’ Using Racial Slur Against Mike Tomlin — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The fallout continues after the Pittsburgh Steelers game on Sunday and the team's decision to stay in the tunnel at Chicago's Soldier Field during the national anthem.
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Christianna Silva / Newsweek:
Ivanka Trump and Donald Jr. tried to ‘bump’ Tiffany out of her inheritance, according to newly released recordings — Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were embroiled in a battle to take away inheritance money from their sister, Tiffany Trump, according to a new archive of the conversations Donald Trump …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive — Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that it would allow women to drive, ending a longstanding policy that has become a global symbol of the repression of women in the ultraconservative kingdom. — The change, which will take effect in June of next year …
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Tennessean.com:
Sen. Bob Corker will not seek re-election next year — Sen. Bob Corker said Tuesday he will not seek re-election next year. — “After much thought, consideration and family discussion over the past year, Elizabeth and I have decided that I will leave the United States Senate when my term expires …
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Roger Stone testifies he's been falsely accused of collusion — Roger Stone, a longtime friend and former campaign adviser to President Trump, told House Intelligence Committee lawmakers on Tuesday that he has been falsely accused of colluding with Moscow. — Stone entered the committee's …
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Press Conference Advisory — There will be a press conference today at noon to announce charges of fraud and corruption in college basketball. Federal criminal charges have been brought against ten people, including four college basketball coaches, as well as managers, financial advisors …
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