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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump, at war with everyone, mocks McCain, McConnell — In private, President Trump has taken to physically mocking M&M: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (slumped shoulders; lethargic body language) and Sen. John McCain (imitating the thumbs-down of his historic health-care vote).
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Trump infuriated after backing Alabama loser — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Returning from a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an infuriated President Donald Trump watched aboard Air Force One as Fox News called the Alabama Senate primary for Roy Moore against Trump's favored candidate, Luther Strange.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Meghan McCain rips report Trump is physically mocking her father — 's (R-Ariz.) daughter Meghan McCain lashed out on Wednesday over a report that President Trump has been “physically mocking” her father behind closed doors, calling it “abhorrent.” — “What more must my family be put through right now?
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just endorsed a lawless bigot in Alabama. Here's how Democrats will run against him. — THE MORNING PLUM: — Roy Moore, the new GOP nominee for Senate in Alabama, defied a court order directing him to remove a tablet bearing the Ten Commandments from a state court building.
New York Times:
Roy Moore's Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection
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Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Trump Deletes Tweets Supporting Luther Strange
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Jordan Gehrke:
Alabama Senate Memo: Return of the Civil War and the Fall of Mitch McConnell
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Alex Conant / FIREHOUSE Strategies:
BREAKING: New data on NFL & health care
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mitch McConnell's epic losing streak
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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The ‘doubled standard deduction’ in the GOP tax plan is a lie — In selling their soon-to-be-released tax plan, Republicans have been leaning hard on what they say is a provision to cut and simplify taxes for the middle class: Doubling the standard deduction that income tax payers may take.
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Washington Post:
GOP tax document reveals plan for massive tax cuts, preserves key deductions — Republicans on Wednesday will propose slashing tax rates for the wealthy, middle class and businesses, while also preserving popular tax deductions that encourage buying homes and giving to charity …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's new tax plan shows how unserious Republicans are about governing — “I will give you everything,” Donald Trump promised as a presidential candidate, and as president, not only has he continued to make that promise, but also the entire Republican Party has followed suit.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Here's the GOP tax plan — Here's a summary of the plan that's being released today, obtained by Axios from outside sources. More details to come.
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Ashley Feinberg / Wired:
Jared Kushner Voted As a Woman, According to His Registration — SINCE MOVING INTO the White House months ago, Jared Kushner—senior advisor and son-in-law to the President, savior of the Middle East, and possible person of interest in a federal investigation—has amassed a rather extensive project portfolio.
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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Kushner registered to vote in New York as a female — Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is registered as a female voter in New York, according to public records. — Registration records show that when Kushner, who is married to first daughter Ivanka Ivanka …
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Mike Snider / USA Today:
Are NFL player protests ‘massively, massively’ hurting TV ratings? — Here's another strategy for morning-after quarterbacks to ponder: Are NFL players' kneeling protests hurting TV ratings and even, perhaps, driving down TV stocks? — The answer is likely to be as hotly contested as an NFL line of scrimmage.
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Dialynn Dwyer / Boston Globe:
Michelle Obama: ‘Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice’ — Former First Lady Michelle Obama criticized women who voted for President Donald Trump during a wide-ranging conversation in Boston Wednesday that addressed life in the White House, her forthcoming book …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Trump administration abruptly drops out of Obamacare events in Mississippi — “It's clearly sabotage.” — For the past three years, the US Health and Human Services Department has partnered with a health advocacy group in Mississippi on an education tour before Obamacare enrollment started.
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Courier-Journal:
Rick Pitino ‘effectively fired,’ on unpaid leave amid Louisville FBI basketball investigation — University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has been put on unpaid administrative leave after the FBI alleged in a criminal complaint that coaches with the program participated in a scheme to pay recruits' families.
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Ivy League / ESPN:
Louisville's Rick Pitino and Tom Jurich placed on administrative leave
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Corker: ‘Possible’ that Peyton Manning runs for Senate — It's “possible” but not necessarily likely that former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning will run for Tennessee's open U.S. Senate seat, retiring Sen. Bob Corker said Wednesday. — The outgoing GOP senator said he spoke with Manning …
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Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines — President Trump is preparing an executive order to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs …
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Wall Street Journal:
Second-Class Puerto Rico — Trump declines to waive the Jones Act for hurricane relief. — The devastation in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria is awful to behold, and the Trump Administration will have to mobilize more resources to help. Here's one idea: Suspend the law that raises …
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Mark Harris / Wired:
God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger — Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. — When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of the machines.
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Clarice Silber / Associated Press:
Famous fake news writer found dead outside Phoenix — https://apnews.com/dc0728173537459b9a1e 38009dd5c4b5 — Link copied! — PHOENIX (AP) — A leading purveyor of fake news in the 2016 presidential election has died outside Phoenix at the age of 38. — Maricopa County Sheriff's …
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Ali Watkins / Politico:
Senate panel to summon Google in Russia probe — The Senate Intelligence Committee intends to call Google executives to Capitol Hill as part of the panel's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
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Jemele Hill / The Undefeated:
Jemele Hill on doing the right thing — A lesson from her grandmother: Be better. No matter what. — I don't remember exactly how old I was, but let's just say I was 11. — I was spending the night at my grandmother's house with a couple of my close friends. And they had an idea.
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Key senators prepare subpoena for Manafort to appear at hearing — Manafort's journey to center of Mueller investigation — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate judiciary committee leaders have reached a deal to issue a subpoena to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort compelling …
CBS News:
Rep. Steve Scalise on his road to recovery after being shot — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise speaks for the first time since being shot and nearly killed on a Virginia ballfield last June — This Sunday on 60 Minutes — Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La), the House Majority Whip who was shot …
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New York Times:
‘Soon,’ ‘Very Soon,’ ‘Eventually’: A Detailed List of Things Trump Said Would Happen — President Trump regularly says that his policy goals - an Obamacare repeal, an infrastructure bill, an overhaul of the tax code, a border wall, among others - will happen “soon,” “very soon,” “very …
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