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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Jimmy Kimmel Might Have Struck the Final Blow Against the GOP Health-Care Plan  —  After weeks of negotiations, last week House Republicans reached a compromise that they said could finally allow them to repeal and replace Obamacare.  It involves letting states opt out of certain Obamacare provisions …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Vox
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trumpcare's long odds in the Senate, explained by a Republican senator  —  “I expect the Senate to do something different.  I don't expect we'll vote on the House bill as it is.”  —  Congressional Republicans and the White House are making another huge push this week to move their Obamacare repeal bill …
Discussion: Politico and Hit & Run
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Republican Says Obamacare Repeal Will Help People Who Have ‘Done Things The Right Way’  —  Rep. Mo Brooks is saying openly what many Republicans probably think.  —  Most Republicans in Washington are trying furiously to convince the public that their Obamacare repeal proposal wouldn't punish people …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   Jimmy Kimmel's powerful, heartfelt Obamacare plea crystallizes the GOP's dilemma
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
GOP suffers surprise defection on Obamacare repeal
New York Times:
Ivanka Trump's West Wing Agenda  —  A month before Donald J. Trump was elected president, he and his aides watched his daughter's coolly composed surface crack open.  —  Inside Trump Tower, the candidate was preparing for a debate when an aide rushed in with news that The Washington Post …
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Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jill Disis / CNNMoney:
Ethics office says it wasn't consulted about Ivanka Trump job
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's dizzying day of interviews  —  President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen.  He said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles and oppresses his people …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Embraces Another Despot
Discussion: Just Security and AOL
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Historians see a dark underside to Trump's Civil War riff
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Adviser Jared Kushner Didn't Disclose Startup Stake  —  Investments show ties to Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Peter Thiel as well as a number of loans  —  Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, didn't identify on his government financial disclosure form …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Stephen Colbert Demolishes Trump for Insulting ‘Face The Nation’ Host John Dickerson … President Donald Trump insulted Face The Nation host John Dickerson and Stephen Colbert is pissed.  —  As the Late Show host explained in his monologue on Monday, during his CBS colleague's Sunday morning interview …
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Wilbur Ross Says Syria Missile Strike Was ‘After-Dinner Entertainment’ at Mar-a-Lago  —  Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross recalled the scene at Mar-a-Lago on April 6, when the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping was interrupted by the strike on Syria.
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Poll: Ossoff in dead heat with Handel in Georgia's 6th  —  An internal poll conducted for Democrat Jon Ossoff's campaign shows him locked in a dead heat with Republican Karen Handel in the June 20 runoff to represent Georgia's 6th District.  —  The poll was conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research …
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Greg Bluestein / Political Insider:
Jon Ossoff's campaign readies a $5.2M ad blitz
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Democrats confident they can block Trump's agenda after spending-bill win  —  Democrats believe they have set the stage to block President Trump's legislative priorities for years to come by winning major concessions in a spending bill to keep the government open.
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Josh Magness / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
No money for Trump's wall, plus 6 other GOP issues missing from $1T spending bill
Discussion: Power Line and The Last Tradition
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Orioles' Adam Jones berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park  —  BOSTON — Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones was berated by racist taunts at Fenway Park while a bag of peanuts was thrown at him Monday night, calling it one of the worst cases of fan abuse he has heard in his career.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
One Move That Could Solve the GOP's Tax-Cut Math Problem (Maybe)  —  Some Republicans weigh 15-year, 20-year or 30-year budget window to let Congress pass longer temporary tax cut  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has said he wants to cut taxes, big-league, and Republicans …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:   Dawdling Congress tests Trump's patience
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
“If You Keep F**king With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live” … When Donald Trump's  —  casino business went bankrupt in 2009, a lawyer whose clients stood to lose more than a billion dollars told police and the FBI that he got a menacing phone call from a man with a thick New York accent who threatened his family.
travel.state.gov:
Europe Travel Alert  —  The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the continued threat of terrorist attacks throughout Europe.  —  This Travel Alert expires on September 1, 2017.  —  Recent, widely-reported incidents in France, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom demonstrate …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Yeganeh Torbati / Reuters:
U.S. issues travel alert for Europe, citing threat of terrorist attacks
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Dan Merica / CNN:
Pro-Trump farmers now worry he was serious about NAFTA repeal  —  Washington (CNN)Bob Hemseath, whose corn-farming business hinges on the whims of mother nature, is comfortable with uncertainty.  —  But as the fourth-generation farmer heads onto his northeast Iowa farm for the 2017 planting season …
CBS News:
Police chief reveals new details about officer who fatally shot Texas teen  —  BALCH SPRINGS, Texas — A suburban Dallas police chief acknowledged Monday that an officer who fatally shot a black 15-year-old in a moving vehicle fired as the car was driving away — not as it reversed toward officers …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Needs Government ‘Shutdown’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States needed “a good ‘shutdown’” this fall to force a partisan confrontation over federal spending, and suggested that he might move to reverse longstanding Senate rules …
Meg Kinnard / Talking Points Memo:
Ex-South Carolina Police Officer To Plead Guilty In Fatal Shooting Of Walter Scott  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer is pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed as the man ran from a 2015 traffic stop …
Discussion: The Root
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Megyn Kelly will travel to Russia for Putin  —  MORE FROM: … Megyn Kelly is getting off to a great start at NBC.  Page Six has exclusively confirmed that she will travel to Russia next month to moderate a session with President Vladimir Putin at a key international conference.
Discussion: AOL
Rebekah L. Sanders / Arizona Republic:
Were up to 58,000 citizens in Maricopa County denied right to vote?  —  Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes is spoiling for a fight over voter-registration procedures meant to keep undocumented immigrants from voting.  —  The newly elected Democrat says the restrictions may have denied …
Jim O’Sullivan / BostonGlobe.com:
Speculation is stirring about a Seth Moulton presidential bid  —  He has won praise from a neoconservative magazine editor, taken star turns on HBO and “This American Life,” and likened President Trump's political ascendance to that of Adolf Hitler's.  —  Just months into his second term …
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly / Breitbart:
California May Place ‘Third Gender’ Option on State Documents  —  A bill under consideration in California would place a third gender option on state documents — which, if it passes would make California the first state in the country to do so.  —  The effort, however, is not being pushed by the …
 
 
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