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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Congress is voting Thursday on a bill to replace Obamacare.  The CBO still hasn't scored it.  —  This is the web version of VoxCare, a daily newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America's health care debate.  Like what you're reading?  Sign up to get VoxCare in your inbox here.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
A Little-Noticed Target in the House Health Bill: Special Education  —  WASHINGTON — While House Republicans lined up votes Wednesday for a Thursday showdown over their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Vickie Glenn sat in her Murphysboro, Ill., office and prayed for it to fail.
Discussion: The Week
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP Health-Care Bill Is an Abdication of Responsibility and a Moral Disgrace  —  In John Boehner's angry, rousing 2010 floor speech denouncing the Affordable Care Act - the one in which he famously shouted “hell no!” repeatedly - the Republican House leader ended on a magnanimous note.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
Politico:
House to vote Thursday on Obamacare repeal bill  —  GOP leaders are confident they have the support but acknowledge it will be very close.  —  The House GOP's seven-year crusade to abolish Obamacare all comes down to Thursday.  —  Republican leaders have called a vote on a plan to replace …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The New Study That Shows Trumpcare's Damage  —  When Massachusetts expanded health insurance a decade ago, state officials unknowingly created an experiment.  It's turned out to be an experiment that offers real-world evidence of what would happen if the House Republicans' health bill were to become law.
Discussion: HuffPost
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Republicans plan health-care vote on Thursday, capping weeks of fits and starts
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: House ObamaCare repeal bill can't pass Senate
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
House set to vote on GOP Obamacare replacement bill on Thursday: NBC News
Discussion: Axios, IJR and CNN
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
First on CNN: Rice refuses Senate request to testify on Russian hacking  —  Susan Rice responds to Trump's accusations  —  Washington (CNN)Susan Rice, President Barack Obama's former national security adviser, on Wednesday declined Sen. Lindsey Graham's request to participate …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Susan Rice declines to testify before Senate subcommittee
Discussion: ABC News
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Colbert finally (and unapologetically) responds to #FireColbert backlash: ‘I would do it again’  —  Stephen Colbert finally — and unapologetically — responded to criticism of his vulgar oral-sex joke about President Trump that led to a #firecolbert hashtag and a call to boycott advertisers of his CBS show.
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Sasha Savitsky / Fox News:
FireColbert Twitter campaign gains steam after Stephen Colbert's profane Donald Trump takedown  —  #FireColbert is on fire.  —  Talk show host Stephen Colbert is taking serious heat on social media for a vulgar joke he made about President Donald Trump that many fans are calling “homophobic.”
Ann Coulter / Official:
SWAMP PEOPLE: 47; TRUMP: 0  —  If this is the budget deal we get when Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency, there's no point in ever voting for a Republican again.  —  Not only is there no funding for a wall, but — thanks to the deft negotiating skills of House Speaker Paul Ryan …
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama's $400,000 speech could prompt Congress to go after his pension  —  WASHINGTON — Last year, then-president Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have curbed the pensions of former presidents if they took outside income of $400,000 or more.  —  So now that former president Barack Obama …
The Hill:
Trump to ease rules on church political activity  —  President Trump is set to sign an executive order Thursday to make it easier to for churches and other religious groups to participate in politics without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status.  —  Trump plans to sign an order in the morning …
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Steve Holland / Reuters:   Trump order to ease ban on political activity by churches
Daily Mail:
Obama's sex and drugs past laid bare in new biography  —  The former president's relationship with Genevieve Cook when he was 22 is revealed in a new biography which tells how it was sexual from the start and involved pot - and cocaine.  She was three years older when they met and living in Park Avenue …
Discussion: IJR, PinkNews and The Last Tradition
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Christopher Mele / New York Times:
A Code Pink Protester Laughs Over a Trump Nominee and Is Convicted  —  A jury on Wednesday convicted three Code Pink activists on charges related to a protest at the confirmation hearing of Jeff Sessions for attorney general — including a Virginia woman who said all she did was break out in laughter.
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France 24:
Key moments of final Macron-Le Pen duel before French presidential run-off  —  The two remaining contenders for the French presidency, centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, on Wednesday battled it out on live TV one last time before Sunday's nail-biting run-off vote.
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
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Mary Jordan / Washington Post:
Emmanuel Macron is 39 and his wife is 64. French women say it's about time.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton The Election  —  This is the tenth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by most of the American media.  —  Hillary Clinton would probably be president …
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Peter Schweizer: Kushner's Failure to Disclose Billion-Dollar Ties to Goldman Sachs, George Soros Is ‘Massive, Massive Problem’  —  Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer addressed reports that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner had an undisclosed business relationship …
Daily Mail:
Queen calls her entire household to ‘highly unusual’ emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace today but mystery surrounds the reason why  —  By , REBECCA ENGLISH ROYAL CORRESPONDENT and RICHARD KAY FOR THE DAILY MAIL  —  Speculation amongst Buckingham Palace staff is rampant this morning …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mashable
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Trump has a dangerous disability  —  It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump's inability to do either.  This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability.  It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Lawmakers plot to oust Tuesday Group leader over health bill  —  Some members of the Tuesday Group of House Republican moderates are plotting to oust Co-Chairman Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) from his post amid frustration that he negotiated a deal on the ObamaCare replacement bill …
Bloomberg:
Qualcomm Said to Seek U.S. Import Ban for iPhones  —  Appeal to trade agency could pressure Apple in legal fight  —  ITC has authority to halt product shipments into U.S. market  —  Incensed over Apple Inc.'s decision to stop paying it billions of dollars in licensing fees for smartphone chips …
Julia Horowitz / CNNMoney:
The House just passed a bill that affects overtime pay  —  Warren to Acosta: I'm glad you aren't Puzder  —  Do you get paid for overtime work?  The House of Representatives just passed a bill you may want to know about.  —  The measure, backed by Republicans, would let employers give workers paid …
 
 
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Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
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