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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
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 …
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: CNN and IJR
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Colbert finally responds to #FireColbert backlash: ‘I would do it again’  —  Stephen Colbert finally responded Wednesday to online criticism of his off-color joke about President Trump that led to the hashtag #firecolbert and a call to boycott advertisers of the “Late Show,” which the comedian hosts.
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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.”
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
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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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 …
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Comey: Anthony Weiner Received Classified Clinton Emails
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: Politico and Washington Post
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New York Times:
Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches Taking Part in Politics
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Steve Holland / Reuters:   Trump order to ease ban on political activity by churches
CNN:
Trump expected to sign religious liberty executive order
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 …
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
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: The Last Tradition, IJR and PinkNews
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 …
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 …
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 …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Trump Administration Hires Official Who Five Students Accused of Sexual Assault  —  As an upperclassman at The Citadel military college several years ago, Steven Munoz allegedly assaulted five freshmen.  His hiring at the State Department raises further questions about the Trump administration's vetting process.
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 …
Angela Caputo / Chicago Tribune:
Obamas unveil design of presidential center in Chicago  —  The design for the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park has been unveiled on May 3, 2017.  —  Former first couple Barack and Michelle Obama on Wednesday offered the first look at the design of the planned Obama Presidential Center …
Angela Couloumbis / Philly.com:
An angry Sen. Wagner takes matters into his own hands - literally  —  HARRISBURG - Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott Wagner calls it a dirty campaign trick.  —  His campaign tracker calls it assault.  —  What is for sure is that a routine luncheon speech at a country club near York …
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Michelle Malkin / National Review:
A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel  —  Kimmel delivers his health-care monologue (via YouTube)  —  A sick child is wrenching for the parents, but policy answers are not so simple.  —  I  —  feel your pain.  But please use your brain.  —  On Monday, late-night-TV comedian Jimmy …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
O'Reilly defends Trump's Civil War comments, attacks Dan Rather  —  Fired Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday defended President Trump's assertion that Andrew Jackson could have prevented the Civil War, attacking former CBS News anchor Dan Rather and other Trump critics as “morons.”
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Trump has a Civil War memorial on his DC golf course — for a battle that never happened
Discussion: Snopes.com, AOL and Mashable
 
 
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Rex W. Tillerson / US Department of State:
Remarks to U.S. Department of State Employees
Elizabeth Gurdus / CNBC:
Exclusive: Apple just promised to give US manufacturing a $1 billion boost
Annalisa Quinn / Arts & Life : NPR:
Many Working Women Won't See Themselves In ‘Women Who Work’
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
House votes to approve roughly $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep government funded through September
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
Lukas Mikelionis / Heat Street:
Berkeley Plans to Fight Left-Wing Violence With ‘Laughter Yoga’, Singing and Bubbles
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Moonbattery
Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Baseball fan grazed by stray bullet during Cardinals game at Busch Stadium
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Andrew Scurria / Wall Street Journal:
Puerto Rico Placed Under Bankruptcy Protection
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and Axios
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Trump Drops “Human Rights” From Top White House Job
Anders Aslund / Foreign Policy:
Venezuela Is Heading for a Soviet-Style Collapse
Scott Bland / Politico:
Ossoff attracting surprising levels of GOP support in Georgia special
Sage Lazzaro / Observer:
21 Telling Photos From the Mark Zuckerberg Presidential Campaign Trail
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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