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Wall Street Journal:
Little-Noted Provision of GOP Health Bill Could Alter Employer Plans  —  Many people who obtain health insurance through their employers could be at risk of losing protections that limit out-of-pocket costs due to a provision proposed in the House Republican health-care bill.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
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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.
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.
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.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: The health care costs for Republicans  —  NOTABLES  —HOUSE TO HOLD VOTE ON GOP HEALTH CARE BILL TODAY: The House of Representatives will vote today on the Republican-backed health care bill.  According to the schedule sent out House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy …
Discussion: Washington Post
The Hill:
GOP rushing to vote on healthcare without analysis of changes  —  House Republicans are once again fast-tracking consideration of their ObamaCare replacement bill without knowing the full impact of the legislation they'll vote on Thursday.  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office …
Discussion: RedState and The Week
David Nather / Axios:
What to know about today's House health care vote
Discussion: CNBC and Jamie Dupree
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:   Obamacare Repeal Is Really Just A Giant $1 Trillion Cut To Health Care Programs
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. House to Vote Thursday on Health-Care Bill
Discussion: Axios
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: House ObamaCare repeal bill can't pass Senate
Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged  —  MORE FROM: … The first couple of cable news Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged to be married, sources have exclusively confirmed to Page Six.  —  The MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-hosts got engaged this past weekend during …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Joe and Mika Are Getting Hitched  —  After years of rumors, gossip, and intrigue, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reveal their engagement, how it all went down, and the unlikely guy (Donald Trump) who asked to oversee their vows.
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Axios
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged  —  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged.  —  The news puts an end to years of speculation about a romance between the MSNBC co-hosts.  The engagement was confirmed by two “sources with knowledge of the situation.”
Discussion: twitchy.com
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 …
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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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Stephen Colbert reacts to online backlash over Trump jokes
Sasha Savitsky / Fox News:
FireColbert Twitter campaign gains steam after Stephen Colbert's profane Donald Trump takedown
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
Macron's ‘Deplorables’ Moment?  Establishment Candidate Brands 8m Le Pen Voters ‘Hateful Cowards’  —  French Presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron this week lashed out at Front National voters, branding them “anti-France” and “true enemies”.  —  In a moment resembling Hillary Clinton's infamous …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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France 24:
Key moments of final Macron-Le Pen duel before French presidential run-off
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
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:
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
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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
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump to sign executive order making it easier for churches to support political candidates
New York Times:
Trump Is Expected to Relax Tax Rules on Churches Taking Part in Politics
Discussion: The Week and Joe.My.God.
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 …
Amanda Knox / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Amanda Knox: Donald Trump supported me when I was wrongly accused of murder.  What do I owe him?  —  Amanda Knox cries following the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, Italy, on Oct. 3, 2011.
Christopher Ruddy / New York Times:
Don't Like Trump's Bluster?  Sometimes It Works.  —  As President Trump ended his first 100 days in office last week, I found myself in China, a good place to judge how he has transformed the presidency's bully pulpit.  —  During the campaign, Mr. Trump denounced Chinese trade policies …
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, The Last Tradition and PinkNews
 
 
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Mike Cason / al.com:
Bill allowing adoption agencies to turn away gay couples signed into law
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Washington Post:
Read the full testimony of FBI Director James Comey in which he discusses Clinton email investigation
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Bloomberg:
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Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
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