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2:25 PM ET, May 6, 2017

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Ruth Brown / Idaho Statesman:
Labrador: 'Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care'  —  A statement made by U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador during a town hall meeting Friday morning has drawn criticism by those challenging his stance on health care.  —  After a woman suggested that the lack of health care …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Idaho town hall erupts after GOP lawmaker says ‘no one dies’ from lack of health care  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Voters attending a packed town hall in Idaho booed and shouted down their Republican congressman after he attempted to defend the House passing …
Discussion: theGrio
Paul McLeod / BuzzFeed:
Here's What Is Actually True And False About The Republicans' Health Care Plan  —  There's a lot of confusion out there after House Republicans passed their health care plan on Thursday.  Here's what it really means.  —  Reporting From  —  Washington, DC
Mary Katharine Ham / The Federalist:
You May Like Obamacare, But Don't Forget About The People It's Hurt  —  You may know me as a political pundit and writer who has spoken publicly about how the Affordable Care Act negatively affected my family.  What you might not know is two years ago, I was a seven-month-pregnant widow …
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
GOP rep: 'Nobody dies because they don't have access to healthcare'  —  Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) drew intense jeers at a town hall Friday when he defended the GOP's ObamaCare repeal plan by claiming nobody dies due to lack of access to health care.  —  One day after the House passed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Shareblue
Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:
Dear France: You Just Got Hacked.  Don't Make The Same Mistakes We Did.  —  A brief guide to the information wars.  —  Ooh, la la. So, it happened to you too.  The frontrunning presidential candidate got hacked, and all his emails are dumped online in one giant cache.  WikiLeaks is tweeting about it.
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Mark Scott / New York Times:
U.S. Far-Right Activists Promote Hacking Attack Against Macron  —  After months of trying to move the political needle in favor of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election, American far-right activists on Saturday threw their weight behind a hacking attack against her rival …
Discussion: Althouse, VentureBeat and The Week
Reuters:
France's Macron campaign emails appear to be leaked online
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:   Emmanuel Macron hacked emails: French media ordered by electoral commission not to publish content of messages
Reuters:
French candidate Macron claims massive hack as emails leaked
Discussion: Politico
James McAuley / Washington Post:
France starts probing ‘massive’ hack of emails and documents reported by Macron campaign
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:
In a Beijing ballroom, Kushner family flogs $500,000 ‘investor visa’ to wealthy Chinese  —  BEIJING — The Kushner family came to the United States as refugees, worked hard and made it big — and if you invest in Kushner properties, so can you.  —  That was the message delivered Saturday …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Obamacare repeal vote upends 2018 House landscape  —  This week's vote to replace Obamacare has scrambled the 2018 House landscape, jeopardizing Republican lawmakers across the country and potentially endangering the party's longstanding grip on the chamber.
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Elena Schneider / Politico:
Georgia special election smashes all-time spending record  —  It's official: Georgia's special election will be the most expensive House race in U.S. history.  —  Candidates and outside groups have aired or reserved more than $29.7 million worth of TV ads in the race to replace HHS Secretary Tom Price …
Discussion: Missoulian
USA Today:
Rape charges dropped against immigrant teens … ROCKVILLE, Md. — Prosecutors said Friday they are dropping charges against two Hispanic teens accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a Maryland high school bathroom.  The case caught the attention of the White House.
Ben Sasse / Wall Street Journal:
How to Raise an American Adult  —  Many young Americans today are locked in perpetual adolescence.  Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse on how he and his wife are encouraging their own children to become fully formed, independent grown-ups
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional  —  President Donald Trump signaled Friday that he may not implement a 25-year-old federal program that helps historically black colleges finance construction projects on their campuses, suggesting that it may run afoul of the Constitution.
Discussion: The Root, The Week and Occupy Democrats
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Kurt Eichenwald: I Want Republicans To Watch Their Families Lose Insurance And Die  —  MSNBC Guest Reamed Out After Dropping The S-Bomb On Live TV  —  ICE Seeks To Deport Soccer Coach Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 7-Year Old Girl  —  'IT'S RACISM!'  Wanda Sykes Knows The Real Reason Republicans Want To Repeal Obamacare
Discussion: TheBlaze and Geller Report
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats tackle the ‘big rebuild’  —  The Democratic National Committee headquarters remains mostly empty, devoid of almost any senior staff.  It has a new chairman, Tom Perez, but there's still no executive director.  There's a completely new organizational chart, but the gutted political …
Discussion: Liberal Values
New York Times:
Police Officer Who Fatally Shot 15-Year-Old Texas Boy Is Charged With Murder  —  BALCH SPRINGS, Tex. — A police officer in a Dallas suburb who fired his rifle into a car full of teenagers leaving a party last Saturday, killing a boy in the front passenger seat, was charged with murder on Friday.
New York Times:
Locked Up for Being Poor  —  Maranda Lynn ODonnell, a 22-year-old single mother in Harris County, Tex., was arrested last year for driving without a valid license.  The judge set her bail at $2,500.  She couldn't afford anything close to that, so she spent three days in jail …
The Daily Beast:
Trump and Bannon ‘Personally Intervened’ to Save Seb Gorka … When the White House backed off its efforts to dump Sebastian Gorka on another federal agency, the controversial counterterrorism advisor had the president himself to thank, The Daily Beast has learned.
 
 
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Tom Moran / New Jersey Online:
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Dartmouth Appoints Anti-Semitic Terrorist Enabler As Its New Dean
Kristina Torres / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Federal judge orders Georgia to reopen voter registration ahead of 6th District runoff
Colin Butcher / The Guardian:
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Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
‘The time has come to treat the Second Amendment as a real constitutional right’
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Stephanie McNeal / BuzzFeed:
This Teen's Dad Told Her She Was Dead To Him For Going To Prom With A Black Friend
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. House Candidate in Montana Is Caught on Tape Praising Health Bill
 

 
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