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2:45 AM ET, June 20, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Senate GOP Plans Health-Care Vote Next Week  —  Senate GOP leaders are planning to vote next week on legislation to repeal large chunks of the Affordable Care Act, even though they don't yet appear to have secured enough support to pass it.
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
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Jeffrey Young / HuffPost:
The Not-So-Secret Truth About the Senate GOP's Secret Health Care Bill  —  The details matter.  But at its core, it's still a massive tax cut paid for by depriving millions of health care.  —  Senate Republicans are hurling themselves toward passing an incredibly unpopular set …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Worrying numbers on health care plan for ‘swing vote’ senators
Discussion: Fusion and Political Wire
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Democrats to halt Senate business over Obamacare repeal
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Spicer searching for candidates to take over White House briefing  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer is leading a search for his own replacement on the briefing room podium as part of a larger plan to shake up the White House communications operation, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Weighs New Role for Press Secretary Sean Spicer  —  President's spokesman may move into more senior position  —  New spokesman may be hired, though discussions aren't final  —  The White House is weighing whether to move Press Secretary Sean Spicer into a more senior role focused …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, public business increasingly handled behind closed doors
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Expanded role for Spicer, oversee all Trump communications operations
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Fox Business:
Sean Spicer takes on new WH role, may no longer give press briefings
Discussion: Heat Street, Mediaite and twitchy.com
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
VIDEO: It Took Two Hours To Walk From Jon Ossoff's House to Georgia's Sixth District  —  Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff can't vote for himself on Tuesday because he doesn't live in the congressional district that he is running to represent.  —  Ossoff has downplayed his inability to vote for himself …
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Can the New Activist Passion of Suburban White Women Change American Politics?
Discussion: The Intercept
Shawn Musgrave / Politico:
Georgia special election tweets traced to one source
Discussion: ABC News
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The 15 Best-Educated Districts in the U.S., and Why It Matters in the Georgia Race
Tara Fowler / ABC News:
Otto Warmbier, American student detained in North Korea for 17 months, dies  —  Otto Warmbier, the American student who was imprisoned in North Korea for more than 17 months and was returned home to Ohio last week, has died, his family said Monday.  —  “It is our sad duty to report that our son …
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Melanie Eversley / USA Today:
Tour group says no more Americans to North Korea after Warmbier's death
Discussion: The Week
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Otto Warmbier dies days after release from North Korean detainment
Discussion: Refinery29, TheBlaze and The Week
Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Otto Warmbier dies days after being released by North Korea
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
Killing of a Muslim teenager in Virginia is being investigated as a road-rage incident, police say … The death of a Virginia teenager who police say was attacked near a mosque in the Sterling area is not being investigated as a hate crime, authorities said Monday.
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WTTG-TV:
Man charged with murder of Muslim teen; road rage appears to have led to killing, police say
United States Central Command:
Coalition Defends Partner Forces from Syrian Fighter Jet Attack  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  —  SOUTHWEST ASIA — At approximately 4:30 p.m. Syria time, June 18, Pro-Syrian regime forces attacked the Syrian Democratic Forces-held town of Ja'Din, South of Tabqah, wounding a number of SDF fighters and driving the SDF from the town.
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon working to re-establish ‘deconfliction’ line with Russia
Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story and Politico
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
Megyn Kelly's Alex Jones interview got lots of attention, but not many viewers  —  Jones vs. Kelly: Battle between new and old media  —  Megyn Kelly's much talked about interview with Alex Jones got plenty of attention for Kelly and NBC, both good and bad, but not many viewers.
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly just helped some guy get thousands of new followers
Discussion: Forbes and TheBlaze
Zachary Hansen / USA Today:
It's so hot in Phoenix, they can't fly planes … PHOENIX — The extreme heat forecast for Phoenix on Tuesday has caused the cancellation of 20 American Airlines flights out of Sky Harbor International Airport.  —  According to a statement from American Airlines, the American Eagle regional flights use …
Discussion: The Week
Jeff Stein / Newsweek:
MICHAEL FLYNN, RUSSIA AND A GRAND SCHEME TO BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND THE ARAB WORLD  —  SPYTALK MICHAEL FLYNN RUSSIA SAUDI ARABIA  —  In 2015 and 2016, according to his filing, Flynn was an adviser to X-Co Dynamics Inc./Iron Bridge Group, which at first glance looks …
Emily Weaver / myrtlebeachonline:
Three shootings in 8 hours.  Eight wounded.  Some tourists say they won't be back.  —  “Multiple people down!”  Bubba Hinson exclaimed as he live-streamed a video of what started as a mob stalling traffic, but turned into a mass shooting on Ocean Boulevard early Sunday morning.
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Administration Has A New Plan For Dealing With Russia  —  A classified document by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson lays out a new path for Russia and the US.  But does the president, weighed down by scandal and investigation, support it?  —  As the White House fends off accusations …
Discussion: Axios, The Atlantic, The Week and Raw Story
CBS News:
Poll: Americans say U.S. political debate is increasingly uncivil  —  Members of Congress are getting positive ratings for the way they responded to the shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, last week.  President Trump gets slightly lower — though still net positive — evaluations for his response …
Discussion: Political Wire
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Let's Consider Secession  —  This past week has made me realize the situation in this country is unlikely to get better.  We have 320 million people who hate each other and the left shows no signs of toning down rhetoric after last week's mass assassination attempt.  If anything, too many of them regret there were no deaths.
John Scott Railton / The Citizen Lab:
Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware  —  By: John Scott-Railton, Bill Marczak, Bahr Abdulrazzak, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, and Ron Deibert  —  Read Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert's blog post on the report.  —  Lea la investigación de R3D …
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David Agren / The Guardian:
Mexico accused of spying on journalists and activists using cellphone malware
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Democrats just got some very good news from the Supreme Court on gerrymandering  —  The Supreme Court just made a major decision without actually issuing a decision.  On Monday morning, the justices announced that they would take up a case out of Wisconsin that could result in a ruling …
Gizmodo:
GOP Data Firm Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million American Voters  —  Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was exposed this month after a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee stored internal documents on a publicly accessible Amazon server.
New York Times:
A Top Presidential Public Defender Was Also a Twitter Critic  —  WASHINGTON — In April, Mark Corallo, the spokesman for President Trump's personal legal team, used Twitter to suggest — twice — that Vice President Mike Pence, not Mr. Trump, should be the Republican nominee for president in 2020.
Discussion: Bipartisan Report
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Black Monday for the Climatistas  —  Most climatistas are going to call today “Black Monday,” because today has dealt a double-whammy of what Al Gore would call inconvenient news.  —  • First, an article out today in Nature Geoscience ponders the problem of why observed temperatures …
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Why Bernie Sanders Shouldn't Run for President Again  —  If his movement is to survive, it will need a new generation of leaders.  —  “That man is like superhuman,” Joy Manbeck told The New York Times at the annual People's Summit in Chicago earlier this month.  “He still plays basketball.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
EU army inevitable, says senior German official
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RT
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Dallas Schools, Long Segregated, Charge Forward on Diversity
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo
Rishi Iyengar / CNNMoney:
Baby born on flight to India gets free plane tickets for life
Discussion: WCMH-TV
Associated Press:
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Secrecy in lawmaking hardly new
Discussion: Politico
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
George W. Bush and Barack Obama Both Popular in Retirement
Discussion: Politicus USA and Politico
Linda Searing / Washington Post:
For chronic lower back pain, yoga may work as well as physical therapy
New York Daily News:
Man stabbed to death after threesome turns fatal in Brooklyn apartment building
Missoulian:
Gianforte assault emulated Jesus
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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