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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, ABC News 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
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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Shawn Musgrave / Politico:
Georgia special election tweets traced to one source
Discussion: ABC News
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Can the New Activist Passion of Suburban White Women Change American Politics?
Discussion: The Intercept
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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Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Otto Warmbier dies days after being released by North Korea
Discussion: Axios
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Otto Warmbier dies days after release from North Korean detainment
Discussion: Refinery29, TheBlaze and The Week
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
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, TheBlaze and New York Magazine
Tom Batchelor / The Independent:
Russia to treat US jets in Syria as ‘targets’ after America guns down first regime warplane  —  Communication channel between Washington and Moscow to be suspended immediately  —  Russia has said it will treat US warplanes operating in parts of Syria where its air forces are present as …
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United States Central Command:
Coalition Defends Partner Forces from Syrian Fighter Jet Attack
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon working to re-establish ‘deconfliction’ line with Russia
Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story and Politico
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.
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
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
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.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
George W. Bush and Barack Obama Both Popular in Retirement  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former President George W. Bush's national image continues to improve in his retirement, with his favorable rating rising seven percentage points over the past year to 59%.  This continues the fairly steady improvement …
Discussion: Politicus USA and Politico
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Ben Kew / Breitbart:
Fox News Anchor Eric Bolling Considering Senate Run Against Establishment Republican  —  Fox News anchor Eric Bolling has revealed that he is considering a primary challenge against a sitting Republican senator who he believes is not sufficiently conservative.
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
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
New York Daily News:
Man stabbed to death after threesome turns fatal in Brooklyn apartment building  —  A threesome in Brooklyn turned deadly Monday after one of the participants began filming the encounter, sparking a brutal attack with baseball bats and knives, police sources said.
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Dallas Schools, Long Segregated, Charge Forward on Diversity  —  DALLAS — Michael Hinojosa was about to enter the ninth grade in Dallas when a federal judge ordered the city's public schools to integrate.  —  It was 1971, and Mr. Hinojosa, the Mexican-American son of a preacher …
 
 
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Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
EU army inevitable, says senior German official
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RT
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
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sources: Heller gets Democratic opponent for 2018 race
Chicago Tribune:
Congressional shooter James Hodgkinson was abusive alcoholic, foster daughter told judge before her overdose death
 Earlier Items: 
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump defiant as pressure grows
Discussion: The Guardian
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The 15 Best-Educated Districts in the U.S., and Why It Matters in the Georgia Race
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
Lynn Thompson / The Seattle Times:
Mother with knife killed by police was pregnant and had mental-health issues, family says