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12:00 PM ET, June 22, 2017

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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill  —  Senate leaders on Wednesday were putting the final touches on legislation that would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care system by dramatically rolling back Medicaid …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Media Bias Toward “New” News Helped the GOP Hide Its Secret Health Care Plan  —  Until a modest breakthrough this week, supporters of the Affordable Care Act had spent the month of June desperately trying to make issue of the Senate Republicans' secret plan to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Bloomberg:   Senate Health Plan Draft Relies on Subsidies GOP Has Faulted
Caitlin Owens / Axios:   Senate Republicans are about to find out what's in their bill
CNN:
Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians  — Coats and Rogers said interactions with Trump about the Russia investigation were odd, uncomfortable  —  (CNN)Two of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Mueller's Trump investigation will be a ‘personal vendetta’
Discussion: RedState
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich: Media was right, special elections were a referendum
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Trump said on Wednesday that he was crafting legislation to bar new immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years.  He announced the proposal in a conquering-hero-returns speech in Iowa …
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Graham Russell / The Guardian:
Trump says he doesn't want a ‘poor person’ handling economy
CBS News:
“All we do is win, win, win,” says Trump at campaign-style rally in Iowa
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
WATCH: Morning Joe panel slams ‘dear leader’ Trump with horrifying 2-minute mashup of his Iowa lies  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A “Morning Joe” panel examined President Donald Trump's lie-filled rally in Iowa, where his supporters cheered each falsehood and jeered when he attacked the media.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows  —  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY  — Time to show their work: Senate Republicans share their health care draft this morning after negotiating it behind closed doors.  The bill is expected to roll back Medicaid expansions but more gradually …
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
CNN:
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go  —  (CNN)A small group of House Democrats are publicly saying it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to step aside as the face of the party ahead of the 2018 midterms following Tuesday night's disappointing loss in a special election for a Georgia House seat.
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Was Silenced.  Then She Silenced Us.  —  Last week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee while she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
BBC:
Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger  —  A well-known lifestyle blogger in France has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser.  —  Rebecca Burger's death was announced on Facebook in what her family called a “domestic accident”.
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Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Whipped cream dispenser explodes, killing French Instagram fitness model
Discussion: Associated Press and The Guardian
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Irresistible  —  Georgia's Karen Handel pins another defeat on the anti-Trump left.
Discussion: Instapundit
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
D.C. cops used ‘rape as punishment’ after Inauguration Day mass arrests, lawsuit says  —  Wide array of unconstitutional tactics alleged in suit over chilling round-up that hit peaceful protesters, journalists, and anarchists alike.  —  When black-clad marchers began smashing windows in Washington …
Discussion: Raw Story
Robert Fife / Globe and Mail:
Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breaking kill shot in Iraq  —  OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF — The Globe and Mail (includes correction)  —  A sniper with Canada's elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,540 metres.
Chris Francescani / ABC News:
2 Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a juror in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case said that after dozens of hours of grueling deliberations in a tiny room, 10 of the 12 jurors agreed he was guilty on two counts.
Harvey Day / Daily Mail:
North Korea calls Donald Trump a ‘psychopath’ and accuses him of considering a preemptive strike to divert attention from his own ‘tough situation’ in the US  —  North Korea on Thursday called US President Donald Trump a ‘psychopath’ as tensions soar following the death of American student Otto Warmbier …
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Alex Clark / Breitbart:
5 Times the Far-Left Mocked and Criticized Now Deceased Otto Warmbier
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Hugh Hewitt to Host Show on MSNBC  —  MSNBC is expanding weekend news with live programming until 9 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday nights, TVNewser has learned.  —  As part of the expansion, conservative radio talk show host and MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt is getting a half hour show, airing Saturdays at 8 a.m. ET.
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
FBI Fired Sebastian Gorka for Anti-Muslim Diatribes … The inflammatory pundit Sebastian Gorka worked for the FBI while he was a paid consultant to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, lecturing bureau employees on counterterrorism issues.  —  Until the FBI terminated Gorka for his over-the-top Islamophobic rhetoric.
Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Trump appointee is a Saudi government lobbyist  —  Richard Hohlt earning six figures from kingdom bent on influencing Trump  —  President Donald Trump talks with Saudi King Salman as they pose for photos with leaders at the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center …
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln  —  Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper.  —  But before we run out of the essentials, let's finally admit …
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Ex-Homeland Security official says politics molded Russia response  —  Former President Obama's Homeland Security secretary on Wednesday defended his response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, arguing the last administration's careful characterization was intended to ensure …
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ABC News:
Another leadership test for Pelosi, who's weathered many  —  Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is telling Democrats that next year could be the year they take back control of the House.  —  The response from some: It better be.  —  In the wake of a dispiriting loss for Democrats …
Discussion: Politico
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Gabby Morrongiello / New York Post:
Pelosi under fire from Democrats: 'It's time for her to go'
 
 
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Associated Press:
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern
Discussion: Politico
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Stalemate in Albany May End de Blasio's Control of City Schools
Discussion: Gothamist
Bob Price / Breitbart:
Algerian Man Dangles Baby from 15th Floor Demanding Facebook ‘Likes’
San Francisco Chronicle:
Motorcyclist detained for driving at protesters on SF street
Discussion: Raw Story
Rong-Gong Lin II / Los Angeles Times:
False alarm: Caltech staffer accidentally sends alert for large 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake
Discussion: Daily Wire and Gizmodo
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House shows no sign of reopening Paris talks
 Earlier Items: 
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
The GOP's Suburban Nightmare
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Not quite half of American teens have had sex by 18. That's actually low.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trumps suggests creating law that has been enacted since 1996
Discussion: Fox News, Daily Wire, NPR and Above the Law
Laura Beth Nielsen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The case for restricting hate speech
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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