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11:35 PM ET, June 22, 2017

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Barack Obama:
Our politics are divided.  They have been for a long time.  And while I know that division makes it difficult to listen to Americans with whom we disagree, that's what we need to do today.  —  I recognize that repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act has become a core tenet of the Republican Party.
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Rand Paul / U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky:
Sens. Paul, Cruz, Johnson, and Lee Issue Joint Statement on Senate Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON - Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Mike Lee (R-UT) issued the following statement Thursday responding to the release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017:
Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC News/WSJ Poll: Public Overwhelmingly Disapproves of House Health Care Bill  —  Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of the House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.  —  This new poll comes as Senate Republicans unveil their own health care legislation on Thursday.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
A Message to Trump Voters on the Occasion of This Healthcare Bill  —  You pulled the lever.  This is what you were voting for.  —  Hello, suckers.  —  Yeah, you.  All of you.  All of you people who've been buying what the radicalized Republican party has been selling you since Reagan rode out of Trickledown Gulch back in 1980.
Politico:   Winners and losers from the Senate repeal bill
Center for American ProgressCenter …:
Coverage Losses Under the Senate Health Care Bill Could Result in 18,100 to 27,700 Additional Deaths in 2026
Discussion: MattBruenig
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here comes the Senate GOP's health bill. It's a cruel and cynical shell game.
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The conservative health care problem
Rachel Roubein / The Hill:
What's in the Senate healthcare bill
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Senate finally unveils secret health care bill
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - James Comey visits The New York Times as President Trump admits he did NOT record their conversations and questions what else ousted FBI director leaked to the press  — The former FBI director was spotted at The New York Times' Times Square office on Thursday He was accompanied …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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Bloomberg:
Trump Said to Not Have Recordings of Conversations With Comey  —  President Donald Trump doesn't have recordings of his conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey, according to a person familiar with the matter, capping weeks of speculation about whether such tapes exist.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Respond to His Latest Conspiracy Tweets: ‘FML.’ … After a cascading series of controversies created in large part by Donald Trump's Twitter account, the president took to his preferred medium again on Thursday to float another conspiracy theory: the Oval Office itself could be under surveillance.
Discussion: Bipartisan Report and Raw Story
Patrick Smith / Telegraph:
Johnny Depp slams Donald Trump at Glastonbury and asks: ‘When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?’  —  In a year that he would like to forget, which included his acrimonious divorce to Amber Heard, Johnny Depp appeared at a Q&A at the new Cinemageddon stage at Glastonbury.
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
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Press Association:
Johnny Depp jokes about killing Trump in Glastonbury appearance  —  ‘When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?’ star asks crowd at a drive-in cinema at the festival … Johnny Depp joked about assassinating Donald Trump during an appearance at Glastonbury.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republican Coal King Sues HBO Over John Oliver's Show … A Republican coal baron is suing John Oliver, HBO, Time Warner, and the writers for Oliver's show over the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight.  —  The suit, filed on June 21 in the circuit court of Marshall County, West Virginia …
Sam Stein / HuffPost:
All That Stands Between Democrats And A Massive Freakout Is This Man  —  The pressure is on Ralph Northam to score a win in his race for Virginia governor.  Barack Obama is going to come off the sidelines to help.  —  Having lost a series of tantalizingly close congressional elections …
Discussion: Washington Post
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.
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McConnell's Calculation May Be That He Still Wins by Losing  —  WASHINGTON — When it comes to managing Republicans' best interests, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, rarely loses.  So it is possible that Mr. McConnell views the potential failure of a hastily written health care bill as an eventual boon.
Discussion: Axios, IJR, Mediaite and Outside the Beltway
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Pelosi Strikes Back: 'I Think I'm Worth the Trouble'  —  WASHINGTON — Pushing back on criticism from fellow party members after the Democratic loss in a Georgia special election this week, Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she's “worth the trouble” as Democrats' leader in the House.
Discussion: IJR, The Week and The Daily Caller
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi's Democratic critics plot to replace her
Discussion: MSNBC, TheBlaze, ABC News and Axios
Scott Cohn / CNBC:
Trump's Carrier jobs deal is just not living up to the hype  — Carrier, a division of UTC, will employ about 1,069 people for 10 years in exchange for $7 million in incentives.  But there are crucial details in the fine print.  — State and local governments spend at least $70 billion …
WBRC-TV:
Alabama residents serve as Bill Cosby spokespeople  —  Birmingham native Andrew Wyatt was on hand with Cosby for the entire trial and acted as a spokesperson for the comedian's family.  Ebonee Benson is also from Birmingham.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Trump Told Democrats He Wants To Do Something About Deported Veterans.  His Staff Was Less Open.  —  Sources say Democrats raised the issue of deported veterans in a private dinner last week.  The president expressed support for doing something but his staff quickly told him it was complicated.
Discussion: Raw Story
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”.
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Former CIA officer accused of selling top secret information to China  —  A former CIA officer sold top secret and other classified documents to Chinese intelligence officials, according to charges filed Thursday in Alexandria federal court.  —  Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, of Leesburg, Va. …
Discussion: ZeroPointNow, Politico and Axios
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
30 GOP Congressmen Have Been Attacked or Threatened Since May  —  A total of 30 Republican members of Congress have either been attacked or revealed that they were the victim of a death threat since the beginning of May.  —  May 8: Wendi Wright, 35, was arrested after stalking Rep. David Kustoff …
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Earl Rinehart / The Columbus Dispatch:
Westerville man charged with threatening Rep. Steve Stivers
Pew Research Center:
America's Complex Relationship With Guns  —  An in-depth look at the attitudes and experiences of U.S. adults  —  As a nation, the U.S. has a deep and enduring connection to guns.  Integrated into the fabric of American society since the country's earliest days, guns remain a point of pride for many Americans.
Dino Grandoni / Washington Post:
‘How else can a Kenyan creampuff get ahead?’ is just one of the disturbing tweets sent by this Trump Energy Department agency head  —  Before William C. Bradford was appointed by the Trump administration to run the Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy, he tweeted a slew of disparaging remarks …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
White House-media relations at breaking point as Spicer searches for replacement  —  Five months into Donald Trump's presidency, White House-media relations are hanging by a thread.  —  The White House is facing daily criticism from the news media over its decision to reduce the frequency …
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 …
BBC:
Boys at Exeter academy wear skirts in uniform protest  —  Some 30 boys have worn skirts to school in protest at being told they were not allowed to wear shorts.  —  The pupils from ISCA Academy in Exeter asked permission to modify their uniform because of the hot weather.
Aaron Bandler / Daily Wire:
This Quiznos Employee Thwarted An Armed Robbery With A Gun  —  A Quiznos employee in Salt Lake City, UT thwarted an armed robbery on Tuesday with her use of a firearm.  —  Three people - one female and two males - entered the Quiznos with two firearms.  One of the robbers was trying …
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and fox13now.com
Aaron Klein / Breitbart:
WATCH - Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Michael Chabon Expresses ‘Hope’ that Trump Has ‘Massive Stroke’  —  TEL AVIV — Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, expressed his “hope” that President Donald Trump will have a “massive stroke” and be “carted out of the White House on a gurney.”
Discussion: Daily Wire
Morgan True / VTDigger:
Sanders lawyered up in federal probe of Burlington College  —  BURLINGTON — Jane Sanders has hired attorneys to represent her in a Justice Department probe of a land deal she orchestrated while president of the now-defunct Burlington College.  —  A former college employee who coordinated …
 
 
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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Sarah Palin's Latest Business Venture: Running a Right-Wing Content Farm
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
How Trump's dubious claims make the entire government react
Tony Lee / Breitbart:
Elizabeth Warren on McConnell Bill: ‘These Cuts Are Blood Money... People Will Die’
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David Wren / Post and Courier:
Layoffs announced for first time at Boeing's 787 Dreamliner campus, other North Charleston operations
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Tae Kim / CNBC:
McDonald's hits all-time high as Wall Street cheers replacement of cashiers with kiosks
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Half of Americans want Democrats to control Congress as Trump struggles, poll shows
CBS News:
Girl alleges bullying, some racist, posts video, which goes viral
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Charlotte Mendelson / New Yorker:
Let's Ban Roses
 

 
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