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10:20 AM 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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Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.  —  Mitch McConnell is winning, yet again.  —  Senate Republicans are reportedly close to voting on a bill that would repeal Obamacare and potentially strip insurance from millions of Americans.  Under normal circumstances …
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate Republicans are about to find out what's in their bill
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul calls to slow down ‘rushed’ ObamaCare repeal process
Discussion: Politico and Politicus USA
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans set to release health-care bill, but divisions remain
Discussion: NBC News
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 …
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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CBS News:
“All we do is win, win, win,” says Trump at campaign-style rally in Iowa
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump promises tech upgrades for farmers
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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
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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.
CNN:
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go
Discussion: IrishCentral
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Pelosi faces growing doubts among Dems after Georgia loss
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Irresistible  —  Georgia's Karen Handel pins another defeat on the anti-Trump left.
Discussion: Instapundit
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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.
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.
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 …
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
The GOP's Suburban Nightmare  —  Surveying the Democratic wreckage after a disastrous 1952 campaign, Robert Taft, the typically taciturn Ohio Republican senator, made a bold prediction about the opposition.  “The Democratic Party,” the one-time Senate majority leader asserted …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trumps suggests creating law that has been enacted since 1996  —  President Trump in a rally on Wednesday evening said immigrants who enter the United States should not be eligible for welfare benefits for five years, though such a law has already existed for 20 years.
Discussion: Daily Wire, NPR and Above the Law
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.
New York Times:
White House Tries to Get G.O.P. to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is quietly lobbying House Republicans to weaken a bill overwhelmingly passed by the Senate last week that would slap tough new sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Gingrich: Media was right, special elections were a referendum … Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday said he thinks the media is correct in that the recent Congressional special elections have been a referendum on President Trump.  —  “The news media had it right,” Gingrich said on “Fox & Friends.”
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Laura Beth Nielsen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed The case for restricting hate speech  —  Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2010.  (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)  —  As a sociologist and legal scholar, I struggle to explain the boundaries of free speech to undergraduates.
Discussion: Campus Reform and twitchy.com
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
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
Not quite half of American teens have had sex by 18.  That's actually low.  —  American teens may be becoming more conservative about sex.  —  According to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report reflecting data from 2011 to 2015, about 42 percent of girls and about 44 percent …
 
 
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Chris Francescani / ABC News:
2 Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House shows no sign of reopening Paris talks
Daniel Brown / Business Insider:
Navy sailor sacrificed himself to save 20 lives after the USS Fitzgerald collision
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Priebus, on thin ice in the West Wing, keeps close eye on RNC
Nicole Brockbank / CBC News:
Woman demanding white doctor ‘not an isolated incident,’ says OMA's president-elect
Discussion: Raw Story and TheBlaze
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Judiciary Committee to continue Russia probe after Mueller meeting
Discussion: Politico
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Mormons Shame Twelve-Year-Old Girl For Coming Out In Temple
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
FBI investigating officer's stabbing at Flint airport as terrorism
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
Former Homeland Security chief: The FBI had evidence of collusion with Russia
Discussion: IJR
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Texas congressman says remarks on Clintons, Vince Foster were “a step too far”
Discussion: Off the Kuff and The Root
 

 
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