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1:10 PM ET, June 22, 2017

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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.
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Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Senate Releases Healthcare Bill  —  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the draft for the Senate's healthcare reform bill Thursday.  —  The Senate's bill features more generous tax credits for low-income and older Americans, a slower rollback of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, and repeals most of Obamacare's taxes.
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 …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:   What's In the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill
Bloomberg:   Senate Health Plan Draft Relies on Subsidies GOP Has Faulted
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The conservative health care problem
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and FiveThirtyEight
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Here's what's in the Senate health-care bill
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.
Discussion: Washington Times
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:   Pelosi defends leadership after special election losses
Tara Golshan / Vox:
After 4 special election losses, panic is setting in on the left
Discussion: Axios and CNBC
Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Cher Turns on Nancy Pelosi After Ossoff Loss
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
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Axios and Mediaite
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Associated Press:
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern
Discussion: Politico
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Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Whipped cream dispenser explodes, killing French Instagram fitness model
Discussion: The Guardian
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.
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC Gives Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt a Show  —  The commentator is joining MSNBC's Saturday morning lineup, a move that is sure to raise eyebrows at the network and among the network's left-leaning fans.  —  MSNBC, which has been soaring lately in both ratings and in advertising prices …
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.
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
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.
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Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Report says Canadian sniper has shattered world record for the longest confirmed kill in history
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
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.
Discussion: Politico, New York Times, NBC News and NPR
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
A Cyberattack 'the World Isn't Ready For'  —  NEWARK — There have been times over the last two months when Golan Ben-Oni has felt like a voice in the wilderness.  —  On April 29, someone hit his employer, IDT Corporation, with two cyberweapons that had been stolen from the National Security Agency.
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
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 …
Discussion: Shot in the Dark
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Election hackers altered voter rolls: report
Discussion: Raw Story
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Wisconsin lawmakers advance bill to suspend or expel students who disrupt campus speakers
Discussion: TheBlaze
Derrek Asberry / Post and Courier:
Charleston RiverDogs: ‘Our intent was not to offend anyone’ by poking fun at Tim Tebow
Bob Price / Breitbart:
Algerian Man Dangles Baby from 15th Floor Demanding Facebook ‘Likes’
Alex Clark / Breitbart:
5 Times the Far-Left Mocked and Criticized Now Deceased Otto Warmbier
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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
Chris Francescani / ABC News:
2 Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says
Charlie Mahtesian / Politico:
The GOP's Suburban Nightmare
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trumps suggests creating law that has been enacted since 1996
 

 
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