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1:45 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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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The conservative health care problem  —  Even before the Senate health care bill is released, conservatives already want to amend it.  Sen. Ted Cruz may try to amend the bill to let insurers sell health plans that don't comply with Affordable Care Act rules — but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and FiveThirtyEight
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senator: I would not call this ‘ObamaCare repeal’
Discussion: RedState
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:   What's In the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill
Bloomberg:   Senate Health Plan Draft Relies on Subsidies GOP Has Faulted
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
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.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Mueller's Trump investigation will be a ‘personal vendetta’
Discussion: RedState
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  —  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
Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Cher Turns on Nancy Pelosi After Ossoff Loss
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
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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Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Whipped cream dispenser explodes, killing French Instagram fitness model
Discussion: The Guardian
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: 'I just don't want a poor person' in top economic roles
Discussion: Daily Wire
Graham Russell / The Guardian:
Trump says he doesn't want a ‘poor person’ handling economy
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.
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
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 …
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Hugh Hewitt to Host Show on MSNBC
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump: Russian interference is ‘all a big Dem HOAX!’  —  President Trump on Thursday called Russia's meddling in the 2016 election “all a big Dem HOAX” and accused former president Barack Obama and his administration of not doing enough last year to “stop” Russian interference.
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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.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Election hackers altered voter rolls: report  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
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
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Spare Me The Principles Lecture  —  I think it was mildly amusing that some loud right-wingers spent a minute disrupting a bunch of New York liberals' conservative murder porn party.  —  There, I said it.  And now, according to some people on the conservative side, I'm not a conservative anymore.
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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Charlotte Mendelson / New Yorker:
Let's Ban Roses
Pew Research Center:
America's Complex Relationship With Guns
Discussion: Politico, New York Times, NBC News and NPR
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
Associated Press:
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
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