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5:25 PM ET, June 25, 2017

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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Kellyanne Conway on Senate health bill: ‘These are not cuts to Medicaid’  —  Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway asserted Sunday that the Senate health care bill does not propose cuts to Medicaid, despite projections that it would cut the federal health insurance program by $800 billion.
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Ryan Koronowski / ThinkProgress:
Trump advisers claim GOP health care bill won't cut Medicaid.  It will.  —  It's a big reason why just 38 percent of people know Trumpcare cuts Medicaid.  —  The Senate health care bill makes massive cuts to Medicaid.  But you wouldn't know that just from listening to Trump administration officials on the Sunday shows.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Democrats ‘better stand for something,’ says party's Senate leader
Discussion: twitchy.com and TheBlaze
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Koch political leader says GOP healthcare bill not conservative enough
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Tom Price promises GOP won't pull ‘rug out’ on health care
Discussion: Kaiser Health News
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-25-17: Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Susan Collins, and Sen. Rand Paul
Discussion: The Week and Politico
Associated Press:
Trump: Not ‘that far off’ from passing health overhaul
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Patrick Temple-West / Politico:
Price invites GOP foes of Obamacare overhaul to keep talking
Discussion: RedState
John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Moscow Is Finally Recalling Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak  —  After nearly ten years at the nexus of US-Russia relations, Washington's most radioactive diplomat is headed home … Ending one the most turbulent tenures of a Washington-based ambassador in recent memory …
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
The Kabuki Theater of the AHCA  —  The United States has never had a Senate leader as ruthless, as willing to bend, distort and break the rules, traditions and precedents of the Senate as Mitch McConnell.  And the Senate has probably never had a majority leader as effective at accomplishing …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates  —  A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders' health-care bill could damage the nation's social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure's passage as their colleagues on the right.
Discussion: Balkinization
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Health Law Repeal Leaves Nevada Republican Torn Between Lawmakers
Jordan Rau / New York Times:
Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes  —  ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses.  She has raised four children and buried two husbands.  —  But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care …
Discussion: Mediaite
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Sketchy firm behind Trump dossier is stalling investigators  —  A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.
USA Today:
Woman suspected of setting Iowa mosque on fire … Police in Iowa arrested a 22-year-old woman suspected of starting a small fire at an Iowa mosque Thursday morning.  —  Des Moines firefighters and police were called to the Islamic Center of Des Moines about 10 a.m. There had been a small fire …
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Kelly Maricle / WHOTV:
Woman Charged with Arson in Fire at Des Moines Mosque
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats are fielding a glut of House candidates in 2018 but remain divided on how to win  —  DALLAS — The largest number of Democratic congressional candidates in decades are putting into play dozens of House districts across the country, raising the possibility of a bitterly contested …
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Intern / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:
Restaurant owner says nearby Confederate flag is hurting his business  —  ORANGEBURG, S. C.  — A Confederate flag flies high above a South Carolina restaurant.  —  Some customers hate it, including the restaurant's owner, but he says he can't do anything about it.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Antithesis of Obstruction  —  Trump did not obstruct a valid FBI investigation; he demanded the exposure of a false one.  —  The “collusion” narrative was a fraud, plain and simple.  We know that now.  Hopefully, it won't take another six months to grasp a second plain and simple truth …
Discussion: neo-neocon
Michael Kruse / Politico:
I Found Trump's Diary—Hiding in Plain Sight  —  Lots of people want President Donald Trump to stop tweeting.  Mitch McConnell wants him to stop tweeting.  Carly Fiorina wants him to stop tweeting.  Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins and other Republican members of Congress and some Democrats …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Freedom Caucus holds fire on Senate Obamacare repeal bill  —  The most hard-line conservatives in the House are taking an unusually cautious approach to the Senate's Obamacare replacement, promising to keep an open mind about whatever their colleagues across the Capitol send back.
Discussion: The Week and New York Times
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
Koch network withholding support of Senate health-care bill, pushing for changes
Discussion: Political Wire
Kai-Fu Lee / New York Times:
The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence  —  BEIJING — What worries you about the coming world of artificial intelligence?  —  Too often the answer to this question resembles the plot of a sci-fi thriller.  People worry that developments in A.I. will bring about the “singularity” …
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
ACLU:
New TSA Policy May Lead to Increased Scrutiny of Reading Material  —  The TSA is testing new requirements that passengers remove books and other paper goods from their carry-on baggage when going through airline security.  Given the sensitivity of our reading choices, this raises privacy concerns.
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Congress Needs to Forget Trump and His Tweets and Pass the Big Bills
Brad Wilmouth / newsbusters.org/feed/all:
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Discussion: Daily Kos
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
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Discussion: Axios
John Hayward / Breitbart:
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Michael Hechtman / New York Post:
100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Business Insider:
Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election