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11:05 AM ET, June 28, 2017

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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill  —  Americans broadly disapprove of the Senate GOP's health care bill, and they're unhappy with how Republicans are handling the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside the GOP's surprise health care flop  —  Senate Republicans had no inkling of what they were walking into on Tuesday afternoon as they filed into the Mike Mansfield room on the Capitol's second floor.  —  Mitch McConnell's 51 colleagues, from his most junior members to his closest lieutenants …
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base As Independents' Disapproval Grows  —  President Trump's support among independent voters has eroded since he took office.  Though he still clings to a loyal base of supporters, his overall disapproval among Americans has reached record highs, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Discussion: Politicus USA
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness  —  Top GOP officials and senators say White House chaos and impulsiveness are crippling efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, unraveling long-laid plans and needlessly jeopardizing incumbents.  —  There's a widespread sense …
Discussion: Political Wire
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Don't be fooled: the Senate's Obamacare repeal effort remains very alive  —  The Senate health care bill, in its current form, is dead.  —  The Senate health care debate is not over.  —  Sound familiar?  —  Sign up for VoxCare  —  Vox's daily email explaining the biggest news in health care, edited by Sarah Kliff
Discussion: Politico, The Week and ABC News
New York Times:
On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer's Role  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump began his all-hands meeting with Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday by saying they were “very close” to passing a health care bill, just as efforts to fast-track a vote this week collapsed.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
How Governors From Both Parties Plotted to Derail the Senate Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON — A once-quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington on Tuesday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months …
Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Support for Senate healthcare bill at 17 percent in NPR poll
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Politico and NPR
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Health care not dead yet
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Axios
Sam Baker / Axios:
Where the Senate's health care bill goes from here
Discussion: Political Wire
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Misery of Mitch McConnell
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times, Claiming Editorial Defamed Her  —  Sarah Palin, former vice-presidential candidate, filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Company on Tuesday, saying the newspaper had published a statement about her in a recent editorial that it “knew to be false.”
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Tony Lee / Breitbart:
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times for Defamation
Emma Pettit / Arkansas Online:
Arrest made after Ten Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol toppled, shattered  —  A 6-foot-tall stone Ten Commandments monument installed Tuesday on the Arkansas Capitol grounds was toppled less than 24 hours later after a 32-year-old Arkansas man drove a vehicle into the statue, police said.
Discussion: Friendly Atheist, Raw Story and NPR
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Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
10 Commandments monument at Arkansas Capitol destroyed; suspect in custody for apparent repeat offense  —  The new Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol was destroyed by a car overnight less than 24 hours after installation on the Capitol grounds.  —  A suspect is in custody, Michael Reed, 32, of Van Buren.
Emily Smith / New York Post:
CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story  —  The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump's — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned.  —  SEE ALSO
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The media will do anything to bash Trump — and now they're hurting
Discussion: ThinkProgress, YouTube and NewsBusters
New York Times:
Trump Campaign Chief's Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party  —  Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed on Tuesday that his consulting firm …
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs.  It's fake.  —  The framed copy of Time Magazine was hung up in at least four of President Trump's golf clubs, from South Florida to Scotland.  Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.
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Norbert Michel / Forbes:
Undoing the CFPB's Damage: The Trump Administration's Options Are Limited  —  Representation, rule of law, and separation of powers—these concepts are central to the American system of constitutional government.  Yet they have been threatened for much of the last century by the proliferation of independent government agencies.
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s newest congressman still hasn't taken his oath.  Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to know why  —  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) wants to know why Rep.-elect Jimmy Gomez hasn't been sworn in, saying the seat's “elongated vacancy” is “an abdication” of his responsibilities.
Mike Wilson / Dallas Morning News:
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns  —  Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true.  —  An eight-paragraph Washington Post article …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘This thing needs to end right now’: CNN's Cuomo shuts down GOP senator whining about fake news  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  CNN's Chris Cuomo has grown very tired of Republicans shooting down any facts that go against their political messaging as “fake news.”
Discussion: The Week
Circa:
WATCH |  Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is being investigated by the Office of U.S. Special Counsel for violating The Hatch Act that prohibits FBI agents from campaigning in partisan races.  —  The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government's main whistleblower agency …
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
I'm Glad the Dyke March Banned Jewish Stars  —  This weekend, at a lesbian march in Chicago, three women carrying Jewish pride flags — rainbow flags embossed with a Star of David — were kicked out of the celebration on the grounds that their flags were a “trigger.”
Jay Caruso / RedState:
Donald Trump Just Tweeted Support For An Internet Tax  —  So this will turn out to be another example where Trump supporters will likely say the guy who says what he means didn't really mean what he said.  In a bizarre tweet intended to attack The Washington Post as “fake new,” Donald Trump said the following.
Discussion: GeekWire, Daily Wire and Politicus USA
Art Swift / Gallup:
In US, Confidence in Newspapers Still Low but Rising  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an ongoing controversy over “fake news,” more Americans this year (27%) say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers than did so last year (20%).
Janosch Delcker / Politico:
Merkel to Trump: We provide you jobs  —  There is 10 times more German direct investment in the US than the other way around, German chancellor said.  —  BERLIN — Germany creates American jobs, Angela Merkel said Tuesday, in response to criticism from the White House over Germany exporting significantly more than it imports.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Rich Lowry / New York Post:
Relax, Republicans' Medicaid changes aren't that big of a deal
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Townhall.com
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp, Axel Springer Applaud $2.7 Billion Fine Levied Against Google
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
It's almost July, and House Republicans still can't pass a budget
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Sarah Zheng / South China Morning Post:
Elderly flight passenger throws coins into engine for ‘luck’, delays take-off for hours
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Media Matters for America:
Fox host dismisses dangers posed by Republican health care bill because “we're all going to die” anyway
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Homeland Security Will Start Building Border Wall Prototypes This Summer
Pam Fessler / NPR:
Making U.S. Elections More Secure Wouldn't Cost Much But No One Wants To Pay
Discussion: NPR
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Brooks's prior attacks on Trump could hurt in Alabama Senate race
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Sherman / Politico:
TICK-TOCK on the GOP's health-care ‘flop’ …
Discussion: Morning Consult
Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
My father is one of the vulnerable seniors most at risk from GOP's cruel Medicaid cuts
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
How Donald Trump is killing romance
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState