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4:50 PM ET, July 15, 2017

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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
‘Simply Unworkable’: Insurers Blast New Provision In Senate Health Bill  —  The industry sounds just as angry as the patient advocates.  —  Two organizations representing the U.S. health insurance industry just called a new provision of the Senate Republicans' health care proposal …
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Here are the hidden horrors in the Senate GOP's new Obamacare repeal bill  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) defends his handiwork after a new version of the Senate GOP's repeal plan for Obamacare was unveiled Thursday.  (Michael Reynolds / EPA)  —  Senate Republicans unveiled a new …
Discussion: Salon, Vox, NBC News and Politico
Anna Wilde Mathews / Wall Street Journal:   Insurers Oppose Cruz Amendment to Republican Health-Care Bill
Stanford News:
Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies  —  Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died July 15 after a long battle with cancer.  Mirzakhani was 40 years old.
Discussion: KTLA and Althouse
Michelle Rindels / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval unmoved on health bill after meeting with White House officials; Price advises governors to disregard CBO  —  Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said a closed-door breakfast meeting on Saturday between Trump Administration officials and a large number of governors hasn't changed his position …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Kamala Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons  —  MORE FROM: … The Democrats' “Great Freshman Hope,” Sen. Kamala Harris, is heading to the Hamptons to meet with Hillary Clinton's biggest backers.  —  The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday …
New York Post:
Teen who blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ at cop's funeral booted from apartment  —  Julien Rodriguez (left) and Miosotis Familia  —  A cop-hating Bronx teen has been kicked out of his apartment for repeatedly blasting the rap song “F-k Tha Police” from the window as thousands of NYPD cops gathered …
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
MSNBC interview goes off the rails when Joy Reid holds Trump supporter's feet to the fire on Russia  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  An interview on AM Joy grew heated Saturday morning when host Joy Reid refused to let a defender of President Donald Trump duck answering questions …
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
What Is Donald Trump Saying to Emin Agalarov in This Video?
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
Dropping the Bluster, Trump Revives Banter With Reporters  —  WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump who turned up in the press cabin of Air Force One on Wednesday evening, as his plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Paris, was starkly different from the one who publicly pillories …
Discussion: Althouse
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’  —  BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken.  Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts programs sympathetic to Iran.  —  A new building goes up?
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, recently filed financial reports with the Justice Department showing that his lobbying firm earned nearly $17 million for two years of work for a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Russia says it's ‘ready to take reciprocal measures’ if U.S. does not return compounds  —  Russia said Friday that it is “ready to take reciprocal measures” if the United States does not return property in this country seized in December as part of the Obama administration's response …
Associated Press:
Venus Williams falls in Wimbledon final to Garbine Muguruza  —  LONDON (AP) — Through it all, Venus Williams kept working, kept striving, kept eyeing yet another Wimbledon championship.  —  Through it all, through the difficult days of adjusting to life with an energy-sapping autoimmune disease …
Discussion: NBC News
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
DNC worried about voters unregistering in Colorado  —  Top officials in the Democratic National Committee are worried about a sudden drop in voter registrations in Colorado, concerned that President Donald Trump's new election commission is encouraging Democrats across the country …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘Lie after lie after lie’: Fox News's Shepard Smith has a Cronkite moment on Russia … Between its “Fox and Friends” morning show and Sean Hannity at night, Fox News has become a haven for those who think this whole Russia thing is nonsense.  On Friday morning, Steve Doocy even declared that …
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Media Matters for America:
Fox's Shepard Smith slams Trump lies over Russia meeting: The deception “is mind boggling”
Discussion: Washington Post and twitchy.com
 
 
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Bryan Logan / Business Insider:
Idaho news station apologizes for using photo of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson …
Discussion: theGrio and Raw Story
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Gay Couple Brutally Attacked in German Asylum Home
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and PinkNews
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Playboy President and Women's Health
Discussion: Politicus USA
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
White House launches aggressive push to flip GOP governors opposed to Senate health bill
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities
Fox News:
Acid becoming weapon of choice among teens in London amid growing attacks
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Reuters:
Exclusive: Australia-U.S. refugee swap again in doubt as officials exit Nauru
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Couldn't We Just Trade Presidents?  —  Why can't Emmanuel Macron be our president?
Discussion: Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Edward Price / Politico:
Why Does Jared Kushner Still Have a Security Clearance?
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Someone complained about Dunkin' Donuts hot cups on Facebook and a war broke out
Ben Strauss / Politico:
'Mr. President, You Know What It's Like To Be a Black Man'
Discussion: New York Magazine
Chris Buckley / New York Times:
Liu Xiaobo's Dying Words for His Wife
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US kills leader of ISIS in Afghanistan
Discussion: Axios and IJR