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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  —  Provision would allow insurers to sell plans that aren't compliant with Affordable Care Act  —  Insurers are ramping up their opposition to a new amendment in the Senate Republican health bill that would allow them to sell plans …
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 …
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New York Times:
Governors From Both Parties Denounce Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
Discussion: USA Today and Political Wire
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Couldn't We Just Trade Presidents?  —  Why can't Emmanuel Macron be our president?  —  American citizens watching Donald Trump's visit to Paris must have wondered how we got the wrong guy.  Macron seemed so smart, so charming.  The fact that he didn't father any children would not normally …
Discussion: Associated Press
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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?
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
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
Edward Price / Politico:
Why Does Jared Kushner Still Have a Security Clearance?  —  With nearly each passing day, the public learns more sordid details of the Russia scandal engulfing the Trump administration.  It's far from clear just how deep the Russia affair goes; in today's climate, one progressive's collusion …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Someone complained about Dunkin' Donuts hot cups on Facebook and a war broke out  —  It's safe to say this person will never be the Mayor of Dunkin' Donuts.  —  When a customer took to the company's Facebook page Sunday to complain that an employee used a hot cup to insulate an iced coffee …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Congress is fleeing its warmaking responsibilities  —  Predictably and sensibly, a three-judge panel of the nation's second-most-important court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, recently dismissed, unanimously, a lawsuit brought by a Yemeni man …
Karen Crouse / New York Times:
At U.S. Women's Open, Presidential Air Is Stirred by a Gust of Commotion  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Lexi Thompson, at No. 3 the highest-ranked American in the women's world rankings, was preparing to hit her third shot, from just off the green, on the par-5 15th hole at Trump National Golf Club …
 
 
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Reuters:
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Yashar Ali / New York Magazine:
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Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller
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: IJR and Axios
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence will join GOP leaders for fundraiser benefiting his PAC
Discussion: Business Insider
Abigail Hauslohner / Washington Post:
In memo, Trump administration weighs expanding the expedited deportation powers of DHS
 Earlier Items: 
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP's moral rot is the problem, not Donald Trump Jr.
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Roger Stone's Testimony in House Russia Probe Delayed After Radio Tirade
Discussion: RedState
Jim Tankersley / Vox:
The Senate health care bill is getting dangerous for Donald Trump
John Bowden / The Hill:
Kushner's lawyer dropping out of representing him: report
Discussion: IJR and RedState
 

 
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William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days

 
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