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1:20 PM ET, July 16, 2017

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Gary Langer / ABC News:
6 months in, a record low for Trump, with troubles from Russia to health care (POLL)  —  Americans give President Donald Trump the lowest six-month approval rating of any president in polls dating back 70 years, punctuated by questions about his competence on the world stage, his effectiveness …
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Washington Post:
Poll finds Trump standing weakened since springtime … President Trump's standing with the American people has deteriorated since the spring, buffeted by perceptions of a decline in U.S. leadership abroad, a stalled presidential agenda at home and an unpopular Republican health-care bill …
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump's Approval Stands at 50 Percent in the Counties That Fueled His Win  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's job approval rating in the American counties that fueled his 2016 victory stands at 50 percent, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of these “Trump counties.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
By a 2-to-1 margin, Americans prefer Obamacare to Republican replacements  —  Republicans racing to pass a bill that would overhaul the Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare) certainly understand that their efforts aren't polling well.  In survey after survey, a majority of respondents view …
Discussion: The Guardian
Saisha Talwar / ABC News:
8 to 10 Republican senators concerned about GOP bill: Collins  —  Republican Sen. Susan Collins Maine says the Senate health care bill would “jeopardize the very existence of our rural hospitals and our nursing homes.”  —  Collins, R-Maine, told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl on …
Discussion: Politico
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McConnell defers vote on Senate health-care bill as McCain recovers from surgery
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
White House Plans Messaging Campaign to Refocus Attention on Trump's Agenda
Discussion: Political Wire
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:   Mitch McConnell's Heavy Health-Care Lift
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McConnell: Senate to ‘defer’ on Obamacare repeal vote
New York Times:   Governors Give Chilly Reception to Health Bill Push
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
McCain's surgery puts Obamacare repeal vote in doubt
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval still doesn't support the Senate health-care bill.  That's big trouble for Republicans.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Hill
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
McCain to miss week, likely delaying healthcare vote
Discussion: Politico
Kevin Dolak / ABC News:
Trump campaign paid Donald Trump Jr.'s lawyer weeks before Russian meeting was revealed  —  Almost two weeks before Donald Trump Jr. published screengrabs of purported emails indicating that he arranged to meet with a Russian lawyer, President Trump's re-election campaign paid $50,000 …
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Russian lawyer obtained Hill hearing seat from former Florida Trump campaign chair's husband
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump re-election campaign paid $50,000 to law firm now representing Donald Trump Jr.
Discussion: RedState and Daily Kos
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Trump Campaign Paid $50,000 To Trump Jr.'s Lawyer Days Before Bombshell NYT Report
Discussion: Politicus USA
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Paid Don Jr.'s Lawyer $50,000 Two Weeks Before Email Scandal
Discussion: NPR, New York Magazine and Axios
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
White House unveils ‘Made in America’ week, though many Trump products are made overseas  —  PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — President Trump, whose company outsources the manufacturing of many of its products to overseas factories, is unveiling “Made in America” week at the White House to promote products made in the United States.
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Hillary's White House would be no different from Trump's
David Wooding / The Sun:
TRUMP COWER Donald Trump begs Theresa May to fix a ‘warm welcome’ for his state visit - and says he won't set a date for it until he knows he's going to get ‘a better reception’  —  US President warns he will not visit until he can guarantee a good reception and pleas with Theresa May to help influence public
New York Times:
Soviet Veteran Who Met With Trump Jr. Is a Master of the Dark Arts  —  MOSCOW — Rinat Akhmetshin, the Russian-American lobbyist who met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower in June 2016, had one consistent message for the journalists who met him over the years at the luxury hotels where he stayed in Moscow …
Discussion: Althouse
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
South Carolina May Prove a Microcosm of U.S. Election Hacking Efforts  —  There were nearly 150,000 attempts to penetrate the voter-registration system on Election Day 2016, State Election Commission says  —  To understand the scale of the hacking attempts against election systems …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Fate of Kushner's security clearance could ultimately lie with Trump  —  The decision over whether Jared Kushner will be stripped of his security clearance could ultimately be made by one man — his father-in-law, President Donald Trump.  —  Kushner's actions — including initially failing …
Discussion: Political Wire
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Caitlyn Jenner weighs run for Senate  —  Olympic gold medalist and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner is the latest celebrity to reveal she has considered lanching a run for Senate, telling radio host John Catsimatidis she is in the process of determining her future in activism and politics.
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Goodbye Joe Scarborough . . . Hello, Kid Rock  —  Joe Scarborough is out and Kid Rock is in.  —  Joe made official his departure from the Republican Party this week, following in the footsteps of other pundits such as George Will and Bret Stephens.  Good riddance.
 
 
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Phil Donahue: Trump era ‘darkest political moment’ in history
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com and IJR
Nicki Zink / ABC News:
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Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
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Deroy Murdock / New York Post:
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Reed Abelson / New York Times:
In Clash Over Health Bill, a Growing Fear of ‘Junk Insurance’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Power Line
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Catholic journal criticizes Trump ‘value voters’
Discussion: The Hill