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Poll: Most disapprove of Graham-Cassidy health care bill — Most Americans — 52 percent — disapprove of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, according to a CBS News Poll conducted between Sept. 21 and 24. — Only 20 percent of those polled said they approved of the Republican legislation aimed …
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Here's the new Graham-Cassidy bill — Here's a copy of the revised health care bill Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy are set to introduce tomorrow. A senior GOP aide confirmed its authenticity. More analysis to come.
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A New Obamacare Repeal Draft Is Out And It Attacks Pre-Existing Protections More Severely — It “opens the door to very bare-bones coverage.” — Republicans on Sunday evening circulated a new version of their embattled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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GOP health bill in major peril as resistance hardens among key senators
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Graham, Cassidy revise Obamacare repeal bill, appealing to holdouts
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Tom Brady on K&C: ‘I certainly disagree with what [Donald Trump] said’ — On Friday night, President Donald Trump had some pointed comments towards the NFL when it comes to players protesting during the national anthem. — “Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners …
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Chiefs QB: Why is Trump condemning football players more harshly than white supremacists?
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Monday Morning QB: Response to President Trump Made Roger Goodell ‘Proud of Our League’
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The Latest: More reaction from Trump on NFL players
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NASCAR owners say they wouldn't tolerate national anthem protests at races
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Puerto Rico's Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria — YABUCOA, P.R. — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him. — “How do you calculate everything?”
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Hot, isolated, and running out of supplies, parts of Puerto Rico near desperation — JUNCOS, Puerto Rico — In the heat and humidity here in the central mountains, Meryanne Aldea fanned her bedridden mother with a piece of cardboard Sunday as the ailing woman lay on her side, relieving a large ulcer in her back.
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Clinton: Trump should send Navy to help Puerto Rico
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The Politicization of Everything — Everybody loses in the Trump-NFL brawl over the national anthem.
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The NFL Protests Are Patriotic
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Amid Trump's NFL war, photos of Martin Luther King Jr. ‘taking a knee’ resurface
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Trump Wins When The NFL Takes A Knee
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Trump's NFL comments prove he doesn't get American values
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A Divider, Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach — WASHINGTON — Over the course of just 17 hours this weekend, President Trump assailed John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Stephen Curry, the National Football League, Roger Goodell, Iran and Kim Jong-un — the “Little Rocket Man.” And that was on his day off.
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Is Trump All Talk on North Korea? The Uncertainty Sends a Shiver
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Team Trump Forced to Defend His ‘Nutty’ NFL Tweets... Again
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Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook — Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled …
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Mark Zuckerberg Can't Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
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Kushner used private email to conduct White House business — Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December …
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Presidential Proclamation Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats — ENHANCING VETTING CAPABILITIES AND PROCESSES FOR DETECTING ATTEMPTED ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES BY TERRORISTS OR OTHER PUBLIC-SAFETY THREATS
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New Order Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
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Deadly Tennessee church shooting: Sudanese immigrant arrested, FBI launches civil rights investigation — One woman was killed and seven other people were hurt after a suspect identified as a Sudanese immigrant opened fire at a Tennessee church Sunday, police said, as the FBI confirmed it's launched …
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Tennessee Church Shooting Suspect Is A Sudanese Bodybuilder
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Conservative, Inc., Is Being Replaced By Us Militant Normals — I guess now we're not supposed to be fighting culture wars anymore - man, it's so hard to keep up with these ever-changing new rules! I'm old enough to remember way back to 2016, before Trump got nominated …


John McCain fights back — You'd never know it but before work, Sen. John McCain starts his day with chemo and radiation. McCain tells 60 Minutes that he feels more energetic and engaged because of his diagnosis — On Friday, John McCain announced that he will once again vote against repeal …
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Far-right party AfD in disarray a day after historic German election result — German far-right leader walks out of presser — Berlin (CNN)The leadership of the hardline Alternative for Germany party was in disarray Monday, a day after its historic breakthrough in the German elections delivered …
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The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing — Amazon comes to conquer brick-and-mortar retail, not to bury it. In the last two years, the company has opened 11 physical bookstores. This summer, it bought Whole Foods and its 400 grocery locations.