Monday, July 31, 2017

White House gets tricked

A self-described "email prankster" posed as Jared Kushner online and invited Trump’s Homeland Security adviser to dinner



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News Alert: US goes after ‘dictator’

The Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, sending a clear signal of the Trump administration's opposition to his regime.

The move comes a day after Maduro declared a sweeping victory in a vote that will allow him to further consolidate his power in the crisis-torn nation.

"Yesterday's illegitimate elections confirm that Maduro is a dictator who disregards the will of the Venezuelan people," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a statement.

Venezuela's attorney general lambasted the election, which established a new legislative body made up entirely of Maduro's supporters.

"This is the end of freedom of expression," Attorney General Luisa Ortega said.

Follow CNN's updates from on the ground in Venezuela. 



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News Alert: Scaramucci out

Anthony Scaramucci is out as President Trump’s communications director, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

The White House statement read: “Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director. Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best."

It's the latest high-profile departure from the Trump White House.

Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned at the end of last week, replaced by John Kelly, who was sworn in this morning. A White House official said Kelly wanted Scaramucci removed from his new role because he did not think he was disciplined and had burned his credibility.

Scaramucci, a colorful and controversial figure, was brought on July 21 during the latest in a long list of White House shake-ups that have rocked the presidency with a sense of chaos.



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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Putin retaliates

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday confirmed that US diplomatic missions in Russia will be cut by 755 people, following a sanctions bill the US Congress passed last week.

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday demanded that the United States cut its diplomatic staff in Russia and said it would seize two US diplomatic properties in a sharp response to the new US sanctions bill.

Putin had hoped relations would improve with the US, but now says it does not appear that will happen soon, according to state media. 

"We waited a long time for things to perhaps change for the better," state media quoted Putin as saying. "We had such hope that the situation would change, but judging by the situation that will not be soon."

On taking retaliatory measures, Putin said, "I thought it was time for us to show that we will not leave this without an answer."



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Saturday, July 29, 2017

News Alert

Authorities in Australia foiled a terror plot to bring down an airplane and arrested four men Saturday, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced at a news conference in Sydney.

Police said it was an Islamist-inspired plot, but they did not link the plan to a specific terrorist group.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said officers became aware people in Sydney were allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack using an improvised device.

Turnbull said it was an elaborate conspiracy. Police did not specify the date or location of the threat.



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Friday, July 28, 2017

White House shake-up

President Donald Trump has selected Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as his new White House chief of staff, replacing Reince Priebus.

"I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American... and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration," Trump tweeted.

Priebus resigned privately Thursday, CNN has learned.

The move was announced just after Air Force One landed at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington Friday.

"Reince is a good man. John Kelly will do a fantastic job," Trump told reporters. "General Kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. He's a great great American."

The move followed months of on-again, off-again speculation that Priebus would soon be ousted. He has consistently drawn heavy criticism for failing to stem the flow of leaks and has struggled to impose a sense of order in a chaotic White House beset by controversies.



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News Alert: North Korea launches missile

The US has detected a ballistic missile launch out of North Korea, the Pentagon said.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the missile possibly flew for approximately 45 minutes.

 This is North Korea's 12th missile test this year. US officials are still assessing the launch and say they will have more information soon.



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Thursday, July 27, 2017

News Alert: Obamacare repeal fails

The Senate has dealt a devastating blow to Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare with a surprise defeat for the GOP "skinny bill."

Republican Sens. John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined with Democrats to oppose the measure.



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Graham: 'Skinny repeal' a 'fraud'

GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Ron Johnson are demanding assurances the “skinny repeal” bill will go into a conference committee if passed in the Senate.

They said they won’t vote yes without a guarantee the House won’t pass this version, calling it a "fraud" of a replacement for Obamacare.

"The worst possible outcome is to pass something that most of us believe is a placeholder and it becomes the final product," Graham said, who earlier in the day had called the proposal a "political cop-out" and a "disaster."

The "skinny repeal" plan would likely eliminate the individual mandate, which requires nearly all Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, and the employer mandate, which obligates larger companies to provide affordable coverage to their full-time workers. The plan would also get rid of the Obamacare tax on medical device makers.

"I am not going to vote for the skinny bill if I am not assured by the House for a conference where my idea and other ideas can be taken up," Graham said.



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News Alert: The $90 billion man

Just over two decades ago, Jeff Bezos started selling books online from his garage. Today, the Amazon CEO is the richest person on Earth.

Bezos' net worth topped $90 billion on Thursday, allowing the Amazon founder and CEO to narrowly dethrone Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, according to Forbes and Bloomberg.

If Amazon stock holds steady through trading Thursday, Bezos will officially bump Gates, who has been No. 1 since 2013, from the the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 



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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

News Alert: Trump to reinstate military transgender ban

President Donald Trump announced that he plans to reinstate a ban on transgender individuals serving in the US armed forces.

The decision reversed a policy initially approved by the Defense Department under President Barack Obama that would allow transgender individuals to openly serve in the military. Defense Secretary James Mattis announced last month that he was delaying enactment of the plan to begin allowing transgender individuals to join the US military.

"After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump said in a series of tweets. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."



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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

News Alert: Trump makes 'presidential' pitch

President Donald Trump returned to the campaign stage Tuesday, holding a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, where he defended his unconventional approach as necessary to change the country for the better.

"It is much easier to act presidential than what we are doing here tonight, believe me," Trump said. "With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office."

The rally came as Trump's administration remains steeped in turmoil over his criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and upheaval in his White House's communications department. In his sixth campaign rally as president, returning to the campaign trail marked a reprieve from the conflict in Washington.

"I'm back in the American heartland far away from the Washington swamp," he said.



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News Alert: Trump 'disappointed' in Sessions

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was "disappointed" with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, although he declined to say he would fire him.

"I am disappointed in the attorney general. He should not have recused himself," Trump said during a joint news conference with the Lebanese prime minister hours after lashing out at Sessions on Twitter.

Pressed on whether he wants Sessions to resign, Trump simply added once more that he is "very disappointed" in Sessions.

"But we will see what happens. Time will tell, time will tell," the President said.



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News Alert: Pence breaks tie

Senate Republicans voted to advance to debate on their efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Vice President Mike Pence cast the tiebreaking vote.

In a dramatic moment, Sen. John McCain returned from Arizona to applause from fellow senators, days after he revealed he has brain cancer. He cast a necessary Republican vote for the motion.

As the vote began, protesters in the Senate gallery shouted "kill the bill" and "shame, shame, shame!"



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News Alert: Ex-Trump aide subpoenaed

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met behind closed doors this morning with the Senate intelligence committee, Manafort's spokesman Jason Maloni told CNN, as a separate Senate committee announced it has subpoenaed him.

The Senate intelligence committee is one of several congressional panels investigating Russian interference in the US election last year. Another is the Senate judiciary committee, which has sought testimony from Manafort and President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Jr.

Senate judiciary committee chairman Chuck Grassley and the top Democrat on the panel, Dianne Feinstein, issued a joint statement Tuesday saying that Manafort had been subpoenaed after the top members of the committee were "unable to reach an agreement for a voluntary transcribed interview."



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News Alert: Study finds brain disease in 99% of ex-NFL players

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE, was found in the brains of 110 out of 111 deceased former NFL players that were donated to scientific research, according to a study published in the medical journal JAMA.

The neurodegenerative brain disease can be found in individuals who have been exposed to repeated head trauma. It can only be formally diagnosed with an autopsy, and most cases, although not all, have been seen in either veterans or people who played contact sports, particularly American football.

The JAMA study is the largest of its kind and all of those studied were required to have football as their primary exposure to head trauma.

"There's no question that there's a problem in football. That people who play football are at risk for this disease," said Dr. Ann McKee, director of Boston University's CTE Center and coauthor of the new study. "And we urgently need to find answers for not just football players, but veterans and other individuals exposed to head trauma."



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Monday, July 24, 2017

News Alert: McCain to return to Senate

Sen. John McCain, recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer, will return to the Senate on Tuesday to cast a critical vote on health care legislation.

Most Republicans expected him to miss the crucial vote and return to Washington at a later date. But he could help the GOP deliver a critical vote to begin debating health care legislation, which is on the verge of collapsing.

"Senator McCain looks forward to returning to the United States Senate tomorrow to continue working on important legislation, including health care reform, the National Defense Authorization Act, and new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea," McCain's office said in a statement.



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News Alert: Trump’s blistering critique

President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering critique of the Affordable Care Act and ratcheted up the pressure on Senate Republicans to keep their campaign promise to repeal and replace the law.

Speaking on the eve of a critical Senate vote, Trump drew on the struggles of Americans who joined him at the White House to remind Republicans of their longstanding promise.

"So far, Senate Republicans have not done their job in ending the Obamacare nightmare,” Trump said. “They now have a chance, however, to hopefully -- hopefully -- fix what has been so badly broken for such a long time.”

The plan is for the Senate to take a major procedural vote on Tuesday to advance a health care bill, said the No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn.

What exactly lawmakers will ultimately be voting for, however, remains unclear.

When asked what leadership ultimately wants the bill to be, Cornyn said: "We're not quite there yet."



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Jared Kushner speaks

Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser, made a rare public statement Monday following a meeting with Senate intelligence committee staffers, saying his answers and information he provided the committee show "all of my actions were proper" in the course of the campaign.

Standing behind a White House logo outside the West Wing, he said "I did not collude with Russia," adding "I do not know of anyone else" on the campaign who did so.

His comments outside the White House were similar to an 11-page statement released ahead of his closed-door interview with Senate intelligence committee staff. In that document, Kushner offered his first public accounting of what he says are his four meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign and transition, offering previously undisclosed details of those meetings.



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News Alert

Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser, said in a statement to the Senate and House intelligence committees that he had no additional contacts with individuals who were or may have been Russian government representatives, beyond those that have already been publicly disclosed.

In an 11-page statement released Monday ahead of his closed-door interview with Senate intelligence committee staff, Kushner offers his first public accounting of what he says are his four meetings with Russians during the 2016 campaign and transition, offering previously undisclosed details of those meetings. Kushner insists in the letter that he discussed nothing improper during those meetings, which include two encounters with the Russian ambassador in Washington, a meeting with the head of a Russian state-owned bank and the June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer and others that was set up by Kushner's brother-in-law, Donald Trump Jr.



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Sunday, July 23, 2017

News Alert

US golfer Jordan Spieth won his first British Open on Sunday, beating countryman Matt Kuchar by three shots.

Spieth, 23, overcame a rocky start, shooting a 69 to finish 12-under at the 146th Open at Royal Birkdale.

Spieth now has won three of golf’s top titles, having won the Masters in 2015 followed two months later by the US Open. He heads into next month's PGA Championship looking to become just the sixth golfer in history to achieve a career Grand Slam.



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Friday, July 21, 2017

News Alert

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak to discuss Trump campaign matters during the 2016 presidential election, according to US intelligence intercepts, The Washington Post reports.

According to the Post, Kislyak told his superiors in Moscow about two conversations he had with Sessions, which included a discussion on policy issues important to the Kremlin. Sessions was a foreign policy adviser to Trump and major campaign supporter at the time.

Sessions originally never disclosed any interactions he had with Kislyak, but a meeting first came to light in March when the Post reported that he met with Kislyak at an event during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Sessions met with Kislyak for a second time during the presidential campaign, this time in his Senate office in Washington. This meeting, in September, also wasn't publicly known until the Post reported about it in March.

Sessions did not disclose either meeting when he applied for his security clearance. He also did not mention it when he was asked about contact with Russians during his Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year. Sessions denied any campaign-related meetings with Russians at the confirmation hearings, saying, "I did not have communications with the Russians." 



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Sean Spicer is out

White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned Friday after former Trump campaign fundraiser Anthony Scaramucci accepted the position as White House communications director.

A White House official and top GOP adviser said President Trump asked Spicer to stay on, but he resigned.

The resignation caps off one of the most tumultuous tenures for a White House press secretary, one that saw Spicer repeatedly undermined in his role as the White House's public-facing spokesman by the President's own public statements and tweets.



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Mueller: Save Russia meeting documents

Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked the White House to preserve all documents relating to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer and others, according to a source who has seen the letter.

Mueller sent a notice, called a document preservation request, asking White House staff to save "any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting" and also "any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting," according to the source, who read portions of the letter to CNN.

The preservation request is broad and includes text messages, emails, notes, voicemails and other communications and documentation regarding the meeting and any related communication since then.

A White House spokeswoman told CNN they don't comment on internal communications and the special counsel's office declined to comment.



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Thursday, July 20, 2017

CNN Exclusive

CNN investigation finds Jared Kushner's White House connection is still being used to lure Chinese investors.



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Linkin Park singer dead

Chester Bennington, the lead singer of the rock band Linkin Park, was found dead Thursday according to a spokesman for the LA County Coroner. He was 41.

The coroner's office was called out to a home in Palos Verdes Estates shortly after 9 a.m. Authorities said they were treating the case as a possible suicide.

Bennington's band found success in 2000 with their album "Hybrid Theory" with Bennington's heartfelt vocals leading the way.

Bennington has six children from two relationships.



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O.J. Simpson granted parole

A Nevada parole board ruled Thursday that O.J. Simpson be released from prison.

Simpson was sentenced in 2008 to up to 33 years in prison for kidnapping, armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon in a 2007 incident that unfolded in a Las Vegas hotel room. He could be released as early as October. 



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News Alert: Trump's blast of Sessions has 'chilling' effect

President Donald Trump’s trashing of several of top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is causing deep alarm inside the West Wing.

Trump’s comments in an interview with The New York Times are leading some to worry that their loyalty to Trump might not be reciprocated from the man in the Oval Office.

"It's chilling," one White House official said.

Sessions earlier Thursday said he plans to continue in his job despite Trump saying that he would have picked someone else had he known Sessions would recuse himself from the department's Russia investigation.

“We love this job. We love this department, and I plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate," he told reporters Thursday.



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Watch live: O.J. Simpson hearing

A parole board in Nevada is deciding whether O.J. Simpson, one of America's most notorious prisoners, will be released.

"Juice," as he was known in his football heyday, is nine years into a nine-to-33-year sentence after his conviction in a 2007 kidnapping and armed robbery at a Las Vegas hotel.

But Simpson is best known for his infamous 1995 acquittal in the grisly slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in what was called the "trial of the century."

You can follow CNN's live coverage of the 1 p.m. ET hearing and the decision.



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News Alert

A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds a growing share of Americans want to see the GOP abandon its effort to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare, as majorities across party lines want congressional Republicans to aim for a bill with bipartisan support.

Overall, 35% in the poll say they'd like President Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress to give up their plans for repealing and replacing Obamacare, up from 23% who said the same in a March survey.

Read the complete CNN/SSRS poll here

A majority still favor some form of repeal (34% would prefer repeal with replacement at the same time, and 18% favor repeal regardless of whether the law is replaced at the same time). The share in favor of repeal without replacement has held roughly steady since March; it remains the least popular option.

But public preferences are shifting away from repealing the law and enacting replacements concurrently (down from 59% in March), and more now say they're unsure how they want Republican leaders to proceed (13% say so in the new poll).



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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

News Alert

Sen. John McCain, 80, has been diagnosed with a primary glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor, Mayo Clinic doctors directly involved in the senator's care told CNN exclusively.

The doctors spoke directly to CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon.

The senator underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on Friday at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. Lab results from that surgery confirmed the presence of glioblastoma associated with the blood clot.

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive tumor that forms in the tissue of the brain and spinal cord, according to the American Brain Tumor Association.

A pathologist was in the operating room during the procedure, a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision, said his doctor, who added that the surgery lasted about three to four hours. Post-surgical brain scans show the tissue causing concern has been completely removed.

McCain is recovering "amazingly well," according to a statement from his office.



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News Alert: Supreme Court says grandparents OK under travel ban

In a loss for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court left intact a lower court opinion that temporarily exempts grandparents and other relatives from President Donald Trump's travel ban.

The justices did give Trump a partial win on another issue by lifting an order exempting a category of refugees from the travel ban.

The court said the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals should review the issue.

Trump's order affects people from Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. The Supreme Court will hear the overall challenge to the ban later this year.



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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

News Alert

President Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke for a second time at the G20 summit in a previously undisclosed discussion, the White House confirmed on Tuesday.

A senior White House official told CNN the talk lasted "nearly an hour."

In a statement, the White House called the conversation "brief" and added that Trump spoke with Putin through Russia's translator.

The discussion came after their scheduled, two-hour-long bilateral meeting earlier in the day.

The White House sought to downplay the significance of the discussion.

"It is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president's duties, to interact with world leaders," the White House statement said.



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News Alert: Trump says to let Obamacare fail

President Trump was prepared to shoulder no blame for the failure of the Republican health care bill on Tuesday, and warned he would now simply let Obamacare fail.

 "We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We'll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us," Trump told reporters at the White House.

 His remarks came as three Republican senators said that they would oppose the procedural step to advance legislation as written to repeal the affordable care act, stalling within hours another effort by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to make good a seven-year campaign pledge by Republicans.

Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Shelley Moore Capito and Susan Collins said Tuesday that they would oppose the repeal-only plan after a separate GOP plan collapsed on Monday night.

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First on CNN: Investigators seek info from eighth person at Trump Tower meeting

Special Counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower, this person's attorney Scott Balber says.

"The eighth person has been identified by prosecutors, and we are cooperating fully with prosecutors as a result of the investigation. To preserve the integrity of the investigation we are declining to identify him at this time," Balber told CNN.

Balber's comments offer a rare glimpse inside special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into allegations that Trump's campaign colluded with Russia.

Balber said the individual is a long-time US citizen who speaks fluent Russian and has "never had any engagement with the Russian government in any capacity."



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Monday, July 17, 2017

News Alert

Hours after the Senate was gaveled back into session, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was handed devastating news Monday evening: Two more defections on his health care bill that could doom the entire effort for the foreseeable future.

The dramatic simultaneous announcement from Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Mike Lee of Utah means McConnell officially does not have the votes to even begin debate on his legislation to overhaul Obamacare.

In announcing their opposition to the bill, Moran and Lee said they would vote "no" on the motion to proceed -- a vote that McConnell had hoped to hold this week but was already forced to postpone due to Arizona Sen. John McCain's absence from Washington.

"We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy. Furthermore, if we leave the federal government in control of everyday healthcare decisions, it is more likely that our healthcare system will devolve into a single-payer system, which would require a massive federal spending increase," Moran said in a statement.

In a stark sign of just how grave his concerns are about the bill, Moran went as far as to call for a "fresh" start and an "open legislative process."

Prior to Monday, there were two other Senate Republicans who had said they would vote against the revised health care bill: Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine. This meant McConnell could not afford even one more opposing senator.



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Sunday, July 16, 2017

News Alert

Actor Martin Landau, who starred in the 1960s television show "Mission Impossible" and won an Oscar for playing Bela Lugosi in the movie "Ed Wood," died Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital following "unexpected complications during a short hospitalization," his publicist Dick Guttman said Sunday night.

Landau was 89.



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Saturday, July 15, 2017

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The Senate will delay debate on the GOP health care bill until John McCain returns after recovering from surgery, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says.



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Friday, July 14, 2017

News Alert

Three people have died in a high-rise fire in Honolulu, the mayor said Friday night. The victims were found on the 26th floor, where the fire originated. Firefighters and police were going door-to-door in the building in search of residents, officials said.



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News Alert

Two Israeli police officers were killed in a shooting Friday in Jerusalem's Old City, just outside one of the world's most important religious sites.



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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Travel ban ruling

In a victory for challengers of the Trump administration's travel ban, a federal court judge late Thursday agreed once again to partially halt the ban of certain foreign nationals from six predominately Muslim countries on a nationwide basis -- a direct rebuke of the government's attempt to limit the close family members allowed in the US. 

Most specifically, the decision means that "grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States" will now count as sufficiently close family relationships to gain entry into the country.

The Supreme Court ruled late last month that the administration could employ the travel ban against foreign nationals who lack any "bona fide" relationship to a person or entity in the US, but the state of Hawaii said the administration had wrongfully interpreted that to exclude close family, such as grandparents.

The countries affected are Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia.



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News Alert

White House aides may be exposed to special counsel scrutiny over response to Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer.



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News Alert: Trump defends son

President Donald Trump offered a staunch defense of his eldest son, saying Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer was a standard session that any political operative would have taken.

"My son is a wonderful young man. He took a meeting with a Russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a Russian lawyer," Trump said alongside French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. "It was a short meeting. It was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast."

According to the emails released by Trump Jr., the lawyer -- Natalia Veselnitskaya -- was described to Trump's son in an email as a "Russian government lawyer" with information that was part of the country's effort to help elect his father.

"I think from a practical standpoint most people would have taken that meeting," Trump added. "Politics isn't the nicest business in the world, but it's very standard."



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News Alert: Senate health care bill revised

Senate Republicans unveiled their newest health care bill as they continue to search for the majority needed to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The revision includes a version of Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment, which would allow insurers offering Obamacare plans to also offer cheaper, bare-bones policies. This is meant to appeal to conservatives, but could also drive away moderates who are concerned the amendment would cause premiums to spike for those with pre-existing conditions.

It also contains significant new funding for opioid treatment and money for states meant to lower premiums for high-cost enrollees. It would keep two Obamacare-era taxes on the wealthy and maintain significant cuts to Medicaid, meaning 15 million fewer people could be insured by the program by 2026.

Senators walking into a meeting of fellow Republicans mostly said they were unfamiliar with the revised bill. Read the bill here.

Also Thursday, GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana proposed an alternative approach to replacing Obamacare that would keep much of the federal taxes in place and send that money to states to control.



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Emmy nominations

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards nominations were announced Thursday and it looks to be the year of the freshman.

Five newbies -- "This Is Us," "Westworld," "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Crown" and "Stranger Things" --   will compete with "Better Call Saul" and "House of Cards" in the drama category.

"Atlanta," "Black-ish," "Master of None," "Modern Family," "Silicon Valley," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" and "Veep" are vying for best comedy.

Two shows with very different political themes scored multiple nominations. HBO's satirical comedy "Veep" earned 17 nominations, and Hulu’s new dystopian drama "The Handmaid's Tale” earned 11.

"Saturday Night Live" and the HBO drama "Westworld" both earned 22 nominations. "SNL" is now the most Emmy nominated series of all time with 231 over the history of the show.

"Veep" star Anna Chlumsky announced the nominations along with actor Shemar Moore. Chlumsky got a bit of a surprise when she earned her fifth consecutive nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy.

The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Stephen Colbert, will be shown live on CBS on Sunday, September 17.



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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

McConnell delays start of recess

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has delayed the start of the August recess until the third week of the month to allow more time to complete work on health care reform and other issues.

The delay of the August recess comes after a handful of rank-and file Republicans urged leadership to stay in Washington to finish their business rather than return home for the district work period. Eight senators held a news conference earlier Tuesday on the topic of recess, during which they stood next to a large printed graphic warning: "31 working days until the fiscal year ends."

"We have an enormous amount of work to do," Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said, urging the Senate to consider working through weekends as well.

While Republicans are still working through their plan to overhaul Obamacare, McConnell says there is plenty more work to do after that.

"Once the Senate completes its work on health care reform, we will turn to other important issues including the National Defense Authorization Act and the backlog of critical nominations that have been mindlessly stalled by Democrats," McConnell said.



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News Alert: Trump Jr. releases emails on Russia meeting

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted an email chain that he says is about his meeting with a Russian lawyer.

President Donald Trump's eldest son agreed to meet with a "Russian government attorney" last summer who supposedly had "very high level and sensitive information" that would "incriminate" Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, according to the emails the younger Trump publicly released.

Trump Jr. tweeted that he was releasing the emails to be "totally transparent," but his release came moments before The New York Times published the emails.

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Sunday, July 9, 2017

News Alert

Iraq's prime minister tweeted Sunday that he has arrived in the "liberated city of Mosul" and "congratulates the heroic fighters and the Iraqi people in achieving this great victory."

However, state TV reported that ISIS militants are still holding out in one neighborhood.

Mosul is Iraq's biggest city outside of Baghdad, and gaining control of the city was one of ISIS' most significant strategic wins. When the terror group seized Mosul in June 2014, it also took control of more that 2.5 million people and subjected some to horrors.



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News Alert

A ceasefire that was brokered by the US, Russia and Jordan goes into effect in southwest Syria.

The White House has called the de-escalation zone a "priority."

The plan was previously announced after a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit.



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Friday, July 7, 2017

News Alert: US, Russia disagree over what Trump and Putin said

A diplomatic dust-up immediately broke out after a two-hour meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in which they discussed interference in US elections and an agreement on curbing violence in Syria.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Trump accepted Putin's assurances there was no Russian involvement in the 2016 American election. A senior Trump administration official immediately denied that Trump accepted Putin's claim of non-interference.

The dispute only underscores the challenges that remain in the fraught relationship between the United States and Russia, whose 2016 election meddling has hung over the Trump White House for months as multiple investigations proceed in Washington.

"They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject," US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an off-camera briefing after the meeting. "The President pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement. President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past."

Lavrov, speaking on camera in a separate briefing, said that Trump was OK with Putin's version of events.

Tillerson, who sat in on the discussion between the two leaders, said Trump and Putin did agree to a ceasefire in southwest Syria. The ceasefire was a "defined agreement" and could be a precursor to further cooperation in Syria.

"This is our first indication of the US and Russia being able to work together in Syria," Tillerson said.



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News Alert: More gains for US job market

The US economy added 222,000 jobs in June, much more than economists were expecting, the Labor Department said Friday.

The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.4%, hovering just above its lowest level since 2001. Shortly after the Great Recession ended in 2009, unemployment peaked at 10%.

June was the 81st consecutive month of job gains.



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Thursday, July 6, 2017

News Alert

Russian spies are ramping up their intelligence-gathering efforts in the US, according to current and former US intelligence officials who say they have noticed an increase since the election.

The officials say they believe one of the biggest US adversaries feels emboldened by the lack of a significant retaliatory response from both the Trump and Obama administrations.

"Russians have maintained an aggressive collection posture in the US, and their success in election meddling has not deterred them,” said a former senior intelligence official familiar with Trump administration efforts.



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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

News Alert

Rep. Steve Scalise has been readmitted to the intensive care unit "due to new concerns for infection," a statement from his office said.

His condition is listed as serious, according to the statement.

Scalise, the Republican House majority whip who represents Louisiana, was critically injured during a shooting by a lone gunman at the GOP baseball team's practice for a charity game June 14.

He had been released from the MedStar Washington Hospital Center's intensive care unit less than two weeks ago.

Another update is expected Thursday, according to his office. 

 



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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

News Alert: US believes N. Korea launched probable ICBM

US military analysts believe North Korea launched a "probable" two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday, according to a US official with knowledge of the ongoing post-launch analysis.

The assessment suggests a second-stage booster did ignite and produce 30 seconds of additional flight. The missile flew more than 550 miles before splashing down west of Japan, according to the source.

Trump administration national security, military and diplomatic officials are holding a series of unexpected July 4 meetings to discuss options for a potential response.  At this stage, the US believes that whatever capability the North Koreans have demonstrated, it does not necessarily mean they can immediately launch a working missile that can reach as far as western Alaska. And it's also not clear that the regime has a functioning miniaturized nuclear warhead.

However, US military commanders have long said they plan for a worst-case scenario and have updated options for President Donald Trump specifically in anticipation of a North Korean ICBM or underground nuclear test.



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News Alert: Formal sit-down for Trump and Putin

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will sit down for an official bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg on Friday, rather than an informal pull-aside meeting.

The meeting, announced by both the White House and the Kremlin on Tuesday, will be the first official bilateral meeting between a US and Russian president in nearly two years and comes amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.

It will cap months of debate within Trump's administration about the first session with Putin, whom the US government has accused of greenlighting attempts to influence the US election last year to favor Trump.

The meeting was announced last week but a format had not yet been set.



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News Alert

North Korea has announced that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on the orders of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, according to state media.

Tuesday morning's missile test exceeded an altitude of "well over" 1,550 miles, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense. 

The missile flew into waters east of the Korean Peninsula and may have landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from its coastline, said Takahiro Hirano, public affairs officer from Japan's Ministry of Defense.



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Monday, July 3, 2017

News Alert

North Korea has fired an unidentified ballistic missile from North Pyong'an Province that jetted into waters east of the Korean Peninsula, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The projectile may have landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from its coastline, official from Japan's Ministry of Defense told CNN.

The launch comes just after President Donald Trump spoke to the leaders of both China and Japan, two important regional actors in the ongoing standoff with Pyongyang over its nuclear ambitions.



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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Arrest made in Pennsylvania road rage killing

A Pennsylvania man accused of shooting and killing an 18-year-old woman in a case of road rage is being held without bail on murder charges after turning himself in Sunday morning, authorities said.

David Desper, 28, faces multiple charges, including first-degree murder and reckless endangerment, Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan said.

Police said he shot Bianca Nikol Roberson after he became angry as their vehicles were merging on the same lane of a highway Wednesday in West Goshen, just west of Philadelphia.

"They jockeyed for position and he wasn't happy, so he pulled out a gun and shot Bianca in the head, killing her instantly," Hogan said. Authorities had urged the shooter in recent days to surrender to them.

Roberson recently graduated high school and had been shopping for new college clothes with her mother and grandmother before she was killed, family members said. They said she had planned to attend Jacksonville University.



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