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GOP Efforts To Repeal Obamacare Die In Early Morning Vote
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Senate has dealt a devastating setback to Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, defeating a GOP “skinny repeal” bill early Friday morning.Sens. J...
Syndicated Author Jul 28, 2017

Trump Honors 1st Responders of Congressional Baseball Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has presented the Medal of Valor to five of the first responders injured in a shooting on a congressional baseball practice last month.The three Alexandr...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

House OKs $1.6B down payment for President Trump’s Border Wall
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican-led House has voted to make a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump's long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The vote was 230-196. Republican ...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

Charlie Gard Will Be Moved to Hospice for Final Hours: Judge
LONDON — (CNN) Charlie Gard, the terminally ill baby at the center of a bitter legal battle that has garnered global attention, is to have his life support treatment withdrawn. A UK High Court j...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

Sen. Lindsey Graham Vows ‘Holy Hell To Pay’ If Attorney General Jeff Sessions is Fired
WASHINGTON — (CNN)As President Donald Trump continues to publicly criticize Jeff Sessions, one of the attorney general’s former colleagues is promising that if Sessions is fired, there wil...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

US Joint Chiefs Blindsided by Trump’s Transgender Ban
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Joint Chiefs of Staff, including chairman General Joseph Dunford, were not aware President Donald Trump planned to tweet a ban on transgender service members, three US def...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

Scaramucci Denies Tweet About Leaks Was A Shot At Priebus
WASHINGTON — (CNN)Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director who was brought in to bring order to a press shop in turmoil, called into CNN’s “New Day” on T...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

GOP Senate Votes Continue In Bid To Move Health Care Bill Forward
WASHINGTON — (CNN) Congressional Republicans have a simple plan to get an Obamacare repeal and replace bill to President Donald Trump: Keep kicking the can down the road.House Republicans made t...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

Police Call For Charges Against Teens Who Let Man Drown
COCOA BEACH, FL — (CNN) A Florida police department is recommending charges for a group of teenagers who taunted a drowning man as they recorded his death.On Wednesday, the Cocoa Police Departme...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017

DOJ Argues Civil Rights Act Does Not Protect LGBT In Workplace
WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Justice Department filed an amicus brief Wednesday saying that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not cover employment “discrimination based on sexual or...
Syndicated Author Jul 27, 2017
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