Sunday 25 June 2017

Sunday's Headlines: Senate health-care bill faces resistance from GOP moderates

Graphic: Where the bill's subsidy cuts will affect Americans most; Koch network won't endorse Senate GOP's health-care measure in its current form; Trump lashes out at Obama over Post report on Russian election meddling; How one band is trying to make it in a music industry turned upside down; Venezuelan prisoners allege horrific mistreatment; Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault;
 
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Senate health-care bill faces resistance from GOP moderates
Fears that proposed cuts would fray the social safety net are creating anxiety for Republican moderates whose states have benefited from the ACA's expansion of Medicaid. Those centrists may pose just as much an obstacle to the bill's passage as their colleagues on the right.
Graphic: Where the bill's subsidy cuts will affect Americans most
They disproportionately affect low-income and old Americans.
 
Koch network won't endorse Senate GOP's health-care measure in its current form
One group wants a "more dramatic" reversal of the Affordable Care Act. An official with the Koch network said the debate has focused too much on the number of insured people and not enough on outcomes. 
 
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Trump lashes out at Obama over Post report on Russian election meddling
The president's tweets criticizing his predecessor for not doing more to stop Russian interference suggest without proof that Obama administration officials tried to help Hillary Clinton.
 
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How one band is trying to make it in a music industry turned upside down
For bands such as The Orwells, breaking through today means going viral, scoring "syncs" and vying for attention in a system tilted toward the Drakes and Rihannas. But the shift to music streaming threatens almost everyone else hoping to earn enough money to sustain a musicmaking career. "It's all about getting your numbers up on the Internet," Orwells guitarist Matt O'Keefe said.
 
Venezuelan prisoners allege horrific mistreatment
Thousands have been arrested amid the chaos over the past 10 weeks of protests against the government, and some say the abuse while in custody is so abhorrent that they were "forced to eat raw pasta with human excrement."
 
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Obama's secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin's election assault
In political terms, Russia's interference was the crime of the century. It was a case that took almost no time to solve and was traced to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But because of the ways President Barack Obama and President Trump handled it, the Kremlin has yet to face severe consequences. Through interviews with more than three dozen current and former U.S. officials, The Post tells the inside story of how the Obama administration handled the Kremlin's meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
 
 
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The Republican tax-reform plan isn't reform at all
 
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South Korea's new president: 'Trump and I have a common goal'
 
Hong Kong was supposed to change China. How did the opposite happen?
 
Insulin is too expensive for many of my patients. It doesn't have to be.
 
The removal of the EPA's climate change website is a declaration of war
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He's a killer set to die. But his mental illness has set off a new death penalty battle.
A plea to Virginia's governor for a life term for William C. Morva — who faces execution for the killing of two men in 2006 — has come amid a drive to end capital punishment for the severely mentally ill.
More than 120 killed when oil tanker explodes in Pakistan
After the tanker flipped over on the highway, people who rushed to the scene to gather leaking fuel were killed when it burst into flames. At least 129 people died and 140 suffered injuries, an official said.
Why are female doctors introduced by first name while men are called 'Doctor'?
Research shows that women are less likely than men to be introduced by professional title when men did the introducing.
‘How can they hate us so much?' asks father of Muslim teen brutally killed in attack on train in India
The slaying of a 16-year-old was the latest in a string of anti-Muslim attacks in India during the Islamic holy period of Ramadan. Tensions have risen since the Hindu nationalist government restricted the sale of cattle for slaughter.
2 toddlers died after mom left them in hot car to teach ‘a lesson,’ police say
Cynthia Marie Randolph has been charged with two first-degree felony counts of injury to a child, police said, after her original explanation for her children's deaths unraveled.
A campaign to eliminate plastic straws is sucking in thousands of converts
Americans use half a billion plastic drinking straws every day, according to one estimate, and conversationalists say straws are among the top five plastic items volunteers clean from beaches. Now there's a growing movement to eliminate them from restaurants and homes.
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In jab at Trump, Schwarzenegger and Macron team up to ‘make the planet great again’
In the latest installment of his Twitter war with President Trump, Schwarzenegger recruited the French president, who, like the actor, has been outspoken about climate change — and about Trump.
News quiz: An election in Georgia, dozens of canceled flights, and 'fundamental meanness'
Make sure you're up to date on current events if you want to do well on this week's 10 questions. As always, the faster you correctly answer, the higher you can score.
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No one wants a martyr at a wedding
Don't go if you can't afford it. Don't go if you're deathly ill. Just stay home.
Food
Why it's hard to tell when beer is fresh
Beer lovers increasingly favor ultra-fresh beer, but confusing labels don't make it easy to find.
Arts & Style
Chihuly glass art in nature
A New York show has the feel of a retrospective, as it traces the arc of the glass artist's career.
 
     
 
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