When a gunman who had coolly calculated his strategy for maximum damage opened fire on a crowded concert in Las Vegas earlier this month, he killed 58 people, making it the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Numerous media outlets have painstakingly assembled the stories of those who died …
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On Monday night, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the 2018 defense policy bill, a package worth nearly $700 billion.The bill sailed through the chamber with broad bipartisan support, as Republican senators were simultaneously weighing a last-ditch effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act before the window to do so with a …
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For seven years, Republicans dined out a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, and in the fall the slogan finally helped the party capture both chambers of Congress and the White House. Turns out, the Affordable Care Act was a lot more popular with Americans than Republicans realized before their …
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