Trump’s Spectacular Healthcare Failure: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. House Republicans pull Trumpcare, millions get to keep their health care
“Obamacare has survived. And U.S. President Donald Trump has suffered a spectacular failure.
Trump’s plan to replace Barack Obama’s health care law was withdrawn on Friday to avoid certain defeat in the House of Representatives vote that had been scheduled for the afternoon. Vote or not, the outcome is a massive defeat that may do lasting damage to Trump’s administration and that will likely reverberate through the elections in 2018 and 2020.”
2. The Loneliness of Being an Immigrant
“In 2011, Keith Bi immigrated to Canada to start a new life. He can’t tell his parents the truth about what that life has become.”
3.‘U left me with one eye and a lot of head trauma,’ Bradley texted to Aaron Hernandez
“So began a contentious text correspondence in March 2013 between Alexander Bradley and former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez.
The ensuing text thread between the men, spanning hundreds of messages over a three-month period, reads like a noir novel, complete with gun talk, taunts, and even professions of love.”
4. Who owns your face?
“Depending on a researcher’s needs, there are many other available databases of human faces—some featuring tens of thousands of images. These collections of faces draw from public records like mugshots, surveillance footage, news photos, Google images, and university studies.
It’s entirely possible that your face is in one of these databases. There’s no way to say for certain that it isn’t.”
5. Things I wish I had known when my dog died
“I don’t think anything could have prepared me for that moment, or the searing grief that followed. But if I could go back in time to console myself, I would tell myself these six things.”
