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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Late Vote, Early Warning

Senate Republicans' postponed health-care vote, Trump's message to Syria, the healthy way of hearing voices, and more
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What We’re Following

Delayed Action: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is postponing the vote on his party’s health-care bill until after Congress’s July 4 recess. Republicans had hoped to pass the bill this week, but were forced to back down under mounting opposition: Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers feared it would place an undue burden on the elderly and the poor, not to mention diminishing civil-rights victories. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats say their fight to preserve Obamacare isn’t over yet.

In a statement released last night, the White House of planning “another chemical—and highlighting his improvisational foreign-policy style that .

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