Daily Show Prep: Thursday, May 4

House Passes Obamacare Repeal Bill | The Daily Caller

The House passed an Obamacare replacement bill 217 to 213 Thursday, in a successful second attempt to deal with the health care law.

Backed by GOP leaders, Mich. Rep. Fred Upton offers health bill revision

The existing version of the health care legislation would let states get federal waivers allowing insurers to charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing illnesses who’d let their coverage lapse. That infuriated many moderates, who have promised to continue protections for such people. Under Obama’s law, insurers must charge healthy and seriously ill customers the same rates.

Congressional exemption from GOP healthcare plan to be addressed separately | TheHill

Rep. Tom MacArthur’s (R-N.J.) office said separate legislation would close that loophole.

Republican health care bill: What’s in it? | Fox News

Here’s what’s the bill does:

The FDA Might Make Too Many Pizza Toppings Illegal | Truth Revolt

The rule will require, among other mandates, that all restaurants and other retail food outlets, such as movie theaters, operating as one brand with at least 20 stores display a calorie count in addition to other nutritional information for all standard menu items on the establishment’s “menus and menu boards.”


Hour 2

SoCal family thrown off overbooked Delta flight over child’s seating | abc7.com

The Schear family of Huntington Beach says they were flying from Hawaii to Los Angeles last week when airline staff asked them to give up a seat occupied by their 2-year-old son and carry him on their laps for the duration of the flight.

Stormtrooper costume leads to high school evacuation on Star Wars Day | WSBT

A student who took Star Wars Day a little too far sparked the evacuation of Ashwaubenon High School Thursday morning.

New York Principal Investigated for ‘Communist Activities’ | Truth Revolt

Those documents show Bloomberg is being investigated for several issues. Among them is an allegation that her husband filmed a documentary for an organization associated with the Progressive Labor Party, and that students and staff at the school “were included in the documentary without their authorization.” The city also says that there may be a conflict of interest, because the documentary was screened at the school.

Purdue Professor Argues Images of Aborted Babies Are ‘Child Pornography’ – Breitbart

Professor David Sanders, an associate professor of Biology at Purdue University, accused pro-lifers who use images of aborted fetuses of participating in “child pornography” activities.

Did Bill Nye Strategically Edit his 1996 Episode on Gender to Cover His Tracks? | Truth Revolt

I’m a girl. Could have just as easily been a boy, though, because the probability of becoming a girl is always one in two.

Donald Trump signs religious freedom order to give churches their voices back’ – Washington Times

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to make it easier for churches to participate in politics and to protect faith-based groups from being forced to pay for abortion services under Obamacare, proclaiming, “We are giving our churches their voices back.”


Hour 3

Indiana Man Fakes Hate Crime To Raise Awareness About Mean People | The Daily Caller

A staged hate crime, that’s what investigators believe happened at a church in Brown County. Investigators say a church organist, fearful after the outcome of the 2016 election, vandalized the church he worked at to “mobilize a movement.”

GOP Health Care Bill updates again.

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