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Senate Republicans will release a “discussion draft” of their health care bill to repeal and replace Obamacare on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday. “I expect to have a discussion draft on Thursday, and we will go to the bill obviously once we get a CBO score — likely next week,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters after Republicans discussed the process behind closed doors over lunch. CBO stands for the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan organization that scores legislation and estimates its budgetary and economic effects. McConnell said he thinks “it’ll be about as transparent as it can be” and claimed that the measure would be “a profound positive improvement over the status quo,” which he called unsustainable. Asked how long the public will have to review to the legislation before the Senate holds a vote, McConnell said, “Oh, they’ll have plenty of time.” McConnell rejected the idea of Democrats being invited into negotiations and said “they are not interested in what we’re trying to achieve, which is to change Obamacare and make it better.” Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, said at the press conference that Republicans’ top two priorities in the measure will be to bring stability to the marketplace and to address the issue of skyrocketing premiums. McConnell has said he wants the Senate to vote on the bill before they leave at the end...

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(AP) UNITED NATIONS – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of ethnic cleansing Thursday for building settlements in east Jerusalem. “It is a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people via the demolition of their homes,” Abbas said in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. Shortly after, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked Abbas in his own address to the assembly. “We won’t solve our conflict with libelous speeches at the U.N.,” Netanyahu said. Israel rejects criticism of settlementsIran overshadows Palestinian issue at U.N.Israeli defense chief proposes West Bank pullout Israel captured the eastern part of Jerusalem from Jordan during the 1967 Mideast War. It later annexed it but the move has not been internationally recognized. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem to the capital of their future state in the West Bank. Abbas also said he has opened talks on a new bid for international recognition at the U.N., 블랙 잭 게임 but didn’t specify exactly when he will ask the General Assembly to vote. “Intensive consultations with the various regional organizations and the state members” were underway, he said. The Palestinians will apply to the General Assembly for nonmember state status. That stands in sharp contrast to last year, when they asked the Security Council to admit them as a full member state, but the bid failed. Abbas insisted that the new quest for recognition was...