1. High-stakes maneuvering on health care:

Senate Republicans unveiled their answer to Obamacare: a 142-page bill drafted in secret that includes deep cuts to Medicaid, impedes access to abortion and shifts resources from the poor to the rich.

Five Republican senators say they will not support the bill as it stands — meaning that Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, above, may be ready to accept a loss if he manages to push the measure to a vote this week.