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PHOTOS: Christie, family soak up sun on N.J. beach he closed to public — Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J. — NJ Advance Media for NJ.com — BERKELEY TOWNSHIP — People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend …
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Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Christie spent night with his family in shuttered Island Beach State Park
Christie spent night with his family in shuttered Island Beach State Park
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Bannon pushes tax hike for wealthy — Steve Bannon is causing a stir inside the administration by pushing an idea that's anathema to most Republicans: raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for steep middle and working-class tax cuts. (Some officials who've heard Bannon's idea …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
How Low Can Taxes Go? Outside Washington, Republicans Find Limits — WASHINGTON — Something strange has been happening to taxes in Republican-dominated states: They are going up. — Conservative lawmakers in Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee have agreed to significant tax increases …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
PBS poll: 70 percent say civility has dropped since Trump's election — A majority of Americans in a new survey thinks civility has gotten worse since President Trump was elected. — A PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll out early Monday found that 70 percent of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump's election.
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Laura Santhanam / PBS NewsHour:
New poll: 70% of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump took office — Americans broadly believe their country's political tone has become less civil since Donald Trump was elected president and that fundamental rights are weakening, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
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Helena Horton / Telegraph:
Vagina surgery ‘sought by girls as young as nine’ because of pornography, doctors reveal — Girls as young as nine are reportedly seeking surgery on their private parts because of insecurities stemming from adult content such as pornography, according to leading doctors.
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
GOP leaders have few sure votes on debt ceiling — Only 16 House Republicans who are currently in office backed the last “clean” debt hike, and few of them will say they are certain to support it this year. — If the debt ceiling is raised with a clean hike — a distinct possibility given …
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Kennedy Tells October 2018 Clerkship Applicants He's Considering Retirement, Right Before 2018 Midterms — Big news hiding in Nina Totenberg's story on Justice Gorsuch voting 100% with Justice Thomas: … This would put Justice Kennedy's retirement right before the 2018 midterms …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Deportation a ‘Death Sentence’ to Adoptees After a Lifetime in the U.S. — SEOUL, South Korea — Phillip Clay was adopted at 8 into an American family in Philadelphia. — Twenty-nine years later, in 2012, after numerous arrests and a struggle with drug addiction, he was deported back to his birth country, South Korea.
New York Times:
Medicaid Worsens Your Health? That's a Classic Misinterpretation of Research — As a program for low-income Americans, Medicaid requires the poor to pay almost nothing for their health care. Republicans in Congress have made clear that they want to change that equation for many …
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New York Times:
Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry — Just over a decade ago, Donald J. Trump was locked in conflict with a group of apartment owners who had taken control of the condominium board at his new glass tower across from the United Nations.
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
A Reddit user who wrote about stabbing Muslims is claiming credit for Trump's CNN video — The user whose screen name is a vulgar corruption of “Han Solo” spent about a year on Reddit before attaining stardom, courtesy of a share from President Trump. — Some posts were unpopular.
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ABC:
Donald Trump tweets ‘juvenile’ fake wrestling video of him beating up CNN — US President Donald Trump has stepped up his feud with the media by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man in a business suit, his face replaced by the CNN logo, outside a wrestling ring.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground
Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground
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