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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Exclusive: Secret Service out of money to pay agents because of Trump's frequent travel, large family — WASHINGTON — The Secret Service can no longer afford to pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission - in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
With or without Bannon, Trump will likely get a lot worse. Here's what to watch for next. — THE MORNING PLUM: — Now that Stephen K. Bannon has been booted from the White House, the political press is salivating at the prospect of a public struggle between Bannon as outsider and the “globalists” who remain inside the White House.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30
Secret Service says it will run out of money to protect Trump and his family Sept. 30
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Looks At The Sun During Solar Eclipse Despite Shouted Warning — President Donald Trump's administration on Monday took a moment in the afternoon to observe the first total solar eclipse to pass over the United States from one coast to the other since 1918.
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
‘20 seconds of burning’: Friends partly blinded after watching solar eclipse warn of dangers — It was a clear day when Louis Tomososki's science teacher mentioned that a partial solar eclipse would be visible from their hometown of Portland, Ore., that afternoon.
Ford Springer / The Daily Caller:
It's High Time Barron Trump Starts Dressing Like He's In the White House — I've been on the Barron Trump train from the start, but it's about time the president's son starts dressing the part. — Barron is the youngest son of Donald Trump and the only child the president shares with Melania Trump.
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
Trump looked at the solar eclipse without glasses despite a shouted warning from an aide
Trump looked at the solar eclipse without glasses despite a shouted warning from an aide
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Yes, Donald Trump really did look into the sky during the solar eclipse
Yes, Donald Trump really did look into the sky during the solar eclipse
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Donald Trump / ABC News:
WATCH: The Trump family watches the total solar eclipse together
WATCH: The Trump family watches the total solar eclipse together
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘Most news is not fake’ — (R-Ky.) defended the media on Monday, just hours after President Trump lashed out at “fake news” on Twitter. — “My view is that most news is not fake, but I do try to look at a variety of sources,” McConnell said at a Louisville Chamber of Commerce event …
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Negassi Tesfamichael / Politico:
McConnell undercuts Trump's claim: ‘Most news is not fake’ — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday undercut one of President Donald Trump's most-repeated claims, telling a group at the Louisville Chamber of Commerce that “most news is not fake.”
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Houston Chronicle:
Houston man charged with trying to plant bomb at Confederate statue in Hermann Park — Museum District area evacuated as agents search home — A Houston man has been charged with trying to plant explosives at the statue of Confederate officer Richard Dowling in Hermann Park, federal officials said Monday.
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Texas man charged with trying to bomb a Confederate statue in Houston
Texas man charged with trying to bomb a Confederate statue in Houston
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Matthew Watkins / The Texas Tribune:
UT-Austin removes Confederate statues in the middle of the night
UT-Austin removes Confederate statues in the middle of the night
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Facebook:
Let There Be No Confusion — I was struck by the tone Heather Heyer's parents took at her memorial service. Here they are suddenly grieving and saying goodbye to their daughter, taken by an act of domestic terrorism. And instead of turning to anger, they call for healing and forgiveness.
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Alison R. Parker / Shareblue:
Paul Ryan issues 434 words on Charlottesville, and none of them are “Donald Trump”
Paul Ryan issues 434 words on Charlottesville, and none of them are “Donald Trump”
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Only 28% approve of Trump's response to Charlottesville (POLL) — President Donald Trump moves out of his difficult Charlottesville week and into his national address on Afghanistan policy tonight with a poor but stable job performance rating and still-weaker grades for his handling …
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Washington Post:
Poll shows clear disapproval of how Trump responded to Charlottesville violence … Twice as many Americans disapprove than approve of President Trump's response to the deadly Charlottesville protests led by white supremacists that ignited widespread political backlash against the White House …
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CNN:
Trump nominee Sam Clovis: ‘As far as we know’ homosexuality's a choice, ‘logical’ LGBT protections could lead to legalization of pedophilia — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Sam Clovis, Donald Trump's pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, has argued that homosexuality …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
That Russian Guy Who Attended The Trump Tower Meeting Is Almost Definitely a Spy — A month and a half ago, the New York Times obtained emails in which Donald Trump Jr. set up a meeting in Trump Tower with Russian officials who were promising him sensitive information, on his father's opponent, that would help the Trump campaign.
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Bryan Clark / Idaho Statesman:
East Idaho rep. says it's ‘plausible’ Obama staged Charlottesville riots — Idaho Falls Rep. Bryan Zollinger took to Facebook on Friday, re-posting a conspiracy theory suggesting that last weekend's events in Charlottesville, Va., could have been an inside job orchestrated to smear President Donald Trump.
Pacific Fleet Headlines:
USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship near Strait of Malacca — SOUTH CHINA SEA - The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) has arrived at Changi Naval Base following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of the Strait of Malacca and Singapore on Aug. 21.
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Source: McMaster Fails to Brief Trump Before 'That's Too Bad' Error
Source: McMaster Fails to Brief Trump Before 'That's Too Bad' Error
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
White House aides can't stop talking about President Trump like he's a toddler — The Trump-as-toddler Twitter thread, explained and curated — It started, as all 2017 stories about American politics start, with a garden-variety snarky tweet: … The point of the tweet was to push …
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Washington Post:
Republican committees have paid nearly $1.3 million to Trump-owned entities this year … The Republican National Committee paid the Trump International Hotel in Washington $122,000 last month after the party held a lavish fundraiser at the venue in June, the latest example of how GOP political committees …
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Which charities have canceled galas at Mar-a-Lago Club? …
Which charities have canceled galas at Mar-a-Lago Club? …
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Fern Shen / Baltimore Brew:
Columbus statue in Baltimore vandalized — Columbus statue in Baltimore vandalized — Aimed at explorer's role in “genocide and exploitation,” vandals say, action follows city's removal of Confederate monuments — Above: Inscription on one of Baltimore's memorials to explorer Christoper Columbus …
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
KKK leader threatens to ‘burn’ Latina journalist, the first black person on his property — Christopher Barker, a leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter in North Carolina, agreed to meet for an interview at his home late last month with Ilia Calderón, a Colombian news anchor for Univision based in Miami.
Arizona Republic:
Phoenix Trump rally … Gov. Doug Ducey will greet President Donald Trump on the tarmac after Air Force One touches down Tuesday afternoon for his first presidential visit to the Grand Canyon state. — But the Republican governor, who like many in the GOP has diplomatically sidestepped Trump …
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Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
A 121-year-old Confederate monument was coming down. This Kentucky town put it back up. — Historian Gerry Fischer found the monument a home in Brandenburg, saying: “You study your history to learn from it. The bad parts, too.” (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
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The Guardian:
Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless: 'It's economic slavery' — Fran Marion and Bridget Hughes are leading voices in Stand Up Kansas City, part of the Fight for $15 movement that aims raise the minimum wage across the US — by Dominic Rushe with video by Tom Silverstone
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Associated Press:
Sixteen years of U.S. warfare in Afghanistan have left the insurgents as strong as ever and the nation's future precarious. Facing a quagmire, President Donald Trump on Monday will outline his strategy for a country that has historically snared great powers and defied easy solutions.
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