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11:25 AM ET, August 24, 2017

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CNN:
Exclusive: Top Trump aide's email draws new scrutiny in Russia inquiry  —  Washington (CNN)Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials …
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Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban  —  Guidelines expected to direct Pentagon to stop admitting transgender people, gives Mattis power to remove those serving  —  Following President Donald Trump's announcement to ban open transgender service in the military …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Trump clashed with multiple GOP senators over Russia  —  President Donald Trump privately vented his frustration over Russia-related matters with at least two other Republican senators this month, according to people familiar with the conversations — in addition to the president's public admonishments …
Bloomberg:
General Kelly Commands the White House, But He Can't Control Trump
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Will go-it-alone leave Trump empty-handed?
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Eric Walsh / Reuters:
White House to send memo to Pentagon soon on transgender ban
Discussion: CNBC
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees  —  Confronted with a West Wing that treated policymaking as a free-for-all, President Donald Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, is instituting a system used by previous administrations to limit internal competition — and to make himself …
Discussion: Axios, The Week and Associated Press
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Politico:
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: White House rapid response director is out  —  W.H. RAPID RESPONSE DIRECTOR IS OUT — ANDY HEMMING left his job on Monday as the White House director of rapid response, according to multiple sources.  A source familiar with the move told us it was a “mutually agreed upon” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SCOOP: ANDY HEMMING out at WH — TRUMP's heated calls with senators — THE JUICE: PERRY bringing family and friends on trip abroad — RISA HELLER drops Kushner Cos. as a client — JAY SOLOMON's new job  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Happy Thursday.  AN INTERESTING DATAPOINT — TONY FABRIZIO …
Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS  • Police and a witness gave differing versions of how protesters were injured when a driver pulled into a group that had blocked an intersection on Wednesday night.  —  The witness, Keith Rose, said the driver had his middle fingers raised before he accelerated through the group …
Discussion: ABC News
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Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Driver pushes into protesters in St. Louis street; 3 people sustain minor injuries
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump retweets meme of his blocking Obama, labeled the ‘best eclipse ever’  —  President Donald Trump today retweeted a meme that showed a picture of his gradually blocking out an image of former President Obama with the caption “The Best Eclipse Ever.”  —  The meme was originally tweeted …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Good Riddance to Steve Bannon  —  The country is better off with him out of the West Wing, but now Trump has to step up.  —  After departing his post as White House chief strategist last week, Steve Bannon told the Weekly Standard that “the Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over.”
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Government shutdown chances rising by the day
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Odds of a government shutdown rise after Trump threat
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Lindsey Graham On President Trump's Tweeting At Congress  —  South Carolina's Lindsey Graham joined me this morning:  —  Transcript:  —  HH: I am joined now by United States Senator Lindsey Graham from the great state of South Carolina.  Good morning, Senator, how are you?
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
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New York Times:
Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist, Surrenders to the Police  —  A white nationalist whose behavior at the violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Va., brought him notoriety after he was featured in a widely viewed documentary, has turned himself into the authorities in Virginia days …
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
White supremacist from Vice documentary surrenders to police
Discussion: RedState
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2018: Republican Edge Runs Up Against Trump, History  —  Beyond president's poor numbers lies difficulty of beating out-of-power party incumbents  —  Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, 2018's race for the Senate seemed to pit two powerful, competing forces against one another …
Discussion: Latino Rebels
CNN:
New Texas voter ID law discriminates, federal judge rules  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)A federal district court judge granted a permanent injunction against Texas' voter ID law Wednesday, holding that the state acted with discriminatory intent.  —  Attorney General Ken Paxton called the ruling …
Discussion: Houston Public Media
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James Barragán / Dallas Morning News:
Federal judge blocks further implementation of Texas' voter ID law
Wfla Web / WFLA-TV:
93-year-old Confederate monument in Manatee County moved  —  BRADENTON, Fla. (WFLA) - It didn't take long for the 93-year-old Confederate war memorial outside the Manatee County Courthouse to be moved.  —  The monument was already gone from Bradenton Thursday morning.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Rabbis Protest Trump's Comments by Boycotting Conference Call  —  For years, the presidential conference calls were a nonpartisan holiday tradition: President Barack Obama would speak by phone with hundreds of rabbis in advance of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in what participants described …
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Republican Establishment Stands Behind Trump  —  President Trump's response to the deadly white-supremacist protests in Charlottesville earlier this month sparked a fierce national backlash, drawing rebukes from elected officials, corporate executives, military leaders, clergy, and—according to a new poll—a majority of Americans.
Discussion: Washington Post
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
We're Journalists, Mr. Trump, Not the Enemy  —  Sigh.  If only President Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists.  —  What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazis or violent white supremacists?
Discussion: twitchy.com
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Gingrich: Left's treatment of Trump is like ‘slave newspapers’ attacking Lincoln  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday compared liberals who are critical of President Trump to “slave newspapers” attacking Abraham Lincoln.  —  Speaking on Fox News's “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
He wore Confederate dress to Charlottesville.  He got two middle fingers and possible expulsion from college.  —  The following is a retelling based on contemporary accounts of a confrontation in Charlottesville between two middle fingers and a Confederate flag.
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Office of Media Relations:
New GW Battleground Poll Finds Widespread Public Concern About President Trump's Behavior  —  MEDIA CONTACTS:  —  Jason Shevrin: jshevrin@gwu.edu, 202-994-5631  —  John Brandt: johnbrandt@gwu.edu, 202-994-3199  —  Democrats Hold Edge on Health Care, Climate Change …
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Does Anybody Understand What These Never Trump Republicans Think They're Achieving?  —  What's the end game for these preening, posturing doofuses who call themselves Republicans, but who can't pass a CNN camera without slamming their party's president?  There is a lot of blue falconry …
John Blake / CNN:
‘White supremacists by default’: How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible  —  ‘White advocate’ made same arguments as Trump  —  (CNN)Blame President Trump for his tepid moral response.  Call the neo-Nazis and white nationalists thugs.  Fill your Facebook and Twitter accounts with moral outrage.
New York Times:
Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago  —  +8 pts.  —  Over-  —  +4  —  Under-  —  Whites  —  Asians  —  Hispanics  —  Blacks … '15  —  +8 pts.  —  '80  —  Over-  —  +4  —  Under-  —  Whites
 
 
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Mark Curnutte / Cincinnati.com:
This immigrant mom had a permit to work at Amazon. Now U.S. agents hold her in jail
Discussion: ThinkProgress, C4AD and KABE-LP
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Menendez Is Denied Reprieve From Corruption Trial to Cast Senate Votes
Discussion: Political Wire
Eric Holthaus / Grist:
A Texas-size flood threatens the Gulf Coast, and we're so not ready
Emily Atkin / New Republic:
America Is on the Verge of Ratpocalypse
Discussion: Althouse
Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Trump vs. crooks, liars and the liberal media
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Russia's Sudan Ambassador Found Dead
Roxanne Jones / CNN:
Why ESPN and Robert Lee are right
 Earlier Items: 
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
California Democrats lead attack over Trump's mental health
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Georgia governor expects lawmakers to plunge into Civil War debate next year
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
How Alan Dershowitz Went From Hillary Donor to Trump's Attack Dog on Russia
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Fashion brands turn their backs on Steve Mnuchin's wife
Discussion: Raw Story
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House has paperwork ready for Joe Arpaio pardon