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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 …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
John Kelly cuts down on Infowars, Charles Johnson stories — The new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is moving to impose complete control over the flow of documents to Trump's desk, Politico reports. A White House source, who is familiar with the process, confirmed the story to Axios.
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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 …
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Associated Press:
Zinke won't eliminate any national monuments — BILLINGS, Mont. — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated. — But there would be changes to a “handful,” he said.
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Breaking down the looming debt-ceiling battle …
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Roger Stone: Any Politician Who Votes To Impeach Trump “Would Be Endangering Their Own Life” — Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign advisor and personal friend of the President says if Congress impeaches Donald Trump, there will be all-out Civil War in the U.S.
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Brooks Brunson / Post and Courier:
Police: ‘Active shooter situation’ in popular King Street area in downtown Charleston … There is an “active shooter situation” in a popular tourist and commercial area of downtown Charleston, according to police spokesman Charles Francis. King Street is currently closed between Calhoun and Morris Streets.
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Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Driver pushes into protesters in St. Louis street; 3 people sustain minor injuries … A car drives up to a group of protesters blocking Manchester Avenue, the car stopped and then accelerates through the protesters in St. Louis on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017. Only minor injuries were reported by people on the scene.
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Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS • Police and a witness gave differing versions of how protesters were injured …
ST. LOUIS • Police and a witness gave differing versions of how protesters were injured …
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Jon Erdman / The Weather Channel:
Harvey May Become First U.S. Category 3 Hurricane Landfall in Almost 12 Years; Hurricane Warnings for the Texas Coast — Story Highlights — Harvey is currently a tropical storm in the western Gulf of Mexico. — It will track toward the Texas Gulf Coast and make landfall as a hurricane Friday night.
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Chuck Schumer:
After Charlottesville, It's Time to End the Assault on Voting Rights — the wake of the events in Charlottesville, President Trump's refusal to promptly and unequivocally denounce the radical, white-supremacist movement in this country was disgraceful. It was shameful, un-American, and it was wrong.
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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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Eric W. Dolan / Raw Story:
Virginia judge denies bail to crying neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell
Virginia judge denies bail to crying neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell
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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 …
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Intel chief sheds light on ‘beautiful letter’ Trump says he wrote him — Clapper's full interview on Trump's rally — (CNN)When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper questioned President Donald Trump's “fitness to be in this office” after the President's wild speech …
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CNN:
Why Joe Arpaio was found guilty — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)He flouted the Constitution. He disobeyed court orders. And then he bragged about it. — To understand the building outrage, particularly among civil rights groups, over the possibility that President Donald Trump …
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Bill Melugin / KTTV:
Man arrested for sucker punch of black Trump supporter at Laguna Beach rally — LAGUNA BEACH, CA (FOX 11) - Laguna Beach police arrested a man for allegedly sucker punching a Trump supporter during competing rallies at Main Beach on Sunday. — 20-year-old Richard Losey was arrested Tuesday evening …
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Sen. Jeff Flake: Trump ‘inviting’ 2020 primary challenge by how he's governing — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Republican Sen. Jeff Flake said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is inviting a primary challenge in 2020 with his style of governing. — Flake, who is up for re-election in 2018, has been a frequent critic of Trump.
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Tom Powell / London Evening Standard:
Young Chinese are ‘too fat and masturbate too much to pass army fitness tests’ — Chinese army — A rising number of young Chinese people are failing fitness tests required to join the army because they are too fat and masturbate too much, state media has proclaimed.
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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 …
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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 …
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Emmanuel Macron has spent €26,000 on makeup in his first three months as French president — Emmanuel Macron spent €26,000 (£24,000) on makeup during his first three months as president of France, it has emerged. — In potentially damaging news for the 39-year old centrist leader …
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?
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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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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
The Ninth Circuit Just Ruled Coaches Can be Punished For Praying on a Football Field — The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, arguably the most liberal and misguided federal court in the country, has issued a ruling that justifies the punishment of coaches for praying on public school football fields.
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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 …
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Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
In its first decade, PolitiFact helped define political fact-checking far beyond Washington, D.C. — It's the summer of 2007. Rihanna's “Umbrella” is topping the charts. One of the biggest stories in U.S. politics is how much Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards spends on haircuts.
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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.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Government shutdown chances rising by the day — Top White House and GOP leadership officials tell us the chances of a market-rattling government shutdown are rising by the day — and were even before Trump threatened at his raucous Phoenix rally on Tuesday night to use a shutdown as leverage to get funding for a border wall.
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Hannah Recht / Bloomberg:
How Obamacare's Marketplaces Are Shaping Up for 2018 — No Bare Counties: All U.S. Counties to Have Marketplace Options Next Year — Ohio's Department of Insurance announced Thursday that CareSource will sell marketplace plans next year in the state's last potentially “bare” county.
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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?
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