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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's claim that two-thirds of the Hurricane Sandy bill ‘had nothing to do with Sandy’ — “The problem with that particular bill is it became a $50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork. Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.” — Hypocrisy watch!
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Stan Collender / Forbes:
Hurricane Harvey Greatly Complicates The Government Shutdown Calculation
Hurricane Harvey Greatly Complicates The Government Shutdown Calculation
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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and Newsweek
HuffPost:
Hurricane Harvey And The Potential Hypocrisy Of Texas Republicans
Hurricane Harvey And The Potential Hypocrisy Of Texas Republicans
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Vox, Newsweek, NPR, New York Times, Daily Wire and CBS New York
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Rep. King: NY won't ‘abandon’ Texas despite ‘hypocrite’ Ted Cruz
Rep. King: NY won't ‘abandon’ Texas despite ‘hypocrite’ Ted Cruz
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MichelleMalkin.com, NBC News, CNBC, Raw Story and twitchy.com
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Harvey Gives Trump a Chance to Reclaim Power to Unify
Harvey Gives Trump a Chance to Reclaim Power to Unify
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CNN, Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Cruz defends vote on Sandy relief bill: ‘Filled with pork’
Cruz defends vote on Sandy relief bill: ‘Filled with pork’
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twitchy.com and The Resurgent
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Message From Hurricane Harvey: Americans Helping Each Other
Message From Hurricane Harvey: Americans Helping Each Other
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Washington Post, The White House, Shareblue, Fox News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and New York Times
Politico:
Hurricane aid adds to GOP's dreadful September
Hurricane aid adds to GOP's dreadful September
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New York Magazine and Business Insider
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
Amid Harvey havoc, northeastern politicos sourly recall Texas “no” votes on Sandy aid
Amid Harvey havoc, northeastern politicos sourly recall Texas “no” votes on Sandy aid
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Mother Jones, Mediaite, twitchy.com, Washington Post and RedState
CNN:
Trump says ‘all options on table’ after North Korea launches missile over Japan — Sirens blare over Japan after North Korea missile — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Tokyo (CNN)US President Donald Trump has warned that “all options are on the table” after North Korea launched a missile over Japan early Tuesday.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump on North Korea's missile launch: ‘All options are on the table’ — North Korea's most recent ballistic missile test “has signaled its contempt” for its neighbors and the international community, President Donald Trump said in a statement released Tuesday morning, reiterating his threat that “all options are on the table.”
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Justin McCurry / The Guardian:
Trump and Abe vow to increase pressure after North Korea fires missile over Japan — Leaders agreed to call for an emergency meeting of the UN security council to discuss the launch — Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe have vowed to increase pressure on North Korea after the regime launched a missile over Japan on Tuesday morning.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Punishes Longtime Aide After Angry Phoenix Speech, Sources Say — George Gigicos removed as president's rally organizer — Sparse crowd put Trump in foul mood before delivering remarks — Donald Trump was in a bad mood before he emerged for a confrontational speech in Arizona last week.
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Trump Fires Longtime Event Organizer Over Sparse Crowd at Phoenix Rally
Trump Fires Longtime Event Organizer Over Sparse Crowd at Phoenix Rally
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Outside the Beltway and Hullabaloo
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump unusually silent after aides challenge him
Trump unusually silent after aides challenge him
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Political Wire, Hullabaloo, The Atlantic and Axios
St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:
Houston Police officer drowns in Harvey floodwaters — A Houston police officer drowned in his patrol car in Harvey floodwaters, according to three department officials. — The officer, an HPD veteran who has been with the department for more than 30 years, was in his patrol car driving …
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The Daily Caller, New York's PIX11, twitchy.com, Faithwire, ThinkProgress and CNN
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New York Times:
How Does Hurricane Harvey Compare With Katrina? Here's What We Know
How Does Hurricane Harvey Compare With Katrina? Here's What We Know
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Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Gizmodo and New York Magazine
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause
Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause
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Washington Post and The Guardian
Bill King / New York Times:
Houston's Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
Houston's Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
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USA Today, Slate, Gizmodo, NBC News, Refinery29 and National Review
NBC News:
Mueller Team Asking If Trump Tried to Hide Purpose of Trump Tower Meeting — WASHINGTON — Federal investigators working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are keenly focused on President Donald Trump's role in crafting a response to a published article about a meeting between Russians …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Will Hurricane Harvey prompt a Trump ‘reset’? His megalomania probably won't allow it. — THE MORNING PLUM: — When disasters strike the United States, we generally are treated to not one, but two, rituals. The first unfolds around the president's efforts to project an empathizing …
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Weekly Standard, VICE News, Shakesville, ABC News, Joe.My.God. and New York Times
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bannon wages war against Trump-backed candidate in Alabama
Bannon wages war against Trump-backed candidate in Alabama
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Talking Points Memo, VICE News, Political Wire and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
David Brooks / New York Times:
How Trump Kills the G.O.P. — It's ironic that race was the issue that created the Republican Party and that race could very well be the issue that destroys it. — The G.O.P. was founded to fight slavery, and through most of its history it had a decent record on civil rights.
San Francisco Chronicle:
After melees, Berkeley mayor asks Cal to cancel right-wing Free Speech Week — In the aftermath of a right-wing rally Sunday that ended with anarchists chasing attendees from a downtown park, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin urged UC Berkeley on Monday to cancel conservatives' plans …
Pew Research Center:
Republicans Divided in Views of Trump's Conduct; Democrats Are Broadly Critical — In their own words: How people describe Trump's presidency — In his first seven months as president, Donald Trump has generally drawn high job approval ratings among Republicans.
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Washington Post and Politicus USA
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
How the Swamp Sold Its Soul to Donald Trump — “Your heart tells you that he's bad for the country,” one Republican strategist said. “Your head looks at polling data.” — “From a personal standpoint, I think this president f**king sucks. He's not even a Republican,” …
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Washington Monthly and Raw Story
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Lurid Trump allegations made by Louise Mensch and co-writer came from hoaxer … Explosive allegations about Donald Trump made by online writers with large followings among Trump critics were based on bogus information from a hoaxer who falsely claimed to work in law enforcement.
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Cameron Joseph / Talking Points Memo:
Too Much Of A Good Thing? Candidate Glut Means Primary-palooza For House Dems — Katie Porter and Dave Min are the type of candidates House Democrats dreamed of recruiting in past cycles. Both are Harvard-educated law professors with impressive biographies, connections to powerful lawmakers and strong fundraising capabilities.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Charlottesville fallout divides Democrats
MSNBC:
Exclusive: White House staff warned not to admit Gorka — Thing 1/Thing 2: All In has obtained emails sent the night the news broke that Sebastian Gorka was leaving the White House - emails that are not remotely normal, according to two former White House staff members. ... more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}
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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Uber to end post-trip tracking of riders as part of privacy push — PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc is pulling a heavily criticized feature from its app that allowed it to track riders for up to five minutes after a trip, its security chief told Reuters …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A new polling low for Trump: Just 16 percent ‘like’ his conduct as president — Polling Donald Trump is one of the most difficult and confusing exercises in modern politics. In Trump, we have a guy who won the presidency by surprisingly beating the polls in key Rust Belt states, of course.
Victoria Lopez / ACLU:
ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody — Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently asked the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), which instructs federal agencies on how to maintain records …
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The Guardian:
Sky stops broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK — Sources say decision to stop broadcasting controversial channel is not connected to Fox's £11.7bn takeover bid for Sky … Rupert Murdoch has taken the rightwing US channel Fox News off the air in the UK after 15 years.
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Chicago Tribune:
Amazon slashes Whole Foods prices by up to 43 percent on first day — After falling 37 percent this year on disappointing sales and investor concern over the Amazon-Whole Foods union, Kroger fell 0.5 percent on Monday. (Aug. 28, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR)
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