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Pamela Manson / Salt Lake Tribune:
Video shows Utah nurse screaming, being dragged into police car after refusing to let officer take blood from unconscious victim — A nurse says she was assaulted and illegally arrested by a Salt Lake City police detective for following a hospital policy that does not allow blood draws from unconscious patients.
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Pat Reavy / Deseret News:
'Stop! I've done nothing wrong': Nurse shares police video of ‘crazy’ arrest by S.L. officer — SALT LAKE CITY — Alex Wubbels said she couldn't believe what was happening. — “This is crazy. This is crazy. Why is he so angry?” she is heard on body camera video, nearly in tears …
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Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, arrests her for doing her job — By all accounts, the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital's burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn't allowed to draw blood from a badly injured patient.
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John McCain / Washington Post:
It's time Congress returns to regular order — (FILES) This file photo taken on March 23, 2017 shows a view of the US Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC. The top ‘AAA’ long-term debt rating of the United States will be in danger if lawmakers do not raise borrowing limits in a timely fashion …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Mueller Enlists the IRS for His Trump-Russia Investigation … Special counsel Bob Mueller has teamed up with the IRS. According to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged Russian election interference, his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS' Criminal Investigations unit.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Mueller teams up with IRS in Russia probe: report
Mueller teams up with IRS in Russia probe: report
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CNN:
Comey drafted Clinton exoneration before finishing investigation, GOP senators say — (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey drafted a statement exonerating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for running her government emails through a private email server before completing the investigation, according to two Republican senators.
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Trump slams ‘rigged system’ over claim Comey ‘exonerated’ Clinton before probe ended
Trump slams ‘rigged system’ over claim Comey ‘exonerated’ Clinton before probe ended
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Sean Langille / Washington Examiner:
Hillary Clinton charging top dollar for VIP treatment during book tour events
Hillary Clinton charging top dollar for VIP treatment during book tour events
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New York Times:
Software Glitch or Russian Hackers? Election Problems Draw Little Scrutiny — The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November. — Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls …
Associated Press:
Trump's hiring, budget raises questions about US Harvey help — President Donald Trump's hiring and budget plans are raising questions about whether he can deliver the “better-than-ever” recovery he's promised after Hurricane Harvey devastated a swath of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
World in no rush to offer Trump help post-Harvey
World in no rush to offer Trump help post-Harvey
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Hemant Mehta / Friendly Atheist:
Quebec Offered Texas Aid, but the Sec. of State Said They Just Needed Prayers
Quebec Offered Texas Aid, but the Sec. of State Said They Just Needed Prayers
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Mick the Knife — Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's budget director, walked into the Oval Office in early May on a longshot mission. The slash-government conservative wanted to persuade the president to break one of his most popular campaign promises.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SCOOP: Kushner fundraises in North Carolina for MEADOWS …
SCOOP: Kushner fundraises in North Carolina for MEADOWS …
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Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Obama Is Now the Most Costly Former President — After his pension, an office space, and other perks, former President Obama is costing taxpayers the most to support out of all the ex-presidents. — Next year, the American people will be footing his bill to the tune of $1,153,000, according to a Congressional Research Service memo.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama will top Bush as most costly ex-president
Obama will top Bush as most costly ex-president
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Ernie Suggs / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cobb officer who said ‘we only shoot black people’ says he'll retire — A white Cobb County police lieutenant who told a woman during a traffic stop that “we only shoot black people” will be fired, the police chief said on Thursday. — But even as Chief Mike Register was on live TV announcing …
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The Daily Caller, Vox and WSB-TV
Josh Meyer / Politico:
FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks — Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Treasury inspector general to review Mnuchin's flight to Fort Knox — The U.S. Treasury's Office of Inspector General is reviewing the flight taken by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, last week to Louisville and Fort Knox, Ky., following criticism of their use …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington — WASHINGTON — In swamping large swaths of Texas and Louisiana, Hurricane Harvey also forged a new reality for President Trump and the Republicans governing Washington. — Gone are the confrontational talk of a government shutdown and the brinkmanship over the debt limit.
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Stand With Dreamers:
Leaders of American Industry on DACA — Entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the country are releasing an open letter encouraging President Trump to preserve the DACA program and calling on Congress to pass the bipartisan DREAM Act or similar legislation that provides …
Washington Post:
During a summer of crisis, Trump chafes against criticism and new controls … President Trump spent the final days of August dutifully performing his job. He tended to the massive recovery from Hurricane Harvey. He hit the road to sell his tax cut plan.
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
‘Art of the Deal’ co-author: No way Trump donates $1 million to Harvey victims — Tony Schwartz, co-author of the bestselling book “Art of the Deal” with Donald Trump — tweeted Friday saying he doesn't believe that President Trump will follow through with his pledge to donate $1 million …
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Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo:
Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn't Like—I Know Because It Happened to Me — The story in the New York Times this week was unsettling: The New America Foundation, a major think tank, was getting rid of one of its teams of scholars, the Open Markets group.
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Kris Kobach's new job: Columnist for Breitbart — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is now a regular columnist on the far-right news site run by President Donald Trump's former chief strategist. — Kobach, a candidate for Kansas governor who is running on a platform of combating illegal immigration …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
N.C. senator tosses Trump a conservative life raft for Dreamers — WASHINGTON — Conservative lawmakers led by Thom Tillis are crafting a bill they call the conservative Dream Act that would provide a path to permanent residency to people brought here illegally as children …
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Candid? Yes. Presidential? Not so much. Voters describe Trump — President Donald Trump says what he thinks — a majority agrees on that. Maybe that's part of the reason most don't call him presidential. — The latest Fox News Poll asks voters how well several words and phrases apply to the president.
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Richard Florida / New York Times:
The Urban Revival Is Over — TORONTO — For all the concern about the gentrification, rising housing prices and the growing gap between the rich and poor in our leading cities, an even bigger threat lies on the horizon: The urban revival that swept across America over the past decade or two may be in danger.
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Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
A Beating in Berkeley — Antifa mayhem and malice in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park — As white supremacists go, Joey Gibson makes for a lousy one. For starters, he's half Japanese. “I don't feel like I'm Caucasian at all,” he says. Not to be a stickler for the rules …
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Nafeesa Syeed / Bloomberg:
Pro-Russian Bots Sharpen Online Attack Plans for 2018 U.S. Vote — Charlottesville comments led to online effort to target McCain — Twitter, Facebook have bolstered efforts to find fake accounts — After violent protests rocked Charlottesville, Virginia last month …
ESPN:
NFLPA requests order to block any Ezekiel Elliott suspension — The NFLPA filed a request for a temporary restraining order in the Eastern District of Texas, calling for the courts to block any suspension of Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott upheld by NFL arbitrator Harold Henderson …
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