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7:10 PM ET, September 1, 2017

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New York Times:
Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter that President Trump and a top political aide drafted in the days before Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey …
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Washington Post:
Mueller examining Trump's draft letter firing FBI Director Comey … Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is reviewing a letter drafted by President Trump and a top aide in the days before the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey laying out in detail why the president wanted to get rid …
CNN:
Comey drafted Clinton exoneration before finishing investigation, GOP senators say
CNN:
Longtime Trump aide Keith Schiller tells people he intends to leave White House  —  Meet the man who delivered the Comey letter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people …
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Leader of Trump's voter suppression scheme exposed as a paid columnist for Breitbart  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the head of Donald Trump's so-called commission on “Election Integrity,” has a new gig as a paid columnist for the inflammatory right-wing pro-Trump website Breitbart.
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Steve Bannon's right hand woman remains in the White House
CNN:
Ryan asks Trump to hold off on scrapping DACA
Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Roy Moore, leading candidate in Alabama Senate race, doesn't know what DACA is
Discussion: Washington Post
Stand With Dreamers:
Leaders of American Industry on DACA
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Trump Says “We Love DREAMers,” As Decision On Their Fate Expected On Tuesday
Discussion: Bloomberg
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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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.
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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Beth Kowitt / Fortune:
The Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer Is Shutting Down  —  Juicero has run out of juice.  —  The San Francisco-based maker of counter-top cold-press juicers said today that it is shutting down operations and suspending the sale of its presses and produce packs immediately.
Discussion: VICE News and SFist
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CNN:
DOJ to retry woman who laughed during Sessions' confirmation hearing  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice will retry a woman whom prosecutors say disrupted Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general by laughing.  —  After rejecting a plea deal …
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Jeff Sessions' DOJ To Put Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions On Trial Yet Again
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Associated Press:
Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco  —  https://www.apnews.com/9549026d1ed946e9 8d5119c785f2a388  —  Link copied!  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, SFist, Raw Story and IJR
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 …
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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Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
BOMBSHELL: FBI, DHS Warned About Antifa In Early 2016. Obama Said Nothing.
Discussion: IJR, Infowars and The Daily Caller
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Trump pulls back threat to shut down government over border wall — for now  —  The White House has signaled to congressional Republicans that it will not shut down the government in October if money isn't appropriated to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, potentially clearing a path …
Discussion: CNBC, Business Insider and Mother Jones
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 …
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Daily Mail:
L'Oreal's first transgender model is SACKED by the cosmetics giant after claiming ‘ALL white people’ are racist in extraordinary Facebook rant  — But days after she was announced as L'Oreal's first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf launched an extraordinary rant declaring all white people racist
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
A National Guard vehicle vanished near Houston.  Soldiers used Snapchat to find it.  —  KATY, Tex. — A soldier commanding a vanished Humvee was not answering calls.  No one in the unit had his driver's phone number, worsening the situation of an Army vehicle and two soldiers missing somewhere …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire, Vox and Axios
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Watch as Trump Calls On A Bunch of Religious Leaders to Thank Him For His Harvey Efforts  —  So, remember that one time when President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting and everyone at the table outdid themselves when it came to heaping praise on POTUS?  Well, we got a similar situation today during …
Jackson Landers / The Daily Beast:
‘Crying Nazi’ Christopher Cantwell's Lawyer Says He's Just Kidding About Killing Jews … CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Christopher Cantwell's lawyer says his client's comments disparaging blacks and Jews is just a comedic act of a “shock jock,” comparing him to the Jewish comedian Jackie Mason.
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
Repealing Obamacare Just Got Even More Complicated  —  Ability to pass bill with just 51 votes will lapse Sept. 30  —  Latest Senate bid to repeal health law fell one vote short  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
Discussion: New York Magazine
ACLU:
Government Settles in First Lawsuit Filed Against Trump's Muslim Ban  —  NEW YORK — The Trump administration today settled with the plaintiffs in the first legal challenge to the president's original executive order, which sought to bar travelers from certain majority Muslim countries …
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
“Hung from a tall tree”: Second Republican calls for lynching critics of white supremacy  —  Ever since the deadly neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, which centered on a condemned statue of Robert E. Lee, efforts to remove Confederate monuments have intensified.
 
 
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. is getting $100,000 for university speech sponsored by GOP donor's company
Common Cause:
Kid Rock has been running for Senate all summer long, violating federal law
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
john pavlovitz:
Dear Joel Osteen,
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Marianne Schaefer Trench / The Daily Beast:
When I Filmed Sheriff Joe Arpaio, He Was Cooperative and Horrifying
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Trump requesting initial $6B in aid for Harvey
Libby Watson / Splinter:
Now CNN Can Read Its Reporters' DMs
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Trump Flaunts His Indifference to the Rule of Law
Discussion: the daily howler and driftglass
 Earlier Items: 
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Talk of Assange pardon worries intelligence community
Discussion: Raw Story and The Resurgent
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Former aides to GOP lawmaker describe toxic work environment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Candid? Yes. Presidential? Not so much. Voters describe Trump
Discussion: Political Wire and The Hill
Richard Florida / New York Times:
The Urban Revival Is Over  —  TORONTO — For all the concern …
Discussion: CityLab
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Treasury inspector general to review Mnuchin's flight to Fort Knox
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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