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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ending DACA would be Trump's most evil act — The Post reports: … Some in the media take seriously the notion that he is “conflicted” or “wrestling” with the decision, as though Trump were engaged in a great moral debate. That would be a first for Trump, who counts only winners and losers …
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ag.ny.gov:
Attorney General Schneiderman And Gov. Cuomo Announce That New York State Will Sue If President Trump Ends Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals Policy — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today released the following statements regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy:
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The Hill, RedState, Talking Points Memo and IJR
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Obama to speak out if Trump ends DACA — Former President Barack Obama plans to speak out if President Donald Trump declares his intention to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to a person close to Obama. — Trump is expected to announce on Tuesday that in six months …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sen. Lankford on DACA: ‘We as Americans do not hold children’ accountable parents' actions
Sen. Lankford on DACA: ‘We as Americans do not hold children’ accountable parents' actions
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Raw Story, Talking Points Memo and IJR
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Tom Cotton, top Senate immigration hawk, supports legalization in DACA deal
Tom Cotton, top Senate immigration hawk, supports legalization in DACA deal
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Republican Party Autopsy Author Goes Off On GOP As Trump's DACA Decision Nears
Republican Party Autopsy Author Goes Off On GOP As Trump's DACA Decision Nears
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
GOP rep: Delaying the end of DACA is ‘Republican suicide’
GOP rep: Delaying the end of DACA is ‘Republican suicide’
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Vox, National Review, Hot Air, Townhall.com, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire, KTLA and Raw Story
Ken Klippenstein / The Daily Beast:
The Insane Gifts Saudi Arabia Gave President Trump … During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton for accepting money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, complaining during one of the debates, “These are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money.”
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Hullabaloo, Splinter, Shareblue and Raw Story
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Seoul tries to ignore Trump's criticism: 'They worry he's kind of nuts,' one observer says — TOKYO — South Korea's president tried late Sunday to dismiss talk of a dispute between Seoul and Washington over how to deal with North Korea following its sixth nuclear test …
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CNN:
Haley: Kim Jong Un ‘begging for war’
Haley: Kim Jong Un ‘begging for war’
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Chinese Ambassador: China ‘will never allow chaos and war’ on the Korean Peninsula
Chinese Ambassador: China ‘will never allow chaos and war’ on the Korean Peninsula
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RedState
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Haley: Kim Jong Un ‘begging for war’
Haley: Kim Jong Un ‘begging for war’
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Foreign Policy, CNN, Politico, Axios, Associated Press and RedState
Houston Chronicle:
Missing volunteer pulled from Cypress Creek — Nearly four days after Harvey's record flooding slammed a rescue boat into an Interstate 45 frontage road bridge, family members of the final, missing volunteer pulled his body from Cypress Creek in Spring. — Alonso Guillen …
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New York Times, Splinter and Shareblue
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Idaho police reveal patient defended by ‘heroic’ nurse was an officer — An Idaho police department on Friday revealed that the patient in a Utah hospital is one of its reserve officers and thanked the “heroic” nurse who informed law enforcement that it was against hospital policy to draw blood …
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IJR
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Russia probes kick into high gear — Three congressional committees are pursuing investigations, and high-ranking Trump associates are expected to testify soon. — The congressional Russia investigations are entering a new and more serious phase as lawmakers return from the August recess …
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
After Bay Area violence, California debates classifying ‘antifa’ as a street gang — Anti-fascists fill a Berkeley park during recent protests. After the latest round of violence in the Bay Area, police and politicians have started to wonder whether anti-fascists and white nationalists should be considered street gangs.
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The Daily Caller and Clayton Cramer
Teri Christoph / RedState:
Teacher Kicks Kids Out of Class for MAGA Shirts, Becomes Internet's Favorite New Punching Bag — You know things are bad in our schools when math teachers can't leave their political biases at home. Sine, cosine, tangent, neo-Nazis. — You also have to wonder how many times teachers …
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Daily Mail
James Vincent / The Verge:
Putin says the nation that leads in AI ‘will be the ruler of the world’ — The Russian president warned that artificial intelligence offers ‘colossal opportunities’ as well as dangers — Russian president Vladimir Putin has joined the war of words concerning the international race to develop artificial intelligence.
Tim Starks / Politico:
Cash-strapped states brace for Russian hacking fight — The U.S. needs hundreds of millions of dollars to protect future elections from hackers — but neither the states nor Congress is rushing to fill the gap. — Instead, a nation still squabbling over the role Russian cyberattacks played …
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Hullabaloo
Tara Fowler / ABC News:
Hurricane Irma strengthens as it closes in on the Caribbean — Hurricane Irma's winds have strengthened to 120 mph as it closes in on the Caribbean. — Hurricane watches are in effect for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Saba, St. Eustatius, Sint Maarten …
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Tom McKay / Gizmodo:
No One Asked for Verrit, but Here We Are — On Sunday evening, former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed Verrit, a “media platform for the 65.8 million” who supported her candidacy, immediately creating a minor Twitter firestorm.
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Recode, CNET, The Verge and The Daily Caller
Emily Esfahani Smith / New York Times:
You'll Never Be Famous — And That's O.K. — Today's college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company or ending a humanitarian crisis.