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Barack Obama:
Immigration can be a controversial topic.  We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy, and people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.  —  But that's not what the action that the White House took today is about.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Administration Now Has Tons Of DACA Data And Is Poised To Weaponize It … DACA recipients - often called DREAMers - are facing a new nightmare.  According to the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers may use the information these people gave …
New York Times:
Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called on Congress to replace the policy with legislation before it fully expires on March 5, 2018.
Fox News:
President Trump's statement on DACA  —  The following is a statement issued by President Trump on the administration's decision to wind down the Obama-era DACA program:  —  As President, my highest duty is to defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States of America.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Staffers worried Trump didn't fully grasp consequences of ending DACA: report  —  Trump administration officials worried ahead of the announcement Tuesday of a phaseout of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Trump didn't fully understand what the move would mean.
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus chair: Expect DACA vote in February
Discussion: IJR
Senator Heidi Heitkamp:
Today, the president and U.S. Attorney General said they will end …
Discussion: New York Times
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: Kelly is a ‘disgrace to uniform’
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
CNN:
Admin memo: DACA recipients should prepare for ‘departure from the United States’
Discussion: Splinter
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Trump ending DACA will crush dreams
Discussion: Raw Story
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
Urgent DACA legislation is both an economic imperative and humanitarian necessity
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Majority opposes deporting Dreamers
Discussion: Associated Press, CNBC and Mediaite
BuzzFeed:
A Mexican-Born DREAMer Is Taking Legal Action To Halt Trump's Reversal Of DACA
Discussion: Mother Jones and YouTube
Edward Graham / Morning Consult:   Trump's DACA Move Comes as Most Voters Back Citizenship for ‘Dreamers’
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic  —  RUSH: The hurricane is what I want to lead off with, though, folks.  And I've gotta be very careful here because I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction.  I am not the National Hurricane Center.
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Washington Post:
Florida officials begin ordering evacuations as Hurricane Irma intensifies to a Category 5 storm … Authorities in Florida have begun bracing for the potential arrival of Hurricane Irma, a roiling storm that intensified into “an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane” as it churned toward the United States.
Washington Post:
Catastrophic Hurricane Irma — now a Cat 5 — is on a collision course with Florida  —  Hurricane Irma is an “extremely dangerous” Category 5, barreling toward the northern Lesser Antilles and Southern Florida.  It's already the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico …
Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Hurricane Irma is heading straight for Trump's Caribbean mansion  —  President Donald Trump doesn't just have to worry about safeguarding the nation ahead of Hurricane Irma.  —  Trump owns a multi-million dollar mansion on the Caribbean island of St. Martin — and Category 5 Irma is heading straight for it.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Hurricane Irma is a ‘potentially catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Boston Red Sox Used Electronic Devices to Steal Signs Against Yankees  —  WASHINGTON — For decades, spying on another team has been as much a part of the gamesmanship of baseball as brushback pitches and hard slides.  The Red Sox have apparently added a modern — and illicit — twist …
Discussion: Mashable and The Ringer - All
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
House committee subpoenas FBI, Justice over Trump dossier  —  In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier …
Discussion: Power Line and IJR
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John Crudele / New York Post:
Proof that investigating Trump is starting to backfire for Democrats  —  MORE FROM: … There's a lot going on in the Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump/Russia investigation that all the highfalutin' newspapers that cover politics are still trying to ignore.  —  Well, investors had better …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Peter Overby / NPR:   Professor: 37 Historic Dictionaries Disagree With Trump's Definition of ‘Emolument’
Auburn Seminary:
Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV Statement On Leaving His Church After Speaking Out Against White Supremacy at MTV Video Music Awards  —  I'm writing this statement to make sure that people are able to read in my own words what has happened to me over the last three weeks so that the events …
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Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:   Descendant of Robert E. Lee quits as church pastor after criticism for attacking racism in VMA speech
Lucy Pasha-Robinson / The Independent:
Russian politician says 'let's hit Trump with our Kompromat' on state TV  —  Claims made in explosive Trump Russia dossier, though unproven, have led many to speculate Kremlin could be holding sensitive information on former real estate mogul  —  A Russian politician has threatened to “hit Donald Trump with our Kompromat” on state TV.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire and Towleroad
New York Times:
At CNN, Retracted Story Leaves an Elite Reporting Team Bruised  —  Created with much fanfare, CNN's investigative unit was reshaped and its focus narrowed in the wake of a story that led to a retraction and an apology.  —  Late on a Monday afternoon in June, members of CNN's elite investigations team …
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Steve Harvey Unleashed: A New Show, His Private Trump Sit-Down and That Infamous Leaked Memo  —  The TV host, who now has six shows — including a new daytime talker he owns — also shares what Oprah taught him and how he dealt with “vicious” backlash to his private meeting with the president: “I haven't talked to him since.”
Lucas Ward / The Harvard Crimson:
Lewandowski to Join IOP as Visiting Fellow  —  Attendees leave the JFK Jr. Forum in 2016.  Corey R. Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's embattled former campaign advisor, will join the Institute of Politics as a visiting fellow this semester, the IOP announced Tuesday.
David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:
2018 Could Be The Year Of The Angry White College Graduate  —  Even with the political winds at their back, Democrats enter the 2018 congressional midterms at a historic geographic disadvantage.  They also face demographic hurdles: Midterm electorates tend to be older and whiter than those that show up in presidential years.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hullabaloo
Dan Merica / CNN:
New Clinton book blasts Sanders for ‘lasting damage’ in 2016 race  —  Sanders booed after voicing support for Clinton  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton casts Bernie Sanders as an unrealistic over-promiser in her new book, according to excerpts posted by a group of Clinton supporters.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Press group to NRA: ‘It is un-American to threaten journalists’  —  A trade group that represents The New York Times, the Associated Press and other major publishers is calling out the NRA, accusing the gun rights group of crossing a line and threatening journalists.
Sam Kashner / Vanity Fair:
Meghan Markle, Wild About Harry!  —  Battered by the tabloids—to the point where her boyfriend, Prince Harry, issued a statement defending her—actress and activist Meghan Markle has largely ignored the media storm.  And as Markle tells Vanity Fair about her bi-racial background, her romance …
 
 
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Ella Nilsen / Vox:
4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA
Frances Stead Sellers / Washington Post:
Trump's evangelical advisers claim credit for six-month delay on rescinding DACA
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Aides Think Manafort Will Be Indicted For Financial Crimes
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Very Bad Economics of Killing DACA
Discussion: The Atlantic and Hit & Run
Axios:
Trump: DACA decision will “work out very well”
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
John Fund / National Review:
Christie for Senate?  —  If a Democratic senator is convicted …
 Earlier Items: 
The Moscow Times:
Putin Says Trump Is Not His Wife
Discussion: AOL, Business Insider and IJR
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Steve Bannon's meeting with Mark Meadows
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit