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New York Times:
On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path — WASHINGTON — For months, an anxious and uncertain President Trump was caught between opposing camps in the West Wing prodding him to either scrap or salvage an Obama-era program allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors to remain in the United States.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Fight over Dreamers to test Bannon's juice outside the White House — Before strategist Steve Bannon's departure from the White House last month, aides to President Donald Trump quietly worried what kind of damage he would inflict from the outside. Some invoked President Lyndon Johnson …
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Wall Street Journal:
Congress Faces a Tense Agenda, With Little Margin for Error — After a summer recess, Congress must grapple with keeping the government open, paying U.S. creditors and passing a hurricane-aid bill—a test of the uneasy alliance between the president and the GOP
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ABC News:
Trump administration announces plan to end DACA
Trump administration announces plan to end DACA
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Faces Deal-Making Challenges as Congress Returns
Trump Faces Deal-Making Challenges as Congress Returns
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump's punt to Congress on DACA threatens new GOP rift
Trump's punt to Congress on DACA threatens new GOP rift
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Doyle Rice / USA Today:
Hurricane Irma now at Category 5, with 175 mph winds — Florida residents are stocking up on supplies and preparing for Hurricane Irma. The storm was declared a category 4 hurricane. It's moving across the Atlantic toward the northeast Caribbean. All of Florida is under a state of emergency.
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Washington Post:
Irma intensifies to an ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 5 hurricane on its track toward the U.S.
Irma intensifies to an ‘extremely dangerous’ Category 5 hurricane on its track toward the U.S.
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NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Hurricane Irma Public Advisory
Hurricane Irma Public Advisory
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Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Putin Says Trump's ‘Not My Bride,’ But Still Hopes for Detente — Russian president says U.S., Russia can compromise on issues — Putin backs deployment of UN peacekeepers in Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he's still hopeful of improving relations …
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Oleg Matsnev / New York Times:
Trump Is ‘Not My Bride,’ Putin Says
Trump Is ‘Not My Bride,’ Putin Says
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Bloomberg:
Key Trump Aide's Departure Rattles President's Allies — Aide has worked for Trump since 1999 and is a close confidant — President Donald Trump's allies are worried that the most damaging of the many recent departures from his White House may be that of Keith Schiller …
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Conservative publisher wants nothing more to do with Times — https://apnews.com/58606fa07433442ba470 a91d374f8926 — Link copied! — NEW YORK (AP) — A company that publishes books by Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and other conservative authors says it wants nothing to do anymore …
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CNN:
Intensifying Russia probes could pit Hill against Mueller — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Lawyers working with a team led by special counsel Robert Mueller approached the Senate intelligence committee this summer with a request: They wanted the transcript of an interview Senate staff …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Spicer lands post-White House gig — Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.” — President Donald Trump's first press secretary — who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July but celebrated his official last day in the West Wing on Aug. 31 — has signed with Worldwide Speakers Group …
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.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Sessions to announce end of DACA — Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce Tuesday that the Trump administration is ending DACA, the Obama-era program to shield some illegal immigrants, who arrived in the U.S. as children, from deportation. — In an accompanying press release …
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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 …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages? — Trump poses with DREAMer activists in 2013. — Courtesy Estuardo Rodriguez — President Trump, cornered, weakened, and apparently unable to get his hands on the usual levers of presidential powers, has adopted pretty much the worst possible strategy …
Virginia Coyne / Washington Life Magazine:
Exclusive Interview: Louise Linton Gets Real — “I deserved the criticism,” the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says as she apologizes for the Instagram post seen 'round the world. — I first met Louise Linton in early August, two weeks before her name would dominate headlines — before she was likened to Cruella de Vil.
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Chris Smith / New York Magazine:
In Conversation: Bill de Blasio — The mayor thinks New Yorkers appreciate real talk, even if some of it is bad news. But also, he says, a lot of it isn't. — Mayor Bill de Blasio rounds the corner of a Gracie Mansion porch wearing a broad smile. It's a Friday afternoon in late August, and he's had a good week.
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Impeaching Trump is a long shot. There's another way to protect the country. — With the impeachment and removal of President Trump a long shot at best, there is another way to provide the country some protection from our unfit president: congressional government.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer — A half-century ago, a top automobile executive named George Romney — yes, Mitt's father — turned down several big annual bonuses. He did so, he told his company's board, because he believed that no executive should make more than $225,000 a year …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hurricane Harvey revealed the awesome power of real America — We've seen it before — in the Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and after 9/11 — regular people get up and help, without the government telling them what to do. — CONNECT — Following the news over the past weeks and months was making me sad.