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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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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.
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 …
Fox News:
President Trump's statement on DACA
Discussion: ThinkProgress, ROMPER and The Atlantic
Politico:
Full text: Jeff Sessions on Trump ending DACA program
ABC News:
Trump administration announces plan to end DACA
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Sessions announces end of DACA
New York Times:
On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path
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 …
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma is a ‘potentially catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
Speaker.gov:
Statement on DACA Program  —  WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement following the Trump administration's announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
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Department of Homeland Security:
Frequently Asked Questions: Rescission Of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Discussion: Splinter
The Moscow Times:
Putin Says Trump Is Not His Wife  —  Actors in prosthetic make-up portraying Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump  —  President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it would be misplaced to talk of “disappointment” in the context of U.S. President Donald Trump, because the two leaders are not married.
Discussion: Business Insider and IJR
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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: Political Wire and Raw Story
Oleg Matsnev / New York Times:
Trump Is ‘Not My Bride,’ Putin Says
Discussion: CNN, RT and Washington Free Beacon
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: CBS Boston
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Steve Bannon's meeting with Mark Meadows  —  Steve Bannon met with Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows on Monday afternoon at the “Breitbart Embassy” — the Capitol Hill townhouse so-named because those who work at the right-wing website like to think of themselves as the ambassadors for “real America” in Washington, D.C.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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NBC News:
The Bannon Factor: GOP Should Brace for ‘Bloody September’
Wall Street Journal:
Congress Faces a Tense Agenda, With Little Margin for Error
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Seth Gecko / newcarlislenews.net:
CONTACT US  —  Deputy Shoots New Carlisle News Photographer  —  New Carlisle News photographer Andy Grimm was shot by a Clark County deputy Monday evening.  —  Andy had left the office around 10:00 p.m. to take pictures of lightning.  —  There was a traffic stop on Main Street near …
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.
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 …
Discussion: Mashable and CBS San Francisco
 
 
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Congress prepares to do the bare minimum to stabilize Obamacare
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Congressman Luis Gutierrez:
GUTIÉRREZ: DACA ANNOUNCEMENT & IMPLICATIONS FOR APPROPS FIGHTS
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Madeline Conway / Politico:
McCarthy: Republicans will punt wall fight to December
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Former Sheriff David Clarke joins pro-Trump PAC
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Two Resistances  —  The quiet resistance — the one without black masks …
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
Neo-Nazi arrests: National Action suspects are in the Army
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
‘If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?’ Undocumented workers could be key to Texas recovery.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Utah hospital to cops: Stay away from our nurses
Discussion: TheBlaze, Hit & Run and CNN
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump has learned well from her father's cons
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages?
Tyler Kingkade / BuzzFeed:
Betsy DeVos Is Planning A Major Title IX Announcement This Week
Discussion: The College Fix
 

 
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