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12:25 AM ET, September 7, 2017

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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Republican leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ after Ivanka Trump enters Oval Office during debt ceiling talks  —  Negotiations between Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and President Trump broke down when first daughter Ivanka Trump entered the Oval Office to say hello during the Wednesday meeting …
Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine and Splinter
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Freedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve Bannon  —  Leaders of the Freedom Caucus met with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to candidly express their frustrations with his leadership and his handling of the Republican legislative agenda, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump sides with Democrats in debt limit, funding, Harvey deal  —  Donald Trump, who casts himself as a master negotiator, took the first offer Democrats put on the table.  —  Republicans left the Oval Office Wednesday stunned.  Trump had quickly sided with Democrats on a short-term debt ceiling increase …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Art of the Deal?  Not so much  —  President Trump handed Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer the deal of the century this morning.  —  One top Republican described the move to me as the legislative equivalent of giving an entire stockpile of weapons to Democrats and inviting them to take the entire Republican Party hostage.
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
GOP leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ over Ivanka visit to Oval Office: reports  —  Republican leaders on the Hill were “visibly annoyed” that Ivanka Trump joined an Oval Office meeting to “say hello” during their Wednesday meeting with President Trump on a must-pass spending bill, according to reporters who spoke with an aide.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats  —  President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's tête-à-tê te on Tuesday — after a summer of sniping between the two — lifted Republican hopes that the GOP was finally back in sync ahead of a brutal fall of fiscal deadlines.
Discussion: Axios and Business Insider
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Inside the Freedom Caucus' tax plan  —  The House Freedom Caucus — a group of around 35 ultra-conservative House Republicans who can block their party's leadership on key legislation — is in the final stages of drafting its own tax plan, according to sources familiar with the process.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
The Pivot Is Real, And It's Spectacular  —  Trump doesn't like McConnell and Ryan, and never did.  He likes Chuck Schumer, and knows Chuck always makes money for his partners.  —  So President Trump calls the leadership of the Republicans and Democrats into the Oval Office today for a meeting …
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Meet the Swamp: Donald Trump Punts September Agenda to December After Meeting with Congress
Discussion: New York Times
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
MacArthur: Agreement reached with House Freedom Caucus chair on health plan
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:   Trump's Early Christmas Gift to Democrats
Facebook:
An Update On Information Operations On Facebook  —  There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.  In April we published a white paper that outlined our understanding of organized attempts to misuse our platform.
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Washington Post:
Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election … Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters …
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says  — An internal Facebook investigation has found it is “likely” Russian operatives spent $100,000 on ads with “divisive messages”  — Though most of the ads did not reference the U.S. presidential election …
miamiherald:
Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Caribbean with Florida at center of projected path  —  Hurricane Irma — with its ferocious 185 mph winds — made landfall in the Caribbean early Wednesday, slamming into Barbuda and Antigua as it headed for Puerto Rico, with Florida now directly in the center of the projected path by the weekend.
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New York Times:
Hurricane Irma Reaches Puerto Rico: ‘There Is Nothing Like This’  —  • Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, hit the eastern Caribbean on Wednesday with winds of up to 185 miles an hour.  —  • The Category 5 storm leveled Barbuda …
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Florida Sheriff Warns Fugitives They'll Be Jailed if They Seek Shelter
Washington Post:
Extreme Category 5 Irma crashes into Caribbean, sets sights on Florida and Southeast U.S.
Blair Shiff / ABC News:
Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda
Discussion: RT
Josh Delk / The Hill:
NRA threatens legal action over Virgin Islands firearm confiscation order
Discussion: Politico and Bearing Arms
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Hurricane Irma just slammed into Trump's Caribbean estate — and is headed toward his Florida properties
NBC News:
Steve King: Dreamers Can ‘Live in the Shadows’ After DACA Ends  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a conservative firebrand with a history of making incendiary remarks about immigrants and culture, said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's decision to wind down DACA …
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Kobach on Dreamers: ‘Correct policy’ is to ‘deport the whole family’
Discussion: Politico
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump says he just wants a DACA fix ‘where everybody is happy’
Discussion: New York Times and IJR
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump is reportedly unlikely to pick Gary Cohn as next Fed chair  — President Donald Trump is unlikely to pick Gary Cohn to lead the Federal Reserve, according to The Wall Street Journal.  — Cohn's chances reportedly went down after he criticized the president's response to violence at a white supremacist rally last month.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Hackers Gain Direct Access to US Power Grid Controls  —  IN AN ERA of hacker attacks on critical infrastructure, even a run-of-the-mill malware infection on an electric utility's network is enough to raise alarm bells.  But the latest collection of power grid penetrations went far deeper …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Celebrity polling firm rates Spicer 13 out of 100  —  After a beleaguered six-month run as White House press secretary, Sean Spicer has been shopping his brand for television, book and speaking deals in recent weeks.  The latest findings of a celebrity-popularity poll, however, may show why he is a tough sell.
Discussion: Raw Story
Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
Amazon Warehouse Employees Are the Most Important Workers in America  —  The future is not completely unpredictable.  Many of the most powerful economic and political trends in this country can be found inside an Amazon warehouse.  And what happens to the workers there will say a lot about our collective future.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Stephen Ide / providencejournal.com:
Tom Perez, former U.S. labor secretary, to teach at Brown  —  Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. labor secretary under President Barack Obama, will join Brown University as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for Public Affairs, the university has announced.
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Top Trump lawyer in private email exchange: ‘Me and Kelly’ are the ‘adults in the room’  —  White House special counsel Ty Cobb engaged in a lengthy email exchange in which he defended his decision to join President Donald Trump's legal team and appeared to refer to himself and White House Chief …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
McCain backs Graham-Cassidy ObamaCare repeal effort  —  (R-Ariz.) said Wednesday that he supports a newer version of an ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill, throwing some support behind the last-ditch effort.  —  McCain said he backs a bill from Sens. Lindsey Graham  —  (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy
The Daily Beast:
Bipartisan Blitz May Save DACA From Trump … The outline of a deal to formally codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy began to emerge Wednesday, just a day after President Donald Trump announced he was rescinding the program with a six-month phase-out.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Washington Post's Scott Wilson is out as national editor  —  Washington Post National Editor Scott Wilson has left his position after disputes with his superiors over newsroom resources for his coverage areas, according to informed sources at the newspaper.  The move comes after Wilson …
USA Today:
Trump gets millions from golf members.  CEOs and lobbyists get access to president  —  Dozens of lobbyists, contractors and others who make their living influencing the government pay President Trump's companies for membership in his private golf clubs, a status that can put them in close contact …
 
 
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
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James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
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Under the Bus … Cory Booker voted against the Taylor Force Act.
Discussion: Politico
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New York City unveils universal free lunch in time for the first day of school
Discussion: Mother Jones and AOL
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Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
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