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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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Florida Sheriff Warns Fugitives They'll Be Jailed if They Seek Shelter — As Hurricane Irma churns towards Florida, the Polk County Sheriff's Department sent out a series of tweets Wednesday telling those with outstanding warrants that they will be sent to jail if they turn up at a storm shelter.
Virgin:
The night before Hurricane Irma arrives — We have just experienced a night of howling wind and rain as Hurricane Irma edges ever closer towards us on Necker and the British Virgin Islands. … The strength of this hurricane is unheard of. I've just been reading reports from the BBC …
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NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Summary for Hurricane Irma (AT1/AL112017)
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Hurricane Irma just slammed into Trump's Caribbean estate — and is headed toward his Florida properties
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The Guardian:
Hurricane Irma: flooding and blackouts on St Martin as winds destroy sturdiest buildings - live
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
NRA threatens legal action over Virgin Islands firearm confiscation order
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma slams Caribbean islands as it heads toward Puerto Rico
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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 …
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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.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Trump sides with Democrats on fiscal issues, throwing Republican plans into chaos … President Trump, a man of few allegiances who seized control of the Republican Party in a hostile takeover, suddenly aligned himself with Democrats Wednesday on a series of key fiscal issues …
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Sen. Sasse: ‘The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump deal is bad’
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New York Times:
Trump Bypasses Republicans to Strike Deal on Debt Limit and Harvey Aid
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Paul Ryan calls Democrats' debt ceiling proposal ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unworkable’
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Trump overrules GOP with deal on spending, debt, Harvey aid
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Trump breaks with Republicans on debt ceiling deal
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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 …
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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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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 …
PRRI:
America's Changing Religious Identity — The American religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation. White Christians, once the dominant religious group in the U.S., now account for fewer than half of all adults living in the country. Today, fewer than half of all states are majority white Christian.
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Robert P. Jones / USA Today:
Fading white evangelicals have made a desperate end-of-life bargain with Trump
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Robert Griffin / Democracy Fund Voter Study Group:
The First Six Months — How Americans are Reacting to the Trump Administration — In December 2016, analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum convened as the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group and helped construct the VOTER Survey. This longitudinal survey interviewed 8,000 Americans …
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Political Divisions in U.S. Are Widening, Long-Lasting, Poll Shows
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump, Clinton Voters Divided Over a Changing America
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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 …
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CNN:
Defiant Clinton looks to explain loss in new memoir — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)A raw and aggrieved Hillary Clinton takes ownership — to a degree — for her stunning 2016 loss to Donald Trump in her upcoming book, which offers a revealing look at the campaign through the eyes of the contest's loser.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don't belong here. — Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the forthcoming book “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.” — I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant.
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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.
Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Holocaust Museum Pulls Study Absolving Obama Administration for Inaction in Face of Syrian Genocide — A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama Administration's Syria policy was put on hold last night after portions of the study given to Tablet were greeted with shock …
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Unlikely to Nominate Gary Cohn to Become Fed Chairman — Cohn's chances dropped after he criticized Trump's response to the Charlottesville protests, according to people familiar with the president's thinking — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is unlikely to nominate Gary Cohn …
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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
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Lindy West / New York Times:
The Ivanka Trump Guarantee — Ivanka Trump, first daughter, strode into Washington back in January with big promises: She was passionate about helping “working women,” she said, and she was going to close the gender wage gap even if it killed her. — Well, not if it killed her, not literally …
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Ralph Peters / Reuters:
The moral answer to North Korea threats: Take them out! — MORE FROM: … Better a million dead North Koreans than a thousand dead Americans. The fundamental reason our government exists is to protect our people and our territory. Everything else is a grace note.
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CNN:
Nunes vents anger at Sessions over subpoena, threatens to hold AG, FBI chief in contempt — House Intel subpoenas FBI, DOJ for Trump dossier documents — (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week in a letter where he threatened Sessions …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sanders brushes off Clinton criticism: ‘Look forward and not backward’ — (I-Vt.) on Wednesday brushed off Hillary Clinton — 's criticism of him in her new book about the 2016 presidential election, saying he's not interested in playing the blame game. — “My response is that right …
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