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8:25 PM ET, September 6, 2017

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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 …

Discussion: Axios, Shareblue, ABC News, The Atlantic, Business Insider, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, TheStreet, National Review, Daily Kos and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Politico, RedState, Towleroad, Metro, Political Wire, CNN and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, The Resurgent, Politicus USA, Washington Free Beacon and IJR

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 …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, CBS News, Daily Kos, Politico, Mother Jones, Raw Story and CBS Denver

Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
The Pivot Is Real, And It's Spectacular

Discussion: Axios and Politico

John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats

Discussion: Axios and Business Insider

Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Sen. Sasse: ‘The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump deal is bad’

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and ThinkProgress

Russell Berman / The Atlantic: Trump's Early Christmas Gift to Democrats

New York Times:
Trump Bypasses Republicans to Strike Deal on Debt Limit and Harvey Aid

Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Paul Ryan calls Democrats' debt ceiling proposal ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unworkable’

Discussion: The Atlantic and Washington Free Beacon

Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Trump overrules GOP with deal on spending, debt, Harvey aid

Discussion: IJR

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.

Discussion: New York Times, Grist, CBS News, The Daily Caller, NPR, Business Insider and The Root

Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:

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.

Discussion: New York Times, ABC News, CNN, Ledger, Hullabaloo, Splinter, Hit & Run, Daily Kos, KTLA, KFOR-TV and IJR

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 …

Discussion: CNNMoney, Washington Post, ABC News, Gizmodo, Mashable and IJR

Washington Post:
Extreme Category 5 Irma crashes into Caribbean, sets sights on Florida and Southeast U.S.

Discussion: ABC News, ROMPER, Mediaite, The Verge, Mashable, Daily Kos and Faithwire

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

Discussion: Mashable, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, ROMPER, The Resurgent, Politico, JustOneMinute and CANNONFIRE

CNN:
Deaths reported as Hurricane Irma batters northern Caribbean islands

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The Guardian:
Hurricane Irma: flooding and blackouts on St Martin as winds destroy sturdiest buildings - live

Discussion: AOL, ROMPER and CBS New York

CNN:
Hurricane Irma slams Caribbean islands as it heads toward Puerto Rico

NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Summary for Hurricane Irma (AT1/AL112017)

Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, ROMPER, Washington Post, New York Magazine, AOL, Gizmodo, TVNewser and Grist

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Axios, IJR, New York Magazine, Politicus USA, The Daily Caller, TheStreet, Hullabaloo, Towleroad, Engadget, Boing Boing, Mashable and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: CNNMoney, Politico, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Next Web and The Verge

New York Times:
Fake Russian Facebook Accounts Bought $100,000 in Political Ads

Discussion: Washington Post

Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:

Kobach on Dreamers: ‘Correct policy’ is to ‘deport the whole family’ — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Wednesday defended President Trump's decision to end a key Obama-era immigration program, saying that families of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children should be deported.

Discussion: Politico

NBC News:
Steve King: Dreamers Can ‘Live in the Shadows’ After DACA Ends

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post and Business Insider

Max Boot / Washington Post: I came to this country 41 years ago. Now I feel like I don't belong here.

Eric H. Holder Jr / Washington Post:
Former attorney general Eric Holder: The Trump administration's deep misunderstanding of DACA

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Media Matters for America, Common Dreams, TIME, Salon and Hullabaloo

Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
OPINION | Don't slam Trump for sending DACA back to Congress

Discussion: Townhall.com, FiveThirtyEight, ABC News, IJR, mcclatchydc and The Daily Caller

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 …

Discussion: New Republic, Daily Kos, Metro, The Gateway Pundit, Shareblue, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Common Dreams, Patterico's Pontifications, Gizmodo, Politicus USA, Raw Story, twitchy.com and Lawyers, Guns & Money

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.

Discussion: The Hill, Associated Press, Religion News Service, USA Today, Washington Post, AOL, The Daily Caller and Axios

Robert P. Jones / USA Today:
Fading white evangelicals have made a desperate end-of-life bargain with Trump

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

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 …

Discussion: Political Wire, New York Magazine, CNBC, Business Insider and Mediaite

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump is reportedly unlikely to pick Gary Cohn as next Fed chair

Discussion: Business Insider

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 …

Discussion: RedState, IJR, Hit & Run, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, Instapundit, Mediaite and Daily Wire

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.

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Post, The Guardian, Politico, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and AOL

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 …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo

John Bowden / The Hill:

Analysis: US projected to have second-lowest crime rate since 1990 — The United States is on course this year to see one of its lowest crime rates in decades, according to new research published Wednesday. — A study published by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School …

BeccaA / Feeds:
Crime in 2017: A Preliminary Analysis

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, The Daily Caller, Metro, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Hit & Run and Daily Wire

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

Discussion: Politico, USA Today, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Political Wire and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Metro, Balloon Juice, IJR, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller