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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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CNN:
Admin memo: DACA recipients should prepare for ‘departure from the United States’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)White House talking points on Tuesday urged DACA recipients to prepare for a “departure from the United States,” a much starker possible future than Trump administration officials used …
Discussion: NBC News and Splinter
The Daily Beast:
Sheriff Clarke Was in Talks for a Trump White House Job—Then John Kelly Killed It … Sheriff David A. Clarke just lost out on yet another Trump administration job—and he has the president's chief of staff to thank.  —  Officials in the West Wing tell The Daily Beast that Clarke …
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 …
Julie Pace / Associated Press:   Analysis: After tough talk on immigration, Trump waffles
Senator Heidi Heitkamp:
Today, the president and U.S. Attorney General said they will end …
Discussion: New York Times
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Trump ending DACA will crush dreams
Discussion: Raw Story
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic  —  RUSH: The hurricane is what I want to lead off with, though, folks.  And I've gotta be very careful here because I am not a meteorologist, and nothing I say today should be considered to be a forecast or a prediction.  I am not the National Hurricane Center.
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Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Hurricane Irma is heading straight for Trump's Caribbean mansion  —  President Donald Trump doesn't just have to worry about safeguarding the nation ahead of Hurricane Irma.  —  Trump owns a multi-million dollar mansion on the Caribbean island of St. Martin — and Category 5 Irma is heading straight for it.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Raw Story
NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:   Hurricane Irma Forecast Discussion
Eric Holthaus / Grist:
Irma, the strongest Atlantic hurricane in history, keeps getting stronger
Washington Post:
Florida officials begin ordering evacuations as Hurricane Irma intensifies to a Category 5 storm
Bloomberg:
FEMA Is Almost Out of Money and Hurricane Irma Is Approaching
Discussion: Business Insider
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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Christopher Matthews / Axios:   Thomas Piketty on the Russian kleptocracy
Hilary Whiteman / CNN:
Putin: North Korea crisis may be ‘impossible’ to solve  —  (CNN)A day after predicting “global catastrophe” if North Korea's nuclear tests lead to anything other than talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the situation may be “impossible” to resolve.
Discussion: Axios
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Ankit Panda / The Diplomat:
US Intelligence: North Korea's Sixth Test Was a 140 Kiloton ‘Advanced Nuclear’ Device  —  North Korea's sixth nuclear test was easily its biggest yet, according to early U.S. intelligence estimates.  —  North Korea's sixth nuclear test on Sunday released 140 kilotons of TNT equivalent, according to a new U.S. intelligence assessment.
38 North:
North Korea's Sixth Nuclear Test: A First Look
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House moves to quell Harvey-debt limit opposition  —  President Donald Trump's White House will move Wednesday to quash growing GOP opposition to a strategy to raise the debt ceiling as part of a Hurricane Harvey relief package, according to multiple House and White House officials.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Conservatives pan GOP's debt ceiling scheme
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:   Democrats launch super PAC to win back statehouses
Jason Sattler / USA Today:
DACA could be ruinous Prop 187 moment with Latinos for Trump and GOP  —  It took decades for rigor mortis to cripple the California GOP.  National Republicans are setting themselves up for the same sort of long-term rot.  —  CONNECT  —  When we need a shortcut to explain why it's …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Republicans face a divisive fight over immigrants that could define the party's future
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Associated Press:   Trump's traveled from fiery to conflicted on dreamers
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 …
Ella Nilsen / Vox:
4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA  —  And one misleading claim.  —  On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially announced the Trump administration will rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields nearly 800,000 young, unauthorized immigrants from deportation.
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New York Times:
Trump Chooses Sessions, Longtime Foe of DACA, to Announce Its Demise
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
House committee subpoenas FBI, Justice over Trump dossier  —  In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate resolution to force Trump's hand on condemning Charlottesville hate groups  —  The Senate is preparing to force President Donald Trump to go on record to officially condemn the deadly white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last month.  —  Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
StarWars.com:
A Statement Regarding Star Wars: Episode IX  —  Lucasfilm and Colin Trevorrow have mutually chosen to part ways on Star Wars: Episode IX.  Colin has been a wonderful collaborator throughout the development process but we have all come to the conclusion that our visions for the project differ.
John Sipher / Just Security:
A Second Look at the Steele Dossier—Knowing What We Know Now  —  [Editor's Note: In this special Just Security article, highly respected former member of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service, John Sipher examines the Steele dossier using methods that an intelligence officer would to try to validate such information.
 
 
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Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Spicer gets the last laugh on Trump
Politico:
Trump wants one last Senate push on Obamacare repeal
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PRRI:
America's Changing Religious Identity
Discussion: Politico and Religion News Service
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Senate Judiciary's meeting with Trump Jr. scheduled for Thursday
Mark Zuckerberg:
This is a sad day for our country.  The decision to end DACA is not just wrong.
Theodore Schleifer / Recode:
Laurene Powell Jobs is using Ronald Reagan in political ads to attack Trump's DACA decision
Discussion: Mashable
New York Times:
At CNN, Retracted Story Leaves an Elite Reporting Team Bruised