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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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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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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Hurricane Irma just slammed into Trump's Caribbean estate — and is headed toward his Florida properties — A ferocious Hurricane Irma barreled early Wednesday morning across the Caribbean island of St. Martin, where President Trump owns a lavish waterfront estate, wrecking buildings …
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NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Summary for Hurricane Irma (AT1/AL112017)
Summary for Hurricane Irma (AT1/AL112017)
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The Guardian:
Hurricane Irma: flooding and blackouts on St Martin as winds destroy sturdiest buildings - live
Hurricane Irma: flooding and blackouts on St Martin as winds destroy sturdiest buildings - live
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ROMPER and The Weather Channel
Josh Delk / The Hill:
NRA threatens legal action over Virgin Islands firearm confiscation order
NRA threatens legal action over Virgin Islands firearm confiscation order
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Bearing Arms
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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Trump sides with Democrats on debt ceiling, throwing Republican plans into chaos … President Trump confounded leaders from his own party on Wednesday by siding with Democrats on plans to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling, upending negotiations on a variety of crucial policy areas …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's deal with Chuck and Nancy
Trump's deal with Chuck and Nancy
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Paul Ryan calls Democrats' debt ceiling proposal ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unworkable’
Paul Ryan calls Democrats' debt ceiling proposal ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unworkable’
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Trump breaks with Republicans on debt ceiling deal
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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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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sanders brushes off Clinton criticism: ‘Look forward and not backward’
Sanders brushes off Clinton criticism: ‘Look forward and not backward’
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Clinton blasts Biden for saying Dems didn't address middle class
Clinton blasts Biden for saying Dems didn't address middle class
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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 …
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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
Fading white evangelicals have made a desperate end-of-life bargain with Trump
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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
Political Divisions in U.S. Are Widening, Long-Lasting, Poll Shows
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump, Clinton Voters Divided Over a Changing America
Trump, Clinton Voters Divided Over a Changing America
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Washington Post, PinkNews, NBC News 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 …
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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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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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Andy Slavitt / USA Today:
Health care smackdown: Last-ditch repeal drive threatens bipartisan fixes
Health care smackdown: Last-ditch repeal drive threatens bipartisan fixes
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Bangor Daily News and Politico
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.
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Politico, RedState, Political Wire, CNN and Mediaite
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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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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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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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.
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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