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Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Trump's head-scratching deal with “Chuck and Nancy” — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is perplexed, with no idea what President Trump thinks he was gaining. — In fact, McConnell rather doubts the president has a strategy, a close source tells Axios.
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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 …
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New York Times:
To Allies' Chagrin, Trump Swerves Left — WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders perched on the couches in the Oval Office froze in mid-smile on Wednesday afternoon when they realized President Trump was bypassing them to cut a short-term spending and debt ceiling deal with Democrats, and not them.
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.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump suggested scrapping future debt ceiling votes to congressional leaders — President Donald Trump suggested to congressional leaders on Wednesday morning that votes to raise the debt ceiling could be done away with altogether, according to three people familiar with the conversation.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi asked Trump to issue tweet reassuring DACA recipients
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Ryan Says Trump Cut Deal With Democrats to Avoid Partisan Fight Over Hurricanes Aid
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats dread Hillary's book tour — President Donald Trump may be the only person in politics truly excited about Hillary Clinton's book tour. — Democratic operatives can't stand the thought of her picking the scabs of 2016, again — the Bernie Sanders divide, the Jim Comey complaints …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Clinton's score-settling frustrates Democrats — is settling old scores in a campaign tell-all book — and angering some Democrats in the process. — Excerpts from “What Happened,” the Clinton campaign memoir scheduled to be released next week, find her letting loose on the Democratic Party's …
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Victoria McGrane GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren backs Sanders' single payer health care plan — WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren is signing on to Bernie Sanders' “Medicare For All” single-payer health care plan. — The Massachusetts Democrat announced her intention to co-sponsor the forthcoming legislation in an e-mail message to supporters Thursday morning.
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Washington Free Beacon
Jack Shafer / Politico:
This Pro-Hillary Website Looks Like North Korean Agitprop
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CBS News:
Steve Bannon says Catholic Church has “economic interest” in “unlimited illegal immigration” — In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is speaking out about President Trump's decision to end the DACA program.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bannon breaks with Trump on DACA: Conservatives ‘are not happy with this’ — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said he doesn't agree with President Donald Trump's decision to end the DACA program and blasted the Catholic Church's support for undocumented immigrants because “they need illegal aliens to fill the churches.”
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004 — Russia has meddled in the affairs of at least 27 European and North American countries since 2004 with interference that ranges from cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, according to an analysis by a surveillance organization.
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook
Washington Post:
Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
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Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says
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Blair Shiff / ABC News:
Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda — Hurricane Irma ripped into the Caribbean island of Barbuda Wednesday morning, killing at least one person and destroying 90 percent of its structures and vehicles, according to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.
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NBC News:
Hurricane Irma Skirts Puerto Rico, Leaves 1 Million Without Power
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CNN:
There are now three hurricanes in the Atlantic basin
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New York Times:
Trump Jr. Says He Wanted Russian Dirt to Determine Clinton's ‘Fitness’ for Office — WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Thursday that he set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton …
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Political Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Politicus USA and Raw Story
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The First White President — It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump's predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’ — CNN's Kirsten Powers said Wednesday night that President Trump believes his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump “isn't that impressive to people” and is treated as a “prized possession” by her father.
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Ted Nordhaus / USA Today:
Impossible Environmentalism: Green groups promote utopian fantasies — Green groups need to make peace with modernity and technology and abandon pastoral nostalgias and utopian fantasies. — CONNECT — You would be hard pressed to find a better example of the ways in which contemporary …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
(CNN)President Trump is expected to return to Camp David again this weekend — but this time with his full Cabinet in tow. — CNN has learned that the President will host the members of his Cabinet at the secluded government-owned retreat in Maryland starting Friday.
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The Root and The Daily Caller
Elise Labott / CNN:
The UN ambassador is the breakout star of Trump's Cabinet. But will she succeed? — Nikki Haley was under consideration to become Donald Trump's secretary of state when she flew to New York to meet the President-elect for the first time since his election victory. — The South Carolina governor was torn.
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The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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.
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Politico, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
Lindsey Adler / Deadspin:
Roger Goodell When Asked About Colin Kaepernick: “I'm Not A Football Expert” — Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League for 11 years as of this week, was asked on FS1's First Things First if he believes Colin Kaepernick should have a place on an NFL roster.
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