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Washington Post:
Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling — President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have agreed to pursue a deal that would permanently remove the requirement that Congress repeatedly raise the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the decision said.
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Gingrich or Santorum as speaker? House conservatives plot mischief for the fall … Several influential House conservatives are privately plotting ways to use the legislative calendar this fall to push their hard-line agenda — including quiet discussions about possibly mounting a leadership challenge to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Upbeat Trump raves to Schumer, Pelosi about news coverage of their deal — Many Republicans were furious with President Donald Trump's budget deal Wednesday, stunned that the president quickly gave in to Democratic demands to pair hurricane relief with a three-month debt limit hike — though getting nothing in return.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The debt ceiling deal is a template for how Trump can get things done
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New York Times:
Energized Trump Sees Bipartisan Path, at Least for Now
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's triangulation shows what might have been
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Washington Monthly and NBC News
Anders Melin / Bloomberg:
Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed — Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.
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Ines Gutzmer / Cybersecurity Incident & …:
Cybersecurity Incident & Important Consumer Information — Equifax Announces Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information — No Evidence of Unauthorized Access to Core Consumer or Commercial Credit Reporting Databases — Company to Offer Free Identity Theft Protection and Credit File Monitoring to All U.S. Consumers
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Equifax Says Cyberattack May Have Affected 143 Million Customers
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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller seeks interviews with WH staff over Trump Tower meeting statement — Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
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Ali Watkins / Politico:
Notes from meeting with Russians said not to be damaging to Trump family — Notes from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a meeting he attended last year with a Russian lobbyist and Donald Trump Jr. are not seen as damaging to the Trump family or campaign officials …
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: Jake Tapper walks through the many lies Donald Trump Jr. told about the Russian meeting
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
‘Fines or prison or both’: Dem senator implies Don Trump Jr. is criminally liable for lying to Congress
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New York Times:
Trump Jr. Says He Wanted Russian Dirt to Determine Clinton's ‘Fitness’ for Office
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Eric Holthaus / Grist:
Here's why Irma is a monster hurricane, in one GIF. — The last Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States was Andrew, which lashed South Florida with wind gusts of up to 177 miles per hour in 1992. It caused immense devastation and forever changed Florida's approach to hurricanes.
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Tropical triple threat: Hurricanes Jose and Katia could join Irma striking land this weekend
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hurricane Jose upgraded to Category 3 storm
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Laura Olson / Morning Call:
Congressman Charlie Dent will not seek re-election in 2018 — Congressman Charlie Dent speaks during an open house and tour of Custom Diesel Service, LLC. in Allentown on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. /// (Harry Fisher / The Morning Call) mc-biz-diesel-repair-shop-financing (HARRY FISHER / THE MORNING CALL)
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G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Congressman Dent will not stand for reelection — A source close to Congressman Charlie Dent told City&State PA that the six-term Republican will not stand for reelection in PA's 15th Congressional district. — UPDATE: Shortly after the publication of this story, Dent released a full statement announcing his retirement.
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Morning Call and PoliticsPA
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP moderate Charlie Dent won't seek reelection to House in 2018
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Politicus USA
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection
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Mediaite
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Trump lawyer Ty Cobb, fooled by ‘email prankster,’ asks for ‘drone’ in private emails slamming reporter — White House special counsel Ty Cobb engaged in a lengthy email exchange with a prankster posing as White House social media director Dan Scavino, during which Cobb asked whether there was …
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NBC News:
Homeland Security Plans Massive Roundups of Undocumented Immigrants — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security is planning nationwide raids to target 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials and an internal document …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple — In a major upcoming Supreme Court case that weighs equal rights with religious liberty, the Trump administration on Thursday sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Administration Sides With Baker In Same-Sex Wedding Cake Case
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court rejects Trump administration on travel ban exemptions
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Politicus USA
Scott Shane / New York Times:
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election — Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice. So it was last year when Melvin Redick of Harrisburg, Pa., a friendly-looking American with a backward baseball cap and a young daughter …
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Why weren't the women outraged BEFORE I lost? Now Clinton blames female voters for her defeat in new book - and attacks Matt Lauer too — Hillary Clinton reveals in her memoir frustration upon watching anti-Trump protesters after her stunning election loss
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Fox News:
Graham wants to haul back Comey to testify on Clinton email case, says ‘I smell a rat’
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton: I Should Have Gone Nuclear on James Comey
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The Hill, Washington Free Beacon and Mediaite
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Harvey and Irma, Married 75 Years, Marvel at the Storms Bearing Their Names — Harvey and Irma Schluter have been married for 75 years. He turned 104 in July; she will be 93 in November. — They vividly remember many of the major events of the 20th century, from her first time spotting an airplane …
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Bill Scher / Politico:
Hillary's Message To Dems: Don't Give Bernie The Keys — Democrats are living their own version of Groundhog Day. Every day, they wake up and realize they are still in the 2016 presidential primary. — The leaked excerpts of Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir, “What Happened,” …
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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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New York Times:
Devastation in the Caribbean as Irma Heads Toward Miami — SAN JUAN, P.R. — One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded crescendoed over the Caribbean on Thursday, crumpling islands better known as beach paradises into half-habitable emergency zones and sideswiping Puerto Rico before churning north.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Koch Brothers Will Push Congress to Protect DREAMers … The political network of libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch is poised to back a bill protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation. — Spokespeople for the Koch network confirmed to The Daily Beast …
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Here Is Every Crazy Title IX Rape Case Betsy DeVos Referenced, Plus a Bunch More — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today criticized the previous administration's approach to campus sexual assault, accusing it of imposing a “broken system” that mistreats both accused students and rape survivors.
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
DeVos ignites backlash with rewrite of campus sexual assault policy
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