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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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Washington Post:
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.
New York Times:
Energized Trump Sees Bipartisan Path, at Least for Now
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Trump's head-scratching deal with “Chuck and Nancy”
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's triangulation shows what might have been
Discussion: Washington Monthly and NBC News
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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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 …
Ali Watkins / Politico:   Notes from meeting with Russians said not to be damaging to Trump family
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
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
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.
Discussion: Orlando Weekly and New York Times
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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.
Discussion: Reuters, NPR and ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
Tropical triple threat: Hurricanes Jose and Katia could join Irma striking land this weekend
Discussion: The Guardian, ROMPER and CNN
CNN:
South Florida under hurricane watch as deadly Irma nears
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)
Discussion: Raw Story
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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.
Discussion: Morning Call and PoliticsPA
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP moderate Charlie Dent won't seek reelection to House in 2018
Discussion: Politicus USA
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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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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 …
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
Discussion: Hit & Run
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court rejects Trump administration on travel ban exemptions
Discussion: Politicus USA
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Here Is Every Crazy Title IX Rape Case Betsy DeVos Referenced, Plus a Bunch More
Discussion: The Federalist and Joanne Jacobs
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 …
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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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:   Why Steve Bannon's Next Act Revolves Around Alabama And The Religious Right
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 …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Ned Oliver / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond leaders condemn display of clown effigies in KKK robes hung in Bryan Park
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Bloomberg:
GOP Senators to Try Again With Alternate Obamacare Replacement
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Highlights Lingering Divisions in the GOP
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
 

 
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