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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.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The debt ceiling deal is a template for how Trump can get things done — Ignore Ryan and McConnell and make deals with Dems. — Having struggled mightily to get things done in Congress, Donald Trump did something new on Wednesday — direct talks with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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Mother Jones
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party … Political tremors seized both major parties on Thursday in the wake of President Trump's sudden alignment with congressional Democrats, leaving Republicans alarmed about the unraveling of their relationship …
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New York Times:
Energized Trump Sees Bipartisan Path, at Least for Now
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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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Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, CBS Los Angeles, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, Mashable, Gizmodo and KFOR-TV
Jose Lambiet / miamiherald:
Broward GOP uncovers a nasty secret about its young party secretary — The Broward County Republicans are in turmoil today after revelations that a freshly elected member of their executive board is a man who once was charged with attempted murder in the savage claw-hammer beating …
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
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The Daily Caller
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: Jake Tapper walks through the many lies Donald Trump Jr. told about the Russian meeting
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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Orlando Weekly and New York Times
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates
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New York Times, FOX6Now.com, KTLA, KFOR-TV, Axios, Gizmodo and The Verge
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hurricane Jose upgraded to Category 3 storm
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The military looked to ‘dreamers’ to use their vital skills. Now the U.S. might deport them. — Zion Dirgantara can easily recall his first day of school in the United States. It was a bright, sunny Tuesday, and terrorists hijacked four commercial planes.
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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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Metro, Business Insider, Balloon Juice and Axios
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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Congressman Dent will not stand for reelection
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Philly.com, Washington Post, Political Wire, Morning Call, Raw Story and PoliticsPA
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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The Gateway Pundit, Splinter, Business Insider and Raw Story
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
ICE denies plan for nationwide immigration raids
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ICE, New York Magazine and RedState
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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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea — On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation? — 1. The Madman Theory — The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea, so there is no embassy in Washington …
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Axios and Business Insider
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie backers' attacks on Democrats infuriate the party — Prominent Democrats are increasingly riled by attacks from Bernie Sanders' supporters, whose demands for ideological purity are hurting the party ahead of the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election, they say.
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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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Los Angeles Times, CNN, Daily Wire and SCOTUSblog
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Administration Sides With Baker In Same-Sex Wedding Cake Case
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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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NPR, Reuters and ThinkProgress
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook's role in Trump's win is clear. No matter what Mark Zuckerberg says. — What a ridiculous notion, Mark Zuckerberg scoffed shortly after the election, that his social-media company — innocent, well-intentioned Facebook — could have helped Donald Trump's win.
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Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
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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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The Daily Caller, IJR and Talking Points Memo
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
REVEALED: Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson spread racist fake news about black Harvey ‘looters’ — As Florida gears up to be hit by the next massive hurricane of this season, an analysis of right-wing media coverage during Hurricane Harvey shows that many outlets spread overblown …
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