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9:40 AM ET, September 8, 2017

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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.
Discussion: Politico and Mother Jones
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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.
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 …
Discussion: Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
No regrets: Trump exuberant in Oval Office after deal with Dems
Discussion: New York Times and Althouse
New York Times:
Energized Trump Sees Bipartisan Path, at Least for Now
Washington Post:
Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling
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
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 …
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.
Discussion: Duffel Blog and BuzzFeed
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dreamers, Liars and Bad Economics
Discussion: Mother Jones, Daily Kos and USA Today
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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   WATCH: Jake Tapper walks through the many lies Donald Trump Jr. told about the Russian meeting
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: ABC News, Axios and Raw Story
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Mexico rocked by deadly earthquake  —  Mexico suffered its most powerful earthquake in nearly a century late Thursday, which left at least six people dead and sent violent tremors throughout the region.  —  The quake, which had a magnitude of 8.1, was registered off Mexico's southern coast …
Discussion: RedState
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Leslie Shaffer / CNBC:
Mexico struck by huge earthquake, with tsunamis and at least six deaths reported
Discussion: UPI
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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Josh Delk / The Hill:
ICE denies plan for nationwide immigration raids
Discussion: ICE, New York Magazine and RedState
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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CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates
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 …
The Daily Beast:
Russia's Facebook Fake News Could Have Reached 70 Million Americans … Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million, according to analysis by an expert on the social-media giant's complex advertising systems.
Kris W. Kobach / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Kobach: It Appears That Out-of-State Voters Changed the Outcome of the New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race  —  For years, the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it.  And when secretaries of state …
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
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CBS News:
Steve Bannon: Trump's leaked “Access Hollywood” tape was a “litmus test”  —  In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon tells “60 Minutes” about the fallout after the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape.
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 and Raw Story
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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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: NPR, Reuters, Mashable and ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft  —  Investigators looking at whether Uber's defunct ‘Hell’ internal program was used to interfere illegally with competitors  —  Federal law-enforcement authorities in New York are investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. used software …
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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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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz 2.0? Senator Adjusts With Trump in Office and Houston Under Water
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Should a Judge's Nomination Be Derailed By Her Faith?
Discussion: Washington Post
Axios:
Why GOP leaders should be scared
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Crime and immigration: What's in the DREAM Act
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Emma Dumain / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Lindsey Graham's on a lonely quest to repeal and replace Obamacare
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook's role in Trump's win is clear. No matter what Mark Zuckerberg says.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Tillerson is working with China and Russia — very, very quietly
Discussion: Just Security
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Harvey and Irma, Married 75 Years, Marvel at the Storms Bearing Their Names
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ its revenue is from ads
 
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