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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling
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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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Freedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve Bannon
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Conservatives mount opposition to Trump's deal with Democrats, but fail to stop it in the Senate
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
The Freedom Caucus' plan to push the WH into action
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Powerful House Republican group opposes Trump debt ceiling deal
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi asked Trump to issue tweet reassuring DACA recipients
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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 …
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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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton: I Should Have Gone Nuclear on James Comey
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Betsy DeVos: The Era of Weaponized Title IX in Campus Rape Cases Is Over — In a major speech assailing the deprivation of due process protections under the Obama administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will vow to rein in the federal guidance compelling colleges to adjudicate sexual assault disputes between students.
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Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos to revamp Obama-era schools sexual assault policy
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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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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 …
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 …
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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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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
(CNN)President Trump is expected to return to Camp David again this weekend …
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
The ‘Ivanka drop-by’: Trump's not-so-secret meeting trick — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)President Donald Trump has a longtime habit in high-profile meetings that's no “Art of the Deal” secret: a casual drop-by from daughter Ivanka Trump. — Take Wednesday's meeting with congressional leaders …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Graydon Carter to End 25-Year Run as Vanity Fair's Editor — Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, plans to step down from the magazine in December after a 25-year tenure, leaving the role that established him as a ringmaster of the glittery spheres of Hollywood, Washington and Manhattan media.
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Prashant S. Rao / New York Times:
Amazon Announces Plans for Huge New North America Offices — Amazon said on Thursday that it was searching for a second headquarters in North America, a huge new development that would cost as much as $5 billion to build and run, and would house as many as 50,000 employees.
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Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Seeks Prime Location for $5 Billion Second HQ
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NBC News:
Hurricane Irma Skirts Puerto Rico, Leaves 1 Million Without Power — Hurricane Irma carved a merciless path of destruction through the Caribbean, killing at least nine and leaving thousands homeless before plunging more than 1 million residents of Puerto Rico into darkness.
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Blair Shiff / ABC News:
Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda
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Brandon Champion / MLive.com:
Kid Rock gets political during electric show at Van Andel Arena — Gallery: Kid Rock talks politics from the stage at Van Andel — GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Amid accusations of campaign finance violations and protests calling for his Michigan concerts to be cancelled, Kid Rock didn't shy away …
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