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11:30 AM ET, September 7, 2017

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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 …
Discussion: Althouse and New York Magazine
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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.
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.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Freedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve Bannon  —  Leaders of the Freedom Caucus met with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to candidly express their frustrations with his leadership and his handling of the Republican legislative agenda, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
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.
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi asked Trump to issue tweet reassuring DACA recipients  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke to President Trump by phone on Thursday and asked him to issue a tweet reassuring young undocumented immigrants that they won't be deported in the next six months.
Discussion: RedState
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling
Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight
John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats
NBC News:
Trump Gets His Payback Against McConnell and Ryan
Discussion: Washington Post
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Some conservatives blame Ryan, McConnell for Trump's deal with Democrats
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Ryan Says Trump Cut Deal With Democrats to Avoid Partisan Fight Over Hurricanes Aid
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Art of the Deal? Not so much
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 …
Victoria McGrane GLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Warren backs Sanders' single payer health care plan
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004  —  Russia has meddled in the affairs of at least 27 European and North American countries since 2004 with interference that ranges from cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, according to an analysis by a surveillance organization.
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
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Facebook:
An Update On Information Operations On Facebook  —  There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.  In April we published a white paper that outlined our understanding of organized attempts to misuse our platform.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook
Washington Post:
Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:
Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says
Discussion: The Next Web
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bannon breaks with Trump on DACA: Conservatives ‘are not happy with this’
Discussion: ABC News
Blair Shiff / ABC News:
Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda  —  Hurricane Irma ripped into the Caribbean island of Barbuda Wednesday morning, killing at least one person and destroying 90 percent of its structures and vehicles, according to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.
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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 …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’  —  CNN's Kirsten Powers said Wednesday night that President Trump believes his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump “isn't that impressive to people” and is treated as a “prized possession” by her father.
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
The ‘Ivanka drop-by’: Trump's not-so-secret meeting trick
Discussion: Splinter, Metro, Mediaite and The Root
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Mara Klecker / Omaha World-Herald:
Photo of 5 males in KKK hoods leads to discipline against students in Creston, Iowa  —  CRESTON, Iowa — Many residents of Creston on Wednesday expressed a mixture of surprise, embarrassment and disgust after five Creston Community High School students posed for a photo in Ku Klux Klan hoods.
Discussion: AOL, Splinter and Raw Story
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Dan Hendrickson / WHOTV:
Creston Students Disciplined for Posting ‘KKK’ Photo on Social Media
Discussion: The Root
Ted Nordhaus / USA Today:
Impossible Environmentalism: Green groups promote utopian fantasies  —  Green groups need to make peace with modernity and technology and abandon pastoral nostalgias and utopian fantasies.  —  CONNECT  —  You would be hard pressed to find a better example of the ways in which contemporary …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
(CNN)President Trump is expected to return to Camp David again this weekend — but this time with his full Cabinet in tow.  —  CNN has learned that the President will host the members of his Cabinet at the secluded government-owned retreat in Maryland starting Friday.
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
 
 
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Lindsey Adler / Deadspin:
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Loren Grush / The Verge:
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Patricia Manson / Chicago Daily Law Bulletin:
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