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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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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.
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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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Upbeat Trump raves to Schumer, Pelosi about news coverage of their deal
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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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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 — Notes from former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on a meeting he attended last year with a Russian lobbyist and Donald Trump Jr. are not seen as damaging to the Trump family or campaign officials …
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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
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 New York Times
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
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Washington Post:
Tropical triple threat: Hurricanes Jose and Katia could join Irma striking land this weekend
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Hurricane Jose upgraded to Category 3 storm
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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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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP moderate Charlie Dent won't seek reelection to House in 2018
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G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Congressman Dent will not stand for reelection
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Morning Call and PoliticsPA
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection
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Bill Scher / Politico:
Hillary's Message To Dems: Don't Give Bernie The Keys — Democrats are living their own version of Groundhog Day. Every day, they wake up and realize they are still in the 2016 presidential primary. — The leaked excerpts of Hillary Clinton's campaign memoir, “What Happened,” …
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Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
Why weren't the women outraged BEFORE I lost? …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton: I Should Have Gone Nuclear on James Comey
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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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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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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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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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 …
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
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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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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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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 …
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Here Is Every Crazy Title IX Rape Case Betsy DeVos Referenced, Plus a Bunch More — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today criticized the previous administration's approach to campus sexual assault, accusing it of imposing a “broken system” that mistreats both accused students and rape survivors.
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
DeVos ignites backlash with rewrite of campus 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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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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