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Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
Limbaugh evacuates South Florida after claiming Hurricane Irma was a liberal hoax  —  Rush Limbaugh will be evacuating South Florida, just days after the popular conservative radio host claimed that Hurricane Irma would not hit the United States and that scientists and the liberal media …
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Irma weakens to Category 4 as it barrels toward Florida
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Telegraph
CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates
Washington Post:
'It's like someone with a lawn mower from the sky has gone over the island'
Discussion: CNN, ROMPER and Faithwire
Mike Allen / Axios:
No regrets: Trump exuberant in Oval Office after deal with Dems  —  Among Republicans on Capitol Hill, “I've never heard members and senators so angry at the president of their own party,” one durable Washington hand told me after yesterday's round of check-in calls.
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Associated Press:
For Trump and Ryan, a tortured relationship grows more so  —  https://apnews.com/5020609d1ddb4eab9f8f f42fd9e03bd0  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It started out cold as ice, and then turned warm and friendly.  Now the tortured relationship between President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Eschaton
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.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Elise Foley / HuffPost:   Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Promised Her He'd Sign The Dream Act
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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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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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Bannon: Christie lost cabinet spot after ‘Access Hollywood’ tape release
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 …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Kris Kobach's leap of logic on voter fraud in New Hampshire should be disqualifying
Discussion: ThinkProgress
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Election Integrity Commission members accuse New Hampshire voters of fraud
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Bloomberg:
Strongest Quake in a Century Hits Mexico, With at Least 26 Dead  —  Quake probably bigger than 1985 temblor that killed 9,000  —  Peso reversed gains and fell as much as 0.3% after quake hit  —  Mexico was hit by its strongest earthquake in more than a century, shaking buildings in the capital …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Mexico rocked by deadly earthquake
Discussion: RedState
Leslie Shaffer / CNBC:
Mexico struck by huge earthquake, with tsunamis and at least six deaths reported
Discussion: UPI
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.
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 …
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House passes Trump deal on majority Democratic vote  —  The House on Friday cleared a short-term measure to avoid a government shutdown and raise the debt limit through December, ratifying a deal President Trump struck with Democrats.  —  Lawmakers voted 316-90 for the package that includes …
Discussion: RedState
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
House expected to approve billions in hurricane aid, government funding deal
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Gingrich or Santorum as speaker? House conservatives plot mischief for the fall
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 …
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 …
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, Raw Story and PoliticsPA
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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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
Jon Levine / Mediaite:
What Happened?!  — Video Emerges of Hillary Clinton Saying Illegal Immigrant Children Have to Go  —  As Hillary Clinton begins a book tour to promote her 2016 campaign autopsy “What Happened,” video has begun to swirl online of a 2014 interview between her and CNN's Christiane Amanpour to promote her previous book, “Hard Choices.”
Discussion: RedState
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz 2.0?  Senator Adjusts With Trump in Office and Houston Under Water  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was just getting going, summoning his down-home artillery from the Senate floor — the faith-flecked tales, the weathered statesman's gaze, the theatrical pauses deployed not so long ago before caucus-inclined Iowans.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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 …
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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Fox News:
Hurricanes Irma, Harvey are nature's ‘wrath’ for Trump victory, Jennifer Lawrence claims
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Gillespie rejects ‘alt-right’ label for Nazis and Klansmen in Charlottesville
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
This is the most brazen act of Obamacare sabotage yet
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Should a Judge's Nomination Be Derailed By Her Faith?
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
REVEALED: Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson spread racist fake news about black Harvey ‘looters’
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In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple
 

 
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