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12:00 PM ET, September 8, 2017

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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: Mother Jones, Splinter and Raw Story

Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Hurricane Irma is forcing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate to evacuate

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Shareblue, Raw Story, CNN, Politicus USA and CNBC

Daniella Diaz / CNN:
EPA chief on Irma: The time to talk climate change isn't now

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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Irma weakens to Category 4 as it barrels toward Florida

Discussion: CNN, Politico, Telegraph and ROMPER

Washington Post:
'It's like someone with a lawn mower from the sky has gone over the island'

Discussion: CNN, ROMPER and Faithwire

CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates

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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.

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, Business Insider, Washington Free Beacon, Althouse and Washington Post

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 …

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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House passes Trump deal on majority Democratic vote

Discussion: RedState

Associated Press:
The Latest: White House praises Congress for Harvey aid

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The debt ceiling deal is a template for how Trump can get things done

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mother Jones

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg and CNN

Elise Foley / HuffPost: Nancy Pelosi Says Trump Promised Her He'd Sign The Dream Act

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: Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, thedailydemocracy.org, Right Wing Watch and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Kris Kobach's leap of logic on voter fraud in New Hampshire should be disqualifying — In the end, the conclusion that Kris Kobach should be kept as far as possible from any investigation into “voter fraud” — much less co-chairing President Trump's federal exercise — comes down to three words:

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Zachary Roth / thedailydemocracy.org: Debunking Kobach's latest voter fraud lie

David Weigel / Washington Post:
Election Integrity Commission members accuse New Hampshire voters of fraud

Discussion: Clayton Cramer

Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
More than 5,000 out-of-state voters may have tipped New Hampshire against Trump

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post, Daily Wire, Conservative News Today, MelaniePhillips.com, The Gateway Pundit and The Last Tradition

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, BillMoyers.com, RedState, Mashable, Raw Story, Associated Press, Gizmodo, CTVNews and The Atlantic, more at Techmeme »

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

Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:
Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack

Discussion: Mashable, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and The Guardian

Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Bannon: Christie lost cabinet spot after ‘Access Hollywood’ tape release

Discussion: RedState, Politico, Business Insider, Conservative News Today and The Daily Caller

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.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Just Security, BuzzFeed, Politico, Washington Post, New York Magazine, KQED News, Talking Points Memo and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

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 …

Discussion: The Atlantic, Washington Post, Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Axios

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: New York Times, The Guardian, Common Dreams and The Gateway Pundit

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill, ICE, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Wire, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, Splinter, Raw Story and RedState

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: Shareblue, ABC News, Axios, Raw Story and PoliticsPA

G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Congressman Dent will not stand for reelection

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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

Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dreamers, Liars and Bad Economics

Discussion: Mother Jones, Daily Kos and USA Today

Sarah Kliff / Vox:

This is the most brazen act of Obamacare sabotage yet — Trump has quietly stopped funding Obamacare's outreach budget. — The Trump administration has let funding for Obamacare's $63 million in-person outreach program lapse, leading to layoffs and confusion among nonprofits that enroll vulnerable populations in coverage.

Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:

‘I Smell Cash’: How the A.T.F. Spent Millions Unchecked — A pair of informants got $6 million and agents spent freely. The Justice Department fought to keep records of the operation secret. — BRISTOL, Va. — For seven years, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco …

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

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