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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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Politico and Mother Jones
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Washington Post:
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.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party
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Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
No regrets: Trump exuberant in Oval Office after deal with Dems
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New York Times and Althouse
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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Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller, CBS Los Angeles, FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, Mashable, Gizmodo and KFOR-TV
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.
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Bloomberg and Washington Post
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Facebook's Russian Ads Disclosure Is Putting The Company Under Intense New Scrutiny — Facebook is facing a new push to reveal how its vast power is being used after it disclosed that roughly $100,000 worth of political ads were purchased on its platform by fake accounts and pages connected to a Russian troll operation.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
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RedState, Little Green Footballs and New York Magazine
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 …
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
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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.
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Duffel Blog and BuzzFeed
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Koch Brothers Will Push Congress to Protect DREAMers
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Metro, Business Insider, Balloon Juice and Axios
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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Rep. Charlie Dent, outspoken GOP moderate, will not seek reelection
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
G Salisbury / City & State PA:
Congressman Dent will not stand for reelection
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Philly.com, Washington Post, Political Wire, Morning Call, Raw Story, PoliticsPA and Weekly Standard
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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Splinter, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
ICE denies plan for nationwide immigration raids
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ICE, New York Magazine and RedState
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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Orlando Weekly and New York Times
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma: Live updates
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The Hill, Washington Post, FOX2now.com, RedState, New York Times, FOX6Now.com, KTLA, IJR, KFOR-TV, Axios, Gizmodo and The Verge
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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Washington Post and Mediaite
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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 …
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Axios, The Daily Caller and Business Insider
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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The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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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Bill Scher / Politico:
Hillary's Message To Dems: Don't Give Bernie The Keys
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Slate, Splinter, CNN, BostonGlobe.com and Mediaite
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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NPR, Reuters, Mashable and ThinkProgress
Wall Street Journal:
Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft — Investigators looking at whether Uber's defunct ‘Hell’ internal program was used to interfere illegally with competitors — Federal law-enforcement authorities in New York are investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. used software …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Facebook's role in Trump's win is clear. No matter what Mark Zuckerberg says. — What a ridiculous notion, Mark Zuckerberg scoffed shortly after the election, that his social-media company — innocent, well-intentioned Facebook — could have helped Donald Trump's win.
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Talking Points Memo, more at Mediagazer »
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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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CNN, The Daily Caller and IJR
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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