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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 …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Jose gains strength as Category 4 Irma barrels toward Florida — Hurricane Irma, now a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of up to 155 mph, battered Haiti, Turks and Caicos, and the southern coast of Cuba early Friday morning, and is expected to move westward toward central Cuba and the Bahamas …
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Washington Post:
'It's like someone with a lawn mower from the sky has gone over the island'
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
EPA chief on Irma: The time to talk climate change isn't now
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New York Times:
Devastation in the Caribbean as Irma Heads Toward Miami
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Nicholas Nehamas / miamiherald:
Hurricane Irma is forcing Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate to evacuate
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
House GOP Rips Mnuchin for His ‘Vote for the Debt Ceiling for Me’ Sales Pitch
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The debt ceiling deal is a template for how Trump can get things done
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans jolted by, and Democrats wary of, Trump's overtures to opposing party
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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:
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Zachary Roth / thedailydemocracy.org:
Debunking Kobach's latest voter fraud lie — Kris Kobach is at it again, claiming he's found “proof” of large scale voter fraud. — He hasn't. And he's doing something particularly sneaky that's worth explaining. — Kobach (pictured), who runs the White House's voting commission …
Kris W. Kobach / Breitbart:
Exclusive - Kobach: It Appears That Out-of-State Voters Changed the Outcome of the New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Election Integrity Commission members accuse New Hampshire voters of fraud
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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.
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Bannon: Christie lost cabinet spot after ‘Access Hollywood’ tape release … Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon says New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) wasn't considered for a Cabinet position in President Trump's administration because he failed to offer support …
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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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Polly Mosendz / Bloomberg:
Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
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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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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 …
Reuters:
Trump anger at Cohn raises doubts about his White House tenure: sources — Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Jeff Mason — BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly fraying relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn has raised questions about how long Cohn …
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Backs Baker Who Refused to Make Wedding Cake for Gay Couple — Justice Department files friend-of-the-court brief in support of Colorado bakery owner in case to be heard by Supreme Court — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration told the Supreme Court Thursday …
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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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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.
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.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Virginia Senate race: Carly Fiorina rules out run, Jim Gilmore ‘considering’ candidacy — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina said Friday that she would not seek the Republican nomination for US Senate in Virginia's 2018 election.
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