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9:30 AM ET, September 11, 2017

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Charlie Rose / CBS News:
Breitbart's Bannon declares war on the GOP  —  Steve Bannon, Trump's ex-chief strategist, tells 60 Minutes why he's out at the White House and criticizes the GOP for not supporting the president.  “They're gonna be held accountable,” he says  —  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon …
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Steve Bannon's not done...  More from Charlie Rose's 60 Minutes interview with Steve Bannon, the controversial former chief strategist and campaign architect for President Trump  —  President Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon left the White House on August 18 after a turbulent tenure …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Muted backlash to Trump's bipartisanship signals warning for GOP  —  Republicans who dared to cut deals with Democrats have long had to fear retribution from conservative activists like Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government.  He had railed against a 2015 debt-ceiling compromise as …
David Cohen / Politico:
Bannon: Hill Republicans said Obamacare would be replaced by Easter
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Bannon declares war with Republican leadership in Congress
Discussion: Political Wire
Manu Raju / CNN:
Republican Sen. Bob Corker weighs whether to retire in 2018  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the influential chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee who was once considered for a spot in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, is weighing whether to call it quits next year.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bannon plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents  —  President Donald Trump's closest allies are planning a slate of primary challenges against Republican senators, potentially undermining the party's prospects in 2018 and further inflaming tensions between GOP leaders and the White House.
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump tamed by storms but how long will it last?
Discussion: Politico
USA Today:
Hurricane Irma: Where it is now and what we know  —  Hurricane Irma was downgraded to a tropical storm early Monday after it barreled into Florida on Sunday, crashing through the Florida Keys before making a second landfall near Naples on the Gulf Coast and setting a course for Georgia.
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Sean Rossman / USA Today:   Dozens of dogs abandoned, left unable to escape as Irma bears down
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump promised not to work with foreign entities.  His company just did  —  WASHINGTON  —  A major construction company owned by the Chinese government was hired to work on the latest Trump golf club development in Dubai despite a pledge from Donald Trump that his family business …
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Where Trump's Hands-Off Approach to Governing Does Not Apply  —  The Trump administration opened the door to allowing more firearms on federal lands.  It scrubbed references to “L.G.B.T.Q. youth” from the description of a federal program for victims of sex trafficking.
Discussion: Politico and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
For Democrats, no Catholic guilt  —  Hatred of Christians is not new  —  By now it's hardly a surprise that so many national Democrats have nothing but contempt for Roman Catholics.  But what is surprising is that they no longer even bother to hide their distaste for devout Christians.
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Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:   Democrats give away the Rust Belt by alienating Catholics
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Sixteen Years After 9/11, How Does Terrorism End?  —  The current spasm of international terrorism, an age-old tactic of warfare, is often traced to a bomb mailed from New York by the anti-Castro group El Poder Cubano, or Cuban Power, that exploded in a Havana post office, on January 9, 1968.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Katie Shepherd / Willamette Week:
Nobody was hurt in the incident, but the echoes of Charlottsville are hard to miss.  —  Police in Vancouver this afternoon arrested a man after a Patriot Prayer rally when he nearly ran his truck into a crowd of antifascist counter-protesters.  —  After a rally organized …
Discussion: Splinter
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jeff Sessions' lie detector idea  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions has told associates he wants to put the entire National Security Council staff through a lie detector test to root out leakers.  It's unclear whether this will ever happen, but Sessions floated the idea to multiple people, as recently as last month.
Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
Haley's UN Brinkmanship Comes With Advice by Long-Time Pollster  —  Jon Lerner helped get Haley elected South Carolina governor  —  UN envoy wants to ratchet up sanctions on North Korea's regime  —  As Nikki Haley confronts her biggest test so far as U.S. envoy to the UN …
Michael Tanglis / Salon:
Trump Inc: Inside the president's not-so-blind trust  —  Trump's run for president likely started as a marketing pitch.  The problem is, he won  —  Seven days after Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the highest office in the land, he formed more business entities than he had on any previous day …
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Miami airport busts Trump social media director for spreading fake news in midst of storm  —  As Hurricane Irma made landfall in South Florida Sunday, White House social media director Dan Scavino was busy tweeting fake news about the storm.  —  And apparently sharing it directly with Donald Trump.
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Was So Confident of Victory She Bought Second Home in Chappaqua to Accommodate White House Staff
Discussion: IJR
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Florida residents want to know why Trump isn't opening his resorts to hurricane victims  —  As shelters filled to capacity ahead of Hurricane Irma's imminent arrival in South Florida, some residents are asking why Donald Trump isn't stepping up to help them.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump: Hurricanes are helping the Coast Guard improve its ‘brand’
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Eli Watkins / CNN:
John McCain: 'I'm facing a challenge'  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain acknowledged the severity of his cancer prognosis Sunday on CNN's “State of the Union,” saying in his first national interview since receiving the diagnosis that it is the latest test in a lifetime of tough fights.
Discussion: KTLA, KFOR-TV and Political Wire
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
McCain says he is facing ‘very vicious’ form of cancer
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
Gator Park Preps 2,000 Alligators For Irma, Promises None Will Escape
Discussion: Associated Press
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Antifa, white supremacists exploit loose gun laws
Discussion: Raw Story
Yahoo:
Sputnik, the Russian news agency, is under investigation by the FBI
Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
The Wall Street Journal's Trump problem
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Month Has Passed Since Trump Declared an Opioid Emergency. What Next?
Discussion: Jamie Dupree - AJC
Sopan Deb / New York Times:
As Irma's Winds Rise, So Does a Debate Over TV Storm Reporting
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Dems 2020 Field Taking Shape
Alison R. Parker / Shareblue:
“A cry from the white nationalist gut”: Clinton knew Trump from day one
Discussion: IJR
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City of Marathon: ‘Everything is under water, I mean everything’
Discussion: Business Insider
Ingrid Jacques / Detroit News:
Farmer gets boot for expressing his beliefs
 

 
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