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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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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.
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Talking Points Memo
CBS News:
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 …
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New York Times, Talking Points Memo, AOL and The Daily Caller
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bannon plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents
Bannon plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents
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Washington Post, Weekly Standard, ABC News, The Resurgent, Business Insider and Media Matters for America
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump tamed by storms but how long will it last?
The Note: Trump tamed by storms but how long will it last?
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Politico
David Cohen / Politico:
Bannon: Hill Republicans said Obamacare would be replaced by Easter
Bannon: Hill Republicans said Obamacare would be replaced by Easter
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Washington Post and Axios
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Bannon declares war with Republican leadership in Congress
Bannon declares war with Republican leadership in Congress
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Political Wire
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 …
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The Hill
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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National Review, Raw Story, ABC News and twitchy.com
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J.J. Gallagher / ABC News:
Irma approaching Tampa Bay area with hurricane-force winds; 5 dead, 3.5M without power
Irma approaching Tampa Bay area with hurricane-force winds; 5 dead, 3.5M without power
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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.
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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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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.
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The Moderate Voice
Bryan Schott / utahpolicy.com:
Exclusive: Mitt Romney planning to run for Senate if Orrin Hatch retires — Sources tell UtahPolicy.com that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is preparing to run for Senate in 2018 if Sen. Orrin Hatch decides to retire. — Sources close to Romney say the two-time presidential candidate …
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 …
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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.
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Shareblue, CNN, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Splinter, Raw Story, New York Magazine, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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 …
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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Talking Points Memo, CNBC, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Raw Story, Business Insider and Mediaite
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Pope Francis says rescinding DACA is not ‘pro-life’ — Things Donald Trump has said about the Pope — Aboard the papal plane (CNN)If US President Donald Trump considers himself “pro-life,” he should reconsider his decision to end a program that allows the children of undocumented immigrants …
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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Splinter, The News-Press, The Independent and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump: Hurricanes are helping the Coast Guard improve its ‘brand’
Trump: Hurricanes are helping the Coast Guard improve its ‘brand’
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Hullabaloo and Raw Story
CBS News:
Hillary Clinton on why she lost and “the most important” mistake she made — Hillary Clinton has spent the last 10 months trying to figure out why she isn't the president of the United States. — “I am good,” Clinton told “Sunday Morning” anchor Jane Pauley.
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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.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
McCain says he is facing ‘very vicious’ form of cancer
McCain says he is facing ‘very vicious’ form of cancer
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IJR