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10:30 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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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 …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:   Muted backlash to Trump's bipartisanship signals warning for GOP
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
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:   Trump company hires Chinese government-owned firm despite promise: report
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Soul Survival in Trump's Hell  —  My mother always told me that when I was going through something tough and dispiriting.  It was her way of saying that trouble doesn't last forever, that even in your darkest place, hold fast to the hope and the light, that though today you are in the valley, tomorrow you shall scale the peak.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Conspiracies, Corruption and Climate  —  After the devastation wreaked by Harvey on Houston — devastation that was right in line with meteorologists' predictions — you might have expected everyone to take heed when the same experts warned about the danger posed by Hurricane Irma.
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:   Donald Trump Hasn't Faced a Single Climate Change Question Since Hurricanes Hit
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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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
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 …
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
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
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
Karen Townsend / NewsBusters:
Miss America Contestants Asked to Condemn President Trump  —  Though the ominous feeling of concern for those in the path of Hurricane Irma in Florida hung heavy in the air, the show must go on.  Miss America 2018 on ABC aired September 10th and throughout the show, donations for hurricane relief …
Discussion: IJR and Grabien News
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 …
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.
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Was So Confident of Victory She Bought Second Home in Chappaqua to Accommodate White House Staff  —  Hillary Clinton was so confident of victory last year that she bought a second house next to her residence in Chappaqua, New York, to accommodate White House staff during presidential retreats there.
Discussion: RedState, Daily Wire and IJR
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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
 
 
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Tyler Eifert:
Why I Stand  —  I know it would probably be best to stay out of it …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Voter Fraud Commission Poised To Double Down On Debunked NH Claims
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Pope Francis says rescinding DACA is not ‘pro-life’
Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
Haley's UN Brinkmanship Comes With Advice by Long-Time Pollster
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Antifa, white supremacists exploit loose gun laws
Discussion: Raw Story
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Yahoo:
Sputnik, the Russian news agency, is under investigation by the FBI
Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
The Wall Street Journal's Trump problem
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
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