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2:15 PM ET, September 11, 2017

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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:   Trump company hires Chinese government-owned firm despite promise: report
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 …
Daily Mail:
At least 32 looters are arrested across Florida during Irma crime spree: Thieves prompt SWAT standoff after robbing a store for GUNS while others are caught on camera breaking into a sports shop  — SWAT officers in Orlando detain one suspect after a standoff which began looters broke into Academy Sports trying to steal guns
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New York Times:
Irma Live Updates: Now a Tropical Storm, System Heads North
Discussion: Axios, WCMH-TV and NPR
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Pope Francis: If Trump is ‘pro-life’ he wouldn't end DACA  —  Pope Francis said that President Trump should reconsider his decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program if he considers himself to be “pro-life.”  —  “The President of the United States presents himself …
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Delia Gallagher / CNN:
Pope Francis says rescinding DACA is not ‘pro-life’
Discussion: Politico
Yahoo:
Sputnik, the Russian news agency, is under investigation by the FBI … WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency, as part of an investigation into whether it is acting as an undeclared propaganda arm …
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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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.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:   Soul Survival in Trump's Hell
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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republican Party  —  Political scientist Lee Drutman argues in a Vox essay that American politics is descending into what he calls “doom-loop partisanship.”  Drutman notes that Americans have been “retreating into our separate tribal epistemologies …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Muted backlash to Trump's bipartisanship signals warning for GOP
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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 …
Detroit News:
Rep. Dave Trott is retiring from U.S. House  —  Washington — Republican Rep. Dave Trott of Birmingham said Monday that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term.  —  Trott, a 56-year-old attorney serving his second term, is the latest in a string of GOP House members to announce …
Discussion: Axios
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.
TMZ.com:
Eric Chase Bolling Jr. Died in Bed After ‘Emotional Torture’ Over Dad's Firing  —  Eric Chase Bolling, Jr. — Died in Bed After Suffering ‘Emotional Torture’  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Eric Chase Bolling, Jr. died in his bed, TMZ has learned, after enduring “emotional torture” …
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 …
Kid Rock:
People!  Pay NO attention to the garbage the extreme left is trying to create!  —  They are trying to use the old confederate flag BS, etc. to stir the pot, when we all know none of this would be going on if I were not thinking of running for office.  Pretty funny how scared …
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
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones: Sources tell me Trump is being “covertly drugged” and is now slurring his words by 6 or 7 p.m. each night  —  Jones: Multiple people tell me “they believe that they are putting a slow sedative that they're building up that's also addictive in his Diet Cokes and in his iced tea …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump takes travel-ban exemption fight back to SCOTUS  —  The Trump administration is returning to the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn lower court rulings crimping the application of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order.  —  Justice Department lawyers asked …
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Russian pol: US intel missed ‘Russian intelligence’ stealing ‘the president of the United States’  —  On a Sunday panel show, a Russian politician said U.S. “intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States.”  —  Vyacheslav Nikonov …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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Camilla Turner / Telegraph:
Teachers ‘scared’ to teach lessons on 9/11 terror attack
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George Harrison / New York Post:
Hackers could program sex robots to kill
New York Times:
9/11: Finding Answers in Ashes 16 Years Later
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
7 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Plano home; gunman killed by police
Discussion: New York Post, NBC News and NPR
Shasta Darlington / New York Times:
‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Killed in Brazil
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Has Left America Less Prepared for Another 9/11
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Brian Williams Mocked For Suggesting Viewers Take Credit For Others Work
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Uriel J. Garcia / The Santa Fe New Mexican:
ICE arrests young immigrant's sponsor months after feds assured him he'd be safe
Discussion: Raw Story
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Voter Fraud Commission Poised To Double Down On Debunked NH Claims
Discussion: New York Times, NBC News and Raw Story
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Sixteen Years After 9/11, How Does Terrorism End?
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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: Axios, Raw Story and twitchy.com
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
For Democrats, no Catholic guilt
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jeff Sessions' lie detector idea
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Filing: Trump Media lost $19.2M in Q3, while revenue fell 5.6% YoY to just $1.01M; DJT jumped 18.6% before closing down 1.16% on November 5

 
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