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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 …
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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
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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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Beast
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Soul Survival in Trump's Hell
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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Joshua J. McElwee / National Catholic Reporter:
Pope Francis questions Trump's pro-life values over decision to end DACA
Pope Francis questions Trump's pro-life values over decision to end DACA
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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 …
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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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Corker weighing retirement in 2018
Corker weighing retirement in 2018
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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...
Steve Bannon's not done...
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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 …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Muted backlash to Trump's bipartisanship signals warning for GOP
Muted backlash to Trump's bipartisanship signals warning for GOP
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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 …
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Axios
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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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 …
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New York Post, Political Wire, IJR and The Daily Caller
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” …
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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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Hit & Run, Politico and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
John Kelly fires back at Democrat who called him ‘disgrace to the uniform’ — EXCLUSIVE: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired back at a prominent House Democrat who called him a “disgrace to the uniform,” in the Gold Star father and retired Marine Corps general's first public response to the personal attack on his service.
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 …
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 …
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IJR and Grabien News
Tom Steele / Dallas Morning News:
7 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Plano home; gunman killed by police — Seven people were fatally shot at a Plano home Sunday evening, and their attacker was killed by a police officer. — Authorities were called to the home in the 1700 block of West Spring Creek Parkway, near Custer Road, about 8 p.m. after gunshots were reported.
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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 …
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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 …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Pacific Standard
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 …
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Axios
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Antifa, white supremacists exploit loose gun laws — Domestic extremist groups ranging from white supremacists to their rival “antifa” anarchists are increasingly exploiting loose gun control laws to show up at emotionally charged rallies with assault rifles and other high-powered weapons …
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George Harrison / New York Post:
Hackers could program sex robots to kill … A cybersecurity scientist has issued a bizarre warning that sex robots could one day rise up and kill their owners if hackers can get inside their heads. — Last month, tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed that artificial intelligence could take over the planet …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Brian Williams Mocked For Suggesting Viewers Take Credit For Others Work — Brian Williams is getting dragged on Twitter after he seemed to suggest that people should repost other people's stuff and take credit for it. — Earlier today, the MSNBC anchor was reviewing photos …
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The Daily Caller