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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Russia Sought A Broad Reset With Trump, Secret Document Shows — A Russian proposal obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals Moscow's ambitious plan to break with the past and launch a major rapprochement with the United States. — Reporting From Washington, D.C.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
State Department official quietly visits Moscow to discuss North Korea
State Department official quietly visits Moscow to discuss North Korea
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The Seattle Times:
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse allegation — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has resigned hours after a fifth man — a relative — made public allegations Murray molested him when he was a child. — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday, just hours after new allegations …
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The Seattle Times:
Mayor Ed Murray's cousin: He sexually abused me, too — Joseph Dyer, a younger cousin of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, says he wants Murray punished, alleging he repeatedly molested him in the 1970s in New York. “I have had enough ... Something has got to be done.” Murray denies abusing Dyer, blaming a yearslong family rift.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Says Democrats' Glee on Debt Limit Deal Was Premature — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell thinks Democrats were a tad premature in exuberantly celebrating the surprise spending deal they struck last week with President Trump. — “Let's put it this way,” Mr. McConnell …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump
Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's new book blasts Republicans and Russia. She's 100 percent right.
Hillary Clinton's new book blasts Republicans and Russia. She's 100 percent right.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller haunts the West Wing
Mueller haunts the West Wing
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton says Trump associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 election
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton says Trump associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 election
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
White House weighs in on Hillary Clinton's new book: ‘Sad’
White House weighs in on Hillary Clinton's new book: ‘Sad’
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Conservative Democrat Open to Single-Payer Health System — The Senate's most conservative Democrat said Tuesday Congress should consider adopting a single-payer health-care system, a sign of how fast politics are shifting on what was once seen as a fringe issue on the left.
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Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders' health care plan puts Democrats on the spot
Bernie Sanders' health care plan puts Democrats on the spot
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Pelosi: Single-payer isn't a litmus test for Democrats
Pelosi: Single-payer isn't a litmus test for Democrats
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The Daily Beast:
How Omarosa Became the Most ‘Despised’ Person in the Trump White House … Omarosa Manigault made her name as one of reality TV's most notorious and hated personalities: the breakout star on season one of Donald Trump's NBC series The Apprentice. — Thirteen-years later, she is in the White House, not on a makeshift television set.
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Opens Up About ‘What Happened,’ With Candor, Defiance and Dark Humor — Hillary Clinton has written a book. Have you heard? — Choice quotes have been seeping out for weeks, and I'll admit that I reacted to one of them — “Now I'm letting down my guard” …
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Chase Cook / Baltimore Sun:
Anne Arundel judge orders investigation into three of Hillary Clinton's attorneys
Anne Arundel judge orders investigation into three of Hillary Clinton's attorneys
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Clinton's account of how she was ‘shivved’ in the 2016 presidential election
Clinton's account of how she was ‘shivved’ in the 2016 presidential election
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Campaign Legal Center:
FOIA Response Reveals True Partisan Intent of Pence-Kobach Commission — WASHINGTON - Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) learned through a response to a FOIA Request from Feb. 15, 2017 that an employee with the Heritage Foundation pushed back on naming a single Democrat to the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Kris Kobach watches his voter fraud lie get fact-checked. It didn't go well.
Kris Kobach watches his voter fraud lie get fact-checked. It didn't go well.
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a “sociopath” and “a very sick individual” — Harvard professor and psychoanalyst on the “antiquated” Goldwater rule and our president's “serious mental illness” VIDEO — The president of the United States is a global celebrity whose every action …
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Raw Story, Daily Kos and Campus Reform
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House downplays Malaysian prime minister's stay at Trump Hotel — The White House on Tuesday denied having any influence on the Malaysian prime minister's decision to stay at the Trump International Hotel while visiting President Donald Trump. — “I'm not sure about if that came up.
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US Census / census.gov:
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016 — SEPT. 12, 2017 — The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income increased by 3.2 percent between 2015 and 2016, while the official poverty rate decreased 0.8 percentage points.
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Edith Windsor, Whose Same-Sex Marriage Fight Led to Landmark Ruling, Dies at 88 — Edith Windsor, the gay-rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights …
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Ernice Gilbert / viconsortium.com:
Trump To Visit U.S. Virgin Islands In Wake Of Irma; More Police, National Guard, Arrive On St. John — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Virgin Islands “within the next six or seven days,” Governor Kenneth Mapp said during a press conference at Government House late Monday.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz blames staffer for ‘liking’ porn tweet — Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday that a staff member of his was responsible for “liking” a pornographic Twitter post with the Texas lawmaker's account, chalking up the social media snafu to a “mistake.” — “There are a number of people on the team who have access on the account.
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The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Russia Used Facebook Events to Organize Anti-Immigrant Rallies on U.S. Soil … Russian operatives hiding behind false identities used Facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.S., including an August 2016 anti-immigrant …
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Campaign Has Begun Turning Over Documents to Mueller … The Trump campaign has begun handing over documents to Bob Mueller as his investigators probe potential interference by Russia in the 2016 election. — A team of attorneys at Jones Day, the firm representing the Trump campaign …
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David Moye / HuffPost:
No, ‘60 Minutes’ Didn't Purposely Make Steve Bannon Look Like A ‘Bleary-Eyed Drunk’ — News experts rejected the color-coordinated conspiracy theory. — After a Los Angeles-based photographer accused “60 Minutes” of purposely altering the color to make former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Republicans wind up one last Hail Mary to repeal Obamacare — Cassidy-Graham faces a tricky schedule and tough politics. — At least a handful of Republican senators will fight to repeal Obamacare until the last possible moment. They have less than three weeks. — The path forward is improbably narrow.
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NewsBusters:
Study: The Liberal Media's Summer of Pummeling Trump — The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration.
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Washington Post, Washington Times, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
David Bernstein / Chicago magazine:
His Life in Prison … ABOVE:Our photo of Rod Blagojevich is anything but traditional. Since Chicago wasn't allowed inside the ex-governor's prison, he rented a camera from the commissary and had it shot himself. — Rod Blagojevich's first summer in prison was, he recalls, “quite an awakening.”
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
White House: Border wall funding doesn't have to be tied to DACA legislation — White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters on Tuesday that President Trump would not demand that border wall funding is tied to a legislative fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
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