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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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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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The Federalist, Shareblue, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Liberal Values
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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller haunts the West Wing
Mueller haunts the West Wing
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Politico, Bloomberg and The Gateway Pundit
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's legal team debated whether Kushner should leave White House
Trump's legal team debated whether Kushner should leave White House
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ThinkProgress, Politico and Balloon Juice
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 — WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders rode his impassioned liberal army of supporters through a tumultuous 2016, fighting to snatch the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. Now he's disrupting the party anew …
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Vox and New York Times
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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Politico, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and STAT
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Insurers make their pitch on how to rescue health-care system
The Health 202: Insurers make their pitch on how to rescue health-care system
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Politico, The American Interest, KCCI-TV, Mic, Daily Kos, Politicus USA, MichelleMalkin.com, Vox, Splinter and The Daily Caller
Tammy Baldwin / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Why I support Medicare for all and other efforts to expand health coverage
Why I support Medicare for all and other efforts to expand health coverage
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The Hill, Washington Post, The Mahablog, Common Dreams and New York Times
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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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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Fox News, Daily Wire, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, IJR and Washington Times
New York Daily News:
Here's who Hillary Clinton blames for her defeat in campaign memoir ‘What Happened’
Here's who Hillary Clinton blames for her defeat in campaign memoir ‘What Happened’
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RedState, Townhall.com and The Daily Caller
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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The Hill, Mother Jones, Sputnik International and Politico
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.
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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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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Jeff Stein / Vox:
About one-quarter of Senate Democrats now support Sanders's single-payer health bill
About one-quarter of Senate Democrats now support Sanders's single-payer health bill
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Politico, Common Dreams, Politicus USA and Washington Post
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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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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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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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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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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Raw Story
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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Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon Says He Talks to Donald Trump Every Two to Three Days — Former White House strategist discusses the president at events in Hong Kong — HONG KONG—Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with President Donald Trump every two to three days …
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Wall Street Journal:
Some Trump Lawyers Wanted Kushner Out — Aides, worried about complications arising from Russia probe, drafted statement explaining departure — Some of President Donald Trump's lawyers earlier this summer concluded that Jared Kushner should step down as senior White House adviser …
MSNBC:
An excerpt from Katy Tur's ‘Unbelievable’ — I'm about to throw up. — I'm standing on the press riser at Donald Trump's New York City Election Night headquarters. Fox News is playing on two big-screen televisions, framing a stage covered with American flags and punctuated by two glass cases …
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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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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
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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