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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.

Discussion: IJR, The Hill, Raw Story, Daily Kos, Business Insider, The Week and Axios

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.

Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite

Rachael Bade / Politico:

Trump to huddle with House moderates Wednesday — A group of moderate House members is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, the latest across-the-aisle outreach by the White House to Democrats. — Members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, including its co-chairmen …

Discussion: ABC News, Axios, Bloomberg, USA Today and The Daily Caller

Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller: Trump Has Always Backed Amnesty, White House Says

Louis Nelson / Politico:
White House weighs in on Hillary Clinton's new book: ‘Sad’

Discussion: ABC News

Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
White House spokeswoman: Justice Department ‘should certainly look at’ prosecuting Comey

Discussion: Media Matters for America

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 …

Discussion: Townhall.com, The Last Tradition, IJR, Daily Wire, Raw Story, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Clayton Cramer and The Week

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.

Discussion: Fox News, seattlepi.com, TheBlaze, WTVR-TV, PinkNews, The Gateway Pundit, NPR, Associated Press, GeekWire and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Vox, Common Dreams, Splinter, Daily Kos, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire and Washington Post

Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders' health care plan puts Democrats on the spot

Discussion: New York Times and Vox

Tammy Baldwin / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Why I support Medicare for all and other efforts to expand health coverage

Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill, The Mahablog, Common Dreams and New York Times

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Pelosi: Single-payer isn't a litmus test for Democrats

Discussion: Politico, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and STAT

Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:

Kris Kobach watches his voter fraud lie get fact-checked. It didn't go well. — Several Democratic voting experts including New Hampshire's secretary of state on Tuesday repudiated White House voting commission co-chair Kris Kobach's claim that thousands of out-of-state voters …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Signal and USA Today

Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Heritage lamented Dems, moderates on Trump voter fraud commission

Discussion: Politico and Heritage Foundation

Campaign Legal Center:
FOIA Response Reveals True Partisan Intent of Pence-Kobach Commission

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Shareblue, New York Magazine and Right Wing Watch

Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Jeff Sessions Was Lobbied to Exclude Democrats From Trump's Election Fraud Panel

Discussion: Rewire, Politico and NPR

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley — The bad new politics of big tech. — BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief — The blinding rise of Donald Trump over the past year has masked another major trend in American politics: the palpable, and perhaps permanent, turn against the tech industry.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Eater and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Advocate, Vox, Axios, Althouse, The Daily Caller, New York's PIX11, Splinter, Common Dreams, Gothamist, Above the Law, Daily Kos, KTLA, Mashable, CBS New York, The Week, AOL and Mother Jones

Jim Sciutto / CNN:

Flynn refusing new request to speak to Hill committee — (CNN)President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, has refused a new request to appear as a witness before the Senate intelligence committee, a congressional source tells CNN.

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and Mediaite

Zaid Jilani / The Intercept:

In Surprise Vote, House Passes Amendment to Restrict Asset Forfeiture — In a stunning move, the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved an amendment to the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act that will roll back Attorney General Jeff Sessions's expansion of asset forfeiture.

Speaker.gov:
11 Conservative Wins in the Funding Bill

Discussion: Breitbart

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:

House sends resolution urging Trump to condemn white supremacists — The House unanimously cleared a resolution on Tuesday that condemns white supremacists and urges President Trump to speak out against them. — The bipartisan resolution now heads to President Trump's desk for his signature …

Discussion: ABC News

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lawmakers force Trump to formally condemn white supremacists

Discussion: ThinkProgress

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 …

Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and Campus Reform

Eliza Relman / Business Insider:

‘My body freezes — my heart stops’: Journalist Katy Tur describes receiving an unwelcome kiss from Trump while covering 2016 campaign — In her new book about her time on the presidential campaign trail covering Donald Trump, MSNBC host Katy Tur described receiving an unwelcome greeting from the president: a kiss on the cheek.

Discussion: IJR, RedState, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite

MSNBC:
An excerpt from Katy Tur's ‘Unbelievable’

Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR

Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:

Sen. Ted Cruz likes porn video on Twitter — Sen. Ted Cruz has been busy on Twitter. — The Republican lawmaker from Texas was among more than 400 accounts that liked a two-minute-long porno from @SexuallPosts on the social media site. — Lewd footage of the actors — two women and a man …

Discussion: Boing Boing, Snopes.com, NBC News, Red Alert Politics, Refinery29, Common Dreams and Hullabaloo

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz blames staffer for ‘liking’ porn tweet

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, The Verge, IJR, Splinter, Daily Wire, RT, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, Faithwire, Mediaite, Business Insider and AOL

New York Times:

Questions Over C.E.O.'s Conduct Cloud Social Finance, a Lending Start-Up — SAN FRANCISCO — For months, the text messages came. Some were flirtatious, asking her to meet him late at night. Sometimes, the texts were sexually explicit. — The messages were directed at Laura Munoz …

more at Techmeme »

Associated Press:

Justices allow Trump administration ban on most refugees — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees. — The justices on Tuesday agreed to an administration request to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the refugee ban …

Discussion: Washington Post, Economist, Daily Kos and Washington Free Beacon

Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court: Trump admin can keep travel ban on most refugees

Discussion: The Week

Joe Concha / The Hill:

Bannon to appear at Berkeley ‘Free Speech Week’ with Yiannopoulos, Coulter — Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon will join conservative firebrands Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter and more than a dozen speakers at “Free Speech Week” on the University of California, Berkeley campus later this month.

Discussion: Politico, Los Angeles Times and IJR

David Moye / HuffPost:
No, ‘60 Minutes’ Didn't Purposely Make Steve Bannon Look Like A ‘Bleary-Eyed Drunk’

Discussion: Althouse, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire and The Last Tradition

Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:

From Trump hotel lobby to White House, Malaysian prime minister gets VIP treatment — Before arriving at the White House late Tuesday morning to meet with President Trump, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak strode through the golden doors of an elevator at the Trump International Hotel and past the lounge to his waiting motorcade.

Discussion: Mother Jones and The Guardian

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Scandal-plagued foreign leader gets surprise invite from Trump, checks into Trump's hotel

Discussion: Politico, Associated Press, IJR, The Diplomat and Washington Post

Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:

Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush Take the Next Step with Trump — The New York Times' masters of West Wing insider detail just made a book deal with Random House. But they want it to be more than the book version of the reality show. — The announcement that New York Times White House …

Discussion: Mashable

New York Times:

White House Weighs Lowering Refugee Quota to Below 50,000 — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering reducing the number of refugees admitted to the country over the next year to below 50,000, according to current and former government officials familiar with the discussions, the lowest number since at least 1980.

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News Insider, Daily Wire, Washington Times and The Daily Caller

Fox News:

Contractors say Clinton State Department silenced them on Benghazi security lapses — EXCLUSIVE: Security at the State Department's Benghazi compound was so dire that another contractor was brought in to clean up the mess just two weeks before the 2012 terror attack - and was later pressured …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:

The Logic of Trump's Sexist Attacks — On Thursday, Donald Trump tweeted that MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when she visited Mar-a-Lago last December. On Tuesday, in the Oval Office, he interrupted a phone call with the Irish prime minister to call …

Discussion: IJR

Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:

L.A. saw a big drop in homicides this summer, falling to levels seen in 1966 — Killings in Los Angeles saw a marked drop during the summer, falling to a total of 59 during June, July and August. Except for 2014, when the city recorded the same number, it was the fewest killings in a summer since 1966.