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5:30 PM ET, September 12, 2017

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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  —  The State Department's top official dealing with North Korea made a quiet trip to Moscow on Monday to urge Russia to support new United Nations sanctions on North Korea.  But though Russia agreed to a watered-down measure …
Discussion: Vox, Outside the Beltway and CNBC
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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Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton says Trump associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 election
Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller haunts the West Wing
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Clinton's account of how she was ‘shivved’ in the 2016 presidential election
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's legal team debated whether Kushner should leave White House
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 …
Discussion: Vox and New York Times
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Pelosi: Single-payer isn't a litmus test for Democrats
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Insurers make their pitch on how to rescue health-care system
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 …
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
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.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Trump courting Democrats on tax reform
Discussion: Politico
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.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and Campus Reform
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 …
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
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Axios:
Katy Tur talks life on the Trump trail
Discussion: IJR
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Some people who write about me ‘know nothing about me & have zero access’
Discussion: Vox, ABC News and Political Wire
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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Washington Post:
After @tedcruz liked a porn tweet, Sen. Ted Cruz blamed ‘a staffing issue’
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Heather Long / Washington Post:   Middle-class income hit highest level on record in 2016, Census Bureau reports
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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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CNN:
Bannon: I left White House to be ‘wingman’ for Trump agenda
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 …
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).
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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Jim Kiertzner / WXYZ-TV:
Metro Detroit business owner uses N-word in post about anthem protests
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Fox News:
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ‘shooting’ suspect in custody, police say
Discussion: Raw Story, The Resurgent and RT
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
President Trump just gushed about the Coast Guard. It really needed the boost.
Tennessean.com:
Woman charged with attempted murder of homeless man in Nashville, father says she was threatened
Discussion: RT and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
CBS Philly:
Insects Attack: Swarm Of Bugs Creating Buzz In Philadelphia
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
David Bernstein / Chicago magazine:
His Life in Prison … ABOVE:Our photo of Rod Blagojevich is anything but traditional.
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court blocks penalties in new New Hampshire voting law
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Jack Goldsmith / The Atlantic:
Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency?
Discussion: Raw Story and Lawfare
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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