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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 …
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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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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump
Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump
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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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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
Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller haunts the West Wing
Mueller haunts the West Wing
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Politico, Bloomberg and The Gateway Pundit
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
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 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.
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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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Some people who write about me ‘know nothing about me & have zero access’
Trump: Some people who write about me ‘know nothing about me & have zero access’
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Times, Daily Wire and The Daily Caller