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New York Times:
Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment — WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting …
ProPublica:
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ — Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you. — Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world's largest social …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Facebook still doesn't know the extent of Russian ad buys in election
Facebook still doesn't know the extent of Russian ad buys in election
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Resurrects His Claim That Both Sides Share Blame in Charlottesville Violence — WASHINGTON — President Trump thrust himself back into the racial storms of Charlottesville on Thursday, repeating his charge that those resisting the neo-Nazis and white supremacists were as much to blame …
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Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
President Trump Doubled Down On Blaming Both Sides For Violence In Charlottesville — Again
President Trump Doubled Down On Blaming Both Sides For Violence In Charlottesville — Again
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘There is no realistic comparison’ between antifa and white supremacists
GOP senator: ‘There is no realistic comparison’ between antifa and white supremacists
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Jon Levine / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends: Maybe Trump Wall Was ‘Symbolic’ — Fox & Friends took viewers on a trip down gaslight alley on Thursday, with the show hosts scrambling to make sense of the alleged deal between Donald Trump and “Chuck and Nancy” to save DACA and punt the border wall until later.
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John Binder / Breitbart:
Report: Trump Caves on DACA, Wants ‘Quick’ Amnesty for 800K Illegal Aliens
Report: Trump Caves on DACA, Wants ‘Quick’ Amnesty for 800K Illegal Aliens
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Axios:
Trump: “The wall will come later”
Trump: “The wall will come later”
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Conservatives Recoil at Trump's Accommodation With Democrats Over DACA
Conservatives Recoil at Trump's Accommodation With Democrats Over DACA
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump 2.0: They're Sending Their Best!
Trump 2.0: They're Sending Their Best!
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Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host — At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening, just three hours after the White House encouraged ESPN to fire her, Jemele Hill sat next to her co-host Michael Smith on the set of their daily SportsCenter show and …
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Sean Langille / Washington Examiner:
Watch: Chuck Schumer caught on hot mic saying Trump ‘likes us’ … Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic Thursday saying, “He likes us. He likes me anyway,” about President Trump. — The comments came shortly after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's floor speech.
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Fran Brennan / NTK Network:
FLASHBACK: Sanders: If We Do Medicaid-For-All Type Plan, It Would Bankrupt The Nation — “If we expanded Medicaid to everybody...we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money...we would bankrupt the nation,” Sanders said in 1987. — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) …
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Julie Jordan / People.com:
Fergie and Josh Duhamel Separate After 8 Years of Marriage: ‘We Are and Will Always Be United’ — After eight years of marriage, Fergie and Josh Duhamel are going their separate ways, they confirm to PEOPLE exclusively. — “With absolute love and respect we decided to separate as a couple earlier …
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Fox News:
Harvard makes convicted spy Chelsea Manning a ‘fellow,’ igniting firestorm — Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell on Thursday announced his resignation as a senior fellow at Harvard after the university named U.S. Army soldier-turned-convicted felon Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow.
Joe Garofoli / San Francisco Chronicle:
The pro-Russia, pro-weed, pro-Assange GOP congressman who will be tough to beat — COSTA MESA, Orange County — It was a surreal visit to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's Orange County home. The 15-term Republican greeted me in bare feet, sitting on his front step making fundraising phone calls …
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Courtney Weaver / Financial Times:
Ivanka Trump: ‘I will not be distracted by the noise’ — In a rare interview, the controversial first daughter talks expectations, criticism and what comes next
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Texas secession movement: Russia-linked Facebook group asked us to participate in anti-Clinton rallies — A Russia-linked Facebook group asked a Texas secessionist movement if it would participate in a series of anti-immigrant, anti-Hillary Clinton rallies it was planning to hold across …
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New York Times
CNN:
Senate candidate Roy Moore this year suggested 9/11 might have been punishment for US turning away from God — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore suggested earlier this year that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have happened because the US had distanced itself from God.
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Pew Research Center:
As U.S. marriage rate hovers at 50%, education gap in marital status widens — Half of U.S. adults today are married, a share that has remained relatively stable in recent years but is down 9 percentage points over the past quarter century and dramatically different from the peak of 72% in 1960, according to newly released census data.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Anthony Scaramucci wants paternity test for newborn son — MORE FROM: … Anthony Scaramucci's divorce is turning nasty, because he believes the newborn son whose birth he missed during his historically-brief tenure in the White House is not his - and he is demanding a paternity test.
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Anthony Scaramucci to guest co-host ‘The View’
Anthony Scaramucci to guest co-host ‘The View’
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The Daily Beast:
U.S. Military: American Fighting for ISIS ‘Surrenders’ … Multiple spokespersons for the U.S. military have told The Daily Beast that they are aware of reports that an American fighting in Syria for the so-called Islamic State has been taken into custody. — A source familiar …
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Google ‘segregates’ women into lower-paying jobs, stifling careers, lawsuit says — Exclusive: Women say Google denied them promotions, telling the Guardian they were forced into less prestigious jobs despite qualifications — Google systematically pays women less than men doing similar work …
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The Daily Californian:
UC Berkeley faculty members call for boycott of classes during ‘Free Speech Week’ — In a letter addressed to the UC Berkeley campus and the Berkeley community, 76 campus faculty members from various departments have called for a complete boycott of classes and campus activities during …
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Nicola Slawson / The Guardian:
FT journalist presumed dead after being ‘dragged into water by crocodile’ — Man, named as Paul McClean, had been taking surfing lessons in Sri Lanka, when witnesses say he was pulled into the lagoon after washing his hands … A British tourist is missing after witnesses saw him being dragged …
John B. Judis / New Republic:
Redoing the Electoral Math — I argued that demographics favored the Democrats. I was wrong. — If any force on Earth could be powerful enough to unite the Democratic Party, you'd have thought the words “President Donald Trump” would do the trick. Instead, Hillary Clinton's defeat …
UVA Center / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists — Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Single-payer health care failed miserably in Colorado last year. Here's why. — Nearly 80 percent of Coloradans voted no — including many Democrats and progressives. — On the day the state of Colorado voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by about 5 points …
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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
CNN Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain Says He Would Poison Trump's Food — TV foodie Anthony Bourdain told paparazzi outside an airport that if he was asked to cater a dinner for President Donald Trump, he would poison the food. — The former Food Network personality and current host …
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Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: New Clinton Emails Uncovered, Reveal Additional Mishandling of Classified Information — Abedin's controversial mother advised Clinton speechwriter to exclude references to ‘democracy/elections/freedom’ and ‘empowerment of women’ for Clinton speech in Saudi Arabia
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Eliza Newlin Carney / American Prospect:
Kobach's House of Cards — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner at a meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity on September 12, 2017, in Manchester, New Hampshire. — democracy_rules.jpg
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Louis Sahagun / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says Whittier Narrows Dam is unsafe and could trigger catastrophic flooding — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the earthen Whittier Narrows Dam is unsafe and could trigger catastrophic flooding in working-class cities along …