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5:10 PM ET, September 16, 2017

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Emre Peker / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Won't Withdraw from Paris Climate Deal  —  U.S. has stated it will ‘not renegotiate the Paris accord’ but will review its terms  —  NEW YORK—Trump administration officials said Saturday the U.S. wouldn't pull out of the Paris Agreement, offering to re-engage …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
Year / U2 > Home:
TONIGHT'S ST. LOUIS SHOW CANCELLED  —  Live Nation and U2 regrettably announce their St. Louis show scheduled for tonight, September 16, 2017 has been cancelled.  —  “We have been informed by the St. Louis Police Department that they are not in a position to provide the standard protection …
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Axios:
U2 cancels St. Louis concert amid protests  —  U2 canceled their concert scheduled for St. Louis tonight because of inadequate police available for the event, per AP.  Local police are attending to the protests over the acquittal of a police officer who shot and killed Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man, in 2011.
Discussion: Politico
Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Acquitted officer Stockley: 'Everyone wants someone to blame, but I'm just not the guy'  —  After almost six years, a judge confirmed Friday what Jason Stockley had always believed: He was not guilty of murder.  —  “It feels like a burden has been lifted, but the burden of having …
Amber Tamblyn / New York Times:
I'm Done With Not Being Believed  —  When I was 21, I went into the office of a producer of the television show I was starring in to discuss a big problem.  By this point I had been acting for more than a decade, and the show was very successful and beloved.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe  —  An attorney working on the Justice Department's highest-profile money laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
GOP sees fresh opening with Dems' single payer embrace  —  Republicans are cheering on the Democrats' embrace of single-payer health care, believing the move to the left will be an albatross for candidates in next year's elections.  —  After playing defense on health care for months …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Wall Street Journal:
Frustration With Republicans Drove Donald Trump to Deal With Democrats
Discussion: New York Times and Booman Tribune
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Hill Republicans' influence ebbs, and they're not sure what to do about it
Discussion: Power Line
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Someone leaked ‘very important’ call with John Kelly concerning WikiLeaks  —  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said someone leaked information about his call this week with White House chief of staff John Kelly, possibly to undermine his ability to speak directly with President Trump about WikiLeaks.
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Mueller just obtained a warrant that could change the entire nature of the Russia investigation  — Robert Mueller obtained a search warrant for records of “inauthentic” Facebook accounts  — It's bad news for Russian election interference “deniers”  — Mueller may be looking to charge specific foreign entities with a crime
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Faced with an up-or-down choice on Charlottesville resolution, Trump chooses third option  —  WASHINGTON — In sending the president a joint resolution condemning “racist violence” in Charlottesville, Congress gave President Trump a choice: sign the resolution and reject white supremacists, or veto it and align with the far right.
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Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
California asks Congress to officially censure Trump over Charlottesville
Discussion: Axios and Politicus USA
Rex Reed / The New York Observer:
‘Mother!’  Is the Worst Movie of the Year, Maybe Century  —  From the idiotic drug-addict hokum Requiem for a Dream to the overrated, overwrought and over-hyped Black Swan, which I called “a lavishly staged Repulsion in toe shoes,” the films of wack job Darren Aronofsky have shown a dark passion for exploring twisted souls in torment.
Discussion: Althouse and The Last Tradition
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New York Times publishes eye-popping correction on campus-sexual-assault book review  —  In reviewing Vanessa Grigoriadis's new book on campus sexual assault, Michelle Goldberg credits the author for some fine reporting.  “Her kaleidoscopic tour through the campus sexual assault controversy …
Emma Ockerman / Bloomberg:
Hurricane Jose May Threaten New York, U.S. East Coast Next Week  —  Storm comes on the heels of damaging hurricanes Harvey, Irma  —  Norma targets popular Mexican tourist area; Lee now a storm  —  Hurricane Jose may threaten New York City and other areas of the East Coast by next week, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump Gives Conservatives Their Just Comeuppance  —  Uh-oh.  I'm starting to enjoy Donald Trump's presidency.  —  I enjoy the rage it inspires in Laura Ingraham.  On news that the president had struck a tentative deal with Democrats to help the beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals …
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New York Times:   Morality Is Negotiable for Mr. Trump
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Evergreen State College settles claim with embattled professors for $500,000  —  Weinstein and his wife resign from school as part of agreement  —  Evergreen State College has settled a tort claim against it from embattled Professor Bret Weinstein and his wife, Professor Heather Heying …
Discussion: IJR and Clayton Cramer
Raw Story:
There is no such thing as a good Trump voter  —  As if any further evidence was needed, the last few weeks have provided ample proof to arrive at a single conclusion: There is no such thing as a good Trump voter.  This may be a hard pill to swallow for those with loved ones who voted for Trump.
BBC:
Parsons Green: Armed police search house over Tube bombing  —  Police have arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of a terror offence in connection with Friday's attack on a London Tube train.  —  Armed police are searching a house in Sunbury, Surrey, where nearby residents have been evacuated.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mynewsdesk
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Leada Gore / al.com:
Sign language interpreter used gibberish, warned of bears, monsters during Hurricane Irma update  —  Officials in Manatee County, Florida are under fire after an interpreter for the deaf warned about pizza and monsters during an emergency briefing related to Hurricane Irma.
Discussion: IJR
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
ESPN chief Skipper to staff: ‘ESPN is not a political organization’  —  ESPN host faces controversy over Trump tweets  —  “ESPN is about sports.”  It is “not a political organization.”  That's what ESPN president John Skipper said in a memo to staffers on Friday afternoon, after a bruising week for the sports network.
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Jim Brady / ESPN:
ESPN awash in rising political tide
 
 
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J. Bradford DeLong / bradford-delong.com:
Do “They” Really Say: “Technological Progress Is Slowing Down”?
Washington Examiner:
Daily on Healthcare: Bill Cassidy says Obamacare overhaul bill is close to 50 votes …
Zainab Hamid / Yale Daily News:
Yale formalizes freshman to first year change
Discussion: IJR and Fox News Insider
Associated Press:
Tax cuts quiet once-deafening GOP call for fiscal discipline
Philip Galanes / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton and America Ferrera on Pain and Progress (and Hiking)
Discussion: Axios and The Guardian
Middlebury:
Interim Procedures for Scheduling Events and Invited Speakers
Discussion: RedState
The Hill:
Trump makes good on pledge to donate to Harvey relief
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump administration working toward renewed drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Sarah Rahal / Detroit News:
Iraqi detainees from Metro Detroit on hunger strike
Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
Cutting Taxes Will Be Harder Than Trump Thinks
Los Angeles Times:
Dealing with Democrats?  Protecting ‘Dreamers’?  Here in Arizona that's just fine with these Trump supporters
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Declines to Release List of His Visitors at Mar-a-Lago
Discussion: The Week, Axios and Political Wire
CNN:
Brooke Baldwin: Speaking like this to women in 2017? No way
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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