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2:05 PM ET, September 17, 2017

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Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump Retweeted A Video From An Anti-Semitic Account Showing Him Hitting Hillary Clinton With A Golf Ball  —  President Trump on Sunday morning retweeted a doctored video showing him hitting HIllary Clinton with a golf ball — from an account that makes racial, anti-semitic, and anti-LGBT comments.
Discussion: Axios, The Guardian and Daily Kos
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Trump starts his Sunday by promoting obsessive violence against Hillary Clinton  —  Humiliated by the small number of supporters that turned out for Saturday's supposed “Mother of All Rallies” in Washington D.C., Donald Trump started his Sunday by obsessively tweeting about the woman who beat him by 3 million votes in November.
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Sanders scoffs at Clinton's claim he didn't do enough to help her  —  Bernie Sanders scoffed at Hillary Clinton's claim that he didn't do as much to mobilize his supporters on her behalf as she did for Barack Obama in 2008.  —  “I worked as hard as I could to see that Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: Axios
Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Bernie Sanders on Some Supporters Not Voting for Clinton: ‘No Kidding!’  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday chalked up the fact that some of his supporters during 2016's Democratic primaries eventually voted for Donald Trump in the general election to “the nature of politics.”
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Single-Payer Movement Shows: Life After Trump May Not Suck
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Monthly
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
McMaster says no redo on Paris climate deal decision  —  National security adviser H.R. McMaster denied Sunday that President Trump is reconsidering his decision to pull out of the Paris climate change accord but said the door remains open to a better agreement down the road.
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and RedState
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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 …
Nicki Zink / ABC News:
British prime minister Theresa May opens up about her relationship with Trump  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May opened up about her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, saying they “work very well together.”  —  “I do get on with him ... President Trump has actually ... an affection for the United Kingdom.
Discussion: NBC News
Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
White House says no change in position on Paris climate agreement
Discussion: Common Dreams and TheBlaze
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Watch: Stores damaged in Loop protests  —  As the chaos escalated, scores of police officers in riot gear pushed forward against the demonstrators just after 11 p.m. — about two hours after daytime protest organizers had congratulated their followers on keeping their demonstrations peaceful.
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Fox News Insider:
MO Governor on St. Louis Protests: Only Safe Space for Looters Is a Jail Cell
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Philippe Sotto / Associated Press:
Official: 4 US tourists attacked with acid in Marseille  —  https://apnews.com/2d7c9f40efc24ab58003 657b6ed892c4  —  Link copied!  —  PARIS (AP) — Four young female U.S. tourists were attacked with acid Sunday in the French city of Marseille by a woman who has been arrested, the Marseille prosecutor's office said.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Former Trump aide liquidated children's college fund to pay for Russia defense: report  —  A former campaign adviser to President Trump said the ongoing federal probe into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia has taken such a financial toll on him that he's had to liquidate …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:   Russia probes leave Trump associates struggling with huge legal bills
New York Times:
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food  —  As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems.  —  FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children's squeals rang through the muggy morning air …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
FEMA auctioned disaster trailers before Harvey made landfall  —  https://apnews.com/4e13c0c4b8444dd3a395 d4bc1e4aa0bb  —  Link copied!  —  The federal government auctioned off disaster-response trailers at fire-sale prices just before Harvey devastated southeast Texas …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
FEMA auctioned off disaster-response trailers days before Harvey's landfall
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Don't Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table  —  A bill nobody took seriously suddenly sounds serious.  —  Repeal of the Affordable Care Act is back on the agenda, with Republicans suddenly talking about passing a bill that, until recently, few people in either party had taken all that seriously.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Eric Cantor / New York Times:
How to End the Immigration Wars  —  THE decision by the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and to defer instead to Congress for a solution to the problem threw a wild card onto a congressional agenda that was already packed.
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer  —  A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job.  —  Most every journalist who covers Trump knows of these things:  —  1. He isn't good at anything a president has to do.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Emily Shugerman / The Independent:
Pro-Trump rally that sought to bring one million supporters to Washington musters little over a thousand  —  The protest was billed as the ‘Mother of All Rallies’  —  Chester Bennington shown in video just hours before his death  —  Moviegoers are having an extreme reaction to mother!
Discussion: Democrats.com and RT
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Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Sen. Joni Ernst takes new swing at taxpayer-subsidized perks of former presidents
Discussion: Political Wire
Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
In message of defiance to Trump, lawmakers vote to make California a sanctuary state
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
To make their tax plan work, Republicans eye a favorite blue-state break
Discussion: Booman Tribune
NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm to run for old seat in Congress
Discussion: Gothamist and Political Wire
Associated Press:
The Latest: UN envoy slams North Korea's ‘reckless’ behavior
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Democrats Can Wage War on Monopolies—and Win
Discussion: Politico
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
On Criminal Justice, Sessions Is Returning DOJ to the Rule of Law
Discussion: Power Line
American Greatness:
Gorka on DACA and Trump's War with the GOP Establishment
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 Earlier Items: 
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
‘Blood flowed in the streets’: Refugees from one Rohingya hamlet recount days of horror
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
NJ police release body-cam video of GOP lawmaker calling them ‘f*cking assh*les’ during DWI bust
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Hold the Egg Sandwich: Egyptian TV Is Calling
Florida Governor Rick Scott:
GOV. SCOTT: I AM AGGRESSIVELY FIGHTING TO KEEP VULNERABLE FLORIDIANS SAFE DURING EMERGENCIES
Discussion: New York Times and NBC News
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Establishment gears up for Steve Bannon's war on the GOP leadership
Discussion: RedState
Brandon Conradis / The Hill:
Trump endorses Michigan attorney general for governor
Discussion: Washington Post, IJR and Politico
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
More former classmates of Mnuchin call on him to resign
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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