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3:40 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 and Daily Kos
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Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress:
Meet the racist birther Donald Trump just retweeted  —  It comes two days after Trump was rebuked by British officials for ‘speculating’ on Twitter.  —  President Trump retweeted an animated GIF on Sunday morning that showed him hitting a golf ball at Hillary Clinton and knocking her to the ground …
Discussion: The Guardian, Mediaite, IJR and WKRG-TV
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump retweeted an edited video Sunday morning that showed him swinging a golf club and appearing to hit his former presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton with a golf ball.
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.
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.”
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Sanders scoffs at Clinton's claim he didn't do enough to help her
Discussion: Axios
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
“He gets emotional”: Nikki Haley gives awkward defense of Trump's reckless terror tweets  —  Perhaps Donald Trump is too “emotional” to be president.  —  In an interview on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday morning, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley defended Donald Trump's reckless tweeting …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Haley: If diplomacy doesn't work, Mattis will ‘take care of’ North Korea
Discussion: IJR
Associated Press:
The Latest: UN envoy slams North Korea's ‘reckless’ behavior
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
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.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Trumpcare's back, and now it will let insurers jack up premiums as soon as you get sick  —  Just when you thought your health care was safe...  Friday afternoon, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer sent a warning on Twitter that the tens of thousands of Americans who could die if Trumpcare becomes law are not out of the woods yet.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and CNBC
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Don't Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer  —  Most every journalist who covers Trump knows of these things:  —  1. He isn't good at anything a president has to do.  From the simplest, like pretending to help out in flood relief, to the hardest: making the call when all alternatives are bad.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jacqueline Tempera / providencejournal.com:
WJAR forced to run pro-Trump programs  —  The company that owns WJAR-TV is mandating the broadcast of multiple programs favorable to President Donald Trump on the state's most-watched television station.  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group, a rapidly growing media company that bought Channel 10 in 2014 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
ESPN:
Jerry Jones impeding Roger Goodell's contract negotiations  —  Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has impeded the progress of contract negotiations aimed at an extension for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, according to sources familiar with those talks.  —  “If not for Jerry,” …
Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Sen. Joni Ernst takes new swing at taxpayer-subsidized perks of former presidents  —  WASHINGTON — Being a former U.S. president brings the ability to pull down millions in speaking fees and book deals.  —  And yet American taxpayers are still on the hook for providing those individuals …
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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
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
 
 
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Nicki Zink / ABC News:
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Booman Tribune
NY1 News:
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Discussion: Gothamist and Political Wire
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
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American Greatness:
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 Earlier Items: 
Eric Cantor / New York Times:
How to End the Immigration Wars
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Single-Payer Movement Shows: Life After Trump May Not Suck
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Monthly
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
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Former Trump aide liquidated children's college fund to pay for Russia defense: report
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
More former classmates of Mnuchin call on him to resign
Discussion: Raw Story