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4:50 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 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  —  President Trump retweeted a meme on Sunday morning that showed him hitting Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball, prompting another round of outrage from critics who felt the president's tweets had once again crossed the line.
Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Sanders scoffs at Clinton's claim he didn't do enough to help her
Discussion: FOX2now.com and Axios
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP tries one last time to repeal Obamacare  —  Obamacare repeal is on the brink of coming back from the dead.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his leadership team are seriously considering voting on a bill that would scale back the federal government's role …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Trumpcare's back, and now it will let insurers jack up premiums as soon as you get sick
Discussion: Hullabaloo and CNBC
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Don't Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley  —  said that if diplomatic measures with North Korea continue to fail, Defense Secretary James Mattis  —  is ready to “take care” of the situation.
Discussion: IJR
Associated Press:
The Latest: UN envoy slams North Korea's ‘reckless’ behavior
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
HuffPost:
Juggalos Draw Bigger Crowd On The National Mall Than Pro-Trump Rally  —  Make America Whoop Whoop Again!  —  Nine months into the administration of President Donald Trump, fans of the eccentric Detroit rap duo Insane Clown Posse assembled a larger rally on the national mall this Saturday …
Discussion: Democrats.com, The Hill, NPR and ABC News
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Emily Shugerman / The Independent:
Pro-Trump rally that sought to bring one million supporters to Washington musters little over a thousand
Discussion: RT
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
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,” …
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
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.
David Litt / New York Times:
Is Nothing Funny, Mr. President?  —  Donald Trump almost never laughs.  The leader of the free world frequently displays a tight-lipped smile, but mirth-wise, that is as far as he will go.  Except for the fact that Nazis don't seem to mind him too much, Mr. Trump is the Captain von Trapp of commanders in chief.
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Eric Cantor / New York Times:
How to End the Immigration Wars
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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 and Talking Points Memo
 
 
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Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Mike Huckabee and the Rise of Christian Media Under Trump
Joseph Morton / Omaha World-Herald:
Sen. Joni Ernst takes new swing at taxpayer-subsidized perks of former presidents
Discussion: Political Wire
Nicki Zink / ABC News:
British prime minister Theresa May opens up about her relationship with Trump
Discussion: NBC News
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
To make their tax plan work, Republicans eye a favorite blue-state break
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
McMaster says no redo on Paris climate deal decision
NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm to run for old seat in Congress
Discussion: Gothamist and Political Wire
New York Times:
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
How Democrats Can Wage War on Monopolies—and Win
Discussion: Politico
American Greatness:
Gorka on DACA and Trump's War with the GOP Establishment
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
‘Blood flowed in the streets’: Refugees from one Rohingya hamlet recount days of horror
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:
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Former Trump aide liquidated children's college fund to pay for Russia defense: report
 

 
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