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New York Times:
Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry — WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers spill beans thanks to terrible choice of restaurant — next door to the New York Times — It is every Washington reporter's dream to sit down at a restaurant, overhear secret stuff, and get a scoop. It rarely happens. — Still, everyone in town important enough …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer's yucky cameo at the Emmys — Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got a turn on one of Hollywood's glitziest stages Sunday night. And he used it to laugh about the falsehoods he told the American people in an attempt to rehabilitate his image. — I'm all for a good laugh.
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Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Sean Spicer on His Wild Emmys Night: “I Thought It Was Kinda Funny” — The former White House press secretary, whose appearance at Sunday's show was widely criticized, talks to THR on his way to the Governors Ball: “I have a lot of respect for folks who do what they do in film and on television, so it's a real honor to be invited.”
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Talking Points Memo, NewsBusters, Fox News Insider, Mashable, PerezHilton, Business Insider and Washington Post
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Sean Spicer's Emmy Awards Cameo Was a Sickening, Cynical Laugh Grab
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Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite, Mashable and New York Times
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Why did the Emmys help Sean Spicer rebrand?
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Emmy Awards Ratings Hit Low On Trump-Bashing Night; ‘Sunday Night Football’ Dips
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NewsBusters and Mediaite
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year — Ex-president speaks to Carlyle, Cantor, Northern Trust — ‘If someone is willing to pay him to give a speech, God bless’ — Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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Susan Hogan / Washington Post:
St. Louis officers chant ‘whose streets, our streets’ while arresting protesters — St. Louis police arrested more than 80 people Sunday after a peaceful protest turned violent as night fell. In a concentrated area downtown, some protesters smashed windows and overturned trash cans …
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
St. Louis police officers chant ‘whose street, our street’ during protests
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ThinkProgress, RedState and Associated Press
Susannah Cullinane / CNN:
More than 80 arrested in third night of St. Louis protests
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The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, IJR, TheBlaze, RT, New York Times, American Thinker, theGrio, The Root and KFOR-TV
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Cohn Tells World Leaders U.S. Will Exit Paris Climate Deal — Trump won't backtrack on pledge, his chief economic aide says — Conditions don't exist for U.S. to stay in deal, Cohn says — Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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Political Wire, Washington Post and Conservative News Today
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Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Lindsey Graham Drives Obamacare Repeal Bill on Breitbart Radio: Melt Phone Lines to Congress, ‘Insist That We Have the Vote’ — Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Americans to melt the phone lines into Congress on Monday morning, during an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday …
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New York Magazine and Axios
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: The new GOP Obamacare repeal effort faces the same old math
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Politico, New York Times, ThinkProgress, FierceHealthcare, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and CBS News
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
How Graham-Cassidy redistributes federal money
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Health Insurance … and ACA Signups
CNNMoney:
Meghan McCain in talks to join 'The View" — Meghan McCain is in late-stage talks to join ABC's “The View,” three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. — McCain, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, announced last week that she was leaving Fox News.
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77 — Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war. — A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he had begun his shift as the duty officer …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites …
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, The Week and East Bay Times
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Trump's claim there were long gas lines in North Korea has residents puzzled — TOKYO — In his latest Twitter outburst against North Korea, President Trump said that “long gas lines [are] forming in North Korea,” adding an exclamatory “Too bad!” (In the same tweet, he bestowed a new nickname on Kim Jong Un: “Rocket Man.")
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Leah Singer / USA Today:
I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life — Money ranked 100 cities to live in 2017. We based it off 170,000 data points. Here are the top 10. Time … 2631 — 35 — 46 — TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — I used to say I'd never move to a red state. And then I did.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
House Democrats Break Campaign Fundraising Record — WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats has posted its highest off-year August fundraising haul ever, the group told NBC News. — While their Republican counterparts haven't yet released their August results …
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Politicus USA, Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
For those in the Party of Trump, the Republicans — not the president — are to blame — OXFORD, N.C. — During one of their usual morning gatherings at the Bojangles' restaurant in this rural town near the Virginia border, a group of retirees from a local Baptist church shook their heads …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Knife-wielding campus pride leader killed by police at Georgia Tech — Georgia Tech police fatally shot the president of the Pride Alliance student group Saturday night in full view of dorm residents. — Police encountered Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old computer engineering student …
Bloomberg:
Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe — U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to be leading investigation — Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials …
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Mother Jones and The Week
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale — From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump's team gunning for potential 2020 reelection rivals — Allies of Donald Trump have begun plotting to take down or weaken potential Democratic challengers in 2020, including several who will be on the ballot in next year's midterms. — The 2018-focused work ranges …
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Washington Post and AOL
CNN:
Iran's Rouhani: US will pay a high price if Trump scraps nuclear deal — Watch the full interview on CNN International's “Amanpour.” at 2 p.m. ET Monday. — New York (CNN)Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that America would pay a high price if US President Donald Trump makes …
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