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8:35 PM ET, September 20, 2017

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Washington Post:
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign  —  FILE - In this July 17, 2016 file photo, then-Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland as Rick Gates listens at back left.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Mueller Seeks White House Documents Related to Trump's Actions as President  —  Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, is interested in Mr. Trump's firing of his F.B.I. director and national security adviser and other events.  —  September 20, 2017  —  Republican Leaders Defy Bipartisan Opposition to Health Law Repeal
Wall Street Journal:
All Mr. Comey's Wiretaps  —  Congress needs to learn how the FBI meddled in the 2016 campaign.  —  When Donald Trump claimed in March that he'd had his “wires tapped” prior to the election, the press and Obama officials dismissed the accusation as a fantasy.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Wire
Washington Post:
Mueller casts broad net in requesting extensive records from Trump White House … The special counsel investigating Russian election meddling has requested extensive records and email correspondence from the White House, covering everything from the president's private discussions about firing …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Manafort used Trump campaign account to email Ukrainian operative
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeff Stein / Vox:
GOP senators are rushing to pass Graham-Cassidy.  We asked 9 to explain what it does.  —  Republican senators are struggling to articulate why they are rushing to pass their last-ditch effort to repeal and replace Obamacare over the next 10 days before running into their September 30 deadline.
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Avalere Health:
Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson Bill Would Reduce Federal Funding to States by $215 Billion  —  New analysis from Avalere finds that the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson (GCHJ) bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would lead to a reduction in federal funding to states …
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The new healthcare bill includes an ‘Alaska Purchase’ to woo a key senator  —  On Tuesday evening, Robert VerBruggen of National Review noticed something odd: The financial projections produced by Sen. Bill Cassidy's office showed that, in 2026, his healthcare proposal would award each state …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
Jimmy Kimmel Has No Moral Authority On Health Care Just Because His Son Had Heart Surgery.  Here's Why.  —  On Tuesday evening, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel spoke from the heart once again about Obamacare.  Citing his baby son's experience with open heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles …
Discussion: CNN, Politico, IJR, Vox and twitchy.com
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Sen. Graham implores colleague to vote for GOP health bill  —  https://apnews.com/a017d33b2344493e8098 d47ed2ceb087  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In an overheard phone call Wednesday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham leaned on a fellow senator to back his GOP health care bill despite “all its imperfections.”
Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Chuck Grassley: Fulfilling campaign promise just as important as ‘substance’ of health bill  —  Republican Senators have taken up another bill to repeal Obamacare.  Here's what's in the legislation.  USA TODAY  —  CONNECT  —  Despite many evident shortcomings in a bill to repeal …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
I've covered the GOP repeal plans since day one. Graham-Cassidy is the most radical.
Reihan Salam / Slate:
Graham-Cassidy could turn a red electoral map blue.
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Cassidy is selling his health plan with misleading numbers
NBC News:
All Power Out as Hurricane Maria's Winds, Floods Crush Puerto Rico  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria is likely to have “destroyed” Puerto Rico, the island's emergency director said Wednesday after the monster storm smashed ripped roofs off buildings and flooded homes across the economically strained U.S. territory.
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Ed Adamczyk / UPI:
Puerto Rico ‘100 percent without power’ after Maria hits
Discussion: ABC News, NBC News and twitchy.com
Washington Post:
Puerto Rico entirely without power as Hurricane Maria hammers island with force not seen in ‘modern history’
Discussion: Jezebel, Aleteia.org and Balloon Juice
CNN:
Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico with 155-mph winds
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
LEAKED: Watch MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell's Unhinged Outtakes...for Eight Crazy Minutes  —  Lawrence O'Donnell had a really bad night on August 29, 2017.  —  We draw that conclusion based on the above clip obtained by Mediaite, showing behind the scenes footage of a furious O'Donnell absolutely …
The Daily Beast:
Russians Appear to Use Facebook to Push Pro-Trump ‘Flash Mobs’ in Florida … Suspected Russia propagandists on Facebook tried to organize more than a dozen pro-Trump rallies in Florida during last year's election, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  The demonstrations—at least …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Trump Is Using Targeted Facebook Ads To Reassure Supporters He Will Build The Border Wall
Discussion: Shareblue and Shakesville
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Clinton book has sold more than 300,000 copies  —  https://apnews.com/d84bb58cfa234b3fb24e 009d6c31a497  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton's “What Happened” had a big debut.  —  Clinton's book about her stunning loss in 2016 to Donald Trump sold …
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton Slams Vladimir Putin For ‘Manspreading’
Discussion: IJR
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:   The Strange Authenticity of Hillary Clinton
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Black employees of BLT Prime, in Trump International Hotel, allege racial discrimination  —  Dominique Hill and Irving Smith Jr. had good jobs.  —  Last year, Hill worked as a bartender at P.F. Chang's in Tysons Corner and Smith had recently been promoted to bartender at Wildfire grill, also in Tysons.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Politico:
How America feels about Trump  —  The latest approval ratings for the president and Congress from POLITICO/Morning Consult  —  Most Americans think President Donald Trump isn't doing a good job, according to the latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  Compared with last week's numbers …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Voter Fraud?  A Trump Nominee Looks Like He Cast an Illegal Ballot  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump's voter integrity commission looks under rocks for possible voter malfeasance, its members might want to examine a presidential nominee awaiting confirmation by the Senate Finance Committee.
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he's worried about voter fraud.  One of his nominees may have voted illegally in Virginia.
Sheryl Sandberg:
Last week we temporarily disabled some of our ads tools following news reports that slurs or other offensive language could be used as targeting criteria for advertising.  If someone self-identified as a ‘Jew-hater’ or said they studied ‘how to burn Jews’ in their profile …
New York Times:
Manafort Working on Kurdish Referendum Opposed by U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — Paul J. Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Trump who is at the center of investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, is working for allies of the leader of Iraq's Kurdish region …
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
It looks like Obama did spy on Trump, just as he apparently did to me  —  BY SHARYL ATTKISSON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 09/20/17 08:30 AM EDT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  Many in the media are diving deeply into minutiae in order to discredit …
Discussion: Bloomberg
J.R. Taylor / National Enquirer:
Apology Regarding Judge Judy And Nicole Sheindlin  —  A statement from The National ENQUIRER  —  The National ENQUIRER and sister publication The National Examiner recently published articles which stated that Judge Judy Sheindlin suffered from “brain disease,” was “fighting” …
Discussion: Daily Wire, Jezebel and IJR
Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Linda Hamilton Set to Return to ‘Terminator’ Franchise (Exclusive)  —  With James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger involved, it's a reunion more than 25 years in the making.  —  She'll be back.  —  After waving hasta la vista, baby, more than 25 years ago, Linda Hamilton is returning …
 
 
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Joe Ryan / Bloomberg:
Nicaragua Joins Paris Accord, Leaving Trump Alone With Syria
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
Governor Justice, now Republican, tells Republicans he supports Manchin's Senate bid
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Kimberly Roots / TVLine:
Law & Order Vet Sam Waterston to Bring Jack McCoy to SVU Season 19
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Why Is Congress Conducting Its Russia Investigation in Secret?
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
Laura Kipnis's Endless Trial by Title IX
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Washington Post:
At EPA, guarding the chief pulls agents from pursuing environmental crimes
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Bobby Moynihan / CBS News:
Man captures dramatic rescue at Mexico school on video
Discussion: Raw Story, NPR and CBS San Francisco
James Bruggers / Courier-Journal:
Duke Energy slammed in citizen lawsuit for keeping catastrophic coal-ash risks secret
mystatesman:
Immigrant taken by ICE from Austin courthouse was killed in Mexico
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
There is meddling in Germany's election — not by Russia, but by U.S. right wing
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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