memeorandum: Roy Moore disrupts Alabama Senate race — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington (Michael Scherer/Washington Post)

5:40 PM ET, September 21, 2017

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Haley Byrd / IJR:

Republicans Attempt to Buy Murkowski's Vote in New Draft of Health Care Bill — A Republican Senate aide told Independent Journal Review Thursday that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) are attempting to buy Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's support through new changes …

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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:

State-by-State Estimates of Changes in Federal Spending on Health Care Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill — A new health care bill recently introduced by a number of senators led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy would repeal major elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) …

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Cassidy-Graham could still blow up in the GOP's face. Here's how. — THE MORNING PLUM: — If this morning's reporting is accurate, zombie Trumpcare still appears to have a reasonable chance of passing. But there is one scenario in which the Cassidy-Graham repeal bill could not just fail …

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Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That's Hard.

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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Alaska could get relief from Senate repeal bill's Medicaid cuts

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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote

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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Senator Cassidy, Please Stop Lying about Health Care

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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Threatens ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: 'I'll Pound You When I See You'

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Mark Zuckerberg:

I just went live a minute ago. Here's what I said: — Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave. It was really special to be with Priscilla and August after she was born, and to get to spend some more time with Max. — While I was out on leave …

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Colin Stretch / Facebook:

Facebook to Provide Congress With Ads Linked to Internet Research Agency — Two weeks ago, we announced we had found more than 3,000 ads addressing social and political issues that ran in the US between 2015 and 2017 and that appear to have come from accounts associated with a Russian entity known as the Internet Research Agency.

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Washington Post:

Facebook to give Congress copies of 3,000 political ads bought through Russian accounts, reversing previous decision — BY WASHINGTON POST STAFF September 21 at 3:26 PM — The company had previously shown some of the ads to Capitol Hill investigators but took back copies …

Ali Watkins / Politico:
Facebook agrees to release Russian-purchased ads, pledges deeper look at 2016 election

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Elliot Schrage / Facebook:
Hard Questions: More on Russian Ads

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New York Times:
Facebook to Turn Over Russian-Linked Ads to Congress

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Reuters:

China's central bank tells banks to stop doing business with North Korea: sources — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's central bank has told banks to strictly implement United Nations sanctions against North Korea, four sources told Reuters, amid U.S. concerns that Beijing has not been tough enough …

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Ryan Struyk / CNN: Trump's approval again reaches 40% after positive reaction to hurricane response

CNN:
Trump turns to sanctions, diplomacy on North Korea after threatening destruction

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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
There is No Trump Doctrine, Only Contradictions and Bluster

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Mark Murray / NBC News:
NBC/WSJ Poll: Public Likes Trump's Bipartisan Move — But Little Else

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Mike Allen / Axios:

Another potential Mueller honey pot: Spicer's notebooks — The Watergate resonance of the Bob Mueller probe rose this week with a CNN report that the special counsel has details of wiretaps of “former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election.”

Josh Dawsey / Politico:

Mueller requested phone records about Air Force One statement — The special counsel has also recently made requests for documents concerning a statement made by Sean Spicer in the days preceding James Comey's firing as FBI director. — Special counsel Robert Mueller has sought phone records concerning …

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Catherine Thorbecke / Yahoo:
Sean Spicer defends brief WH tenure: I 'don't think' I lied to American people

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Jonathan Capriel / Tampa Bay Times:

Tampa girl, 4, dies of gunshot reaching for candy — TAMPA — One day last week, 4-year-old Yanelly Zoller reached into her grandmother's purse looking for candy, her father says. — Instead, she found a gun. She accidently pulled the trigger and was shot in the chest.

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CNN:

Senate candidate Roy Moore in 2005: ‘Homosexual conduct should be illegal’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Roy Moore, a Republican US Senate candidate in Alabama, said in a 2005 interview that he believes “homosexual conduct” should be illegal. — Moore, a hardline conservative Christian …

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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Roy Moore disrupts Alabama Senate race — and prepares for new level of defiance in Washington

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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

Manafort planning to leave US — as Mueller's team prepares to indict him in Russia probe — Paul Manafort is planning to leave the country soon, after he was reportedly notified that he will be indicted by federal prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Ex-CIA chief stuns Nicole Wallace: It's ‘absolutely’ possible Russia ‘dispatched Manafort to the Trump campaign’

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New York Times:

Law Firm Faces Questions for Ukraine Work With Manafort — WASHINGTON — Five years ago, Paul Manafort arranged for a prominent New York-based law firm to draft a report that was used by allies of his client, Viktor Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, to justify the jailing of a political rival.

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The Unz Review:

America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars — Shouldn't they recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East? — I spoke recently at a conference on America's war party where afterwards an elderly gentleman came up to me and asked, “Why doesn't anyone ever speak honestly about the six-hundred-pound gorilla in the room?

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Daily Oklahoman:

Neighbor of disabled man shot and killed by police says family will hire attorney — A man who witnessed a police officer shoot and kill his disabled neighbor said he does not think the shooting was justified and that the family of the man killed is planning to hire an attorney.

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James Doubek / NPR:
Oklahoma City Police Fatally Shoot Deaf Man Despite Yells Of 'He Can't Hear'

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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:

Trump Supporters Quietly Built A Massive List With The Personal Information Of Thousands Of People — The list began traveling the dark corners of the internet around April as a scattered collection of names, addresses, phone numbers and social media accounts. It's now a massive organized database of thousands of people.

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Keith Matheny / Detroit Free Press:

Study: Flint water killed unborn babies; many moms who drank it couldn't get pregnant — Babies born in Flint after switch to river water also nearly 150 grams lighter than those born in other areas of Michigan, and gained less weight. — CONNECT — The city of Flint saw fewer pregnancies …

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Maria Danilova / Associated Press:

On work trips, DeVos flies on her plane at own expense — https://www.apnews.com/1d4ce18cd0d844a8 9f1dde11e04c09fa — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos flies on her personal plane at her own expense when she visits schools around the country …

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Paul Kane / Washington Post:

Behind the Senate GOP's high-stakes health-care gamble: Unrelenting criticism back home — (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency/EFE/Rex/Shutterstock) — Senate Republicans have made a calculated decision: Better to fail again trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act than not to try at all.