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CBS News:
Poll: Most disapprove of Graham-Cassidy health care bill — Most Americans — 52 percent — disapprove of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, according to a CBS News Poll conducted between Sept. 21 and 24. — Only 20 percent of those polled said they approved of the Republican legislation aimed …
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Political Wire and Politico
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Here's the new Graham-Cassidy bill — Here's a copy of the revised health care bill Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy are set to introduce tomorrow. A senior GOP aide confirmed its authenticity. More analysis to come.
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Allison De Jong / ABC News:
Americans back DACA by a huge margin (POLL) — A vast 86 percent of Americans support a right to residency for undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, with support crossing the political spectrum. Two-thirds back a deal to enact such legislation in tandem with higher funding for border control.
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Political Wire
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Graham, Cassidy revise Obamacare repeal bill, appealing to holdouts — Senate Republicans have updated their last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill in an effort to win over skeptical party members ahead of a key deadline this week, according to a copy obtained by POLITICO on Sunday night.
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Washington Post:
GOP health bill in major peril as resistance hardens among key senators — The floundering Republican attempt to undo the Affordable Care Act met hardening resistance from key GOP senators Sunday that left it on the verge of collapse even as advocates vowed to keep pushing for a vote this week.
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Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, National Review and Axios
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
A New Obamacare Repeal Draft Is Out And It Attacks Pre-Existing Protections More Severely
A New Obamacare Repeal Draft Is Out And It Attacks Pre-Existing Protections More Severely
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Vox, Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Strange in trouble in Alabama, White House and GOP fear
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Survey finds strong support for ‘dreamers’
Wall Street Journal:
The Politicization of Everything — Everybody loses in the Trump-NFL brawl over the national anthem.
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Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:
Trump Wins When The NFL Takes A Knee
Trump Wins When The NFL Takes A Knee
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and New York Magazine
Associated Press:
The Latest: More reaction from Trump on NFL players
The Latest: More reaction from Trump on NFL players
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Amid Trump's NFL war, photos of Martin Luther King Jr. ‘taking a knee’ resurface
Amid Trump's NFL war, photos of Martin Luther King Jr. ‘taking a knee’ resurface
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IJR, Business Insider, CNNMoney, Common Dreams and The Daily Caller
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
NASCAR owners say they wouldn't tolerate national anthem protests at races
NASCAR owners say they wouldn't tolerate national anthem protests at races
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Washington Post, Politico, New York Times, ProFootballTalk, Fox News Insider, RedState, IJR, AOL, Mediaite and Daily Wire
Dean Obeidallah / CNN:
Trump's NFL comments prove he doesn't get American values
Trump's NFL comments prove he doesn't get American values
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Ryan Hannable / WEEI:
Tom Brady on K&C: ‘I certainly disagree with what [Donald Trump] said’ — On Friday night, President Donald Trump had some pointed comments towards the NFL when it comes to players protesting during the national anthem. — “Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners …
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Axios, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Chiefs QB: Why is Trump condemning football players more harshly than white supremacists?
Chiefs QB: Why is Trump condemning football players more harshly than white supremacists?
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Kansas City Star and Raw Story
Peter King / SI.com:
Monday Morning QB: Response to President Trump Made Roger Goodell ‘Proud of Our League’
Monday Morning QB: Response to President Trump Made Roger Goodell ‘Proud of Our League’
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Axios, ProFootballTalk and IJR
New York Times:
Puerto Rico's Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria — YABUCOA, P.R. — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him. — “How do you calculate everything?”
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Clinton: Trump should send Navy to help Puerto Rico
Clinton: Trump should send Navy to help Puerto Rico
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CNN, Axios, Politico and twitchy.com
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kushner used private email to conduct White House business — Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December …
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Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
GOP leaders circulating plan that could end up as massive tax cut for the wealthy
GOP leaders circulating plan that could end up as massive tax cut for the wealthy
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Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook — Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Mark Zuckerberg Can't Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
Mark Zuckerberg Can't Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
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New York Times and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Divider, Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach — WASHINGTON — Over the course of just 17 hours this weekend, President Trump assailed John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Stephen Curry, the National Football League, Roger Goodell, Iran and Kim Jong-un — the “Little Rocket Man.” And that was on his day off.
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Washington Post, Opinion Today and Outside the Beltway
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
New Order Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a new order banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting their citizens into the country.
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CNN:
Far-right party AfD in disarray a day after historic German election result — German far-right leader walks out of presser — Berlin (CNN)The leadership of the hardline Alternative for Germany party was in disarray Monday, a day after its historic breakthrough in the German elections delivered …
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Axios and Wall Street Journal
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing — Amazon comes to conquer brick-and-mortar retail, not to bury it. In the last two years, the company has opened 11 physical bookstores. This summer, it bought Whole Foods and its 400 grocery locations.
Fox News:
Deadly Tennessee church shooting: Sudanese immigrant arrested, FBI launches civil rights investigation — One woman was killed and seven other people were hurt after a suspect identified as a Sudanese immigrant opened fire at a Tennessee church Sunday, police said, as the FBI confirmed it's launched …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Forced to Defend His ‘Nutty’ NFL Tweets... Again … On Sunday morning, senior officials in the Trump administration were strafing the Sunday political talk shows, forced to mount full-throated defenses of the president's prolonged campaign of hate-tweeting the National Football League and its players.
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Raw Story
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Is Trump All Talk on North Korea? The Uncertainty Sends a Shiver
Is Trump All Talk on North Korea? The Uncertainty Sends a Shiver
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Washington Post
John Legend / Slate:
The NFL Protests Are Patriotic — The kneeling players are asking America to do better on criminal justice. If I could, I'd take a knee and join them. — The president of the United States loves to drape himself in the symbols of patriotism, but fails to respect the ideals at the core of our Constitution and national identity.
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Conservative, Inc., Is Being Replaced By Us Militant Normals — I guess now we're not supposed to be fighting culture wars anymore - man, it's so hard to keep up with these ever-changing new rules! I'm old enough to remember way back to 2016, before Trump got nominated …