memeorandum: The NFL Won't Forget September 24, 2017 Anytime Soon (Jack Holmes/Esquire)

3:05 PM ET, September 25, 2017

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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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Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:

Gohmert Calls for McCain's Recall — Texas Republican suggests way to support senator and get health care repeal — Pelosi Calls Out Trump for War on NFL, NBA Former Governor, Senate Candidate Announces Bid for Reichert's Seat State Medicaid Directors Say Graham-Cassidy ‘Fails to Deliver’

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

GOP facing likely failure on ObamaCare repeal — Congressional Republicans are facing the prospect of failing this week — perhaps for a final time — in their bid to repeal ObamaCare. — Senate Republicans have yet to throw in the towel, but it seems more than likely their nine-month odyssey …

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Associated Press:

The Latest: Trump blasts McCain over health bill vote — https://apnews.com/bf3631c051cf4a06a8bf a901ea24cee6 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican effort to overhaul the Obama health law (all times local): — President Donald Trump says Arizona GOP …

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John Wagner / Washington Post:
In radio interview, Trump slams McCain, dings McConnell and botches a Senate candidate's name

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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Cruz still a no on Graham-Cassidy

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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
A New Obamacare Repeal Draft Is Out And It Attacks Pre-Existing Protections More Severely

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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
John McCain fights back

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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
New version of health-care bill will help Alaska and Maine — home of two holdout senators

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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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Will Schmitt / Springfield News-Leader:

A local WWII vet took a knee to support black NFL players. He's going viral. — AP reporters counted more than 200 NFL players who did not stand during the national anthem before their games on Sunday. Six refused to stand the week before, mainly protesting police brutality. AP — CONNECT

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Jack Holmes / Esquire:

The NFL Won't Forget September 24, 2017 Anytime Soon — What started last year with one player and one knee became something much larger today. — September 24, 2017 has been a day of immense consequence for the National Football League. Across the nation, an unprecedented number of players …

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump versus the NFL, explained

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Rachel Cumberbatch / FOX Carolina 21:
Upstate restaurant owner to stop showing NFL games in response to kneeling players

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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Steve Bannon Sought To Infiltrate Facebook Hiring — According to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News, Bannon hoped to spy on Facebook's job application process. — Steve Bannon plotted to plant a mole inside Facebook, according to emails sent days before the Breitbart boss took …

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Harper Neidig / The Hill: Facebook hires former Sessions aide

Washington Post:

Hot, isolated, and running out of supplies, parts of Puerto Rico near desperation — JUNCOS, Puerto Rico — In the heat and humidity here in the central mountains, Meryanne Aldea fanned her bedridden mother with a piece of cardboard Sunday as the ailing woman lay on her side, relieving a large ulcer in her back.

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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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New Republic:
Clio Chang — The revised Graham-Cassidy bill is a fraud.

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Chandrika Narayan / CNN:
Officials plead for swift aid to Puerto Rico to prevent ‘humanitarian crisis’

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Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:

Anthony Weiner gets hard time — Weiner leaves court after being sentenced to 21 months in prison. … It's hard time for Anthony Weiner. — The disgraced ex-congressman broke down crying as he was sentenced to 21 months in prison Monday for convincing a high school student to undress and touch herself via Skype in 2016.

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Associated Press: The Latest: Anthony Weiner must report to prison by Nov. 6

Kelly Swanson / Vox:
Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal just landed him a 21-month prison sentence

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New York Daily News:
Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in prison for teen sexting scandal

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Leada Gore / al.com:

Trump calls ‘Rick & Bubba,’ calls Roy Moore ‘Ray’ as he stumps for Strange — Gallery: President Trump at Luther Strange for Senate Rally in Huntsville, ALa. — A primary win by “Ray” Moore would open Alabama's U.S. Senate seat to Democrats, President Donald Trump told radio-hosts “Rick and Bubba” this morning.

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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump claims he doesn't know much about ‘Ray’ Moore

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Hank Stuever / Washington Post:

NBC's Megyn Kelly experiment unveils its latest creation, a morning-show Bride of Frankenstein — “Megyn Kelly Today” is meant to be the final, dazzling piece of Kelly's multimillion-dollar transmogrification from steely Fox News host to a mushy, hugs-for-everybody, midmorning TV host.

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:

GOP senators unveil new ‘Dreamers’ bill — A new Senate GOP proposal is being released Monday that creates a pathway to legalization for so-called Dreamers, but it won't allow them to sponsor family members to the United States — one of several provisions that make the bill far more conservative …

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Allison De Jong / ABC News:
Americans back DACA by a huge margin (POLL)

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Axios:

North Korea says U.S. has “declared war on our country” — North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, said Monday that President Trump has declared war by tweeting that North Korea “won't be around much longer” if the foreign minister “echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man,” per AP.

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NBC News:
North Korean Foreign Minister Says Trump Has ‘Declared War’

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Associated Press:

McCain calls brain cancer prognosis ‘very poor’ — https://apnews.com/d2acf2f24e474f828673 6259eb12b884 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a “very poor prognosis” as he battles brain cancer. — McCain underwent surgery in July …

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Dominic Patten / Deadline:

‘Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Down Again On Day Of Player Protests — On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league …

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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:

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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Lucia Graves / The Guardian:

Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women - and their husbands — But new research shows that for white women, having a husband trumped the sisterhood — illary Clinton hoped to wear white on election night, a tribute to the suffragettes and the sweep of political history.

James Hohmann / Washington Post:

The Daily 202: Why the divider in chief embraces culture wars — THE BIG IDEA: The most fitting slogan for Donald Trump's populist campaign, which continues nearly a year after the 2016 election ended, might be “us against them.” I don't know Latin, but I do know that what we saw …

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