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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Jared Kushner's lawyer, fooled by ‘email prankster,’ offers window into private email controversy  —  Abbe Lowell, a top Washington lawyer, exchanged emails on Monday with a prankster posing as his client Jared Kushner, at one point telling the prankster he needed to see “all emails” …
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New York Times:
At Least 6 White House Advisers Used Private Email Accounts  —  WASHINGTON — At least six of President Trump's closest advisers occasionally used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, current and former officials said on Monday.  —  The disclosures came a day after news surfaced …
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Hillary Clinton Calls Kushner Email Revelations ‘The Height Of Hypocrisy’  —  Her comments came just hours before reports that at least six Trump officials had used private emails.  —  Hillary Clinton slammed the administration of President Donald Trump for its “rank hypocrisy” …
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's plutocracy problem complicates push for tax cuts
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Sure Trump Knows Puerto Ricans Are Americans  —  “He doesn't think that has any political relevance and it's certainly not personally important,” she added.  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday launched a blistering attack against President Donald Trump …
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New York Times:
Nearly Half of Americans Don't Know Puerto Ricans Are Fellow Citizens  —  More than three million Americans in Puerto Rico are struggling to meet basic needs after a devastating strike from Hurricane Maria, but their plight seems to be attracting far less public or political attention …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The White House Is Not Ignoring Puerto Rico  —  We are seeing the beginning of a concerted attempt to turn the crisis in Puerto Rico into “Trump's Katrina.”  And, as T. Becket Adams points out, those responsible aren't even being subtle about it.  All of a sudden, we hav new talking points: Trump is ignoring Puerto Rico!
Susanne Ramirez de Arellano / The Guardian:
Puerto Rico is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis.  Where is the media?  —  The destruction in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria has received relatively little attention.  Are our disasters not important enough?  —  Hurricane Maria - the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 89 years …
New York Times:
In Battered Puerto Rico, Governor Warns of a Humanitarian Crisis
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
San Juan Mayor Responds To Trump: 'You Don't Put Debt Above People'
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Salon and IJR
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Again Criticizes Jeff Sessions Over Russia Probe  —  At White House dinner Trump knocks attorney general and said his NFL feud ‘has really taken off,’ guests say  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Monday again indicated he was dissatisfied with his attorney general …
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
Law Professors Plan To Take A Knee To Protest Jeff Sessions' Speech On Campus Free Speech  —  Faculty members at Georgetown University Law Center have signed a letter condemning what they say is the “hypocrisy” of Sessions speaking about free speech.  The speech is only open to a select group of law students.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Some Georgetown Law students and faculty plan to protest speech by Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Discussion: Slate and Daily Kos
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions joins Trump in criticizing NFL players who kneel during anthem
CBS Pittsburgh:
Fire Chief ‘Embarrassed,’ ‘Regrets’ Using Racial Slur Against Mike Tomlin  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The fallout continues after the Pittsburgh Steelers game on Sunday and the team's decision to stay in the tunnel at Chicago's Soldier Field during the national anthem.
Discussion: CBS Denver, The Root and Deadspin
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Pennsylvania fire chief calls Steelers coach Mike Tomlin a ‘no-good n*gger’ over NFL protests  —  A fire chief from Pennsylvania has apologized for calling Steelers coach Mike Tomlin a “no-good n*gger” after his team did not come out onto the field for the national anthem during this Sunday's game against the Chicago Bears.
Greg Norman / Fox News:
NFL national anthem flap sees Steelers coach Mike Tomlin rap Alejandro Villanueva, while his jersey sales soar
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea seeks help from Republican analysts: 'What's up with Trump?'  —  BERN, Switzerland — North Korean government officials have been quietly trying to arrange talks with Republican-linked analysts in Washington, in an apparent attempt to make sense of President Trump and his confusing messages to Kim Jong Un's regime.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Alabama Senate GOP frontrunner: Constitution was written to “foster Christianity”  —  HOMEWOOD, Alabama — Judge Roy Moore, the leading candidate in an Alabama Senate Republican primary held on Tuesday, pulled a laminated copy of Joseph Story's 1833 Commentaries on the Constitution out of his dusty maroon briefcase.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bannon to Alabama: 'They think you're a pack of morons'
Christianna Silva / Newsweek:
Ivanka Trump and Donald Jr. tried to ‘bump’ Tiffany out of her inheritance, according to newly released recordings  —  Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. were embroiled in a battle to take away inheritance money from their sister, Tiffany Trump, according to a new archive of the conversations Donald Trump …
Discussion: RedState and AOL
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Trump's State-Tax Plan Could Cause Headaches for 52 Republican Lawmakers
Discussion: Axios and Politicus USA
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The GOP can't quit Obamacare repeal because of their donors  —  Graham-Cassidy has gained steam because many Republican senators care primarily about pleasing their donors.  —  Senate Republicans are trying yet again to repeal Obamacare, despite seemingly having all the political and substantive reasons in the world not to.
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Gen. Michael Hayden / The Hill:
Michael Hayden: In Trump versus NFL, standing up for free speech  —  BY GEN. MICHAEL HAYDEN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 09/26/17 09:00 AM EDT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  When I became director of CIA, I kept my Steelers season tickets.
Discussion: Shareblue
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CNN:
John Kelly is not pleased with Trump's NFL culture war, but ‘appalled’ by players' lack of respect
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Zinke: One-third of Interior employees not loyal to Trump  —  https://apnews.com/570c910d21be41869f76 d45a2c55c359  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump …
Scholars Strategy Network:
KEY  —  WHAT ELECTION CAMPAIGNS NEED TO LEARN TO PERSUADE VOTERS ABOUT CANDIDATES AND BALLOT MEASURES  —  David Broockman, Stanford University, Joshua Kalla, University of California, Berkeley  —  The 2016 presidential campaigns supporting Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton …
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Abstract  —  Significant theories of democratic accountability hinge …
Discussion: Washington Post
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Tyranny of the Minority  —  This is Michelle Goldberg's debut column.  —  Since Donald Trump's cataclysmic election, the unthinkable has become ordinary.  We've grown used to naked profiteering off the presidency, an administration that calls for the firing of private citizens for political dissent …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Roger Stone testifies he's been falsely accused of collusion
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Senate Judiciary tells CIA to hand over information related to Russian meddling
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Kneels On House Floor In Support Of NFL Players
Bloomberg:
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Rachel M. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Education Isn't the Key to a Good Income
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Dean Skelos's 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Week
Matt Arco / New Jersey Online:
More bad news for Guadagno (and Christie) in new governor's race poll
Discussion: Political Wire
Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police officers to be reprimanded after kneeling in Instagram post
Discussion: The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and The Root
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
So, Was the Old Megyn Kelly a Fraud, or is this New Version the Phony?
Salena Zito / New York Post:
NFL anthem protests leave Pittsburgh fans conflicted about game they love
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Pat Tillman widow: Don't ‘politicize’ husband's service in way ‘that divides us’
 

 
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