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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump, at war with everyone, mocks McCain, McConnell — In private, President Trump has taken to physically mocking M&M: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (slumped shoulders; lethargic body language) and Sen. John McCain (imitating the thumbs-down of his historic health-care vote).
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CNN:
Trump infuriated after backing Alabama loser — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Returning from a high-dollar fundraiser in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an infuriated President Donald Trump watched aboard Air Force One as Fox News called the Alabama Senate primary for Roy Moore against Trump's favored candidate, Luther Strange.
New York Times:
Roy Moore's Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republicans are confronting an insurrection on the right that is angry enough to imperil their grip on Congress, and senior party strategists have concluded that the conservative base now loathes …
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New York Times, The Root, IJR and The Last Tradition
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just endorsed a lawless bigot in Alabama. Here's how Democrats will run against him.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
How Roy Moore's Win Roils Republicans
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LegBranch.com and Mickey Kaus
Jordan Gehrke:
Alabama Senate Memo: Return of the Civil War and the Fall of Mitch McConnell
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THE WARREN (HENRY) REPORT, The Federalist, Weekly Standard, CNN, BuzzFeed, Washington Monthly, New York Times and Washington Examiner
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Roy Moore's Nomination Gave Republicans Another Chance to Reject Authoritarianism. They Declined.
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Axios, NewsBusters, The Guardian, Daily Kos, Politico, BillMoyers.com and Althouse
Alex Conant / FIREHOUSE Strategies:
BREAKING: New data on NFL & health care
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National Review, Daily Wire and Business Insider
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
The ‘doubled standard deduction’ in the GOP tax plan is a lie — In selling their soon-to-be-released tax plan, Republicans have been leaning hard on what they say is a provision to cut and simplify taxes for the middle class: doubling the standard deduction that people who pay income tax may take.
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Washington Post, Mother Jones, National Review, American Prospect, Lawyers, Guns & Money, AOL, The Week, Eschaton, Vox and Axios
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump's new tax plan shows how unserious Republicans are about governing — “I will give you everything,” Donald Trump promised as a presidential candidate, and as president, not only has he continued to make that promise, but also the entire Republican Party has followed suit.
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New York Magazine, Business Insider, The Atlantic and CNBC
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Here's the GOP tax plan
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Fortune, Business Insider, Media Matters for America, The Week, The Daily Signal, Daily Kos, RedState and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
New York Times:
Trump Proposes the Most Sweeping Tax Overhaul in Decades
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Pew Research Center, The Atlantic, Washington Post, NPR, Opinion Today, Vox, Outside the Beltway, IJR, New York Post, Mother Jones, AOL and Mediaite
Washington Post:
GOP tax document reveals plan for massive tax cuts, preserves key deductions
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FiveThirtyEight, The Guardian, Shareblue, Common Dreams, Shakesville, Mediaite, TheBlaze and National Review
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer: Trump tax plan ‘wealth-fare’
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Americans For Tax Fairness, IJR and Common Dreams
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Russian-bought Black Lives Matter ad on Facebook targeted Baltimore and Ferguson — At least one of the Facebook ads bought by Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign referenced Black Lives Matter and was specifically targeted to reach audiences in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore …
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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Ashley Feinberg / Wired:
Jared Kushner Voted As a Woman, According to His Registration — SINCE MOVING INTO the White House months ago, Jared Kushner—senior advisor and son-in-law to the President, savior of the Middle East, and possible person of interest in a federal investigation—has amassed a rather extensive project portfolio.
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Axios, Mother Jones, New York Post, Mashable, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Balloon Juice, Raw Story, Refinery29, Jezebel, The Week, AOL, CBS Philly, IJR, Political Wire, The Daily Caller and PerezHilton
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Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Kushner registered to vote in New York as a female
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RedState and Washington Free Beacon
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
White House is restricting lawmakers from visiting Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, aides say — The Trump administration is restricting lawmakers in both parties from visiting storm-ravaged Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands aboard military aircraft this weekend in order to keep focused …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In the Virgin Islands, Hurricane Maria Drowned What Irma Didn't Destroy
Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers Seek Waiver of Law Barring Foreign Ships From Delivering Aid to Puerto Rico
Mark Zuckerberg:
I want to respond to President Trump's tweet this morning claiming Facebook has always been against him. — Every day I work to bring people together and build a community for everyone. We hope to give all people a voice and create a platform for all ideas. — Trump says Facebook is against him.
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The Hill, Politico, BuzzFeed, Mashable, The Verge, Gizmodo and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »
Luke Dittrich / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Great Escape — On the evening of Sept. 14, a man who looked an awful lot like Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the president of the United States, boarded Air Canada Jazz Flight AC 8889 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He made his way down the aisle of the Bombardier CRJ 900 …
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The Hill and Talking Points Memo
The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram … The Facebook group United Muslims of America was neither united, Muslim, nor American. — Instead, sources familiar with the group tell The Daily Beast, it was an imposter account …
Dialynn Dwyer / Boston Globe:
Michelle Obama: ‘Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice’ — Former First Lady Michelle Obama criticized women who voted for President Donald Trump during a wide-ranging conversation in Boston Wednesday that addressed life in the White House, her forthcoming book …
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ABC News, Raw Story, Politicus USA, The Root, Daily Wire, Mashable, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and IJR
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Courier-Journal:
Rick Pitino ‘effectively fired,’ on unpaid leave amid Louisville FBI basketball investigation — University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino has been put on unpaid administrative leave after the FBI alleged in a criminal complaint that coaches with the program participated in a scheme to pay recruits' families.
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Daily Wire, New York Times, New York Magazine, NBC News, SI.com, CBS Boston, Canes Watch, The Ticker, USA Today and IJR
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Ivy League / ESPN:
Louisville's Rick Pitino and Tom Jurich placed on administrative leave
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The Ringer - All, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and New York Times
Mark Harris / Wired:
God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger — Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity—the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change. — When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of the machines.
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Weekly Standard, Raw Story and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Trump administration abruptly drops out of Obamacare events in Mississippi — “It's clearly sabotage.” — For the past three years, the US Health and Human Services Department has partnered with a health advocacy group in Mississippi on an education tour before Obamacare enrollment started.
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BuzzFeed, Daily Kos, ACA Signups and ThinkProgress
Manu Raju / CNN:
Key senators prepare subpoena for Manafort to appear at hearing — Manafort's journey to center of Mueller investigation — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate judiciary committee leaders have reached a deal to issue a subpoena to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort compelling …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Corker: ‘Possible’ that Peyton Manning runs for Senate — It's “possible” but not necessarily likely that former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning will run for Tennessee's open U.S. Senate seat, retiring Sen. Bob Corker said Wednesday. — The outgoing GOP senator said he spoke with Manning …
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Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, MyNewsLA.com, New York Magazine and The Week
Rebecca Traister / thecut:
Elizabeth Warren Is Getting Hillary-ed — The elite, ambitious candidate, saying one thing on the stump but another to wealthy donors, willing to cede big dreams for incremental, pragmatic fixes ... You recognize her, right? Of course you do. She's Massachusetts Senator …
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