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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 …
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New York Times:
Twitter, With Accounts Linked to Russia, to Face Congress Over Role in Election — SAN FRANCISCO — After a weekend when Americans took to social media to debate President Trump's admonishment of N.F.L. players who do not stand for the national anthem, a network of Twitter accounts suspected …
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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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Reuters, The Root, TheBlaze, Splinter, Politicus USA, The Daily Caller and Mediaite
The Daily Beast:
Zuckerberg Blew Off Russian Troll Warnings Before the Attack on America
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Business Insider and Shakesville
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Twitter takes its turn in the Russian probe spotlight
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Russian-generated Facebook posts pushed Trump as ‘only viable option’
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Associated Press and Mediaite
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Including Trump — WASHINGTON — The tax plan that the Trump administration outlined on Wednesday is a potentially huge windfall for the wealthiest Americans. It would not directly benefit the bottom third of the population. As for the middle class, the benefits appear to be modest.
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Big 6 Tax Framework Could Cost $2.2 Trillion — The so-called “Big 6” today released their framework for comprehensive tax reform. While significant detail still needs to be filled in, enough exists for a very rough and very preliminary estimate of the details presented.
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USA Today, Politico and Morning Consult
Hannah Fingerhut / Pew Research Center:
More Americans favor raising than lowering tax rates on corporations, high household incomes — As the congressional debate over President Donald Trump's tax overhaul begins, more Americans say tax rates on corporations and higher-income households should be raised rather than lowered.
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American Prospect, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, ThinkProgress, Opinion Today, New York Times, Hit & Run, Mediaite, AOL and IJR
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
With Tax Cuts on the Table, Once-Mighty Deficit Hawks Hardly Chirp — WASHINGTON — In 2001, when surging budget surpluses fueled hopes of extinguishing the national debt, a pitched battle broke out over President George W. Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion tax cut.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Misleads on Who Benefits From Tax Plan
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Washington Post, FOX2now.com and New York Magazine
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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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Alabama defeat leaves Trump weakened, isolated amid mounting challenges
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Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
'Bama Blowout Signals the End of the McConnell Era
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New York Times, The Atlantic, FiveThirtyEight and Mashable
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
The 7 most inflammatory things Roy Moore has said
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PR Newswire:
American Icon and Playboy Founder, Hugh M. Hefner, Has Died — Hugh M. Hefner, the American icon who in 1953 introduced the world to Playboy magazine and built the company into one of the most recognizable American global brands in history, peacefully passed away today from natural causes at his home …
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Natalie Stone / People.com:
Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine Founder and Star of Girls Next Door, Dies at 91 — Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine and star of E! reality show The Girls Next Door, has died, PEOPLE confirms. He was 91. — Born Hugh Marston Hefner on April 9, 1926 in Chicago …
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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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump lifts Jones Act to bolster Puerto Rico relief — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced early Thursday that President Trump has waived the Jones Act, lifting shipping restrictions to bolster relief efforts on hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.
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Laura Blewitt / Bloomberg:
Mountains of Aid Are Languishing on the Docks in Puerto Rico
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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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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Michael McCarthy / Sporting News:
Why didn't TV networks show angry, booing NFL fans Sunday or Monday? — With President Donald Trump's attacks against protesting NFL players still reverberating, the league's TV partners decided to air live coverage of the national anthem before Week 3 games.
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CNN:
Pro-Confederate activists held ‘Secession Day’ event at Roy Moore's foundation two years in a row — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Pro-Confederate activists twice held events to commemorate Alabama's 1861 secession from the United States at the headquarters of the foundation led at the time by Roy Moore …
Washington Post:
EPA's Pruitt took charter, military flights that cost taxpayers more than $58,000 — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has taken at least four noncommercial and military flights since mid-February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000 to fly him to various parts of the country …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Is the Steele Dossier About to Have Its Moment of Truth? — In a defamation suit, BuzzFeed is trying to compel testimony from James Comey or James Clapper to establish the document's centrality to the Russia investigation. — The now famous Trump-Russia dossier, filled with explosive …
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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
It's Official: ‘The View’ Adds Meghan McCain as Conservative Co-Host (EXCLUSIVE) — Elizabeth Wagmeister — Elizabeth's Most Recent Stories — Meghan McCain has officially signed onto “The View” as a regular co-host, Variety has learned exclusively. — McCain's hire comes just days …
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The Hill, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, Jezebel, Mediaite and PerezHilton
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Ugliest Line in Trump's NFL Attack — It wasn't what you think. — Donald Trump's frothing critique of Colin Kaepernick and the players, coaches, and teammates who have come to his side has garnered many revelatory reactions. Some of these responses tell us more about ourselves …
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Simon Osborne / Daily Express:
CATALONIA REFERENDUM LATEST: Madrid pulls out all the stops to block independence vote — SPAIN has launched an all-out assault on the Catalan government with Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the prosecutor's office and the judiciary all making moves to block a binding referendum on independence on October 1.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump adviser calls $5.8T tax cut ‘a great deal’ — The Latest on President Donald Trump's tax cut proposal (all times local): — President Donald Trump's White House economics adviser is asserting that the administration's proposed tax cut is “purely aimed at middle class families.”
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