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Tomi Kilgore / MarketWatch:
Mark Cuban, Pitbull step up, but Trump administration making Puerto Rico evacuees pay — Evacuees on U.S.-government-coordinated transport must sign IOUs for the cost — and give up their passports as collateral — A billionaire business shark and a “worldwide” pop star have donated the use …
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Jennifer Gould Keil / New York Post:
Puerto Rico's stray dog packs all killed by hurricane — The dogs ran wild on so-called “Dead Dog Beach” in Puerto Rico — abused and then abandoned by their owners. — Then the hurricane hit, and the feral dogs were washed away. None survived. — Christina Beckles …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump administration requiring Puerto Rico evacuees to pay transportation costs
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CNN:
Puerto Rico's aid is trapped in thousands of shipping containers
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Chris Riotta / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP REFUSES TO SEND MORE AID TO PUERTO RICO, CITING BUSINESS INTERESTS
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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Jones Act Waived for Puerto Rico, Easing Hurricane Aid Shipments
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Christopher Flavelle / Bloomberg:
General Who Turned Around Katrina Response Criticizes Puerto Rico Efforts
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Laura Blewitt / Bloomberg:
Mountains of Aid Are Languishing on the Docks in Puerto Rico
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Updated: Trump administration is gouging hurricane evacuees
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump adviser defends Hurricane Maria response
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Trump adviser 'can't guarantee' taxes won't go up for middle class — President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, said today that he can't guarantee that taxes won't go up for some middle-class families under the administration's sweeping tax overhaul.
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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.
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
9 ways Trump's tax plan is a gift to the rich, including himself — President Trump and congressional Republicans keep saying their tax plan doesn't help the rich. But that's not true. — The nine-page outline released Wednesday is full of goodies that will make millionaires and billionaires happy.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump skeptical of his own tax plan — President Trump has built an escape hatch from his own tax plan. In Indianapolis yesterday, he bragged that it's the “largest tax cut in our county's history.” But in the West Wing earlier, Trump resisted the framework that had been cooked …
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
George Stephanopoulos forces White House to admit Trump is lying about middle-class tax cuts
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Bruce Bartlett / Washington Post:
I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: Tax cuts don't equal growth.
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CNN
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Gary Cohn: ‘No room to negotiate’ our 20% corporate tax-rate proposal
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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Exclusive: Kushner didn't disclose personal email account to Senate intel committee — Washington (CNN)In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Senate Intel Committee says Kushner didn't disclose personal email account: report
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Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
Jared Kushner actually is registered to vote as a male, despite database error saying otherwise
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Axios, The Daily Caller, CNN, Refinery29 and Washington Post
Twitter:
Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, & Misinformation — Earlier this summer we outlined some of our work to combat bots and networks of manipulation on Twitter. Since then, we have received a number of questions about how malicious bots and misinformation networks on Twitter …
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Ali Breland / The Hill:
Twitter finds 200 accounts connected to Russian election influence
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Price says he'll repay taxpayers for his private jet travel — Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said he will write a personal check to the federal government for his costs of traveling on private jets and will permanently halt his use of charter flights.
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Price to reimburse taxpayers for cost of charter jets — Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price — vowed Thursday to reimburse taxpayers for his use of private charter jets for official government business. — “Today, I will write a personal check to the U.S. Treasury …
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
How 3 top Trump administration officials have drawn scrutiny for their travel
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The Intercept:
Lindsey Graham on Obamacare Repeal: I Had No Idea What I Was Doing … Senate Democrats and their progressive allies spent the last week-and-a-half in a full-blown mobilization against an existential threat to the Affordable Care Act. — Now that it has fizzled out, the lead author of the measure …
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Mark K. Matthews / Denver Post:
Steve Bannon met with Tom Tancredo about a possible run for Colorado governor, Tancredo says — Two-time candidate for governor and former congressman uses winking emoji to say two had talked — Tom Tancredo said Thursday that he sat down with former White House strategist Stephen Bannon …
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Loses Again—and Moore
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Howard Koplowitz / al.com:
Russell County GOP head says he and Roy Moore are ‘anti-Muslim’ and it's not a ‘big deal’
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Supreme Court's legitimacy problem — Neil Gorsuch, the man who occupies a seat on the Supreme Court because Senate Republicans held it open until Donald Trump could fill it, is on a bit of a victory tour. — Last week, the staunchly conservative judge spoke at the University …
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court poised to deal a sharp blow to unions for teachers and public employees
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Peggy Fikac / MySanAntonio.com:
Trump picks Texas Supreme Court justice, former solicitor general for U.S appellate court
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Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
The Time Donald Trump Turned Away in Disgust While a Man Was Bleeding to Death in Front of Him … Howard Stern is the greatest celebrity interviewer alive, bar none. He is possessed of an uncanny ability to induce self-revelation, stroking and feeding the ego until it swells up and bursts.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
There Is No GOP Establishment or Base. Just Massive Resistance. — In a new story at NBC News, Steve Kornacki says there is a new GOP uprising underway leading into the 2018 election. It is a replay or the next stage of similar eruptions in 2010 and 2012 and to a lesser extent in 2014.
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Tennessean.com:
Titans' Delanie Walker: 'No one's telling you to come to the game' — Jason Wolf/USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee — Don't come to the game. — That's the message a couple of the Titans' star players have for any outraged fans threatening to turn their back on the team …
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Greg Wyshynski / Yahoo Sports:
P.K. Subban says he'll ‘never’ protest during national anthem
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Kyle Becker / IJR:
Tennessee Titans Player Has One-Word Message for Fans Upset About National Anthem Protests: ‘Bye’
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CBS News:
Rep. Steve Scalise breaks his silence on shooting — In his first interview since being shot and critically wounded, Rep. Steve Scalise describes the extent of his injuries and how surgeons put him back together — In his first interview since sustaining a life-threatening gunshot wound …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Elementary school librarian rejects books given by Melania Trump — A Cambridge, Mass., elementary school librarian said in a blog post this her school will not be keeping a collection of books from Melania Trump, though the school later denied her rejection of the gift.
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Russell Moore:
Hugh Hefner Did Not Live the Good Life — Overnight, we learned of the death of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Hefner is the iconic figure who not only made pornography socially respectable (and even more lucrative), but also spent a life constructing a “playboy philosophy” …
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