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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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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 …
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.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Misleads on Who Benefits From Tax Plan
Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:   Trump's tax plan could actually benefit wealthy people like him
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
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Chris Riotta / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP REFUSES TO SEND MORE AID TO PUERTO RICO, CITING BUSINESS INTERESTS  —  President Donald Trump has made it clear his administration isn't planning to allow any additional outside aid to get into Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria.  —  Speaking with reporters on Wednesday afternoon …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump lifts Jones Act to bolster Puerto Rico relief
Laura Blewitt / Bloomberg:
Mountains of Aid Are Languishing on the Docks in Puerto Rico
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump authorizes waiver to loosen shipping regulations for Puerto Rico
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:   Trump Waives Jones Act to Speed Up Aid Shipments to Puerto Rico
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.
Discussion: Associated Press and Eschaton
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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.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Politico and Morning Consult
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Tax Plan Impact a Mystery for the Middle Class, but not for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Who are the winners and losers in the new Republican tax plan?  —  For the middle class in particular, it's hard to tell.  —  Experts say the net effects on lower- and middle-income Americans are hard to determine …
Discussion: Mother Jones
USA Today:
Many Trump voters will get zero from Republican tax ‘framework’
Chuck Marr / Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
“Big Six” Tax Framework Provides Windfall to High-Income Households, With Working Families Largely an Afterthought
Discussion: CNBC
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 …
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Senator says Russian internet trolls stoked NFL debate
Discussion: Shakesville, RedState and TheBlaze
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Russell Moore:
Hugh Hefner Did Not Live the Good Life
Discussion: RedState
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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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Scalise returns to Congress for first time since shooting  —  House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, seriously wounded by a gunman's bullet in June, is returning to Congress Thursday.  —  It's Scalise's first time in the Capitol since he took a bullet to the hip while practicing …
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Loses Again—and Moore  —  Trump and leaders in Congress should find the latest Republican failure sobering.  —  It was a disastrous day for the whole GOP—President Trump, congressional Republicans, grass-roots activists and anyone who wants progress on the party's agenda.
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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 …
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
On Fox News, Trump uses racist dogwhistle to talk about NFL players who take a knee during anthem  —  During an interview on Fox & Friends that aired Thursday morning, President Trump said he thinks NFL owners are reluctant to take action against players who don't stand during the national anthem because they're afraid of them.
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Greg Wyshynski / Yahoo Sports:
P.K. Subban says he'll ‘never’ protest during national anthem  —  P.K. Subban said on Tuesday that he will “never” kneel during the national anthem to protest something politically.  —  Subban performed at a fundraiser on Tuesday night at  —  Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville, to benefit Comedy Cares.
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Tennessean.com:
Titans' Delanie Walker: 'No one's telling you to come to the game'
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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Phil Howard / The Computational Propaganda Project:
Social Media, News and Political Information during the US Election: Was Polarizing Content …
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