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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 …
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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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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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Heidi M Przybyla / USA Today:
Trump's tax plan could actually benefit wealthy people like him — WASHINGTON - President Trump is making one thing clear about his plan to cut taxes: It won't be a windfall for the richest Americans, including him. — “It's not good for me, believe me,” Trump said in a speech unveiling the tax reform blueprint on Wednesday.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Misleads on Who Benefits From Tax Plan
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New York Times:
A Boondoggle Masquerading as Tax Reform
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The White House:
Unified Framework for Fixing Our Broken Tax Code
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Hannah Fingerhut / Pew Research Center:
More Americans favor raising than lowering tax rates on corporations, high household incomes
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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 …
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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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Niraj Chokshi / New York Times:
Jones Act Waived for Puerto Rico, Easing Hurricane Aid Shipments — The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would temporarily waive a century-old shipping law for Puerto Rico that officials there said was hindering disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Maria.
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Laura Blewitt / Bloomberg:
Mountains of Aid Are Languishing on the Docks in Puerto Rico
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
White House is restricting lawmakers from visiting Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, aides say
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump authorizes waiver to loosen shipping regulations for Puerto Rico
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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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Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Senator says Russian internet trolls stoked NFL debate
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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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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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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
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Laura Mansnerus / New York Times:
Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91
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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 …
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Roy Moore's Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Alabama defeat leaves Trump weakened, isolated amid mounting challenges
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Politico
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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Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: NFL Owners Are Afraid Of Their Players, 'It's Disgraceful' — Continuing his tirade against the National Football League, President Donald Trump suggested in an interview with Fox News, which aired Thursday, that NFL team owners may be “afraid of their players.”
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
On Fox News, Trump uses racist dogwhistle to talk about NFL players who take a knee during anthem
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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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Ross Pomeroy / RealClearScience:
Political Campaigning May Be Mostly Pointless — Chad Rhym/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP — Roughly $6.8 billion was spent during the 2016 election, and according to a forthcoming study in American Political Science Review, much of it probably went down the drain.
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