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8:50 PM ET, September 29, 2017

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Washington Post:
VA chief took in Wimbledon, river cruise on European work trip; wife's expenses covered  —  Nearly three days into a trip to Europe this past July, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin had attended a Wimbledon championship tennis match, toured Westminster Abbey and taken a cruise on the Thames.
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Washington Post:
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigns after criticism for taking charter flights at taxpayer expense  —  Tom Price, President Trump's embattled health and human services secretary, resigned Friday amid sharp criticism of his extensive use of taxpayer-funded charter flights, the White House said.
Lauren Fox / CNN:
'I think the President's mad as hell': Hill Republicans fume over Price's travel costs  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Patience is waning on Capitol Hill for Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price who reportedly spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on privately chartered flights to travel around the country.
ABC News:
Trump asked Price to resign as Health and Human Services secretary: Source
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Interior Secretary Zinke: Scrutiny Of My Private Plane Travel ‘A Little BS’
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: We're going to make a decision on Price's future tonight
Discussion: ABC News, Mother Jones and CNN
Adriel Bettelheim / Politico:
Price resigns from HHS after facing fire for travel
Discussion: Axios, FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
CNN:
Trump will make decision ‘sometime tonight’ on Price
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
San Juan mayor slams Trump administration comments on Puerto Rico hurricane response  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital sharply criticized a senior Trump administration official Friday for calling the government's disaster response “a good-news story,” …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Deadly Narcissism  —  According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump is unfit to be president.  That's pretty remarkable.  But you have to wonder how much higher the number would be if people really knew what's going on.
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
San Juan mayor: ‘Dammit, this is not a good news story’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reacted with shock and anger to acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke on Friday, saying Puerto Rico's recovery is “not a good news story.”
Washington Post:
U.S. response in Puerto Rico pales next to actions after Haiti quake … After an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital on Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. military mobilized as if it were going to war.  —  Before dawn the next morning, an Army unit was airborne, on its way to seize control of the main airport in Port-au-Prince.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
San Juan mayor hits back at Elaine Duke: ‘This is not a good news story.  This is a people are dying story.’
Discussion: Axios, Hullabaloo and Shakesville
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
General who handled Katrina response blasts Trump on Puerto Rico
Discussion: Politico, IJR and Bloomberg
CBS News:
Trump kids' ski vacation incurs over $300,000 in security costs  —  The annual Aspen ski vacation taken in March by President Trump's children, Ivanka and Eric Trump, and their families, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, left taxpayers on the hook for security costs of at least $330,000, CBS News has learned.
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS Denver
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly struggling to make sense of Jared's West Wing role  —  As Secretary of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly spent months touting a hard line on immigration.  He argued publicly and privately with Congress that if there were objections to the laws, it was up to legislators to change them — not to blame enforcers on the front lines.
Discussion: Raw Story
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House hits reset in search for Homeland Security chief: Sources
Discussion: Politico
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
San Juan mayor: ‘I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying’
Discussion: Mother Jones and Mediaite
taxpolicycenter.org:
A Preliminary Analysis of the Unified Framework  —  ABSTRACT  —  The Tax Policy Center has produced preliminary estimates of the potential impact proposals included in the “Unified Framework for Fixing our Broken Tax Code.”  We find they would reduce federal revenue by $2.4 trillion …
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
GOP tax plan would provide major gains for richest 1%, uneven benefits for the middle class, report says  —  The Republican tax plan would deliver a major benefit to the top 1 percent of Americans, according to a new analysis by a leading group of nonpartisan tax experts that challenges the White House's portrayal of its effects.
Associated Press:
Report finds GOP tax plan benefits top 1 percent
Discussion: Vox
ddhq.io:
Alabama Senate Special Election Poll  —  Immediately after the runoff Tuesday, we commissioned Opinion Savvy to conduct a poll of the upcoming special U.S. Senate general election in Alabama.  Opinion Savvy contacted 590 voters through landline and mobile devices on September 27th and 28th.
Discussion: Daily Kos, TheBlaze and Politicus USA
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CNN:
CNN poll: Americans split on anthem protests
Discussion: Daily Wire and FOX2now.com
The Cook Political Report:
Why Virginia's Delegate Races Could Be the Most Telling 2017 Elections
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Melania Trump fires back at librarian who rejected gift of Dr. Seuss books as ‘racist’  —  First lady Melania Trump fired back Friday at a Massachusetts elementary school librarian who rejected her donation of Dr. Seuss books, claiming their illustrations are examples of “racist propaganda.”
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Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
‘Racist propaganda’: Librarian rejects Melania Trump's gift of Dr. Seuss books
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
“You should be outraged.”  Lt. Gen. response to racism at Air Force Academy shames Trump  —  Donald Trump's response to the deadly Charlottesville white supremacist riot in August was appalling.  It was so bad, in fact, that Trump essentially abdicated any responsibility of his office to unify the nation in a time of division.
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Axios:
USAFA superintendent: “Grab your phones”
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Are Confounded by His Hospital Lie: 'He's Just, You Know, Doing His Thing.' … The president of the United States has been repeatedly blaming the biggest legislative failure of his administration on a senator in a made-up hospital, and no one in the White House is quite sure why.
Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
People Are Sharing This Fake Photo Of NFL Players Burning The American Flag  —  Conservative social media accounts are sharing a photoshopped image that makes it look like an NFL player is burning the US flag while his teammates cheer him on.  —  The fake picture is being used …
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
In private dinner, George W. Bush criticizes Trump's decision to add North Korea to travel ban  —  In a private dinner Thursday night, the former President George W. Bush was critical of President Donald Trump's decision to place added travel restrictions on North Korea as part …
Discussion: AOL, Raw Story, IJR and Axios
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Robert Mueller Is Facing His Biggest Question Yet: Should He Prosecute the Cover-Up Before He's Certain There's a Crime?  —  Reince Priebus could clinch the obstruction case—but that's only part of the picture.  —  Of all the avenues in the sprawling Russia investigation …
Discussion: NewsBusters
 
 
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Josh Meyer / Politico:
NSA warned White House against using personal email
Associated Press:
Tennessee Church Suspect May Have Sought Charleston Revenge
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Chuck Schumer Describes Immigration Negotiations at WH: Trump Said 'OK, We Won't Do The Wall'
Discussion: Daily Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Rockfall at Yosemite's El Capitan ‘10 times bigger’ than slide that killed tourist a day earlier
Discussion: Gizmodo and Fox News
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David Brooks / New York Times:
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Hannity beats Maddow in first week of 9 p.m. showdown
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their Demands
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Monthly
Steven L. Hall / Washington Post:
Russian intelligence would have seen Paul Manafort as the perfect mark
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Judge: Black Lives Matter is a movement that can't be sued
Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Arizona Senate: Sinema's Candidacy Puts Race in Toss Up
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Berniecrats Have an Obama Problem
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Beyond the daily drama and Twitter battles, Trump begins to alter American life
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