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1:00 AM ET, September 30, 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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Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's breaking point with Price  —  Tom Price's downfall was his penchant for pricey jets.  —  But his demise was months in the making, as the president continued to lose trust in the Health and Human Services secretary who rarely attended Oval Office strategy meetings …
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.
CNN:
Price out as HHS secretary after private plane scandal
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Interior Secretary Zinke: Scrutiny Of My Private Plane Travel ‘A Little BS’
Adriel Bettelheim / Politico:
Price resigns from HHS after facing fire for travel
Discussion: Axios and FiveThirtyEight
Wall Street Journal:
Officials Expressed Concerns White House Counsel Would Quit Over Donald Trump-Jared Kushner Meetings  —  Don McGahn was frustrated the parleys could be construed by investigators in the Russia probe as an effort to coordinate stories  —  WASHINGTON—White House Counsel Don McGahn this summer …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly struggling to make sense of Kushner'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 …
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Raw Story
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: CBS Denver and Raw Story
Josh Meyer / Politico:
NSA warned White House against using personal email  —  The National Security Agency warned senior White House officials in classified briefings that improper use of personal cellphones and email could make them vulnerable to espionage by Russia, China, Iran and other adversaries, according to officials familiar with the briefings.
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.
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House hits reset in search for Homeland Security chief: Sources
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Lost weekend: How Trump's time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria … At first, the Trump administration seemed to be doing all the right things to respond to the disaster in Puerto Rico.  —  As Hurricane Maria made landfall that Wednesday, there was a frenzy of activity publicly and privately.
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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:
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,” …
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
‘Not enough’ troops, equipment in Puerto Rico, says general in charge of relief
Discussion: Washington Post and Shareblue
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:   San Juan mayor's harrowing plea: ‘Mr Trump, I am begging. We are dying here’
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
General who handled Katrina response blasts Trump on Puerto Rico
Discussion: Politico, IJR and Bloomberg
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
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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The Cook Political Report:
Why Virginia's Delegate Races Could Be the Most Telling 2017 Elections
CNN:
CNN poll: Americans split on anthem protests
Discussion: Daily Wire, Mediaite and FOX2now.com
TMZ.com:
Cops: Michael Bennett Body Cam Footage Justifies Police Takedown  —  The Las Vegas Metro Police Dept. says the body cam footage absolutely justifies why police took down Michael Bennett at gunpoint during a search for an active shooter ... saying it was NOT about race.
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
Robert Mueller Subpoenas an Associate of the Man Who Hired Michael Flynn as a Lobbyist  —  The special prosecutor investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election has subpoenaed an associate of Gen. Michael Flynn's Turkish lobbying client.
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group named after convicted cop killer and former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur who broke out of jail and fled to Cuba  —  Colin Kaepernick's $25,000 donation to a charitable group honoring a convicted cop killer has been revealed.
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”
 
 
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Freddy Monares / Bozeman Daily Chronicle Audio:
U.S. Senate candidate charged with nine Montana hunting violations
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Uber Ex-CEO Travis Kalanick Names Directors in Power Play
Associated Press:
Tennessee Church Suspect May Have Sought Charleston Revenge
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
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?
Discussion: NewsBusters
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
 Earlier Items: 
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
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Melania Trump fires back at librarian who rejected gift of Dr. Seuss books as ‘racist’
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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