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New York Times:
Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan  —  Highlighted areas show what parts of President Trump's 2005 tax return could have been affected by the new tax plan.  —  President Trump could cut his tax bills by more than $1.1 billion, including saving tens of millions …
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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 …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Has Trump had his ‘heckuva job’ moment with Puerto Rico?  —  THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein  —  The first two storms, it appears, were only wind-ups to the presidential moment that presents itself now.  The crisis in Puerto Rico figures to define President Trump's responses to this remarkable string of powerful storms.
New York Times:
Private Emails, Private Jets and Mr. Trump's Idea of Public Service  —  Electing him, Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail, would “make every dream you ever dreamed for your country come true.”  Among those reveries, he suggested, would be a government free of self-dealing and one devoted to public service.
Discussion: Washington Post
Andrea Peterson / Politico:
White House launches probe of private email accounts  —  The White House has launched an internal probe of private email use, pulling batches of emails on the White House server to and from private accounts of senior aides, according to four officials familiar with the matter.
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Make America Gipper Again
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts
Discussion: Vox
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K  —  The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Tom Price Wanted To Reopen His Department's Executive Dining Room, Sources Say  —  The executive dining room was used as an event and meeting space during the Obama years.  —  Tom Price, the Health and Human Services secretary currently under fire for his private jet travel …
Discussion: Salon
New York Times:
Chastened, Tom Price Tries to Deflect Anger Over Chartered Flights
Tom Roeder / Gazette:
Air Force Academy investigates racial slurs at prep school; superintendent says racists ‘need to get out’  —  The head of the Air Force Academy stood all his 4,000 cadets at attention Thursday to deliver a message on racial slurs found written on message boards at the academy's preparatory school.
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:   Racial slurs written on doors of five black cadet candidates at Air Force Academy Preparatory School
Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
USAFA superintendent: “Grab your phones”
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Failed to Disclose Massive Amount of Income on His Senate Ethics Form … Roy Moore, the controversial Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, neglected to disclose as much as $150,000 in income to federal ethics officials, according to a Daily Beast review of public records.
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lawlessness of Roy Moore
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Roy Moore opposed the appointment of an ‘admitted homosexual’ to an ambassadorship in 2006
WND:
Jihad on our faith  —  Judge Roy Moore is the chairman …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jessica Schneider / CNN:
DOJ demands Facebook information from ‘anti-administration activists’  —  Washington (CNN)Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
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.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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New York Times:   Trump Administration Is Pressed to Step Up Hurricane Recovery in Puerto Rico
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema enters Senate race, hoping to unseat Jeff Flake  —  U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is running for the Senate seat held by Jeff Flake, ending months of speculation about her political future and giving Democrats a top-tier fundraiser with experience on Capitol Hill.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie backers give Dem incumbents a pass in 2018
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Citizens United For Conservative Patrick Morrisey Over Mitch McConnell-Backed Evan Jenkins in West Virginia Senate Battle  —  The Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CUPVF) is backing Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the conservative candidate for U.S. Senate in West Virginia …
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Adam Jentleson / Politico:
The Myth of Mitch McConnell, Political Super-Genius
Discussion: Washington Post
Christopher Hooks / The Texas Observer:
Texas GOP's Favorite Meme-Maker is Now Helping the Far-Right in Germany  —  On Monday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote about the role played by the Austin-based political consultant Vincent Harris in the recent success of the Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, in the German federal election last weekend.
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Leif Reigstad / Texas Monthly:
How an Austin Ad Agency Helped the Alt-Right Rise Again in Germany
Discussion: CNNMoney and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Zinke took $12,000 charter flight home in oil executive's plane, documents show  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.
Discussion: IJR
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Beyond the daily drama and Twitter battles, Trump begins to alter American life  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even without delivering on his biggest campaign promises, President Donald Trump has begun to reshape American life in ways big and small.  —  Over his first nine months …
Scott Allen / Washington Post:
A kid walked into a GameStop wearing a Kaepernick jersey.  Two NFL players bought him an Xbox.  —  Saundra Watts was getting her makeup done in the Dulles 28 Centre in Sterling on Tuesday, killing time while her dog was groomed at Petco, when her 10-year-old grandson, Jaden, came running into the store.
Discussion: Unfogged, WREG-TV and USA Today
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Millionaire Trump Adviser Says Americans Can ‘Buy A New Car’ With $1,000 Tax Cut  —  Gary Cohn also suggested that money could be used for a substantial home renovation.  —  President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser — Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president worth an estimated $266 million …
Lili Anolik / Vanity Fair:
The Kate McKinnon Report … If journalists played it straight with movie stars, they'd call it an interrogation not an interview.  It'd be conducted at a police station—some grimy, windowless room at the back, cramped and full of the hot stink of fear and funk.
Discussion: Splinter
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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Ben Strauss / Politico:
‘This Is Bad for America, But Great for Us’
Reshma Saujani / New York Times:
The Case for Shunning the White House
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse
Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg:
New ‘KJU’ Shower Gel Not Named After Kim Jong Un, Insists Unilever
Discussion: Mashable
Steven Malanga / City Journal:
Bench the NFL  —  The league enjoys an antitrust exemption …
Discussion: Instapundit
 Earlier Items: 
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Democrats need to put forward a tax plan too
Discussion: The Week
Detroit Free Press:
Snyder backs state police director amid backlash over FB post condemning NFL protests
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
DOJ files suit against company for allegedly not hiring Americans
Scott Malone / Reuters:
Education Secretary DeVos faces largely silent protest at Harvard speech
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘Miracles really do happen’: Rep. Steve Scalise returns to Congress 15 weeks after he was shot
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Removes Paper at Odds With Mnuchin's Take on Corporate-Tax Cut's Winners
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: World going to hell in a handbasket as nation comes apart at seams
Discussion: Opinion Today
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
There Is No GOP Establishment or Base. Just Massive Resistance.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and NBC News
 

 
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