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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 …
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.
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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.
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New York Times:
Fight Erupts to Shield Tax Breaks Threatened by G.O.P. Overhaul
Fight Erupts to Shield Tax Breaks Threatened by G.O.P. Overhaul
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Wall Street Journal, CNBC, The Atlantic and ABC News
New York Times:
Private Emails, Private Jets and Mr. Trump's Idea of Public Service
Private Emails, Private Jets and Mr. Trump's Idea of Public Service
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Washington Post
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Make America Gipper Again
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts
Heather Long / Washington Post:
9 ways Trump's tax plan is a gift to the rich, including himself
9 ways Trump's tax plan is a gift to the rich, including himself
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Axios, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and New York Times
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 …
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Salon
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Interior Secretary Zinke traveled on charter, military planes
Interior Secretary Zinke traveled on charter, military planes
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New York Times:
Chastened, Tom Price Tries to Deflect Anger Over Chartered Flights
Chastened, Tom Price Tries to Deflect Anger Over Chartered Flights
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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 — Both sides of my family hail from Alabama: my mother's people from the coal mining country of Walker County in the north and the tiny burg of Union Springs farther south; my dad's, from a speck of a cotton-mill town just east of Montgomery.
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Townhall.com, CNBC and New York Times
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Roy Moore opposed the appointment of an ‘admitted homosexual’ to an ambassadorship in 2006
CBS News:
Jeff Flake says Republicans should speak out on Roy Moore's past comments
Jeff Flake says Republicans should speak out on Roy Moore's past comments
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Talking Points Memo
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
GOP, Can You Hear Us Normals Now?
CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Fake black activist accounts linked to Russian government — Fake black activist accounts linked to Russia — A social media campaign calling itself “Blacktivist” and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during …
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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.
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Engadget and Joe.My.God., more at Mediagazer »
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
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Racial slurs written on doors of five black cadet candidates at Air Force Academy Preparatory School — Five black cadet candidates found racial slurs written on the message boards on their doors at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School this week, leading school officials to denounce racism and launch an investigation.
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Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates
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Raw Story
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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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.
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 …
Steven Malanga / City Journal:
Bench the NFL — The league enjoys an antitrust exemption from Washington that should have been revoked years ago. — Politics and law — Many sports fans know that Major League Baseball has a unique exemption from the nation's antitrust laws, thanks to a 1922 Supreme Court decision …
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Instapundit
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: World going to hell in a handbasket as nation comes apart at seams — A large majority of American voters feels the bonds that hold the country together are weakening, while over half think the world is going to hell in a handbasket. — A Fox News poll released Thursday …
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Opinion Today
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Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: 83 percent support pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants
Fox News Poll: 83 percent support pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants
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The Week
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.
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Splinter
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘Miracles really do happen’: Rep. Steve Scalise returns to Congress 15 weeks after he was shot — For the past 15 weeks, every gathering of House Republican leaders has had one thing in common — an empty chair, marking the absence of Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
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CBS Boston:
Librarian Rejects Books Donated By Melania Trump, Rips Dr. Seuss — CAMBRIDGE - The librarian at the Cambridgeport Elementary School is saying no thanks to a shipment of books from First Lady Melania Trump. — One school from each state was chosen by the White House to receive ten Dr. Seuss books as part of National Read a Book Day.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Elementary school librarian rejects books given by Melania Trump
Elementary school librarian rejects books given by Melania Trump
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, MichelleMalkin.com, Daily Wire and Washington Free Beacon
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Removes Paper at Odds With Mnuchin's Take on Corporate-Tax Cut's Winners — WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department has taken down a 2012 economic analysis that contradicts Secretary Steven Mnuchin's argument that workers would benefit the most from a corporate income tax cut.