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12:00 PM ET, September 29, 2017

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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 …

Discussion: The Week, Shakesville, Patterico's Pontifications, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Politifact.com Truth …, ThinkProgress, NewsBusters, Gothamist and ABC News

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.

Discussion: Associated Press, Politico, Axios, Salt Lake Tribune and The Atlantic

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

Jake Tapper / CNN:
Exclusive: Kushner didn't disclose personal email account to Senate intel committee

Andrea Peterson / Politico:
White House launches probe of private email accounts

Discussion: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, ABC News, CNBC, The Week, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, Politicus USA, Axios and Talking Points Memo

Axios:

USAFA superintendent: “Grab your phones” — Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, superintendent of the Air Force Academy, yesterday “stood all of his 4,000 cadets at attention ... [c]hins in and chests out ... to deliver a message on racial slurs found written on message boards at the academy's preparatory school …

Discussion: YouTube

Katherine Schafer / United States Air Force Academy:
Superintendent addresses racial slurs at USAFA

Discussion: NBC News, Mashable and Mediaite

Susan Svrluga / Washington Post: Racial slurs written on doors of five black cadet candidates at Air Force Academy Preparatory School

Tom Roeder / Gazette:
Air Force Academy investigates racial slurs at prep school; superintendent says racists ‘need to get out’

Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller

Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates

Discussion: Shareblue, ThinkProgress, AOL, Raw Story and Splinter

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.

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: Shareblue, ThinkProgress, Center for Western Priorities, The Daily Caller and IJR

Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Interior Secretary Zinke traveled on charter, military planes

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Root, ABC News, The Week, Axios, Politicus USA and Business Insider

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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico, Political Wire, Friendly Atheist, YouTube and Shareblue

Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:

Arizona Senate: Sinema's Candidacy Puts Race in Toss Up — Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake is getting challenged from both the right and the left in his bid for a second term. The first hurdle will be a competitive primary. If he clears that obstacle, he will likely face a competitive challenge …

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie backers give Dem incumbents a pass in 2018

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

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.

Discussion: Raw Story, The Root, Politicus USA, The Daily Caller and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »

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: The Root and Hullabaloo

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 …

Discussion: ABC News, IJR, Washington Monthly and Business Insider

New York Times:
Fight Erupts to Shield Tax Breaks Threatened by G.O.P. Overhaul

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Above the Law, CNBC and The Atlantic

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard: Make America Gipper Again

Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts

Discussion: Vox

CBS News:

U.S. plans major withdrawal of staff from embassy in Cuba — Two sources tell CBS News the U.S. is preparing to announce a major withdrawal of staff and family from the U.S. embassy in Cuba in response to attacks targeting diplomats. Only essential personnel will be left.

Discussion: CBS Miami

New York Times:
U.S. to Pull More Diplomats Out of Cuba After Attacks

Discussion: The Week and Political Wire

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.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Talking Points Memo and CNN

Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lawlessness of Roy Moore

Discussion: Vox, Townhall.com, CNBC and Talking Points Memo

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN: Roy Moore opposed the appointment of an ‘admitted homosexual’ to an ambassadorship in 2006

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 …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, RedState, BillMoyers.com, Twitter, Business Insider, Althouse, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

Jessica Schneider / CNN:
DOJ demands Facebook information from ‘anti-administration activists’

Discussion: Gizmodo, Splinter, Shakesville, Engadget and Joe.My.God., more at Mediagazer »

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.”

Discussion: The Daily Caller, IJR, CBS Boston and The College Fix

Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
‘Racist propaganda’: Librarian rejects Melania Trump's gift of Dr. Seuss books

Discussion: Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Patterico's Pontifications, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and CBS News

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

The Berniecrats Have an Obama Problem — The ideological vanguard of the Bernie Sanders movement emerged from the 2016 election overflowing with dialectical certainty. Hillary Clinton's narrow win in the primary was the last gasp of a dying neoliberal order, the overthrow of which is now preordained.

Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:

This Is My Last Blog Post At The Daily Caller Dot Com — Not a Rickroll, honest. — Looks like this is it. I've been blogging here at the Daily Caller since the site launched, all the way back on January 11, 2010. But now it's time for me to go. — Daily blogging can be a fun job, but it can also be a grind.

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: The Root, Unfogged, WREG-TV and USA Today

Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:

Here's All The Expensive Nonsense Trump's EPA Chief Is Wasting Your Taxes On — That swamp is looking mighty cushy. — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt — a climate change denier who is pushing for sweeping budget cuts at the agency — apparently has no qualms …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Post, CBS News, The Hill and The Daily Caller

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 …

Meghan Linsey / Washington Post:

I'm a white country singer. I still took a knee after I sang the national anthem at an NFL game. — I was on my way to Nissan Stadium in Nashville on Sunday morning when I got a phone call informing me that my performance of the national anthem before the Tennessee Titans game would be televised nationally later that day.