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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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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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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.”
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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.
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Raw Story, The Root, Latino Rebels, The Ringer - All, Shakesville and Politicus USA
Washington Post:
U.S. response in Puerto Rico pales next to actions after Haiti quake
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Shareblue, The Root, The Moderate Voice, New York Times and Hullabaloo
Oliver Willis / Shareblue:
Trump's Puerto Rico defense: “This is an island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water.”
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Politicus USA
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
San Juan mayor: ‘I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying’
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Mother Jones and Mediaite
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.’
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The Last Tradition, Hullabaloo, Axios and Shakesville
Omaya Sosa Pascual / miamiherald:
Hurricane Maria's death toll in Puerto Rico is higher than official count, experts say
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CNN, Centro de Periodismo …, The Verge, Mother Jones, Mashable and Washington Post
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.
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Trump asked Price to resign as Health and Human Services secretary: Source — Tom Price, President Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services, resigned from his post today after it was revealed that he had repeatedly chartered private planes for government travel.
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Politico, Patterico's Pontifications, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Associated Press
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Price's future in serious jeopardy
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Lauren Fox / CNN:
'I think the President's mad as hell': Hill Republicans fume over Price's travel costs
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Politico, baker, CNBC, IJR, Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress and ACA Signups
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Health Secretary Tom Price Resigns After Drawing Ire for Chartered Flights
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Politico, CNN, The Atlantic, NPR, Vox, The Daily Caller, Refinery29, Politics K-12 and TheBlaze
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Interior Secretary Zinke: Scrutiny Of My Private Plane Travel ‘A Little BS’
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: We're going to make a decision on Price's future tonight
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ABC News, Mother Jones and CNN
Adriel Bettelheim / Politico:
Price resigns from HHS after facing fire for travel
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Axios, FiveThirtyEight and Raw Story
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.
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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.
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Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House hits reset in search for Homeland Security chief: Sources
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Politico
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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The Atlantic, New York Times, Business Insider, Common Dreams and Daily Kos
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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
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taxpolicycenter.org, Business Insider and The Week
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The numbers are in: Trump's tax plan is a bonanza for the rich, not the middle class
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The Week, taxpolicycenter.org, Politico, Business Insider, Mother Jones, HuffPost, ThinkProgress, Common Dreams, Washington Post and Fox Business
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.
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TheBlaze, Daily Kos and Politicus USA
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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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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.
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Raw Story and CBS Denver
Washington Times:
Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group honoring convicted cop-killer — Colin Kaepernick started out taking a knee during the national anthem to protest police brutality, but his activism has since expanded to encompass a wide range of leftist causes, including a group named after a convicted cop-killer.
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Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group named after convicted cop killer and former Black …
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The Daily Caller
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.
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Hullabaloo, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
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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Shakesville, IJR, Business Insider, The Guardian and PerezHilton
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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 …
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The Root, Little Green Footballs and Daily Kos
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 …
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their Demands — Republicans frustrated by their Senate conference's serial failure to repeal and replace Obamacare are beginning to back away from threats to extend the battle right on into the autumn. Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson …
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Senate Republicans unveil budget blueprint to tee up tax reform
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