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5:35 PM ET, October 1, 2017

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Puerto Rico is all our worst fears about Trump coming real  —  A real crisis comes and Trump can't handle it.  —  For the first nine months of his administration, observers have had occasion to wonder — and wonder, and wonder, and wonder — how exactly Donald Trump would manage to handle …
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Trump heads off to golf trophy ceremony after a weekend spent attacking Puerto Rico  —  After two days of golfing and tweeting insults at hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, Donald Trump will cap off his weekend by participating in the Presidents Cup Golf Tournament trophy presentation Sunday evening.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Full text: Homeland security adviser's update on Puerto Rico  —  Here's the full text of an update on Puerto Rico that White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert sent his West Wing colleagues:  —  To inform you, I traveled with Brock to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands on Monday …
Discussion: Politico and Mother Jones
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
In one Puerto Rican nursing home, a struggle to get power and keep patients alive  —  About 100 people died in the three days after the storm in the Lajas region, twice the normal rate.  —  Before Hurricane Maria struck, destroying their home and about 250 others in this southwestern coastal town …
Ingrid Arnesen / The Daily Beast:
Puerto Rican Troops Are Still Waiting for Orders While Residents Cry for Help … ROOSEVELT ROADS NAVAL STATION, Puerto Rico—Twenty-eight U.S. Army reservists answered the call of duty, left their families behind, and reported to an abandoned base on the eastern tip of the island.
Discussion: Althouse and Mother Jones
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Pentagon: More than half of Puerto Ricans without access to drinking water
Discussion: Raw Story
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Baldwin returns to SNL as confused Trump responding to Puerto Rico
Discussion: RedState
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump to attend Presidents Cup golf tournament Sunday
Discussion: RedState
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Neighboring mayor praises Trump, says San Juan mayor playing ‘politics,’ AWOL at meetings
Discussion: RedState and CNN
Chris Gillette / Associated Press:
In hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, a stunning silence
Discussion: Axios and New York Times
The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Fellow Puerto Rico Mayor Rips San Juan Mayor — 'She's Not Participating In Any Meetings'
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Trump sent 18 tweets on Puerto Rico on Saturday. And made things a whole lot worse
Dave Lawler / Axios:
Trump v. Trump admin on foreign policy  —  President Trump's public order to Secretary of State Tillerson to stop seeking dialogue with North Korea — just a day after Tillerson confirmed talks were taking place — follows a pattern noted by Tony Blinken, a top State Dept. official under Barack Obama, in a NY Times op-ed one month ago.
Discussion: Politico
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Krishnadev Calamur / The Atlantic:
Trump's Undermining of Rex Tillerson  —  President Trump's latest tweets on U.S. diplomacy with North Korea appear not only to undermine Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state, but also the nascent dialogue with Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs.
Washington Post:
Trump signed presidential directive ordering actions to pressure North Korea
Discussion: Engadget, The Daily Caller and The Week
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump undercuts Tillerson's efforts on North Korea
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column Time's up: As CHIP expires unrenewed, Congress blows a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children  —  Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price voted twice against expanding CHIP as a George state legislator.  —  Advocates for children's health started worrying months ago …
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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP.  Congress just let it expire.  —  Congress just allowed the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children, to expire.  —  If action is not taken soon to restore the funding …
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
“Pretty safe bet”: Former national security adviser warns Kushner compromised by foreign intel  —  The National Security Agency warned top Trump administration officials in a series of classified briefings that using their personal cell phones and emails could make them vulnerable to espionage …
David Montero / Los Angeles Times:
O.J. Simpson released from Nevada prison  —  O.J. Simpson signs documents at the Lovelock Correctional Center late Saturday.  (Brooke Keast / Nevada Dept. of Corrections / AP)  —  Former football star O.J. Simpson was released from a Nevada prison early Sunday after serving nine years …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Samuel I. Newhouse, Jr., the Longtime Owner of The New Yorker and Chairman of Condé Nast, Has Died at Eighty-Nine  —  Forty -eight years ago, Gardner Botsford, a longtime editor at this magazine, wrote an obituary and appreciation in these pages of his stepfather, Raoul Fleischmann …
Discussion: WTVR-TV
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Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:   Graydon Carter Remembers S.I. Newhouse, Jr., the Magazine Visionary Who Modernized Condé Nast
New York Times:
Grace du Pont, Conor Sutherland  —  Grace Hays Holcomb du Pont was married Sept. 30 to Conor Jackson Sutherland in Manhattan.  The Rev. J. Donald Waring performed the ceremony at Grace Episcopal Church.  —  The bride and groom both graduated from Princeton, she cum laude and he magna cum laude
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Kasich hints at leaving GOP if it's not ‘fixed’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that a time could come when he no longer supports the Republican Party.  —  “If the party can't be fixed, Jake, then I'm not going to be able to support the party.
Discussion: Business Insider
ESPN:
NFL owners struggled to retain control after Trump's attacks, rise of player protests  —  As DeMaurice Smith drove Monday morning to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport for a flight to his annual locker room meeting with the Buffalo Bills, his phone rang.  It was Roger Goodell.
Discussion: East Bay Times and ProFootballTalk
 
 
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Fox News:
Brock Long defends federal response to Hurricane Maria
Discussion: Daily Kos and Mashable
Phil Kerpen / New York Post:
Menendez has set a new low for blatant corruption in the US
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Lucinda Rosenfeld / New York Times:
Jared Kushner's Entitlement Is New Jersey Born and Bred
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Reuters:
Knifeman yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ shot dead after killing two in France
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
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Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
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Taylor Gee / Politico:
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