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11:30 PM ET, October 1, 2017

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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump dedicates golf trophy to hurricane victims  —  President Trump on Sunday dedicated a golf trophy to the victims of recent powerful storms that tore through Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico, all the while defending the government's response to the disasters.
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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 …
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.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Pentagon: More than half of Puerto Ricans without access to drinking water  —  The number of Puerto Ricans without access to drinking water has risen sharply, the Defense Department announced on Saturday.  —  Fifty-five percent of the population did not have access to drinking water, the Pentagon said in a Saturday press release.
Discussion: Shareblue, Raw Story and RedState
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump dedicates golf trophy to hurricane victims amid controversy over response
Discussion: The Week and Associated Press
Ingrid Arnesen / The Daily Beast:
Puerto Rican Troops Are Still Waiting for Orders While Residents Cry for Help
Discussion: Philly.com, Althouse and Mother Jones
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:   In one Puerto Rican nursing home, a struggle to get power and keep patients alive
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Baldwin returns to SNL as confused Trump responding to Puerto Rico
Discussion: RedState
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
DoD Accelerates Hurricane Relief, Response Efforts in Puerto Rico
Discussion: Shareblue and Raw Story
Chris Gillette / Associated Press:
In hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, a stunning silence
Discussion: Axios and New York Times
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump urges staff to portray him as “crazy guy”  —  In an Oval Office meeting earlier this month, President Trump gave his top trade negotiator, Robert Lighthizer, an Art of the Deal-style coaching session on how to negotiate with the South Koreans.  —  Trump's impromptu coaching came …
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Trump v. Trump admin on foreign policy
Discussion: Politico
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump undercuts Tillerson's efforts on North Korea
Erin Dooley / ABC News:
Program that provides low-cost health care to 9M children set to expire  —  Amid intense debates about the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, the Senate and House missed the deadline to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — meaning federal funding for the program will expire at the end of the month.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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 …
Discussion: Splinter
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:   Column Time's up: As CHIP expires unrenewed, Congress blows a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children
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
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Trump called Cowboys' Jerry Jones four times about anthem protests: report  —  President Trump last Monday reportedly called Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones four times imploring him not to let his team kneel during the national anthem.  —  The president repeatedly called Jones while the owner stood …
Discussion: RedState, IJR, SARAH PALIN and twitchy.com
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: The Week and Business Insider
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
John Kasich Hints That He May Need To Leave The GOP
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
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 …
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.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Semen-contaminated flutes might have been given to children, California school officials warn  —  Several school districts in Southern California warned parents this weekend that flutes and recorders given to children through a nonprofit music program may have been contaminated with bodily fluids.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Budget battles loom on Capitol Hill  —  Republicans on Capitol Hill are focused on one thing this week: the budget.  The House and Senate need to pass budgets — and sign off on a single product in conference — in order to get a bill ready to pass tax reform.
Nina Reyes / New York Times:
She Had Questions.  He Had No Answers.  Flirting Began.  —  Sonia Moghe and Eric Douglas Koch were married Sept. 30 in West Dennis, Mass. Pandit Jayant Sane, a Hindu priest, officiated at the Lighthouse Inn, in a ceremony that also included the Greek wedding tradition of placing crowns on the heads of the bride and the groom.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Democrats, Please Get Ready to Lose  —  There's a saying that what matters isn't winning or losing.  It's whether you beat the spread.  —  But what's the spread for Democrats in 2018?  —  Is the spread — which means the predicted margin of victory or defeat — gaining the 24 seats …
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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 and Vanity Fair
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