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NBC News:
Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time.
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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Today Tillerson Tried To Kill The “Rexit” Rumors Once And For All  —  The secretary of state disputed a report that he called Trump a “moron” and told reporters he's not leaving Foggy Bottom anytime soon.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Furious Republicans are working hard to make Trump's Russia scandal disappear  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon to provide a “progress report” on its investigation into Russian sabotage …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sen. Bob Corker's extraordinarily dim portrayal of the Trump administration  —  Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) announced recently that he would not seek reelection in 2018, and that seems to have freed him up to speak more candidly about the Trump administration.  And speak more candidly he did on Wednesday.
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Justin Glawe / The Daily Beast:
Unarmed Security Guard Took On Las Vegas Killer Stephen Paddock
Discussion: IJR
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Returns to the Script in Las Vegas
Discussion: IJR
David Jackson / USA Today:
Trump, avoiding talk of gun policy, tells Las Vegas shooting survivors: ‘We will endure the pain together’
New York Times:
Las Vegas Shooting: Gunman's Girlfriend Said She Didn't Know He Planned Harm
Discussion: Business Insider
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim
New York Times:
Meticulous Planning by Las Vegas Gunman Before He Opened Fire
ProPublica:
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud  —  New York prosecutors were preparing a case.  Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.  —  In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump's two eldest children …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Key GOP senators open to ‘bump stock’ ban
Discussion: ABC News, Vox and Political Wire
Alexander Bisley / Vox:
Former Australian leader on passing gun control: “The results speak for themselves.”
CBS Pittsburgh:
Pro-Life Rep. Tim Murphy Will Not Seek Re-Election After Reports Of Urging Abortion  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Congressman Tim Murphy, of Upper St. Clair, has reached a decision about his political future.  —  In a statement to KDKA's Jon Delano, the embattled pro-life Republican says he won't seek re-election.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial …
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Ali Breland / The Hill:   Facebook, Twitter will testify at Senate hearing
Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Low marks for Trump's Puerto Rico response  —  Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of President Donald Trump's handling of the Puerto Rico hurricane relief effort.  —  According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research …
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Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
White House walks back Trump's Puerto Rico comments as Wall Street reels
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Washington Post
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Puerto Rico's Debt May Need to Be ‘Wiped Out’
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Black Lives Matter Students Shut Down the ACLU's Campus Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’  —  Students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement crashed an event at the College of William & Mary, rushed the stage, and prevented the invited guest …
Discussion: Power Line
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Francesca Truitt / Flat Hat News:
Black Lives Matter protests American Civil Liberties Union
Discussion: Power Line, IJR and The Daily Caller
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Fighting The Battle for Truth To A Draw  —  There is something uniquely obscene about President Donald Trump's character—evinced in his ignorance, abusiveness, lust for dominance, and magnetic effect on other sleazy individuals—that leaves his opponents in a constant struggle to recall …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
What the Senate Republican budget actually means for health care
Discussion: HuffPost, Politico and Roll Call
Washington Post:
A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn't  —  CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — The Puerto Rico that President Trump saw during his four-hour visit on Tuesday afternoon was that of Angel Pérez Otero, the mayor of Guaynabo, a wealthy San Juan suburb known …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Just Suffered a Court Defeat … A Texas judge has dealt a blow to President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission, ruling that state officials would be violating state privacy laws if they hand over voters' personal information to commission members.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Judge blocks Texas from turning over voter information to White House
Discussion: IJR
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
3 Special Forces Troops Are Killed and 2 Wounded in Ambush in Niger  —  WASHINGTON — Three United States Army Special Forces were killed and two were wounded in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday while on a routine patrol with troops they were training from the West African nation, American military officials said.
CNN:
Roy Moore's Facebook page shared inflammatory memes, article praising Russia's anti-gay laws  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — “Want to stop riots?  Play the National Anthem.  They'll all sit down,” a meme shared on Moore's Facebook page read.  — Moore's page also shared an article with the headline …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Kareem Shaheen / The Guardian:
Santa Claus's tomb may have been uncovered beneath Turkish church  —  Archaeologists say they have found almost fully intact temple and burial grounds of Saint Nicholas in Antalya  —  Turkish archaeologists have dashed the hopes of millions of children by claiming to have uncovered the likely burial place of Saint Nicholas.
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Week
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Josie Ensor / Telegraph:
Archaeologists in Turkey believe they have discovered Santa Claus's tomb
Discussion: AOL and Daily Wire
Statesman Journal:
Ex-Trump adviser Paul Manafort conspired to mislead bankruptcy court, son-in-law charges  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued two new subpoena in the investigation into President Trump's campaign ties to Russia.  Nathan Rousseau Smith (@FantasticMrNate) reports.  Buzz60  —  CONNECT
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Robert Robb / USA Today:
The path to Trump 2020 is paved with Democrats' racist accusations  —  White Middle Americans are sick of accusatory identity politics, and if the left doesn't stop, they'll do what needs to be done to stop it.  —  CONNECT  —  Way too early for this kind of stuff, but I had been thinking …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
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Martin Selsoe Sorensen / New York Times:
Kim Wall Was Stabbed After Boarding Submarine, Danish Prosecutor Says
Discussion: NPR
Michael Kiefer / Arizona Republic:
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's presidential pardon accepted by federal judge
The Guardian:
May offers the ‘British dream’ but speech turns into a nightmare
Discussion: Axios, The Sun and Crooked Timber
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Bannon Backs Grimm, an Ex-Felon, in Challenge to G.O.P. Incumbent
Connor Sheets / The Guardian:
Too poor to vote: how Alabama's ‘new poll tax’ bars thousands of people from voting
 Earlier Items: 
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Rubio asks Army to kick out West Point grad with pro-communist posts
Discussion: RedState
Alice Speri / The Intercept:
Internal Emails Show ICE Agents Struggling to Substantiate Trump's Lies About Immigrants
Discussion: Splinter and Raw Story
Amy Julia Harris / Reveal:
They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants
Discussion: The Lost Ogle and Raw Story
BBC:
Catalan referendum: Region's independence ‘in matter of days’
Discussion: NBC News
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
Discussion: CBS13 and NBC News
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jared Kushner fined again for late ethics form, Ivanka Trump fined too
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Ben Shapiro: Who died and made Jimmy Kimmel Jesus?
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and twitchy.com
Liz Moyer / CNBC:
Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing
 

 
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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Evan Drellich / New York Times:
The MLB is planning national packages for streaming companies to bid on in 2028, when its national TV deals with ESPN, Fox, and Turner expire

 
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