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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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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 …
CNN:
Exclusive: Russian-linked Facebook ads targeted Michigan and Wisconsin  —  (CNN)A number of Russian-linked Facebook ads specifically targeted Michigan and Wisconsin, two states crucial to Donald Trump's victory last November, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
‘Issue of collusion’ with Russia still open, Senate intel chief says
Discussion: Axios and The Week
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 …
Brian Ross / ABC News:
Portrait emerging of Las Vegas shooter as man ‘descending into madness’  —  In the months before his deadly rampage, 64-year old Stephen Paddock was a man “descending into madness,” according to a person briefed on new findings in the investigation.  —  New details are emerging …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Washington Post:
New details emerge about Marilou Danley, girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock  —  Marilou Danley, the longtime girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman, returned to the United States Tuesday night and was met at the Los Angeles airport by FBI agents, according to the Associated Press.
Newsweek:
RETRACTED: PADDOCK'S GIRLFRIEND USED TWO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND WAS MARRIED TO TWO MEN AT THE SAME TIME  —  Newsweek has retracted its story that reviewed the public records of Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.  —  The initial report was based …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim  —  If only Stephen Paddock had been a Muslim ... If only he had shouted “Allahu akbar” before he opened fire on all those concertgoers in Las Vegas ... If only he had been a member of ISIS ... If only we had a picture of him posing with a Quran in one hand and his semiautomatic rifle in another ...
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
What a macho, gun-packing Instagram star did when he was caught in the Las Vegas shooting … Guns and women got Dan Bilzerian where he is today — the so-called “King of Instagram,” with nearly 23 million followers, a mansion full of guns and a hot tub full of women.
Discussion: The Week and IJR
NBC News:
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman, Back in the U.S. for Grilling  —  The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock is back in the U.S. and facing a grilling Wednesday by investigators seeking a motive for the worst mass murder in the nation's modern history.
CNN:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend ‘sent away’ before his massacre
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Scalise: Shooting ‘fortified’ my view on gun rights
New York Times:
Meticulous Planning by Las Vegas Gunman Before He Opened Fire
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says it's a ‘sad day’
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Rep. Lewis: ‘No amount of blood’ will push Congress on gun control
Discussion: ABC News, Vox, KTFT and The Trace
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Puerto Rico's Debt May Need to Be ‘Wiped Out’  —  ‘We are going to work something out,’ president says on Fox  —  Trump visited island earlier Tuesday to survey storm damage  —  President Donald Trump suggested that the government debt accumulated by bankrupt Puerto Rico …
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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 …
Liz Moyer / CNBC:
Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing  — A person dressed in a black top hat and bushy white mustache, occasionally putting a monocle on, sat in the audience of the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Equifax data breach.  —  The Monopoly guy has gone to Washington.
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
6 Fresh Horrors From the Equifax CEO's Congressional Hearing
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
GOP secretly plotting huge cuts to health care for kids on Medicaid  —  The Republican budget framework includes $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare — essentially another attempt to do what their failed health care repeal bills could not.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats: Senate budget cuts nearly $500B from Medicare
Discussion: Axios, ThinkProgress and Vox
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
Nik Steinberg / Politico:
Rex Tillerson Is Running the State Department Into the Ground  —  On November 10, 2016, my colleagues and I at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations gathered on the top floor of the building, which overlooks the U.N. General Assembly.  My boss at the time, Ambassador Samantha Power …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, IJR and Mediaite
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Politico:
Full text: Rex Tillerson's press conference transcript
Discussion: ABC News
U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio:
Rubio Seeks Answers from Army about Anti-American West Point Graduate  —  Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is seeking answers from the Army about Second Lieutenant Spenser Rapone, an avowed communist who expressed his desire to infiltrate and sabotage the military and harm the United States.
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
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: The Week
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Ben Shapiro: Who died and made Jimmy Kimmel Jesus?  —  Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro scolded Jimmy Kimmel for the late-night host's calls for stricter gun control measures in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.  —  “Jimmy Kimmel should not be cheered for what he did …
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Reuters:
Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday  —  BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) - Catalonia will move on Monday to declare independence from Spain following Oct. 1's banned referendum as the European Union nation nears a rupture that threatens the foundations of its young democracy.
Discussion: RedState
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Exclusive: EPA to propose repealing Obama's climate regulation - document  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose repealing the Clean Power Plan - the Obama administration's centerpiece regulation to fight climate change - and plans to solicit input …
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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Kirsten Powers / Washington Post:
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
California Democrats' early presidential primary: Unintended consequences?
Discussion: EconLog
New York Times:
Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction
Discussion: Mother Jones and Political Wire
The Roanoke Times:
Progressive political group obtains cellphone numbers from Virginia Tech, Radford students for electoral campaigns
Pew Research Center:
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Washington Post:
A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn't
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Cummings questions White House about Conway's private jet travels
Discussion: ABC News
Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS  • Police took scores of people into custody Tuesday night after a group …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Splinter
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Trump's reverse Midas touch is making everything he hates popular
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Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Donors of Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Group Revealed
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