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3:25 PM ET, October 4, 2017

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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 …
Nik Steinberg / Politico:
Rex Tillerson Is Running the State Department Into the Ground
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, IJR and Mediaite
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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
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.
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
Discussion: The Week and IJR
NBC News:
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman, Back in the U.S. for Grilling
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Key GOP senators open to ‘bump stock’ ban
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend ‘sent away’ before his massacre
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Scalise: Shooting ‘fortified’ my view on gun rights
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Two strangers bond over country music and beer. Then the gunshots started.
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says it's a ‘sad day’
Discussion: Axios and ABC News
ABC News:
Sen. Feinstein introducing bill to ban bump stocks after Vegas shooting
Discussion: Politico and Vox
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 …
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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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 …
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.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
‘Issue of collusion’ with Russia still open, Senate intel chief says
Discussion: Politico, Axios and The Week
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Tech Companies Will Testify at Senate Hearing on Russian Election Interference [Updated]
Discussion: IJR
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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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 …
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
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
GOP secretly plotting huge cuts to health care for kids on Medicaid  —  Republicans in Congress have tried again and again to repeal health care for sick kids.  Every time, public protest thwarted them.  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan's American Health Care Act was defeated.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Democrats: Senate budget cuts nearly $500B from Medicare
Discussion: Axios, ThinkProgress and Vox
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Jared Kushner fined again for late ethics form, Ivanka Trump fined too  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, senior advisers to President Donald Trump, were both fined $200 for missing deadlines to submit financial reports required by government ethics rules, according to documents and interviews.
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: twitchy.com and SARAH PALIN
Michael Moore:
My Proposal to Repeal the Second Amendment and Replace It With This:  —  PROPOSED 28th AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION  —  “A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people …
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
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 …
Discussion: MSNBC, Mashable, Splinter and The Week
 
 
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Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Tom Petty's final interview: There was supposed to have been so much more
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Fighting The Battle for Truth To A Draw
Kirsten Powers / Washington Post:
Why ‘thoughts and prayers’ is starting to sound so profane
Discussion: The Resurgent and Boing Boing
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
California Democrats' early presidential primary: Unintended consequences?
Discussion: EconLog
U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio:
Rubio Seeks Answers from Army about Anti-American West Point Graduate
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump now Twitter's most followed world leader
Discussion: SARAH PALIN and Joe.My.God.
Reuters:
Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday
Discussion: RedState
The Roanoke Times:
Progressive political group obtains cellphone numbers from Virginia Tech, Radford students for electoral campaigns
 Earlier Items: 
Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Exclusive: EPA to propose repealing Obama's climate regulation - document
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
Timothy Aeppel / Reuters:
Whirlpool's washer war is balancing act for Trump
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's reverse Midas touch is making everything he hates popular
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and Daily Wire
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Donors of Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’ Group Revealed
Walter E. Williams / Townhall.com:
Blacks vs. Police
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
More GOP senators willing to tell Trump to take a hike
 

 
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