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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
Politico:
Full text: Rex Tillerson's press conference transcript
Discussion: ABC News
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Tillerson sidesteps ‘petty’ allegations he called Trump a ‘moron’
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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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
David Smith / The Guardian:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend returns to US as police reveal details of his planning  —  Authorities investigating the Las Vegas mass shooting, the deadliest in modern US history, are preparing to question the girlfriend of gunman Stephen Paddock who has flown back to America after being named …
NBC News:
Marilou Danley, Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman, Back in the U.S. for Grilling
CNN:
Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend ‘sent away’ before his massacre
New York Times:
Meticulous Planning by Las Vegas Gunman Before He Opened Fire
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Scalise: Shooting ‘fortified’ my view on gun rights
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: Few approve of Trump's Puerto Rico response  —  Americans are more likely to approve than disapprove of how President Donald Trump is handling hurricane relief in Florida and Texas, but it's a different story when it comes to Puerto Rico.  —  According to a new poll …
Washington Post:
A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn't
Discussion: Splinter and The Week
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: The Week
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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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
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
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
The Roanoke Times:
Progressive political group obtains cellphone numbers from Virginia Tech, Radford students for electoral campaigns … Radford University and Virginia Tech turned over documents containing personal information, including names, addresses and cellphone numbers of about 40,000 current students …
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
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
More GOP senators willing to tell Trump to take a hike  —  There's a growing faction inside the Senate Republican Conference, and it looks like bad news for Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump: The devil-may-care caucus.  —  Unbeholden to Republican orthodoxy and freed from the burdens …
 
 
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