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10:10 AM ET, October 16, 2017

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Danger of President Pence  —  Trump's critics yearn for his exit.  But Mike Pence, the corporate right's inside man, poses his own risks.  —  On September 14th, the right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, who last year published a book titled “In Trump We Trust,” expressed what a growing number of Americans …
Sara Murray / CNN:
Trump allies worry that losing the House means impeachment  —  (CNN)Top White House aides, lawmakers, donors and political consultants are privately asking whether President Donald Trump realizes that losing the House next year could put his presidency in peril.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and KTLA
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BuzzFeed:
No One Knows What Steve Bannon's “War” Will Actually Look Like
Discussion: Reuters
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Billions  —  Dressed in a blue suit and red tie, Donald Trump's 79-year-old pick for Secretary of Commerce sat before a panel of senators for nearly four hours in January, deflecting dozens of questions with relative ease.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Inside the ‘adult day-care center’: How aides try to control and coerce Trump  —  President Trump listens as officials heap praise on him at a Cabinet meeting June 12.  From left, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Kelly tries to get empty administration jobs filled fast
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Kaepernick to file grievance against NFL owners for collusion: report  —  NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick has filed a grievance against NFL owners accusing them of collusion in keeping him out of the league, ABC News reported.  —  Kaepernick and his attorneys accuse NFL teams of displaying …
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Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Colin Kaepernick files collusion grievance against NFL
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Dean Schabner / ABC News:
Former 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick files grievance against NFL over alleged collusion
Erin Durkin / New York Daily News:
Pilot boots New York activist Tamika Mallory from American Airlines flight over seat dispute  —  New York activist Tamika Mallory says she was booted from an American Airlines flight in Miami after a pilot inserted himself into a dispute over her seat assignment.
Discussion: The Root
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship.  Now she's running for Congress.  —  WASHINGTON  —  Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.  —  A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she's been aboard a spaceship too.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Moscow's message to Trump on Iran deal: 'If it's not broke, don't fix it'  —  Russia's foreign ministry on Sunday called on President Trump not to meddle with something that's already working, after Trump announced last week his decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal.
Discussion: Politico
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What's behind Trump's new executive actions
Discussion: Washington Post
Nicholas Vinocur / Politico:
Macron: ‘I told Trump not to tear up Iran deal’
Discussion: Washington Post
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's attacks on Senate Republicans are paying political dividends  —  THE BIG IDEA:  —  NEW YORK—Scapegoating the Senate GOP is proving to be an effective political strategy for President Trump.  Activists and donors on the right are primed to blame congressional Republicans …
Bloomberg:
Kushner Plan for Fifth Avenue Tower Is Being Blocked by Partner  —  Vornado wants modest renovation and to rent out offices  —  The building has been losing money since it was bought in 2007  —  An ambitious plan by Jared Kushner's family to recast its indebted Fifth Avenue office building …
Discussion: Raw Story
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Menendez faces critical moment in bribery trial  —  The bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has reached a critical moment, with the judge overseeing the case deciding whether to dismiss a big chunk of the corruption allegations facing the New Jersey Democrat.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Menendez Trial May Hinge on a New Definition of Bribery
Discussion: The Crime Report
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker: One Republican is considering articles of impeachment against Trump  —  (D-Tenn.) in an interview on Sunday said at least one Republican is considering supporting articles of impeachment against President Trump.  —  “I have one Republican that has said he is looking at it …
Discussion: RedState and Raw Story
Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Trump's Campaign Paid His Son's Russia-Probe Law Firm $238,000  —  Donald Trump Jr. faces scrutiny over 2016 meeting with Russian  —  Campaign spent $1.1 million overall on legal expenses in Q3  —  President Donald Trump's re-election committee paid almost $238,000 in the third quarter …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Florida's Senate race shaping up as a clash of titans  —  Sen. Bill Nelson went to Democratic leader Chuck Schumer this summer with an urgent plea.  —  Florida's Democratic Party was in disarray after the 2016 presidential debacle, the senator said, and he needed help from D.C. to prepare …
Discussion: miamiherald
Mike Allen / Axios:
The next CIA director could be Tom Cotton  —  We told you about internal administration conversations about sliding CIA Director Mike Pompeo over to replace SecState Rex Tillerson, whenever he heads back to Texas.  —  Now we're hearing about a top possibility for the next chess move …
Discussion: Political Wire and IJR
New York Times:
For Weinstein, a Brush With the Police, Then No Charges  —  For decades the film producer Harvey Weinstein succeeded in hiding from public view complaint after complaint of sexual misconduct against him.  But on the evening of March 28, 2015, at a rendezvous at the TriBeCa Grand …
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Resistance’ vs. George Washington  —  If a president can't take emoluments, the founders were crooks.  —  The Trump administration has been under siege from the left's self-professed “legal resistance.”  Perhaps the highest-profile example involves President Trump himself.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Fussy Attack of the Domesticated Conservatives  —  Getting named to Salon's list of The 25 Conservatives Actually Worth Following On Twitter is either a grievous insult or a certification that you suck.  Salon is saying that you're not a carrier of a hardcore conservative contagion …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Nafta Threat  —  Ending the pact would be the worst economic blunder since Nixon.  —  Donald Trump is threatening again to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement if Canada and Mexico don't agree to his ultimatums.  If this is a negotiating tactic of making extreme demands …
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Wall Street Journal:
Health Care Back on Congress's Front Burner
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Austria turns sharply to the right in an election shaped entirely by immigration
Discussion: Axios
Bruce Japsen / Forbes:
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Two Obama holdovers are sowing the seeds for another subprime collapse
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