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CNN:
CNN poll: Trump approval steady, but more say he's leading in the wrong direction — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating holds steady in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, but that overall stability belies declining views on how things are going in the country today.
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Axios, Vox, Political Wire and AOL
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's alternative reality — President Trump “goes there, on just about every topic imaginable,” as NBC's Brian Williams put it, during a pair of Q&As, two hours apart yesterday — one in the Cabinet Room and one with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the Rose Garden .
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ABC News, The Daily Caller, Politico, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump gives his own performance a Trump-sized endorsement — Friends say President Donald Trump has grown frustrated that his greatness is not widely understood, that his critics are fierce and on TV every morning, that his poll numbers are both low and “fake,” and that his White House is caricatured as adrift.
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BillMoyers.com and ABC News
Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks a Truce Between Republicans to Save Their Tax Plan — A Rose Garden embrace for McConnell, epitome of establishment — Pleads for Bannon to back off threatened party purge — Steve Bannon won't abandon his war against congressional Republican incumbents …
Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
‘The empathy of a cockroach’: Phil Mudd shames Trump's self-centered response to fallen soldiers
‘The empathy of a cockroach’: Phil Mudd shames Trump's self-centered response to fallen soldiers
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Trump and McConnell See a Way to Make Conservatives Happy
Trump and McConnell See a Way to Make Conservatives Happy
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Power Line and Business Insider
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
McConnell told Trump that Bannon could undermine agenda: report
McConnell told Trump that Bannon could undermine agenda: report
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RedState
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump's judge picks: ‘Not qualified,’ prolific bloggers
Trump's judge picks: ‘Not qualified,’ prolific bloggers
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The Crime Report
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell warns Trump that Steve Bannon threatens their agenda
Mitch McConnell warns Trump that Steve Bannon threatens their agenda
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The Hill and Political Wire
The Hill:
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow — Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence …
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Hot Air, RedState, NewsBusters, Patterico's Pontifications, Infowars and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Julia Glum / Newsweek:
HOW HILLARY CLINTON STILL CAN, AND SHOULD, BECOME PRESIDENT AFTER THE TRUMP-RUSSIA INVESTIGATION — Sure, it's been more than 340 days since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton, but there's still one very narrow, highly unlikely and entirely unprecedented way that Clinton could become president.
The Hill:
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before Obama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow
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Mediaite
Max Kutner / Newsweek:
COMEY DRAFTED STATEMENT ENDING CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION MONTHS BEFORE INTERVIEWING HER, FBI CONFIRMS
COMEY DRAFTED STATEMENT ENDING CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION MONTHS BEFORE INTERVIEWING HER, FBI CONFIRMS
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The Hill, Daily Wire, Last Men and OverMen, IJR and The Daily Caller
Sarah Ferguson / ABC:
Hillary Clinton: How losing to Donald Trump changed her
Hillary Clinton: How losing to Donald Trump changed her
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Shakesville, MichelleMalkin.com and twitchy.com
Dave Zirin / The Nation:
‘A Soulless Coward’: Coach Gregg Popovich Responds to Trump — In an exclusive here at The Nation, the Spurs coach speaks about Trump's latest outrage. — We've all seen San Antonio Spurs' future Hall of Fame coach Gregg Popovich in a state of exasperation on the sidelines, or in post-game news conferences.
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Melissa Quinn / Washington Examiner:
Trump on calling families of fallen troops: ‘Ask General Kelly’ if Obama called when his son died — President Trump said Tuesday that anyone with questions of whether former President Barack Obama called the families of fallen service members can ask White House chief of staff John Kelly if he received a phone call from Obama.
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Ex-Joint Chiefs chair fires back at Trump: Obama, Bush ‘cared deeply’ for fallen soldiers
Ex-Joint Chiefs chair fires back at Trump: Obama, Bush ‘cared deeply’ for fallen soldiers
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RedState
Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Jesus Campos, Vegas security guard shot before rampage, appears to have vanished — A security vehicle blocks an entrance at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on Oct. 4 in Las Vegas. (David Becker / Getty Images) — The story seemed straightforward: The unarmed security guard approached …
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RedState and National Review
Sophie Tatum / CNN:
Sen. John McCain warns against ‘spurious nationalism’ in Liberty Medal speech — Washington (CNN)In a lofty and at moments pointed speech, Sen. John McCain on Monday cautioned against the US turning toward “half-baked, spurious nationalism” during an event honoring the war hero's contributions.
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Arizona Republic, Daily Wire and KTLA
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Tara Fowler / ABC News:
McCain slams ‘half-baked, spurious nationalism’ sweeping US in passionate speech
McCain slams ‘half-baked, spurious nationalism’ sweeping US in passionate speech
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Politico, Axios and The Daily Caller
John McCain:
Remarks At The 2017 Liberty Medal Ceremony
Remarks At The 2017 Liberty Medal Ceremony
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BuzzFeed, Political Wire, Hit & Run and CNBC
TMZ.com:
Harvey Weinstein, I'm Gonna Keep Making Movies, With or Without TWC — Harvey Weinstein — I'm Gonna Keep Making Movies With Or Without You, Bro — EXCLUSIVE — Harvey Weinstein is not giving up — not even close — he vows he'll continue making movies, whether it's with The Weinstein Co. or someplace else.
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Shakesville, Althouse and The Daily Caller
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German Lopez / Vox:
The fall of Tom Marino, Trump's pick for drug czar, explained — The Congress member was the main sponsor of a law that made the federal fight against opioids harder. — Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), President Donald Trump's pick for drug czar, hadn't gotten a single hearing from the Senate yet.
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Outbrain Is Investigating Whether Russian Trolls Used Its Platform For Election Propaganda — The content recommendation ad network Outbrain, whose clicky content sprawls across the web, is investigating whether Russian ads or other forms of election tampering took place on its service during the 2016 election.
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
Trump's net worth drops $600 million on Forbes' rich list, falls 92 spots — Trump's golf clubs in Scotland are losing millions — The rich are getting richer. But not Donald Trump. — The Forbes list of 400 richest Americans shows that the billionaire-in-chief's fortune fell by $600 million to $3.1 billion.
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Raw Story
Kaitlin Menza / Esquire:
57 Things I Need You to Stop Doing to the Women You Work With — I'm begging you: Don't be a creep at work. — A female friend of mine went on a foreign business trip early in her career with two colleagues who were both male, married, and senior to her at the company.
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Althouse
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
How Donald Trump is negotiating like a hostage-taker — (CNN)As a candidate, Donald Trump sold himself as a deal maker. As president, he's governing more as a hostage taker. — Across an array of domestic and foreign challenges, Trump's go-to move has become to create what amounts to a political hostage situation.
BBC:
Raqqa: IS ‘capital’ falls to US-backed Syrian forces — A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters says it has taken full control of so-called Islamic State's one-time “capital” of Raqqa. — Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello said the fighting was over after a five-month assault.
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Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Caller
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Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:
Female lawmakers, staffers and lobbyists speak out on ‘pervasive’ harassment in California's Capitol — A screenshot of the website launched by women in California politics decrying what they call a “pervasive” culture of harassment in the Capitol. (Screenshot)