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Washington Post:
Trump and allies gin up a new culprit for New York terrorist attack: Chuck Schumer — President Trump and some of his allies on the extreme right have found a new culprit in Tuesday's deadly terrorist attack in Manhattan: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).
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Bike path rampage: What we know about the suspect … <iframe width="476" height="267" src="http://abc7ny.com/video/embed/ ?pid=2590096" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> — Jim Hoffer reports on the investigation into the deadly terror attack in Lower Manhattan
New York Times:
Manhattan Terror Attack Kills 8 and Injures 11 — A driver plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.
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New York Times:
From Truck Driver to Uber Driver to Terror Attack Suspect — Sayfullo Saipov's arrival in the United States in 2010 began unceremoniously in Ohio. — “My dad introduced him as 'he's new to the United States and he's going to stay with us,'” said Bekhzod Abdusamatov, 22 …
CBS News:
NYC terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov brags about attack from hospital bed — NEW YORK — The suspect in Tuesday's terrorist attack in lower Manhattan bragged to police about the deadly attack from his hospital bed, saying he would have continued mowing down bikers and pedestrians had he not crashed.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Blames Schumer and Immigration Policies Hours After New York Terrorist Attack
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NBC News:
New York City Terrorist Attack: Note About ISIS Found in Truck, Sources Say
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Washington Post:
New York truck attacker who killed 8 was a lone wolf who ‘radicalized domestically,’ governor says
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Brian Ross / ABC News:
Sayfullo Saipov identified as suspect in New York City vehicle attack: Officials
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Bloomberg:
Papadopoulos Claimed Trump Campaign Approved Russia Meeting — Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos made a significant claim in an email: Top Trump campaign officials agreed to a pre-election meeting with representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg News reports.
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Norman Eisen / USA Today:
Trump's inevitable Manafort-indictment tweet-storm is working against him — The president is rightly freaking out, and so Tuesday he hit a new low by attacking a witness cooperating with the government in a federal investigation. — CONNECT — President Trump's reckless tweeting …
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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
Disclosure of Papadopoulos's Email Hunt Sheds Light on Quest for Clinton ‘Dirt’ — Former Trump campaign adviser was apparently among the first people to get a hint that Russians sought to steal emails — Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos was discussing the possibility …
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NBC News:
Top Trump Campaign Aide Clovis Spoke to Mueller Team, Grand Jury — WASHINGTON — Sam Clovis, the former top Trump campaign official who supervised a man now cooperating with the FBI's Russia investigation, was questioned last week by special counsel Robert Mueller's team and testified …
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New York Times:
Trump Foreign Policy Advisers Were Brought On to Solve a Political Problem. Now They Are One. — WASHINGTON — One lasted only 24 days as President Trump's national security adviser, done in by his lack of candor about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador.
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Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
FBI affidavit: George Papadopoulos said Trump campaign OK'd meeting with Russians
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Washington Post and Raw Story
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
For ‘low level volunteer,’ Papadopoulos sought high profile as Trump adviser
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Los Angeles Times:
Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct — Natasha Henstridge was watching a movie on Brett Ratner's couch when she fell asleep. She was a 19-year-old fashion model; he was an up-and-coming music video director in his early 20s.
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CNN:
Trump didn't dismiss idea when foreign policy adviser suggested setting up Putin meeting — Washington (CNN)Candidate Donald Trump did not dismiss the idea of arranging a meeting with Russia's president when it was suggested in a meeting with his campaign foreign policy advisers last year, according to a person in the room.
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Raw Story and emptywheel
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Tax Plan Won't Cut Rate for Highest Earners — Proposal also drops the corporate tax rate to 20%, and it delays a planned repeal of the estate tax — WASHINGTON—The House Republican tax plan will preserve a top individual tax rate of 39.6%, according to people familiar with the matter …
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NBC News:
Not on Same Page, House GOP Stalls Release of Tax Bill
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Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
House GOP struggles to unite on tax bill
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
The real John Kelly slowly revealing himself at White House — WASHINGTON (AP) — In his three months on the job, John Kelly has been credited with bringing order to a chaotic West Wing, but don't call him a moderate. President Donald Trump's chief of staff was the enforcer …
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John Sides / Washington Post:
Lots of Americans don't think slavery caused the Civil War
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Negative ads are helping Ed Gillespie win over Trump supporters in the Virginia governor's race — THE BIG IDEA: The dirty little secret about attack ads is that they usually work. That's why campaigns run them, even though voters constantly complain about how much they hate negativity.
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Washington Post:
A week before Election Day, new poll finds tightening race for Va. governor
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Polling techniques may account for erratic predictions in Virginia
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The Hill
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Manafort has 3 passports, traveled to China with phone registered under fake name — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Manafort traveled to Mexico, China and Ecuador with a phone and email account registered under a fake name this year — Washington (CNN)How rich are Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, and where did they travel?
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Special counsel: Manafort's stated wealth fluctuated wildly; he keeps 3 passports
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Raw Story
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Mueller schedules interview with Hope Hicks — The White House communications director is due to speak with prosecutors in the Russia probe after Trump returns from his Asia trip. — President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current communications director, Hope Hicks …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House signals Trump will stay out of Mueller's way
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New York Post:
Hero cop stopped terror suspect's NYC killing spree — SEE ALSO — NYPD Officer Ryan Nash was out on a routine call — to locate an emotionally disturbed person — when suddenly he came face to face with a terrorist committing the worst massacre in New York City in years.
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Euan McKirdy / CNN:
NYPD officer who shot, apprehended truck suspect identified
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Education of Betsy DeVos — KANSAS CITY, Missouri—It is strange, if a bit unsettling, to see U.S. Marshals constantly hovering near the U.S. secretary of education, a 59-year-old evangelical Christian grandmother whose hobbies are bike riding, yoga and visiting grade schools.
Elizabeth Warren / Politico:
The Supreme Court Has An Ethics Problem — A few days before the Supreme Court returned from its summer break, Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court's newest member, attended a luncheon at the Trump International Hotel, where he was to give the keynote address. The location of the speech attracted …
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New York Times:
Manafort's Spending Fails to Impress in Wealthy Enclaves — WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment and more like the ultimate spendthrift whodunit.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR's top editor placed on leave after accusations of sexual harassment — NPR is investigating allegations by two women who said the head of its news department made unwanted physical contact with them while he was employed by another news organization nearly two decades ago.
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Robert Draper / New York Times:
A Post-Obama Democratic Party in Search of Itself — The 44th president left office as one of the most popular in American history. He also left behind a party struggling to find an identity — and to reconnect with voters in time for the 2018 elections. — On Nov. 9, 2016 …
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