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9:15 AM ET, September 3, 2018

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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump's Clown  —  The former mayor's theatrical, combative style of politics anticipated—and perfectly aligns with—the President's.  —  Although it has been almost a generation since Rudolph Giuliani was the mayor of New York, there is one place in the city …
New York Times:
A Coveted Lawyer's Juggling Act May Be Good, and Bad, for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — It was a typically hectic day for William A. Burck as he juggled the demands of managing one of Washington's premier white-collar law firms while he was in Paris for meetings on behalf of a corporate client facing corruption charges.
David Brennan / Newsweek:
Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Says Trump Is Innocent and Has Been Framed  —  Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, one of Donald Trump's most impassioned supporters, said on Sunday that Trump is being framed by establishment forces in Washington, D.C.  —  The Hill reported that during an interview aired on AM 970 New York …
Discussion: The Hill
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Tamara Keith / NPR:
President Trump's Description of What's ‘Fake’ Is Expanding
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
gofundme.com:
Texas against Ted Cruz  —  $9,760 of $6,000 goal Raised by 482 people in 1 day  —  President Donald Trump will be campaigning to help Sen. Ted Cruz win his re-election.  A rally is being planned, according to Trump “at the biggest stadium in Texas.”  We are planning to display …
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Human Rights Watch:
Myanmar: 7 Years for Reporting the Truth  —  Conviction of Reuters Journalists a Major Setback for Press Freedom  —  (Bangkok) - A Myanmar court's conviction of two Reuters journalists on politically motivated charges heralds a return to the media repression seen during military rule, Human Rights Watch said today.
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BBC:
Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar over secrets act  —  A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for violating a state secrets act while investigating violence against the Rohingya minority.  —  Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, nationals of Myanmar …
Discussion: CNN and The Guardian
Dom Phillips / The Guardian:
Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted  —  The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil  —  Play Video  —  Brazil's oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire …
Discussion: The Week
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BNO News:   Brazil's National Museum, home to 20 million items, destroyed in fire
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: How Omarosa secretly taped her victims  —  Omarosa taped nearly every conversation she had while working in the White House, including ones with “all of the Trumps,” a source who watched her make many of the tapes tells Axios.  Omarosa did this with a personal phone, almost always on record mode.
Discussion: theGrio and Mediaite
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times:
Seahawks owner Paul Allen gives $100,000 to help Republicans keep control of U.S. House  —  The donation went to Protect the House, a committee headed by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. It's the biggest check Allen has ever sent to a federal political candidate or committee …
Discussion: HuffPost and Forbes
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
GOP strategists fear candidates will get steamrolled in midterms: They only know how to ‘run against Obama’
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Meghan McCain, Forged in Her Father's Image  —  WASHINGTON — As Meghan McCain delivered a eulogy for her father on Saturday, she was at times too grief-stricken to catch her breath.  As she described his sickness from brain cancer or his love for her, she struggled to look up at a crowd full …
Discussion: IJR
New York Times:
Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration  —  The Trump administration is using the country's vast and nearly opaque immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals.
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
A Palestinian Memoir to Counter Trump's Troubles in the Middle East  —  Yousef Bashir is an unlikely peace-builder at one of the darkest times in the elusive effort to end the conflict in the Middle East.  He was eleven when the second intifada erupted, in 2000, and the Israel Defense Forces took over the family farm in Gaza.
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Axios:   Abbas says Kushner explored forming a Palestinian-Jordanian confederacy
The Times of Israel:   Jordan rejects alleged US proposal for confederation with Palestinians
Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Paul Manafort's daughter gets a new name … Paul Manafort's daughter is ditching the family name.  —  Jessica Manafort, 36, filed paperwork in Manhattan Supreme Court late Friday to change her now-infamous surname to Bond, Jess Bond.  —  “I would like my new name to be Jessica Anne Bond …
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Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Manafort's daughter files paperwork to change last name
Discussion: Daily Mail
Michael Schulman / New Yorker:
The Shaming of Geoffrey Owens and the Inability to See Actors as Laborers, Too  —  Not long ago, I was visiting the set of a popular TV show for a story and recognized an actor who was there shooting a guest spot.  I remembered Geoffrey Owens not from “The Cosby Show,” on which he played Elvin Tibideaux …
Discussion: Mashable, Deadline and IJR
The Moscow Times:
Putin Gets Love From New State TV Show as Poll Ratings Slide  —  Russian state television started a new weekly show devoted to Vladimir Putin, lauding the president's leadership qualities, physical energy and attentiveness to public needs.  —  The first hour-long episode of “Moscow.  Kremlin.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
How Trump Betrays ‘Forgotten’ Americans  —  From the Supreme Court to labor organizing rules, the president undermines workers' greatest champions  —  Mr. Greenhouse is a former labor and workplace reporter for the Times.  —  Donald Trump promotes himself as a friend of “forgotten” …
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Victory for Brussels is inevitable.  In adopting Chequers, we have gone into battle waving the white flag  —  Follow the author of this article Follow the topics within this article  —  So it's ding ding!  Seconds out!  And we begin the final round of that international slug fest, the Brexit negotiations.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Barack Obama set to hit the midterm campaign trail  —  President Obama, after mostly staying out of the spotlight since leaving office, plans to campaign in coming weeks in California, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania — meaning there'll be a frequent fall contrast between Presidents 44 and 45.
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John Fund / National Review:
Media Obituaries Didn't Give Us ‘The Full McCain’
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
America is moving toward an oligarchical socialism
NEWS.com.au:
Richard Hammond and his wife were gassed and robbed in holiday villa in France
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Trump's Rougher Edge Complicates Trip by Pompeo and Mattis to India
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
Is obscure GOP consultant Sam Patten the missing link in the Trump-Russia probe?
NPR:
Excerpt: ‘Monica’ From Ken Starr's Forthcoming Memoir ‘Contempt’
WRAL-TV:
Man charged in fatal motorcycle crash in Raleigh
Discussion: Breitbart and Townhall
 Earlier Items: 
Cara Buckley / New York Times:
As TV Seeks Diverse Writing Ranks, Rising Demand Meets Short Supply
Mujib Mashal / New York Times:
‘Time for This War in Afghanistan to End,’ Says Departing U.S. Commander
Discussion: Splinter
NBC News:
Full Klobuchar Interview: People ‘afraid of pissing off President Trump’ in Congress
Discussion: Power Line and Talking Points Memo
Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Kavanaugh ‘an inspired choice,’ Sullivan says
Discussion: ABC News
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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