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2:05 PM 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 …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's ‘majority’ is fake  —  likes to complain about “Fake News.”  —  So, here's some very real news for him:  —  Republican control of Capitol Hill and the White House is based on a “fake majority.”  —  “A majority of the Senate now represents just 18 percent of the nation's population …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Democrats raise alarm over White House decision to withhold Kavanaugh documents  —  Democrats are expressing alarm over the Trump White House decision to claim executive privilege and withhold some 100,000 pages of documents from Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh's time with the George W. Bush administration.
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.
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Kavanaugh comments on abortion to be parsed in confirmation hearings
Adam Liptak / New York Times:   How Brett Kavanaugh Would Transform the Supreme Court
Gabe Cohn / New York Times:
Steve Bannon Headlines New Yorker Festival  —  Readers of The New Yorker prize the magazine for its wide-ranging collection of perspectives.  From Oct. 5 to 7, The New Yorker Festival, now in its 19th year, will bring some of these voices to venues around New York City.
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 …
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:   What Artifacts Were in the National Museum of Brazil?
BNO News:   Brazil's National Museum, home to 20 million items, destroyed in fire
Associated Press:
Trump's pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard  —  GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country.  —  So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan to roll back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
8 questions for the midterm elections: A blue wave or not?  —  Campaign 2018 begins the final stretch this week.  All but a few states have finished their primaries, and the general election ballots are set almost everywhere.  The stakes are difficult to overstate.
John Fund / National Review:
Media Obituaries Didn't Give Us ‘The Full McCain’  —  The sugary praise, often from former critics, does his memory no favors.  —  The past week has featured so much extravagant praise of John McCain that Jill Abramson, the former editor of the New York Times, had to admit …
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Meghan McCain, Forged in Her Father's Image
Discussion: IJR
Associated Press:
Trump attacks union leader on Labor Day  —  President Donald Trump started his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.  —  Trump tweeted Monday that Trumka “represented his union poorly on television this weekend.”
Discussion: USA Today and Splinter
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Trump's words don't buy dinner
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
The ‘Trump effect’  —  How a norm-scrambling presidency and a viral video are changing the way black and white residents in Summerville, S.C., talk about race  —  Before he heard from neighbors about the confrontation at his subdivision swimming pool, Jovan Hyman saw a shaky video of it online, where it was quickly going viral.
Financial Times:
Scandal-hit Danske branch handled $30bn of Russian money  —  An independent investigation into the money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank found that as much as $30bn of Russian and ex-Soviet money flowed through its Estonian branch in a single year.  —  The findings, contained …
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.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Myanmar Court Sentences Reuters Reporters to Seven Years in Prison  —  Kyaw Soe Oo: ‘We were sent to prison to close the eyes and ears of people in Myanmar’  —  A court sentenced two Reuters reporters who exposed human-rights abuses by Myanmar's military to seven years in prison on Monday …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek  —  Subscribe  —  Hope you're savoring this holiday weekend — thanks for pausing to catch up with us.  Jonathan Swan is taking some well-deserved time (mostly) off the grid.  — Appreciate any tips, leaks or rants: mike@axios.com, or just reply to this email.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: How Omarosa secretly taped her victims
Discussion: LifeZette, theGrio, The Root and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle to Police Bad Actors  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has personally weighed in on high-profile decisions, frustrating some employees  —  When Twitter Inc. TWTR -1.29% Chief Executive Jack Dorsey testifies before Congress this week, he'll likely be asked …
John Aguilar / Denver Post:
Golden could be the first Colorado city to lower the minimum voting age to 16  —  Voters in the city will decide in November whether 16- and 17-year-olds can cast a ballot  —  Bella Macarelli regularly discusses the big issues of the day — politics, immigration, gun control — with her classmates at Golden High School.
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.
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Confident Dems plan detailed 2019 agenda  —  Like the quiet planning by presidential candidates for their hoped-for transition to office, House Democrats are already choreographing their opening moves if — as looks likely — they get the gavel back in the midterm elections.
Discussion: Mediaite
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Exclusive: Government transparency site revealed Social Security numbers, other personal info  —  Washington (CNN)A federal government transparency website made public dozens, if not hundreds, of Social Security numbers and other personal information in a design error during a system upgrade.
 
 
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Associated Press:
Pope touts virtue of silence after sex abuse cover-up claims
Discussion: Breitbart, CBS News and The Independent
CNN:
8 shot during dice game at San Bernardino apartment complex, police say
Discussion: Breitbart and The Root
Archdiocese of Washington:
Cardinal Wuerl Celebrates Mass at Annunciation to Install New Pastor Offers Remarks About Recent …
Ryan Woo / Reuters:
Parents at Chinese kindergarten horrified by pole-dancing act
Leila Al-Shami / New York Times:
The Death Blow Is Coming for Syrian Democracy
Discussion: The Guardian
Sun Sentinel / Sun-Sentinel:
Gov. Rick Scott's mockery of a “blind trust” | Editorial
Daily Mail:
Buzz Aldrin blasts First Man for not showing the planting of US flag
Discussion: Louder With Crowder and Daily Wire
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Immigrants, fearing Trump crackdown, drop out of nutrition programs
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 Earlier Items: 
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Trump rolls back worker safety rules
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Congress waits, waits, waits for Sally Yates documents
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
How Trump Betrays ‘Forgotten’ Americans
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Victory for Brussels is inevitable.  In adopting Chequers, we have gone into battle waving the white flag
David Brennan / Newsweek:
Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Says Trump Is Innocent and Has Been Framed
Discussion: The Hill
NPR:
Excerpt: ‘Monica’ From Ken Starr's Forthcoming Memoir ‘Contempt’