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Sopan Deb / New York Times:
New Yorker Festival Pulls Steve Bannon as Headliner Following High-Profile Dropouts — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, will no longer appear as a headliner at this year's New Yorker Festival, David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, announced in an email to the magazine's staff on Monday evening.
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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.
Brian Stelter:
David Remnick's memo to New Yorker staffers about Steve Bannon — In 2016, Steve Bannon played a critical role in electing the current President of the United States. On Election Night I wrote a piece for our website that this event represented “a tragedy for the American republic …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
New Yorker Cuts Steve Bannon From Festival Program After Outcry — ‘There is a better way to do this,’ writes New Yorker editor David Remnick regarding decision to disinvite the ex-White House senior adviser — The New Yorker has disinvited former White House senior adviser Steve Bannon …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
New Yorker bails on Steve Bannon interview — Updated to note that Remnick, after hearing the backlash, has reconsidered his decision and proposes to interview Bannon in a non-festival setting. — David Remnick, the top editor of the New Yorker, seems to have anticipated the backlash …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Top TV Advisers Keep Telling Him: Fire the ‘Shill’ Jeff Sessions Now — The drumbeat has become deafening and, unfortunately for the beleaguered attorney general, it's Trump's favorite pundits making all the noise. — President Donald Trump has a proven track record …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘Two easy wins now in doubt’: Trump renews attack on Sessions — President Trump attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department on Monday in connection with the indictments of two GOP congressmen on corruption charges, saying they could hurt the Republican Party in the midterm elections.
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Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Trump escalates attacks on his attorney general
Trump escalates attacks on his attorney general
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Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Trump slams Sessions on Twitter, says AG is hurting GOP in midterms
Trump slams Sessions on Twitter, says AG is hurting GOP in midterms
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump blasts Sessions over GOP congressmen indictments
Trump blasts Sessions over GOP congressmen indictments
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Chuck Todd / The Atlantic:
It's Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back — I've devoted much of my professional life to the study of political campaigns, not as a historian or an academic but as a reporter and an analyst. I thought I'd seen it all, from the bizarre upset that handed …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Democrats, Eyeing a Majority, Prepare an Investigative Onslaught — WASHINGTON — House Democrats, increasingly optimistic they will win back control in November, are mining a mountain of stymied oversight requests in preparation for an onslaught of hearings, subpoenas and investigations …
Darren Rovell / ESPN:
Colin Kaepernick part of Nike's 30th anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ campaign — Colin Kaepernick is back — at least as far as Madison Avenue is concerned. — The former NFL quarterback, who is suing NFL owners for colluding to keep him out of the league, is one of the faces of a new Nike campaign meant …
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Tim Daniels / Bleacher Report:
Colin Kaepernick Named Face of Nike's 30th Anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ Campaign
Colin Kaepernick Named Face of Nike's 30th Anniversary of ‘Just Do It’ Campaign
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Larry O'Connor / Washington Times:
Networks crop Farrakhan from Clinton/Jackson/Sharpton image at Aretha's funeral — ANALYSIS/OPINION: — It was an image that caused quite a stir Friday afternoon. There on the stage presiding over Aretha Franklin's epic funeral extravaganza was former President Bill Clinton alongside …
Alastair Leithead / BBC:
Dozens of elephants killed near Botswana wildlife sanctuary — Carcases of nearly 90 elephants have been found near a famous wildlife sanctuary in Botswana, conservationists say. — Elephants Without Borders, which is conducting an aerial survey, said the scale of poaching deaths is the largest seen in Africa.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Biden hits the trail like he's running — The former vice president spends Labor Day courting midterm voters in Pittsburgh, but also doing his own gut check for a possible 2020 run. — PITTSBURGH — Cue the jokes: Joe Biden is running. In fact, he spent much of Labor Day sprinting …
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Reuters:
Statement from Stephen J. Adler, President and Editor-in-Chief, Reuters, on reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Sep 3, 2018 — Reuters President and Editor-in-Chief, Stephen J. Adler, issued the following statement today after a Myanmar court delivered its verdict in the case against Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo;
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Richard C. Paddock / New York Times:
Myanmar Sentences Reuters Journalists to 7 Years in Prison
Myanmar Sentences Reuters Journalists to 7 Years in Prison
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Brett Kavanaugh May Soon Unshackle All Rich Political Donors — By the time President Donald Trump runs for reelection in 2020, he might be able to accept unlimited campaign contributions to support his bid, thanks to his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
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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.
David Siders / Politico:
Bernie Sanders: Trump is a ‘pathological liar’ — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday lit into President Donald Trump and his most recent Supreme Court nominee on the eve of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, calling Trump a “pathological liar” who “works night and day on behalf of his fellow billionaires.”
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Trump's ‘majority’ is fake
Trump's ‘majority’ is fake
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Andy McDonald / HuffPost:
They Found Beto O'Rourke's First Album, And It's ... Actually Pretty Good — The Texas candidate continues to impress, despite counterefforts by Sen. Ted Cruz and the GOP. — Last week the Texas GOP tried to embarrass U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke by posting a decades-old photo of him in a band.
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Toby Sterling / Reuters:
Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam's central station last week named Dutch, anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders during police questioning and said he was motivated …
The Weather Channel:
Tropical Storm Gordon Moving Into Gulf of Mexico as it Soaks South Florida; Hurricane Watch and Tropical Storm Warnings Posted — By the weather.com digital meteorologists23 hours agoweather.com — Tropical Storm Gordon is now moving into the Gulf of Mexico.
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
FEMA Spending Millions on Contracts with FEMA Chief's Old Clients — In TYT Investigates by TYT Investigates, September 3, 20180 Comments … At least two former clients of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator William “Brock” Long have received FEMA contracts totaling …
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 …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
If the GOP isn't McCain's party, why not build a new one? — The soaring music still hums in our ears. Phrases from the eulogies still echo. Those who attended Sen. John McCain's funeral and some of those who watched it on TV may still be marveling at the showing of national unity and purpose.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Another metric points to a possible midterm blue wave — Bruce Mehlman of Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas has found a new way to measure House Republicans' peril: “vulnerability ratio,” which he measures as the net number of seats at risk versus the number needed to flip.
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