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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
White House officials flagged Trump's behavior to psychiatrist last year  —  White House officials reached out to a noted Yale University psychiatrist last fall out of concern over President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior.  —  Dr. Bandy Lee, who edited the best-selling book …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Melania's Lament Rings Hollow in Trump's Glass House  —  Her husband has spent decades spreading anonymous - and damaging - gossip.  —  Melania Trump came to her husband's defense on Thursday, gamely letting meanies inside the White House and over at The New York Times know it was improper …
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Exclusive: Psychiatrist Bandy Lee says White House officials told her Trump was “unraveling”  —  Yale shrink says Trump officials reached out to her last fall, suggests his mental state is rapidly deteriorating  —  It would seem that matters are far worse than even Donald Trump's fiercest critics have suggested.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘A never-ending cycle’: Some aides work to slow-walk or ignore Trump's directives
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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
6.3%: African-American Unemployment Rate Second-Lowest Ever
Discussion: Hot Air
Axios:
The U.S. jobs machine still chugging along
Discussion: Mother Jones, Bloomberg, Breitbart and MSNBC
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Tightening job market delivers wage boost
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Crazytown: A Bob Woodward Book, an Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed, and a Growing Crisis for the Trump Presidency  —  The Republican “resistance” goes public (sort of), and everyone freaks out.  —  On Wednesday morning, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
'I don't talk the way I am quoted': Trump offers fresh criticism of Woodward book  —  President Trump took fresh aim Friday at Bob Woodward's forthcoming book on his presidency, calling it “a scam” and disputing quotes attributed to him.  —  “I don't talk the way I am quoted,” Trump said in a tweet.
The Daily Beast:
‘We See Ourselves as Rebels’: Trump's Internal Resistance Celebrates
Discussion: Daily Wire and Liberty Unyielding
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Axios:
Trump dares Mueller to subpoena him  —  President Trump will not voluntary answer questions about obstruction of justice, gambling that Robert Mueller won't have the stomach for a court fight.  —  A source close to Trump's legal team tauntingly tells us it's “Mueller's moment of truth.”  —  Go deeper
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times  —  Formerly confidential emails have been released that show the Supreme Court nominee contradicting statements he made under oath to the Senate.  —  You can forgive Democratic senators for saying “I told you so.”
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
White House in chaos — what's new?  —  The president decided the entire staff was working against him, running their own agenda, not his or the nation's.  Poll ratings had plummeted, with job approval in the 30s.  Leaks were commonplace as staffers hyped their own policy positions, even brazenly floated them in trial balloons.
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
My Wife Has a Good Theory on Who the White House Mole Is  —  The family is in agreement.  —  As every room in the White House echoes with the sound of cocks crowing, I am going to subcontract the job of guessing who the Anonymous Op-Ed writer is to my wife, Margaret Doris—journalist,
The Guardian:
Tesla shares crash after Elon Musk smokes joint on live web show  —  Two senior executives quit electric carmaker as market value falls 8%  —  Play Video  —  Tesla shares crashed 8% on Friday as two of its senior executives quit, just hours after the electric carmaker's chief executive …
Discussion: Fox News, Bloomberg and Motherboard
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Steve Kovach / CNBC:
Another Tesla executive leaves, this time it's HR boss Gaby Toledano: Report
Discussion: Breitbart and StreetInsider.com
New York Times:
Trump to Preside Over U.N. Security Council, Prompting Anxiety All Around  —  WASHINGTON — Three weeks from now, in New York, President Trump will find himself in the setting he most relishes: seated at the head of a polished table, calling on those seated around him, rewarding those he likes and cutting off those who displease him.
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
In a shift, Trump approves an indefinite military and diplomatic effort in Syria, U.S. officials say
New York Times:
'I Don't Talk' That Way, Trump Says.  Except When He Does.  —  President Trump said he has never used terms like “mentally retarded” or “dumb Southerner,” as he is quoted in Bob Woodward's new book.  But the record shows he has.  —  Numerous Trump officials denied writing the anonymous Op-Ed published by The New York Times.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Crow / Financial Times:
Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment  —  A billionaire pharmaceuticals executive who has been blamed for spurring the US opioid crisis stands to profit from the epidemic after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts.  —  Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma …
Discussion: STAT
Wall Street Journal:
Russia-Linked Money-Laundering Probe Looks at $150 Billion in Transactions  —  Transactions uncovered at Danske's Estonian branch highlight the growing concern about illicit money flows from the former Soviet Union  —  Investigators at Denmark's largest bank are studying around $150 billion …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Inside Washington's money machine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PLAYBOOK EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE WASHINGTON'S MONEY MACHINE 60 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION DAY ... In the next few grafs, we're going to take you inside the money machines powering the Republican and Democratic parties …
Discussion: YouTube
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pence to hit 3 Democratic Senate candidates in TV ad buy
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Hannah Allam / BuzzFeed News:
For A Lot Of Muslim Republicans, Their Party's Over  —  Anwar Khalifa is about as Texan as you can get.  He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front.  He never skips “worship day,” he taught his three daughters to shoot, and …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Intercept:
Kerri Harris Got More Votes Than She Thought She Needed, But it Wasn't Enough  —  In late August, a coalition of progressive organizations supporting Kerri Harris in her Delaware Senate campaign put a survey into the field.  It came back showing incumbent Tom Carper with an eye-popping 80 …
Discussion: The Independent, CNBC and HuffPost
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Another Democratic Ambush? Not in Delaware, as Carper Rebuffs Outsider's Bid
Discussion: Political Wire
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Record-breaking 100 women may be elected to the House in 2018  —  The wave is being driven entirely by Democrats, a new race-by-race analysis shows.  On the GOP side, the number of women serving in office is expected to dip.  —  WASHINGTON — In November, Americans could elect more than 100 women …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Flashback: Obama prosecuted staff leakers, gave lie-detector tests, ‘paranoid’  —  Should President Trump need a model to use to track down leakers inside his administration like the “anonymous” insider who challenged his authority in a New York Times op-ed, he need go no further …
Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Papadopoulos to be sentenced in Russia investigation  —  George Papadopoulos, the novice, unpaid foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who rose to prominence when he became the first former campaign adviser arrested as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russian-influence probe, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Washington.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Polling the 2018 Midterm Elections in Real Time  —  The Upshot has partnered with Siena College to poll dozens of the most competitive House and Senate races across the country.  Our poll results are updated in real time, after every phone call.  We hope to help you understand how polling works, and why it sometimes doesn't.
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems vow to grab Trump tax returns upon taking majority  —  Democrats are vowing to get their hands on President Trump  —  's tax returns if they are able to win back the House majority in November.  —  “I'm definitely going to bring it up if we don't have them by then — that's a definite,” Rep. Bill Pascrell
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CNN
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
In the Next Wave of Big Political Books, Mike Schmidt on Mueller, Jim Stewart on Trump and the Rule of Law  —  Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury and Bob Woodward's Fear set the market for Trump books ablaze.  Now, one of the Times's most dogged investigative reporters has landed a deal …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Frustration and Finger-Pointing as G.O.P. Pulls Out of Deal Talks on Hacked Materials  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans withdrew on Thursday from negotiations with Democrats over a pact that would have effectively barred both parties from using hacked or stolen material on the campaign trail this fall.
Will Racke / The Daily Caller:
25 Straight Minutes Of Illegal Aliens Crossing Into US Through Arizona Ranch  —  Arizona rancher John Chilton's 50,000-acre spread along the U.S.-Mexico border is allegedly ground zero for human smugglers, drug cartel members and illegal immigrants, and he has videos showing trespassers sneaking through his property.
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump crosses a new threshold for anti-media rhetoric, jokingly praising a congressman for assaulting a reporter  —  This post has been updated.  —  President Trump on Thursday night ratcheted up his not-so-veiled attacks on the media, making light of an assault perpetrated by a Republican member …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
David Fickling / Bloomberg:
The Trade Slowdown Has Already Begun  —  As tariffs pile up, the world economy is starting to look holed below the waterline.  —  One of the paradoxes of this year's trade tensions is that in many parts of the world, it doesn't yet feel like a crisis.  —  For all the turmoil …
 
 
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James Randerson / Politico:
Michel Barnier did not tell MPs that UK's Brexit plan is ‘dead’
Heidi Ledford / Nature:
Science academies urge paper ballots for all US elections
Cindy McCain / USA Today:
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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
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Associated Press:
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