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Bob Woodward: “People better wake up to what's going on” in the Oval Office — Watergate journalist Bob Woodward made headlines once again this past week, with his new book about the Trump White House, entitled “Fear.” This morning, in his first TV interview, Woodward paints a picture …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The stress on Trump's machine — It's hard to overstate the extremity and variety of pressures bearing down on President Trump and his understaffed White House. — The bottom line: Taken together, it's a jaw-dropping list of problems, and Trump's “fine-tuned machine” is creaking under this stress.
Axios:
Omarosa claims White House staffers had hashtag to discuss 25th Amendment — Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman claimed on MSNBC Sunday that she and other members of the Trump administration texted each other the hashtag “#tfa,” referring to the 25th Amendment, “more than 100 times” …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Inside Trump's biggest hire — President Trump was bluffing when he tweeted that he knows the successor to White House counsel Don McGahn, and instead he is vacillating about new legal leaders as he girds for open warfare with Democrats and Robert Mueller.
Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
Nobody's Heroes — Bob Woodward's new book presents Trump staffers as our last line of defense. We're doomed. — Nearly 300 pages into Bob Woodward's new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, a West Wing aide named Zach Fuentes cautions fellow staffers.
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Jamilah King / Mother Jones:
Trump Almost Sent a Tweet That Could Have Signaled War With North Korea
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims — Members of the board of the CBS Corporation are negotiating with the company's chairman and C.E.O., Leslie Moonves, about his departure. Sources familiar with the board's activities …
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William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Les Moonves Admits to Unwanted Kissing of His Doctor 19 Years Ago — Another wrinkle emerges in Moonves's negotiated exit from CBS, and within one of the more head-spinning #MeToo storylines yet. — BY - WILLIAM D. COHANSeptember 9, 2018, — The career arc of Les Moonves …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Les Moonves is about to leave CBS, sources say
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
New Moonves accusations prompt reports of his imminent departure
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside the GOP's rescue mission for Ted Cruz — With a string of polls showing GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's lead slipping, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick showed up in Washington on July 25 to deliver an urgent plea to White House officials: Send President Donald Trump. — Patrick, who chaired Trump's …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Cruz: Democrats want Texas to be ‘like California,’ have ‘tofu’ and ‘dyed hair’
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Political Wire and CBS News
Roger Kimball / Spectator USA:
Whining Serena Williams is tennis's Hillary Clinton … No one expected Naomi Osaka to win the US Open yesterday. Everyone favoured her opponent. The crowd was solidly with Serena Williams, as were the bookies. But the 20-year-old Japanese-Haitian, who became the first player representing Japan …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Serena Williams Got What She Deserved — Serena Williams isn't a victim of anything except for being Serena Williams. — While Serena Williams was melting down during the U.S. Open women's final against Naomi Osaka on Saturday night, I was at a minor league baseball playoff game.
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
It's shameful what US Open did to Naomi Osaka
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Daily Wire, Althouse and The Atlantic
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Serena Williams and the Game That Can't Be Won (Yet) What rage costs a woman.
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New York Times:
Dirty Politics in New York — A last-minute mailer from Democrats wrongly describing Cynthia Nixon as anti-Semitic is a disgrace. — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.
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New York Times:
A Delayed Bridge Opening and an ‘Inappropriate’ Mailer Puts Cuomo on the Defensive — ALBANY, N.Y. — It must have seemed like such a fine idea. — On Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was standing alongside his mother, Matilda, and Hillary Clinton celebrating “the grand opening” …
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Three Miami Dolphins players protest during national anthem — Three Miami Dolphins players protested during the national anthem before their season opener against Tennessee on Sunday. — Wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson knelt during the anthem while defensive end Robert Quinn raised …
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Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz / USA Today:
Dolphins' Kenny Stills, Albert Wilson first NFL players in Week 1 to kneel during anthem
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Adam Schefter / ESPN:
NFL not expected to implement new national anthem policy this season
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Despite Trump tweet, Ford says it won't make hatchback in US — WASHINGTON (AP) — Ford won't be moving production of a hatchback wagon to the United States from China — despite President Donald Trump's claim Sunday that his taxes on Chinese imports mean the Focus Active can be built in America.
Vinnie Longobardo / Washington Press:
A new ethics complaint could have just put the fate of Brett Kavanaugh in Merrick Garland's hands — After watching Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testify under oath during his confirmation hearings about his knowledge of stolen Democratic emails when he was a White House lawyer …
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Trump campaign members were ‘fully aware’ of efforts to set Putin meeting: Papadopoulos — George Papadopoulos, the one-time foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who became swept up in the special counsel investigation, says members of the Trump campaign team were “fully aware” …
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Geoffrey Kabaservice / Politico:
Liberals Don't Know Much About Conservative History — And both sides suffer for it. — The growing tendency of late for liberals and conservatives to regard each other as not just opponents, but enemies, has been one of the most alarming in an alarming era.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scary signs for Republicans — My colleague Mike Allen, who's covered a few midterm elections in his time, says it's rare to see so much evidence of a trend accumulate so many months out, only for all the signals to be proven wrong. — The big picture: Yes, the punditocracy is being cautious …
Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:
Cory Booker places staff in Iowa ahead of potential 2020 White House run — According to multiple sources, Cory Booker has placed four staffers on the ground in Iowa, helping Democratic candidates, as he moves to position himself for a potential presidential bid.
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Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
North Korea stresses economy, not nukes, on 70th anniversary — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea held a major military parade and revived its iconic mass games to celebrate its 70th anniversary on Sunday, but in keeping with leader Kim Jong Un's new policies the emphasis was firmly …
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Josh Smith / Reuters:
North Korea military parade features floats and flowers, not missiles
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