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5:15 PM ET, September 10, 2018

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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump's ‘Lies’  —  In a new tape played by Omarosa Manigault Newman on ‘The View,’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders can be heard confirming Trump's distortion of the Russia story.  —  With Bob Woodward's new book climbing the best-seller charts ahead …
Discussion: Mediaite, ABC News and CANNONFIRE
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Exclusive: White House again changes phone policy amid heightened paranoia  —  Washington (CNN)After Omarosa Manigault Newman revealed last month that she secretly taped White House chief of staff John Kelly as he fired her in the Situation Room, a change was made to the West Wing's phone policy.
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
SEE IT: Cynthia Nixon Orders Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With... Lox And Capers  —  There's something about New York's endless supply of authentic eateries that transforms aspiring politicians into weird aliens who've never before encountered the concept of food: Back in the 1970s …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump approval down 6 points in a month, hits low among independents  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen 6 points in the last month and stands at a new low among political independents, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.
Pete Madden / ABC News:
Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina was paid to pursue access to Vladimir Putin for TV show  —  Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who stands accused of developing a covert influence operation in the United States, boasted of connections to high-ranking Kremlin officials and was even paid …
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Airwars / The Daily Beast:
Putin Is Pushing for Total Victory in Syria No Matter How Many Civilians Die
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Judge silences both sides in alleged Russian spy Butina's case
Discussion: ABC News
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. judge orders accused Russian agent Butina kept in jail
Discussion: Washington Times
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court and the P.L.O.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will threaten to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court if it pursues an investigation of American troops in Afghanistan, opening a harsh new attack on an old nemesis of many on the political right.
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CBS News:
John Bolton says U.S. will not cooperate with International Criminal Court
Discussion: Daily Wire
Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Close Palestine Liberation Organization Office in Washington
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
State of The 2018 House Race  —  Dems do better in Dem precincts than GOP in GOP precincts;  —  Race, gender and education divide core support from persuadable voters  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The Monmouth University Poll finds the race for control of the House of Representatives to be tight …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:   When a foreign adversary meddled in a presidential election
Steve Kornacki / NBC News:   Shhhh! Dem leaders don't want to say ‘impeach.’ Bill Clinton's case explains why.
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?  —  The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.  —  At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook …
Discussion: AOL, more at Techmeme »
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Adam Clymer, Political Reporter, Editor and Pollster, Dies at 81  —  Adam Clymer, who covered congressional intrigue, eight presidential campaigns and the downfall of both Nikita S. Khrushchev and Richard M. Nixon as a reporter and editor for The New York Times and other newspapers, died early Monday at his home in Washington.
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
U.S. in ‘Process of Coordinating’ Second Meeting Between Trump and Kim  — Letter won't be publicly released without Kim's approval  — North Korea hasn't show progress toward ending nuclear work  —  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrote to President Donald Trump to set …
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
The Last 2018 Primary Briefing: New Hampshire, Rhode Island And New York  —  All good things must come to an end.  After six months, 19 election days and seven live blogs, it's time to say goodbye to primary season.  But before you grieve, a parting gift: three consecutive nights of electiony goodness.
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
New York State Attorney General Race Remains a Tossup, New Poll Shows
Discussion: HuffPost
Seanna Adcox / Post and Courier:
Evacuations ordered for SC coast as Hurricane Florence nears, effective Tuesday  —  COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster will order evacuations along South Carolina's entire 187-mile coastline border starting at noon Tuesday, saying residents and tourists must get out of Hurricane Florence's …
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Donald Trump / Associated Press:
The Latest: South Carolina to evacuate coast
Discussion: News One, NPR and The Daily Caller
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
New Texts Reveal FBI Leaked Information to the Press to Damage Trump  —  Rep. Meadows sent a letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein saying a “review of the new documents raises greave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations”
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Robert Herguth / Chicago Sun-Times:
Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’  —  The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.
Washington Post:
GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe …
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Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Michael Caputo Says He Figured Out the Identity of NYT Op-Ed Writer: She ‘Believes that She is a Hero’  —  On Sunday, former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo claimed he knows who the author of the mysterious New York Times op-ed is and insisted the person behind the prose is a woman.
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:   The Circus of Resistance  —  The resistance to Donald Trump …
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Who Will Replace Chris Collins, the Indicted Congressman, on the Ballot?  Perhaps No One  —  After Representative Chris Collins was indicted last month, the Republican from western New York seemed to leave no doubt about his immediate political future: There was none.
Discussion: Political Wire
YouTube:
Inside the making of Ben Folds's ‘Mister Peepers’  —  The Washington Post Magazine asked Ben Folds to write a song about anything.  He chose Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  Subscribe to The Washington Pos...
Discussion: CNN
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them  —  Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics to delete an article he had written …
Martina Navratilova / New York Times:
What Serena Got Wrong  —  Just because the guys might be able to get away with it doesn't mean it's acceptable.  —  Ms. Navratilova is a broadcaster, former tennis champion and human rights activist.  —  Serena Williams has part of it right.  There is a huge double standard for women …
Discussion: Mediaite, AOL, Hot Air and The Guardian
Sharon Weinberger / Yahoo:
Scientists say ‘Neuroweapons’ were behind Cuba attacks  —  WASHINGTON — Could a foreign country build a directed-energy weapon tailored to target a single diplomat walking through a house, leaving other occupants unaffected?  What about drugs that target a person's brain, or even a specific part of the brain?
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Ken Starr says he considered perjury charges against Hillary Clinton, in explosive new memoir  —  Former independent counsel Ken Starr writes in his new memoir that he considered — but ultimately abandoned — the idea of perjury charges against then-first lady Hillary Clinton after her …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Vows Strikes Outside Borders, ‘Beyond the Seas’  —  A top Iranian military leader warned on Monday that Iran is plotting strikes outside of its own borders and will even go “beyond the seas” to carry out attacks on those it perceives as enemies, statements that further highlight Iran's …
Betsy Morris / Wall Street Journal:
Most Teens Prefer to Chat Online, Rather Than in Person  —  About two-thirds favor online communication over face-to-face talks with friends, survey finds  —  More than two-thirds of teens say they would rather communicate with their friends online than in person, according to a new study …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted  —  BROOKLYN—"Right now, I don't want to talk about it," Jerry Nadler told his curious, concerned constituent.  “We don't want to talk about it.”  —  The man positioned to lead the House of Representatives' impeachment effort …
Adam Wollner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Rogue billionaires are giving the GOP and Democrats a migraine  —  Republican Richard Uihlein and Democrat Tom Steyer have poured tens of millions of dollars into the 2018 campaign.  And their political parties are irritated about it.  —  The two billionaires have backed candidates and causes …
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Thanks, Obama!  —  Barack Obama reminds us why Donald Trump is president  —  “How hard can that be?  Saying that Nazis are bad,” former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois over the weekend.  Well, probably no harder than saying the words “radical Islam,” I imagine.
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
 
 
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ProPublica:
Here's What Happened to the 99 Immigrant Children Separated From Their Parents and Sent to Chicago
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Devin Culham / News & Views, Detroit Metro Times:
Schuette's latest attack ad uses images from Whitmer's sexual assault story
Discussion: Raw Story
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
‘Tone deaf’ Playboy Club opens in New York, defying the #MeToo era
Discussion: New York Times
Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Les Moonves' CBS Replacement Dodges Sexual Misconduct Issues In Email To Staff
New York Times:
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Michael Moore takes mic away after David Hogg urges foreign meddling in American elections
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 Earlier Items: 
USA Today:
Subway $5 Footlong is going away, but paninis may be coming
Discussion: CBS Boston
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Killing an Executive Order Is Harder Than You Think
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
CNN:
Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds
Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Scott Walker fatigue’ haunts Republicans
Discussion: Splinter