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12:00 PM ET, September 5, 2019

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BBC:
PM's brother quits as Tory MP and minister  —  Jo Johnson, younger brother of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is quitting as a Conservative MP and minister, saying he is “torn between family loyalty and the national interest”.  —  The business minister and MP for Orpington, tweeted that there was an “unresolvable tension” in his role.
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Financial Times:   A humbled Boris Johnson has lost control of Brexit
Bryan Pietsch / Reuters:
Pentagon pulls funds for military schools, daycare to pay for Trump's border wall  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would pull funding from 127 Defense Department projects, including schools and daycare centers for military families, as it diverts $3.6 billion …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Week
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Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
GOP Senators Who Backed Trump's Emergency Declaration Lose Military Funding  —  Who could have seen this coming when the president chose to divert defense money to build his border wall?  —  Republicans who supported an emergency declaration on the U.S.-Mexico border are discovering the cost …
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Jason Greenblatt, a Designer of Trump's Middle East Peace Plan, Is Leaving the Administration  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's special envoy for Middle East peace, Jason Greenblatt, will leave the administration, according to a senior Trump official, raising new questions about a long-delayed plan …
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Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Lead Negotiator on Arab-Israeli Peace Plan to Leave White House  —  Jason Greenblatt previously worked for the Trump Organization for two decades  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's lead negotiator on his highly anticipated Arab-Israeli peace plan will be leaving the White House soon …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jason Greenblatt / Axios:   Architect of Trump's Middle East peace plan to depart White House
Arren Kimbel-Sannit / Politico:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders to chronicle her White House tenure in a memoir
Discussion: Axios
Julio Rosas / Washington Examiner:
Biden's eye fills with blood during CNN climate town hall  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden's left eye appeared to have a blood vessel burst while he was participating in CNN's town hall on climate change.  —  Biden, 76, has long been plagued by health issues.
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Seven.  Freaking.  Hours.  —  CNN bodyslammed America with climate coverage last night.  Here's what happened.  —  If you've followed my work at all for the last six years, you know that I frequently complain about the lack of climate coverage on major television news networks.
New York Times:
Biden Caught Off Guard by Question on Fund-Raiser's Fossil Fuel Ties  —  The former vice president, at a climate change forum, seemed surprised by a question about the host of one of his fund-raisers.  His campaign denied the man was an industry executive.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. seemed …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's war on reality enters bizarre new terrain  —  Specifically: A not-exactly-hurricane-ravaged Alabama.  —  Hurricane Dorian seemed poised to slam directly into Florida as recently as last Thursday.  Projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed a track …
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Washington Post:
President Trump shows doctored hurricane chart. Was it to cover up for ‘Alabama’ Twitter flub?
The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Anxiety Grows Over a Rising Elizabeth Warren  —  They once thought they'd delivered the political kill shot.  But now GOP operatives are complaining that nothing sticks to Warren.  —  Over the summer, Trumpworld operatives, Republican Party oppo researchers …
Discussion: Hot Air
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans fear drubbing in next round of redistricting  —  Democrats were caught napping in the 2010 election ahead of the last round of redistricting — and it cost them control of Congress for nearly a decade.  —  Now Republicans are warning the same thing could happen to them.
Discussion: NBC News
Tom LoBianco / Yahoo News:
Tensions mount between Trump, Pence camps heading into 2020 election  —  WASHINGTON — When Vice President Mike Pence flew to Europe as the stand-in for President Trump at the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, it appeared to be another sign that the famously fickle president trusted his vice president.
Discussion: Splinter, Progress Pond and Raw Story
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
How Trump's post-presidential Twitter feed could shape the future of the Republican Party  —  President Trump has remade the Republican Party in his own image, but whether the party will survive in its current form, or get remade again once he leaves office, is the source of great debate.
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
Why Was the FBI Incurious About a Hot Collusion Tip Involving This Man?  —  Even after the 2016 presidential election, Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele and company kept coming up with allegations that Donald Trump and his campaign had conspired with the Kremlin.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Williamson: Left shouldn't mock people who think prayers can turn away hurricanes  —  Marianne Williamson chided people who mocked her for a since-deleted tweet in which she argued the “power of the mind” kept Hurricane Dorian from doing more damage Wednesday.
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Windsor Mann / USA Today:
Trump congratulates Poland on the anniversary of Nazi invasion  —  Trump has a history of historical ignorance.  Sometimes, that ignorance results in an international embarrassment.  —  CONNECT  —  To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, President Donald Trump did what any world leader would do.
Discussion: Washington Post
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump attacks actress Debra Messing after she pushed to out his donors  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday amplified accusations of McCarthyism leveled at actress Debra Messing after the “Will & Grace” star made a public plea for a list of Trump donors in Hollywood and disparaged black Trump voters.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
New York Times:
CNN Climate Town Hall: Here's What You Need to Know  — Ten Democratic presidential candidates presented their plans for tackling climate change in a seven-hour CNN town hall on global warming.  — Almost all of the candidates have a goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the U.S. economy by 2050 …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren, at Climate Town Hall, Says Action Must Focus on 3 Industries
Discussion: NPR and Vox
Tim Balk / New York Daily News:
Bernie Sanders tells squealing baby to pipe down at campaign stop  —  Bernie Sanders slipped into a bit of a Larry David moment on the campaign trail Tuesday, grumbling at a squealing baby to pipe down.  —  “If we could keep that down a little bit,” the Vermont senator said in a moment captured …
Discussion: Political Wire and Splinter
Brianna Calix / Sacramento Bee:
Devin Nunes' campaign drops lawsuit against constituents who claimed he was a fake farmer  —  The campaign for Devin Nunes on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit against the people who accused the Republican congressman of being a “fake farmer” and tried to get his ballot designation removed.
Discussion: Roll Call and The Daily Caller
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Kimberly Dozier / TIME:
Exclusive: Secretary of State Pompeo Declines to Sign Risky Afghan Peace Deal  —  The U.S. is closing in on a deal with the Taliban that is designed to wind down America's 18-year war in Afghanistan, but the best indication of how risky the pact may be is this: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
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Washington Post:
One American, one Romanian soldier killed in bombing claimed by Taliban in Kabul
Discussion: News Breaking
Cory Turner / NPR:
Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break.  Education Dept. Rejected 99% Of Them  —  Toggle more options  —  A new report from a government watchdog, first obtained obtained by NPR, says an expanded effort by Congress to forgive the student loans of public servants is remarkably unforgiving.
Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
China, U.S. to resume trade talks in Washington in October  —  BEIJING — China said Thursday its trade representatives will fly to Washington in early October to resume negotiations with the United States, raising the possibility that both sides might arrest a recent deterioration …
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Republicans Think Democrats Want A Recession.  Polling Shows They Don't.  —  Just 9% of Democrats hope the economy tanks, but a plurality of Americans are expecting a recession.  —  It didn't take long after the U.S. economy showed signs of a potential economic downturn for conservative media figures …
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
ISIS, Weakened, Finds New Bombers: Cows Wearing Explosive Vests  —  The Islamic State has been reluctant to use humans to carry bombs because of the group's reduced numbers, so it has tried out a new tactic: Bovine suicide bombers.  —  Residents of Al Islah, Iraq, on Saturday said they had witnessed …
Discussion: Task & Purpose and Breitbart
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that a federal government database that compiles people deemed to be “known or suspected terrorists” violates the rights of American citizens who are added to the watchlist …
Rick Wilson / USA Today:
Policy papers are a delusion, Democrats.  This is a Trump referendum and you're blowing it.  —  Tough love for my Democratic friends: All their 2020 nominee needs is a short, pithy slogan and the ability to cure the infection Trump has given us.  —  CONNECT
Discussion: The Root
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Forget Trump 2020, Worry About Don Jr. 2024  —  Think about the 2024 race, when Republicans are trying wash the Trump stink off of them.  And watch as Trump Jr.—or maybe Trump himself—reapplies it.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  In the era of Donald Trump, the Republican Party has become hilariously …
Discussion: Raw Story
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN, Human Rights Campaign to host Democratic presidential town hall focused on LGBTQ issues  —  (CNN)The Human Rights Campaign Foundation announced Thursday it will host a CNN Democratic presidential town hall in California this fall focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer issues.
 
 
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