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2:45 PM ET, September 11, 2019

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White House Pressed Agency to Repudiate Weather Forecasters Who Contradicted Trump — WASHINGTON — The White House was directly involved in pressing a federal scientific agency to repudiate the weather forecasters who contradicted President Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian would probably strike Alabama …

Discussion: Politico, CNN, The Atlantic, Raw Story, Political Wire, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Morning Consult, Denver Post and NPR

Washington Post:

President Trump ordered staff to correct statement that contradicted his inaccurate Alabama hurricane claim — Lawmakers, Commerce Department launch investigations into NOAA's decision to back President Trump over forecasters — President Trump told his staff that the National Oceanic …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Mother Jones and Axios

John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America:
Fox News has basically ignored stories related to Trump's corruption

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Shareblue Media and Sunlight Foundation

Raleigh News & Observer:

House overrides budget veto in surprise vote with almost half of lawmakers absent — In a surprise move Wednesday morning, the N.C. House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the state budget with just over half of the 120 members present to vote.

Discussion: U.S. Political News …, Daily Kos, Washington Press, Shareblue Media, The Week, Associated Press, Raw Story and Law & Crime

Jonathan Allen / NBC News:

Alarm bells should be ringing at Trump HQ after N.C. House scare — Analysis: It's always better to win than lose — but Republicans holding onto a GOP seat by a hair is reason for the president to worry heading into 2020. — Does a tight win for NC Republican Dan Bishop spell 2020 trouble for Trump?

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Nation, The Daily Dot, Progress Pond, Washington Free Beacon, Shareblue Media, Axios and Daily Wire

Sean Collins / Vox:
Trump is trying to discredit recent polls because he's losing in nearly all of them

Discussion: Washington Post, emersonpolling.com and Politico

CBS17.com: NC House Republicans override Gov. Cooper's budget veto while he's at 9/11 memorial event

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Why Republicans shouldn't breathe a sigh of relief after N.C. win

Discussion: Associated Press, Power Line, Salon, FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post

Axios:

Bolton's chaotic White House departure — The last time National Security Adviser John Bolton spoke with President Donald Trump was Monday afternoon around 2 p.m. in the Oval Office — offering to resign — about 22 hours before the president's Tuesday tweet suggesting that he had fired Bolton …

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, Breitbart, Raw Story, TheBlaze and The Week

Joseph Cirincione / LobeLog:
The Catastrophic Tenure of John Bolton

Discussion: Bloomberg, The Guardian and The Week

Steve Holland / Reuters: Three Bolton aides submit their resignations at White House

Eliza Relman / Business Insider:
Meet Charlie Kupperman, Trump's acting national security adviser who advised a group …

Discussion: CNN, Fox News and New York Times

Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Top Bolton aide out at White House

Discussion: Axios and The Daily Beast

Jeff Poor / Breitbart:
FNC's Tucker Carlson: Potential Bolton Replacement Brian Hook 'an Unapologetic Neocon …

Discussion: Axios

New York Times:
‘Trump Unplugged’: A President as His Own National Security Adviser

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic and Washington Post

Domenico Montanaro / NPR:

Poll: Democrats Most Like Warren, But Voters Overall Are Lukewarm On Democrats, Trump — Toggle more options — Elizabeth Warren is on the rise among Democratic voters, but she and other Democrats are less popular with the overall electorate, raising concerns about a bruising primary …

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Times and Political Wire

Ryan Lizza / Politico:

Biden camp thinks the media just doesn't get it — The first thing you notice at a Joe Biden event is the age: Many of the reporters covering him are really young. Biden is not. The press corps, or so the Biden campaign sees it, is culturally liberal and highly attuned to modern issues around race and gender and social justice.

Discussion: Washington Post, Common Dreams, One America News Network, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Week

Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:

Amy Klobuchar Is Tired of Debate Questions About Other Candidates — The Minnesota senator has been frustrated by debate moderators' tactic asking her to attack policies by her progressive rivals in the Democratic presidential primary. — WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar keeps having …

Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
How to Lose the Revolution

Discussion: NBC News and ABC News

ProPublica:

The Myths of the “Genius” Behind Trump's Reelection Campaign — Brad Parscale has said he's taking a relative pittance to run the president's reelection operation. But as with much of what Parscale has claimed about his work and life, that's not the full story. This is.

Discussion: Washington Post, Texas Monthly, Bleeding Heartland, Raw Story and Splinter

Kamini Ramdeen / AOL.com:

President Trump sparks anger with ‘never forget’ 9/11 tweet — President Donald Trump drew ire on Twitter Wednesday morning with the way he marked the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. — Trump shared a photograph of himself and first lady Melania Trump …

Discussion: U.S. Political News …

Daniel Byman / Foreign Policy:
It's Hard to Commemorate 9/11 If You Don't Understand It.

Discussion: New York Times

James Barron / New York Times:
Live Updates: Remembering Those Lost 18 Years Ago on 9/11

Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart, RedState, Patterico's Pontifications, Louder With Crowder, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, Jihad Watch, Fox News, NB Blog and TheBlaze

Julio Rosas / Washington Examiner:
Son of 9/11 victim slams Ilhan Omar at NYC remembrance event: ‘Show respect in honoring them’

Discussion: Townhall, Washington Free Beacon, Victory Girls Blog, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit

Cheryl Hall / Dallas Morning News:

T. Boone Pickens, larger-than-life energy tycoon and OSU diehard, dies at 91 — Pickens had an energy career that went from laborer to tycoon — and the Oklahoma State benefactor was among the few business elites granted “dual citizenship” on both sides of the Red River.

Monique O. Madan / Miami Herald:

12-year-old Bahamian girl separated from parents, ends up in Miami home for migrant kids — A 12-year-old Bahamian girl was separated from family at a South Florida airport after fleeing the destruction of Hurricane Dorian and was sent by U.S. Customs officials to a Miami Gardens shelter for abused or abandoned children.

Zamira Rahim / The Independent:

India builds detention camps for up to 1.9m people ‘stripped of citizenship’ in Assam — Ten centres ‘planned’ across northeastern state after national register published — The Indian government is building mass detention camps after almost two million people were told they could be effectively stripped of citizenship.

Discussion: Common Dreams, New York Times and The Nation

Washington Post:

Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world — LA CORONILLA, Uruguay — The day the yellow clams turned black is seared in Ramón Agüero's memory. — It was the summer of 1994. A few days earlier, he had collected a generous haul, 20 buckets of the thin-shelled …

Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:

No One Should Take Black Voters for Granted — Recent research shows that a crucial bloc of Democrats is at once more moderate and more radical than its counterparts. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.

Discussion: Politico and YouGov

Quint Forgey / Politico:

Trashing Fed ‘Boneheads,’ Trump calls for central bank to cut interest rates to ‘ZERO’ — President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on the Federal Reserve to slash U.S. interest rates “down to ZERO,” admonishing chairman Jerome Powell and other leaders of the U.S. central bank as “Boneheads.”

Discussion: New York Times, Vanity Fair, One America News Network and Raw Story

Washington Post: Trump says ‘boneheads’ at Fed should cut interest rates to zero — or even set negative rates

Washington Post:

President Trump trails potential Democratic challengers in 2020 test — President Trump overcame formidable odds and discouraging poll numbers to win the White House in 2016. More than a year out from the 2020 election, it appears he might have to repeat that performance to win a second term …

Discussion: Fox News, CNN, VICE, Raw Story, Daily Wire and Political Wire

Boston Herald:

Bernie Sanders jumps to the lead in NH: Franklin Pierce-Herald poll shows — Former Vice President Joe Biden has lost his lead in New Hampshire with U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders jumping ahead in what is now clearly a three-person race for the Democratic primary, a new Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll shows.

Discussion: Political Wire

Alex Pareene / New Republic:

ThinkProgress Was Always Doomed — The site ThinkProgress, long a stalwart among left-leaning news organizations, was shuttered last week by its owner, the Center for American Progress (CAP), who laid off the remaining members of the staff that hadn't been absorbed into the larger company.

Discussion: Splinter and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Michael Marot / Associated Press:

NCAA urges California governor not to sign ‘fair pay’ bill — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA Board of Governors wants California Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject a new attempt to pay college athletes. — And it is prepared to take the fight to court if necessary.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times

Karl Etters / Tallahassee Democrat:

Tallahassee police identify suspect in stabbing that injured five at Dyke Industries — The man who allegedly stabbed several people this morning at a west-side Tallahassee business has been identified as Antwann D. Brown, a current employee at Dyke Industries.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, USA Today, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and New York Times

Matthew Jacobs / HuffPost:

The Steady Cultural Demise Of ‘American Beauty’ — How the Best Picture winner, which turns 20 this year, went from esteemed suburban satire to widespread punchline. — When “American Beauty” nabbed the Oscar for Best Picture in March 2000, its win seemed forward-thinking.