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Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban  —  Guidelines expected to direct Pentagon to stop admitting transgender people, gives Mattis power to remove those serving  —  Following President Donald Trump's announcement to ban open transgender service in the military …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Trump clashed with multiple GOP senators over Russia  —  President Donald Trump privately vented his frustration over Russia-related matters with at least two other Republican senators this month, according to people familiar with the conversations — in addition to the president's public admonishments …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Wall Street Journal Editor Admonishes Reporters Over Trump Coverage  —  Gerard Baker, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, has faced unease and frustration in his newsroom over his stewardship of the newspaper's coverage of President Trump, which some journalists there say has lacked toughness and verve.
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's 57 most outrageous quotes from his Arizona speech  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump went to Arizona on Tuesday night and delivered what has now become a trademark speech: Full of invective, victimhood and fact-free retellings of recent historical events.
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Trump snubbed missing US sailors during Arizona speech, referenced himself nearly 250 times
Discussion: Grist, IJR, Mashable and ABC News
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Trump Goes Off-Script in Hour-Long Public Meltdown
Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Wire and ABC News
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Trump huddled Tuesday to plot primary against Sen. Jeff Flake  —  (CNN) President Donald Trump huddled privately with potential Republican primary challengers to Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake before taking the stage in Phoenix on Tuesday night.  —  The backstage meeting included former state GOP …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump met with potential Flake challengers before Phoenix rally
Discussion: Business Insider and CNN
Jim Malewitz / The Texas Tribune:
Federal judge tosses new Texas voter ID law; state plans to appeal  —  A federal judge has tossed out a new law softening Texas' strict voter identification requirements.  Texas' attorney general says he will appeal the ruling.  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Federal Court, Reaffirming Racially Discriminatory Purpose of Texas Voter ID Law, Blocks …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
James Barragán / Dallas Morning News:
Federal judge blocks further implementation of Texas' voter ID law
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House has paperwork ready for Joe Arpaio pardon  —  (CNN) The White House has prepared the paperwork for President Trump to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio when he makes the final decision to do so, CNN has learned.  —  An administration official said the White House …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Fashion brands turn their backs on Steve Mnuchin's wife  —  MORE FROM: … Luxury fashion labels are distancing themselves from Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, after she posted a picture of herself stepping off a government plane in designer clothes and then went …
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why Ben Carson's appearance in Phoenix was likely a violation of federal law  —  Right before Ben Carson took the stage at President Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night, the announcer introduced him.  —  “The secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Discussion: AOL and Daily Kos
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
He wore Confederate dress to Charlottesville.  He got two middle fingers and possible expulsion from college.  —  The following is a retelling based on contemporary accounts of a confrontation in Charlottesville between two middle fingers and a Confederate flag.
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
'I don't know how it got this bad': Trump supporters and protesters meet in Phoenix  —  PHOENIX — Just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, at an intersection near the convention center where President Trump was scheduled to hold a campaign rally, two vendors hawked products with competing messages.
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Nassim Benchaabane / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS  • Police and a witness gave differing versions of how protesters were injured when a driver pulled into a group that had blocked an intersection on Wednesday night.  —  The witness, Keith Rose, said the driver had his middle fingers raised before he accelerated through the group …
Discussion: FOX2now.com, ABC News and Splinter
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Guardian: We expect Rep. Gianforte ‘to be a man of his word’  —  Civility prevailed at the June 12 sentencing hearing for Greg Gianforte.  Just weeks earlier, Gianforte, heading toward a successful bid for Montana's sole congressional seat, body-slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs instead …
Discussion: Axios
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Trump Takes Aim at the Press, With a Flamethrower  —  Every time you think President Trump's anti-press rhetoric can't get worse, he finds a way of surprising you and not surprising you all at the same time.  —  That he will attack journalists on a regular basis should be expected at this point, and it is.
Bloomberg:
Kushner Cos.  Switches to Crisis Manager for Media Relations  —  Finsbury's Eric Wachter replaces Risa Heller Communications  —  Kushner under federal scrutiny for firm's investment efforts  —  Kushner Cos., the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, has switched public relations firms …
Bloomberg:
Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming  —  HSBC, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley say end of market boom is nigh  —  Breakdown in trading patterns is signal to get out soon  —  HSBC Holdings Plc, Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley see mounting evidence that global markets are in the last stage …
The Hill:
7 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2018  —  Next year's midterm elections will provide Republicans with a major opportunity to build their majority in the Senate — if they can overcome President Trump's dismal approval ratings and internal party rancor.  —  The 2018 Senate map heavily …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CREW:
August 23, 2017: U.S. Department of Treasury - Mnuchin  —  CREW requests:  — copies of all records concerning authorization for and the costs of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's use of a government plane to travel to Lexington, Kentucky on Monday, August 21, accompanied by his wife Louise Linton.
Discussion: The Hill and Towleroad
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Again breaking ground, Trump takes the permanent campaign to new heights  —  President Trump gave supporters plenty to cheer about at a boisterous Phoenix rally on Tuesday.  (Rick Scuteri / Associated Press)  —  The permanent campaign has been a fixture of the modern presidency …
BBC:
Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters  —  A litter of piglets whose bacon was saved from a barn fire has been served up as dinner to the firefighters who rescued them.  —  The 18 piglets and two sows survived the fire in Wiltshire in February, which saw 60 tonnes of hay catch fire.
Tony Diaz / Latino USA:
OPINION: Arizona's Mexican American Studies Victory Gives Nation Some Hope for Future  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author and do not reflect the views of Latino USA.  —  In historic news on Monday, a U.S. District Court overturned Arizona's ban of Mexican American Studies (MAS).
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Federal Trade Commission:
Statement of Federal Trade Commission's Acting Director of the Bureau of Competition on the Agency's Review of Amazon.com, Inc.'s Acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc.  —  Bruce Hoffman, the Acting Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, issued this statement …
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Angelica LaVito / CNBC:
FTC allows Amazon, Whole Foods deal to proceed
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Ryan warns Trump not to shut down government over border security funding  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday rejected a threat by President Donald Trump to shut down the government to force Congress to approve funding for a border wall with Mexico.
Mitchell Gunter / Campus Reform:
Clemson prof: ‘All Republicans are racist scum’  — A Clemson University professor is labeling all Donald Trump supporters and Republicans as “racist scum,” demanding that they “denounce your affiliation, or admit you're a racist.”  — Professor Bart Knijnenburg even directly advocated violence …
Mike Rowe:
Off The Wall  —  Chuck Atkins says...  “One of the tenants of white nationalism is that college educated people are academic elitests.  Comment?  No?  I'm not surprised.  You never take a political stand because you don't want to alienate anybody.  Its bad for business.  I get it.
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
The Democrat running for Va. governor wants Confederate monuments to come down.  Republicans said he has turned his back on ‘heritage.’  —  RICHMOND — The Republican Party of Virginia said Wednesday that Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, whose ancestors once owned slaves and fought in the Civil War …
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
CNN's Big Secret  —  BREAKING: Host reveals that journalists don't like Trump.  —  Now it can be told.  A CNN host named Brian Stelter confided to his audience this week about conversations occurring off-camera and off the record across the media landscape.  According to Mr. Stelter:
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Trump hits four countries with visa sanctions
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Violence at Common rally detailed at arraignments
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Melissa Byrne / Washington Post:
I was detained for protesting Trump. Here's what the Secret Service asked me.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
German magazine cover shows Trump doing Nazi salute
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