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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 …
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Good Riddance to Steve Bannon  —  The country is better off with him out of the West Wing, but now Trump has to step up.  —  After departing his post as White House chief strategist last week, Steve Bannon told the Weekly Standard that “the Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over.”
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees  —  Confronted with a West Wing that treated policymaking as a free-for-all, President Donald Trump's chief of staff John Kelly is instituting a system used by previous administrations to limit internal competition —and to make himself …
Bloomberg:
General Kelly Commands the White House, But He Can't Control Trump  —  Charlottesville shows limits of Kelly's ability to manage boss  —  Chief of staff brings order but hasn't halted political damage  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
CNN:
Exclusive: Top Trump aide's email draws new scrutiny in Russia inquiry  —  Washington (CNN)Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials …
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 …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Will go-it-alone leave Trump empty-handed?
Discussion: Politico
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2018: Republican Edge Runs Up Against Trump, History  —  Beyond president's poor numbers lies difficulty of beating out-of-power party incumbents  —  Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency, 2018's race for the Senate seemed to pit two powerful, competing forces against one another …
Discussion: Latino Rebels
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The Hill:
7 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2018
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
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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James Barragán / Dallas Morning News:
Federal judge blocks further implementation of Texas' voter ID law
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Federal Court, Reaffirming Racially Discriminatory Purpose of Texas Voter ID Law, Blocks …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Off the Kuff
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.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Does Anybody Understand What These Never Trump Republicans Think They're Achieving?  —  What's the end game for these preening, posturing doofuses who call themselves Republicans, but who can't pass a CNN camera without slamming their party's president?  There is a lot of blue falconry …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Government shutdown chances rising by the day  —  Top White House and GOP leadership officials tell us the chances of a market-rattling government shutdown are rising by the day — and were even before Trump threatened at his raucous Phoenix rally on Tuesday night to use a shutdown as leverage to get funding for a border wall.
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Rabbis Protest Trump's Comments by Boycotting Conference Call  —  For years, the presidential conference calls were a nonpartisan holiday tradition: President Barack Obama would speak by phone with hundreds of rabbis in advance of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, in what participants described …
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
New York Times:
Christopher Cantwell, White Nationalist, Surrenders to the Police  —  A white nationalist whose behavior at the violent gatherings this month in Charlottesville, Va., brought him notoriety after he was featured in a widely viewed documentary, has turned himself into the authorities in Virginia days …
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
Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Russia's Sudan Ambassador Found Dead  —  Russia's ambassador to Sudan, a career diplomat with decades of service, was found dead at his Khartoum home on Wednesday, Russian and Sudanese officials reported.  —  The death of the ambassador, Mirgayas Shirinsky, who was in his early 60s …
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.
John Blake / CNN:
‘White supremacists by default’: How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible  —  ‘White advocate’ made same arguments as Trump  —  (CNN)Blame President Trump for his tepid moral response.  Call the neo-Nazis and white nationalists thugs.  Fill your Facebook and Twitter accounts with moral outrage.
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Georgia governor expects lawmakers to plunge into Civil War debate next year  —  Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said he's leaving it up to lawmakers next year to decide how to handle the growing debate about the more than 100 Civil War monuments scattered across the state.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Republican Establishment Stands Behind Trump  —  President Trump's response to the deadly white-supremacist protests in Charlottesville earlier this month sparked a fierce national backlash, drawing rebukes from elected officials, corporate executives, military leaders, clergy, and—according to a new poll—a majority of Americans.
Discussion: Washington Post
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
We're Journalists, Mr. Trump, Not the Enemy  —  Sigh.  If only President Trump denounced neo-Nazis as passionately and sincerely as he castigates journalists.  —  What could be an easier task than distancing oneself from Nazis or violent white supremacists?
Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Trump vs. crooks, liars and the liberal media  —  President Trump's speech in Phoenix brought out the usual cast of misfits and miscreants.  —  And no, I'm not just referring to the “Antifa” anarchists who were, for the most part, denied their typical practice of wielding clubs …
Dana Liebelson / HuffPost:
Infrastructure Advisers Quit, Say Trump's Actions Threaten Homeland Security  —  “You failed to denounce the intolerance and violence of hate groups,” the resigning members wrote.  —  WASHINGTON Another White House council has taken a hit after President Donald Trump's controversial response …
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 …
Roxanne Jones / CNN:
Why ESPN and Robert Lee are right  — Roxanne Jones: We want to pretend sports are a sanctuary from world's ugly problems, but that has always been a farce  — ESPN and Robert Lee's mutual decision to switch games is not unreasonable in today's America, Jones writes
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 …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
How Alan Dershowitz Went From Hillary Donor to Trump's Attack Dog on Russia … Alan Dershowitz—a liberal Harvard law professor and ardent backer of Hillary Clinton—has emerged as one of the Russia probe's most vocal critics.  —  He's likened the investigation to a KGB hunt …
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.
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 …
 
 
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
California Democrats lead attack over Trump's mental health
Discussion: Axios
Kyle Smith / National Review:
The Left Opens Fire on Columbus Statues
John Early / WVIR-TV:
Updated: Crews Cover Charlottesville's Confederate Statues
Discussion: New York's PIX11 and TheBlaze
Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
How Trump could ease the burden he's putting on the Secret Service
Discussion: The Week
Associated Press:
Energy Dept: Government should ease rules on power plants
Discussion: Axios
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Again breaking ground, Trump takes the permanent campaign to new heights
New York Times:
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Bloomberg:
Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
'I don't know how it got this bad': Trump supporters and protesters meet in Phoenix
Discussion: Vox
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Guardian: We expect Rep. Gianforte ‘to be a man of his word’
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CNN's Big Secret
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