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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Legal challenge to Arpaio pardon begins  —  After President Trump's pardon of ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of criminal contempt for violating a court order designed to stop the violation of the constitutional rights of suspected illegal immigrants, conventional wisdom …
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Arizona Republic:
Judge won't vacate former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's contempt conviction without oral arguments … U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton canceled former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's upcoming sentencing hearing for his criminal contempt-of-court conviction, telling attorneys not to file replies to motions …
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant  —  WASHINGTON — In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June, an influential Washington think tank learned what can happen when a tech giant that shapes public policy debates …
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New America:   New America's Response to the New York Times
Alan Fram / Associated Press:
The Latest: GOP eyeing $1B disaster funds cut to help wall  —  https://www.apnews.com/83e6782d48e04993 a741b834771c078b  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Congress (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump is promising billions …
Discussion: ABC News, Hullabaloo and Booman Tribune
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Breitbart goes to war on vulnerable GOP senator who dared criticize Trump  —  Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has been a reliable vote for Trump's agenda, but his mild criticism has put him on the enemies list of pro-Trump media.  —  When Steve Bannon left his position as Donald Trump's chief strategist earlier …
Discussion: Breitbart, Jacobin, Infowars and VDARE
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Pittsburgh focus group tanks Trump
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
NBC Insider: ‘Total Panic’ Over Megyn Kelly's Morning Show … Four weeks before the Sept. 25 debut of Megyn Kelly Today—the 9 a.m. replacement for the venerable morning show's third hour, Today's Take—some NBC insiders are expressing doubts, and even worries, about the network news division's plan …
Discussion: Althouse
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David Edwards / Raw Story:   NBC in ‘total panic’ as Megyn Kelly attracts only old white people after firing popular black host Tamron Hall
Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Trumka: Some White House trade backers ‘turned out to be racist’  —  AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said Wednesday morning that some White House aides who support protectionist trade policies “turned out to be racist,” after President Donald Trump held a news conference blaming both sides …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Ari Fleischer: ‘Empathy’ for Harvey victims missing from Trump remarks
Discussion: IJR and The Guardian
Tevi Troy / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Reassuring Hurricane Response
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
Houston is paying the price for public officials' ignorance  —  (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via Associated Press)  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP assured the nation over the weekend that he is “closely monitoring” the disaster in Texas.  “We have an all out effort going, and going well!” he tweeted.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
How to Get Rich in Trump's Washington  —  His presidency has changed the rules of influence in the nation's capital — and spawned a new breed of lobbyist on K Street.  —  As for so many other people, election night did not pan out quite the way Robert Stryk expected.
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Presidential Pardons Might Not End Russia Prosecutions  —  President Donald Trump's unusual pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, issued before his federal case was even finished, has sparked a debate over whether the president could end Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe with a spate of pre-emptive pardons.
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NBC News:
In Pittsburgh, Voters Express Disappointment in Trump
Callum Paton / Newsweek:
IVANKA BACKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN TO SCRAP OBAMA RULES PREVENTING PAY DISCRIMINATION  —  The White House, with the backing of Ivanka Trump, will end an Obama-era policy that would have required business owners to document how much they pay their workers alongside their gender, race and ethnicity.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, IJR, Shareblue and AOL
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The incredible shrinking president  —  As President Trump formally launches his tax-reform drive this afternoon with a no-details, “vision-casting” speech in Springfield, Missouri, the self-inflicted wounds of the past 222 days are adding up.  (Speech preview here, off embargo at 6 a.m.)
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mina Kimes / ESPN:
The Search For Aaron Rodgers … Photographs by Randall Slavin  —  After the game, Aaron Rodgers got on the bus.  It was unusually cold in Arlington during the week leading up to Super Bowl XLV; a winter storm had barreled into Texas, blanketing Cowboys Stadium with so much snow that slabs of ice cascaded from the roof.
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Mattis responds to Trump: US ‘never out of diplomatic solutions’ on North Korea  —  on Wednesday sought to downplay President Trump's earlier assertion that seemed to rule out a diplomatic solution to North Korea's ongoing missile tests.  —  “The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years.
Discussion: RedState and Politico
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Yes, antifa is the moral equivalent of neo-Nazis  —  “Anti-fascist” members gather Sunday in Berkeley, Calif. (Amy Osborne/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)  —  Last weekend in Berkeley, Calif., a group of neo-communist antifa — “anti-fascist” — thugs attacked peaceful protesters at a …
Discussion: IJR
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple Plans to Change the Way You Use the Next iPhone  —  Premium device is said to come with new gesture controls to replace home button, taller screen with rounded corners.  —  Apple Inc. plans to transform the way people use its next high-end iPhone by eliminating the concept …
Albert Samaha / BuzzFeed:
Joel Osteen's Megachurch Says It Didn't Open Its Doors To Houston Evacuees Because The City Didn't Ask It To  —  Hundreds of evacuees and volunteers filled Lakewood Church within hours of its doors opening for relief efforts, leaving many still wondering what took so long in the first place.
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Kate Bowler / Washington Post:   Here's why people hate Joel Osteen
John Branch / New York Times:
ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field  —  LONG BEACH, Calif. — If Ed Cunningham had not already seen enough, he would be back in a broadcast booth on Saturday afternoon, serving as the color analyst for another top college football game televised on ABC or ESPN.
Discussion: USA Today and Deadspin
John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Feinstein surprises SF crowd by expressing hope for Trump  —  U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein shocks an audience in San Francisco saying Trump could be a good president.  Elizabeth Keatinge (@elizkeatinge) has more.  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein may be San Francisco's favorite politician …
CNN:
When a furniture showroom becomes a storm shelter  —  Richmond, Texas (CNN)David and Maria Parks sit for hours on a sofa, intently watching news footage of flooding in Houston.  This couch is the only place they have left to go for now.  —  The Parks and about 300 other evacuees are taking refuge …
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Mattis freezes transgender policy; allows troops to continue serving, pending study  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late Tuesday announced that transgender troops will be allowed to continue serving in the military pending the results of a study by experts.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Military Service by Transgender Individuals
 
 
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Wfla Web / WFLA-TV:
VIDEO: Truck slams into Pasco Co. deputies, woman
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CNN:
Peskov: Trump lawyer wrote to Kremlin, got no response
Discussion: Bloomberg and emptywheel
Katy McLaughlin / Wall Street Journal:
Bill and Hillary Clinton's Hamptons Summer Rental Sells
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices
Discussion: Daily Wire
Melinda Henneberger / Kansas City Star:
Trump's Missouri supporters weigh in on Trump: It's complicated
 Earlier Items: 
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Family of Boy Who Wears Dresses Sues Education Department
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Majority opposes government shutdown for border wall
Discussion: Politico, TheBlaze and RedState
Sarah Anderson / New York Times:
It's a Myth That Corporate Tax Cuts Mean More Jobs
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's shrinking West Wing
Annie Karni / Politico:
Melania's stiletto sideshow