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4:35 PM ET, August 31, 2017

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NBC News:
Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to ‘Donations’  —  WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort's notes from a controversial Trump Tower meeting with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign included the word “donations,” near a reference to the Republican National Committee …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC chief of staff resigns amid rash of departures  —  Sara Armstrong, the top staffer at the Republican National Committee, is departing, according to three people familiar with the move — the latest in a string of exits from the committee.  —  Armstrong, the RNC's chief of staff …
Bloomberg:
Kushners' China Deal Flop Was Part of Much Bigger Hunt for Cash  —  Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law and top adviser, wakes up each morning to a growing problem that will not go away.  His family's real estate business, Kushner Cos., owes hundreds of millions of dollars on a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue.
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump expected to halt Obama's program but allow some Dreamers to stay temporarily  —  WASHINGTON  —  President Donald Trump is expected to end an Obama-era program that shielded young people from deportation, but he will likely let the immigrants known as Dreamers stay in the United States until …
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Fox News:
Trump expected to announce end to Obama-era DACA, official says  —  President Trump, as early as Friday, is expected to announce plans to end the Obama administration program that gave a deportation reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants, a senior administration official told Fox News.
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Trump to end DACA: report
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Poll: Most Oppose Trump's Pardon for Ex-Sheriff Arpaio, Booting ‘Dreamers’
Discussion: Vox, Liberal Values, Balloon Juice and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Attorneys Lay Out Arguments Against Obstruction-of-Justice Probe to Mueller  —  In meetings and memos, lawyers argue president didn't obstruct justice by firing former FBI Chief Comey  —  WASHINGTON—Lawyers for Donald Trump have met several times with Special Counsel Robert Mueller …
Discussion: Axios and Politicus USA
The Daily Beast:
The CEO of Laura Ingraham's LifeZette Won't Stop Talking About His Employees' ‘Boobs and Butts’ … LifeZette, the politics and culture website founded by prominent ally of President Donald Trump and longtime talk-radio host Laura Ingraham, is in trouble.  —  Traffic to the site …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Freedom Caucus leader warns: Don't attach Harvey aid to debt-ceiling increase  —  The leader of an influential group of House conservatives warned GOP leaders Thursday not to attach aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to an increase in the federal debt limit, a stance that could constrain Speaker Paul D. Ryan …
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Niv Elis / The Hill:
Conservative leader: Don't tie Harvey relief to debt ceiling  —  The chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus says aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey should not be part of a vehicle to raise the debt ceiling.  —  Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), an ally of President Trump who leads …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Harvey upends shutdown fight
Discussion: Axios and New York Magazine
Arturo Garcia / Snopes.com:
Was Barack Obama President During Hurricane Katrina?  —  Twitter users tried to pin the blame for Katrina relief issues on Obama, though he wasn't even president when it hit New Orleans. … CLAIM  —  Barack Obama was president when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005.  —  RATING  —  FALSE
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Who Will Fact-Check The Fact-Checkers?  —  [UPDATE: Snopes has inserted a semi-stealth revision to address (or discredit?) the critics.  More at STEALTH below.]  —  Snopes strikes again!  They have a vigorous rebuttal of the claim that  —  “Barack Obama was president when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005”.
Discussion: Mediaite
Eric Levenson / CNN:
Why we don't yet know Harvey's true toll
EndPlay / WSB-TV:
Officer to woman during traffic stop: ‘We only kill black people, right?’  —  COBB COUNTY, Ga. - Exclusive dash-cam video obtained by Channel 2 Action News caught an officer's interaction with a woman who said she was afraid to move her hands during a traffic stop.
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
This is the best photo Trump could find for “witnessing” hurricane devastation “first hand”  —  Donald Trump said he witnessed the devastation of Hurricane Harvey “first hand.”  —  He did not.  —  He did not even come close.  —  His Tuesday trip to Texas took him to Corpus Christi, several hundred miles away from Houston.
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William Axford / Houston Chronicle:
Sugar Land Pizza Hut workers deliver food to Hurricane Harvey victims by kayak
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump claimed he witnessed Harvey's devastation ‘first hand.’ The White House basically admits he didn't.
Aimee Green / Oregonian:
Owners must surgically ‘debark’ loud dogs, court rules  —  Gallery: Owners must debark dogs, court rules  —  The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a southern Oregon couple must quiet their incessantly barking dogs by sending them to the vet to have their voices surgically squelched.
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Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Oregon court: Couple must ‘debark’ dogs — cut their vocal cords — after neighbors complain
Discussion: The Daily Caller, WLS-AM 890 and CBS13
Houston Chronicle:
Explosions reported at flooded Crosby chemical plant  —  A fire broke out at the Arkema plant in Crosby early Thursday, following chemical explosions overnight that sent plumes of black smoke into the air.  —  Arkema officials warned that more explosions are likely because there are eight additional box vans …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump Raises an Army  —  I know that Harvey is heavy on America's heart.  —  It is certainly heavy on mine.  My oldest brother lives in the hard-hit suburban Houston town of Humble, just outside of George Bush Intercontinental Airport and on the shores of the Spring Creek and the west fork of the San Jacinto River.
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Anthea Butler / New York Times:
The Cheap Prosperity Gospel of Trump and Osteen
Discussion: Religion News Service
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Mnuchin: Treasury could scrap plans to replace Jackson on $20 bill  —  said Thursday that the Treasury Department could scrap plans finalized under President Barack Obama  —  to replace President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman.
Discussion: Politico, Axios and twitchy.com
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Mnuchin: We have a ‘very detailed’ tax plan ready
Discussion: New York Magazine
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
‘God drowned all the neo-Nazis of Texas’: French magazine Charlie Hebdo prints controversial cover depicting Harvey victims as white supremacists  — French magazine Charlie Hebdo's latest edition includes a cover depicting Texans who drowned in the flood waters of Tropical Storm Harvey as Nazis
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Lucas Nolan / Breitbart:
Cernovich Sources: White House ‘Coup’ Underway, Trump ‘Under House Arrest’  —  Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow spoke to journalist Mike Cernovich on Breitbart News Daily this morning discussing the Trump presidency, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's influence, and the possibility …
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Republican calls for vandals of Confederate monument to be lynched  —  In a Facebook post published Wednesday, Missouri Rep. Warren Love (R) expressed hope that the people responsible for vandalizing a Confederate monument in Springfield National Cemetery will be found and lynched.
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
SPLC Says Army Bases Are Confederate Monuments That Need To Come Down
Discussion: Daily Wire and IJR
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
CONFIRMED: Comey Decided He Wasn't Going to Refer Hillary For Prosecution Long Before FBI Investigation Was Over  —  According to new transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Thursday afternoon, former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer then Democrat presidential …
Discussion: IJR
Joe Nocera / Bloomberg:
The Militarization of the Hamptons  —  Why is a heavily armed counterterrorism force patrolling the parties of the rich and famous?  —  A few weeks ago, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival held one of its occasional outdoor concerts at a nearby Long Island winery.
Heather Nauert / US Department of State:
Achieving Parity in Diplomatic Missions  —  Press Statement  —  Department Spokesperson  —  Washington, DC  —  The United States has fully implemented the decision by the Government of the Russian Federation to reduce the size of our mission in Russia.
Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities  —  Left-wing nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to top management  —  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence …
Wall Street Journal:
Identity Politics Are Tearing America Apart  —  Political leaders should focus on the common good.  Floodwaters and rotting bridges don't discriminate.  —  The two of us have seen this before: a critical point in U.S. history, when political, social and economic upheavals have left …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
TheBlaze:
A message from Glenn Beck: A heavy heart and the road ahead  —  What happened?  My heart is heavy today.  —  You might have noticed that recently something has been bothering me.  —  Today, we said goodbye to just over 20 percent of the combined workforce of Mercury Radio Arts and TheBlaze …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Sara A. Carter / Circa:
A former FBI agent battling Deputy Director McCabe said there is a ‘cancer’ inside the FBI
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alanna Vagianos / HuffPost:
White House Quietly Removes Sexual Assault Report From Website
Discussion: The Root
Graham Moomaw / www.richmond.com:
McAuliffe: Funding Richmond schools more important than taking down Confederate monuments
Discussion: The Daily Caller
William Neuman / New York Times:
Ordering Review of Statues Puts de Blasio in Tricky Spot
Jack Heretik / Washington Free Beacon:
Morning Joe Slams Democrats for Not Having a ‘Unifying Message’: ‘What Has Happened to This Party?’
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Kip Hill / Spokesman.com:
Lisa Brown, former lawmaker and WSU chancellor, announces 2018 run for Congress
Discussion: The Stranger …
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Petition to Declare George Soros a Terrorist is One of Most Popular on WhiteHouse.gov
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
BLS: Americans Spend More on Taxes Than Food and Clothing Combined
Bloomberg:
Harry Reid Sought White House Help for Menendez Donor, DOJ Says
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
John Bowden / The Hill:
Voters deeply disapprove of Trump, House leaders: poll
Discussion: The Daily Caller and RedState
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
'I'm a g*ddamn human being': Crying white supremacist Cantwell stuck in jail — and really hates his nickname
 

 
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