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2:40 PM ET, September 5, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called on Congress to replace the policy with legislation before it fully expires on March 5, 2018.
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Speaker.gov:
Statement on DACA Program  —  WASHINGTON—House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement following the Trump administration's announcement to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
Urgent DACA legislation is both an economic imperative and humanitarian necessity  —  We are deeply disappointed by the administration's decision today to rescind protection under the program for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).  As we said last week, we believe this is a big step back for our entire country.
New York Times:
On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path  —  WASHINGTON — For months, an anxious and uncertain President Trump was caught between opposing camps in the West Wing prodding him to either scrap or salvage an Obama-era program allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors to remain in the United States.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Fight over Dreamers to test Bannon's juice outside the White House  —  Before strategist Steve Bannon's departure from the White House last month, aides to President Donald Trump quietly worried what kind of damage he would inflict from the outside.  Some invoked President Lyndon Johnson …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Sessions announces end of DACA  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Trump administration is ending DACA, the Obama-era program to shield some illegal immigrants, who arrived in the U.S. as children, from deportation.  —  In an accompanying press release …
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump administration announces end of immigration protection program for ‘dreamers’
Politico:
Full text: Jeff Sessions on Trump ending DACA program
Discussion: ABC News
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Staffers worried Trump didn't fully grasp consequences of ending DACA: report
Discussion: RedState and The Stranger …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
To End DACA, Follow the Constitution
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
Catastrophic Hurricane Irma — now a Cat 5 — is on a collision course with Florida  —  Hurricane Irma is an “extremely dangerous” Category 5, barreling toward the northern Lesser Antilles and Southern Florida.  It's already the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico …
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CNN:
Hurricane Irma is a ‘potentially catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
The Moscow Times:
Putin Says Trump Is Not His Wife  —  Actors in prosthetic make-up portraying Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump  —  President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it would be misplaced to talk of “disappointment” in the context of U.S. President Donald Trump, because the two leaders are not married.
Discussion: Business Insider and IJR
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Oleg Matsnev / New York Times:
Trump Is ‘Not My Bride,’ Putin Says
Discussion: CNN, RT and Washington Free Beacon
Lucy Pasha-Robinson / The Independent:
Russian politician says 'let's hit Trump with our Kompromat' on state TV
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Putin says Trump 'not my bride, and I'm not his groom'
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Mediaite
Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
Putin Says Trump's ‘Not My Bride,’ But Still Hopes for Detente
Bloomberg:
Key Trump Aide's Departure Rattles President's Allies  —  Aide has worked for Trump since 1999 and is a close confidant  —  President Donald Trump's allies are worried that the most damaging of the many recent departures from his White House may be that of Keith Schiller …
Wall Street Journal:
Congress Faces a Tense Agenda, With Little Margin for Error  —  After a summer recess, Congress must grapple with keeping the government open, paying U.S. creditors and passing a hurricane-aid bill—a test of the uneasy alliance between the president and the GOP
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Pessimism abounds on Trump tax reform effort
NBC News:
The Bannon Factor: GOP Should Brace for ‘Bloody September’
Dan Merica / CNN:
New Clinton book blasts Sanders for ‘lasting damage’ in 2016 race  —  Sanders booed after voicing support for Clinton  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton casts Bernie Sanders as an unrealistic over-promiser in her new book, according to excerpts posted by a group of Clinton supporters.
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CNN:
Intensifying Russia probes could pit Hill against Mueller  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Lawyers working with a team led by special counsel Robert Mueller approached the Senate intelligence committee this summer with a request: They wanted the transcript of an interview Senate staff …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Spicer lands post-White House gig  —  Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.”  —  President Donald Trump's first press secretary — who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July but celebrated his official last day in the West Wing on Aug. 31 — has signed with Worldwide Speakers Group …
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Conservative publisher wants nothing more to do with Times  —  https://apnews.com/58606fa07433442ba470 a91d374f8926  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A company that publishes books by Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and other conservative authors says it wants nothing to do anymore …
Virginia Coyne / Washington Life Magazine:
Exclusive Interview: Louise Linton Gets Real  —  “I deserved the criticism,” the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says as she apologizes for the Instagram post seen 'round the world.  —  I first met Louise Linton in early August, two weeks before her name would dominate headlines — before she was likened to Cruella de Vil.
Washington Post:
‘If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?’  Undocumented workers could be key to Texas recovery. … HOUSTON — Everywhere Samuel Enríquez looks, he can see the work that needs to be done.  But because he is in the United States illegally, he knows he can't earn an official paycheck in this city's recovery.
Discussion: Axios and Raw Story
 
 
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Two Resistances  —  The quiet resistance — the one without black masks …
RADAR:
Huma SOBBED Over FBI Probe Into Hubby Weiner Sexting Minors, Hillary Reveals
Discussion: Daily Mail and Political Wire
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Curbelo: ‘Fringe’ GOPers Obsessed With Making Immigrants Scapegoats
Discussion: Daily Kos
BBC:
Neo-Nazi arrests: National Action suspects are in the Army
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Steve Bannon's meeting with Mark Meadows
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer
Jeanne Shaheen / New York Times:
The Russian Company That Is a Danger to Our Security
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Hurricane Harvey revealed the awesome power of real America
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Washington Post:
Utah hospital to cops: Stay away from our nurses
Discussion: Hit & Run, TheBlaze and CNN
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump has learned well from her father's cons
Politico:
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages?
Tyler Kingkade / BuzzFeed:
Betsy DeVos Is Planning A Major Title IX Announcement This Week
Discussion: The College Fix
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Menendez Trial Set to Begin With Tensions High and Washington Watching
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Impeaching Trump is a long shot. There's another way to protect the country.