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2:50 PM ET, September 6, 2017

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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Hurricane Irma just slammed into Trump's Caribbean estate — and is headed toward his Florida properties  —  A ferocious Hurricane Irma barreled early Wednesday morning across the Caribbean island of St. Martin, where President Trump owns a lavish waterfront estate, wrecking buildings …
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Virgin:
The night before Hurricane Irma arrives  —  We have just experienced a night of howling wind and rain as Hurricane Irma edges ever closer towards us on Necker and the British Virgin Islands. … The strength of this hurricane is unheard of.  I've just been reading reports from the BBC …
CNN:
Hurricane Irma slams Caribbean islands as it heads toward Puerto Rico  —  (CNN)An extremely dangerous Hurricane Irma smashed small northern Caribbean islands Wednesday morning as one of the strongest storms recorded in the Atlantic — and is on a path to hit parts of the British Virgin Islands …
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
My Analysis of the Hurricane Irma Panic
NHC Webmaster / NHC Atlantic Wallet 1:
Summary for Hurricane Irma (AT1/AL112017)
CNN:
Puerto Ricans stock up, brace for Irma
PRRI:
America's Changing Religious Identity  —  The American religious landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation.  White Christians, once the dominant religious group in the U.S., now account for fewer than half of all adults living in the country.  Today, fewer than half of all states are majority white Christian.
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Robert P. Jones / USA Today:
Fading white evangelicals have made a desperate end-of-life bargain with Trump  —  They are a grieving community.  After decades of equating growth with divine approval, they're on the losing side of demographics and LGBT rights.  —  CONNECT  —  One of the biggest mysteries …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:   White Christians become a minority as religious diversity grows
CNN:
Defiant Clinton looks to explain loss in new memoir  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)A raw and aggrieved Hillary Clinton takes ownership — to a degree — for her stunning 2016 loss to Donald Trump in her upcoming book, which offers a revealing look at the campaign through the eyes of the contest's loser.
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USA Today:
Trump gets millions from golf members.  CEOs and lobbyists get access to president  —  Dozens of lobbyists, contractors and others who make their living influencing the government pay President Trump's companies for membership in his private golf clubs, a status that can put them in close contact …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump sides with Democrats in debt limit, funding, Harvey deal  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday defied Republicans leaders and agreed to Democrats' demands to raise the debt limit and fund the government for three months, setting up a brutal year-end fiscal cliff.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
House passes $7.9 billion aid bill for Hurricane Harvey
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Trump, Dems reach deal on short-term funding, debt package
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Congress may not be able to deliver on ambitious agenda
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CNN
Max Boot / Washington Post:
I came to this country 41 years ago.  Now I feel like I don't belong here.  —  Max Boot is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the forthcoming book “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”  —  I am white.  I am Jewish.  I am an immigrant.
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
OPINION | Don't slam Trump for sending DACA back to Congress
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
Top Trump lawyer in private email exchange: ‘Me and Kelly’ are the ‘adults in the room’  —  White House special counsel Ty Cobb engaged in a lengthy email exchange in which he defended his decision to join President Donald Trump's legal team and appeared to refer to himself and White House chief …
CNN:
Nunes vents anger at Sessions over subpoena, threatens to hold AG, FBI chief in contempt  —  House Intel subpoenas FBI, DOJ for Trump dossier documents  —  (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes lashed out at Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week in a letter where he threatened Sessions …
Discussion: Business Insider, Raw Story and Gizmodo
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John Sipher / Just Security:
A Second Look at the Steele Dossier—Knowing What We Know Now  —  [Editor's Note: In this special Just Security article, highly respected former member of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service, John Sipher examines the Steele dossier using methods that an intelligence officer would to try to validate such information.
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Experts: Trump Tower deal risked compromising Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
David Moye / HuffPost:
Charlotte Mayoral Candidate Says Vote For Her Because She's White  —  “Other people judge me.  What is the difference?  I say I'm white,” the Republican told a reporter.  —  Candidates for political office often tout their experience or intelligence as reasons why they're qualified.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate resolution to force Trump's hand on condemning Charlottesville hate groups  —  The Senate is preparing to force President Donald Trump to go on record to officially condemn the deadly white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville last month.  —  Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine …
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Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Holocaust Museum Pulls Study Absolving Obama Administration for Inaction in Face of Syrian Genocide  —  A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama Administration's Syria policy was put on hold last night after portions of the study given to Tablet were greeted with shock …
Lindy West / New York Times:
The Ivanka Trump Guarantee  —  Ivanka Trump, first daughter, strode into Washington back in January with big promises: She was passionate about helping “working women,” she said, and she was going to close the gender wage gap even if it killed her.  —  Well, not if it killed her, not literally …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Hilary Whiteman / CNN:
Putin: North Korea crisis may be ‘impossible’ to solve  —  (CNN)A day after predicting “global catastrophe” if North Korea's nuclear tests lead to anything other than talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the situation may be “impossible” to resolve.
Discussion: Axios
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Robert Griffin / Democracy Fund Voter Study Group:
The First Six Months  —  How Americans are Reacting to the Trump Administration  —  In December 2016, analysts and scholars from across the political spectrum convened as the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group and helped construct the VOTER Survey.  This longitudinal survey interviewed 8,000 Americans …
Matt Friedman / Politico:
‘Shut up,’ judge tells Menendez lawyer  —  NEWARK — U.S. District Court Judge William H. Walls told a lawyer for Sen. Robert Menendez to “shut up for a moment” as the two engaged in a heated argument during the first moments of the New Jersey Democrat's corruption trial.
 
 
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
MacArthur: Agreement reached with House Freedom Caucus chair on health plan
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Andy Slavitt / USA Today:
Health care smackdown: Last-ditch repeal drive threatens bipartisan fixes
Discussion: Bangor Daily News and Politico
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Washington GOP rep won't seek reelection
Michelle Boorstein / Washington Post:
Washington National Cathedral to remove stained glass windows honoring Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
Discussion: TheBlaze
 Earlier Items: 
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Texas woman slips off handcuffs, steals cop car, leads officers on high-speed chase
Jamison HensleyESPN / ESPN:
Ray Lewis said Ravens would have signed Colin Kaepernick if not for girlfriend's tweet
Discussion: The Root, The Daily Caller and IJR
YouTube:
Promises Made, Promises Kept
Discussion: Washington Times
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Longtime Trump Aide Said to Have Plans to Leave the White House
Mark Binelli / New York Times:
Michigan Gambled on Charter Schools. Its Children Lost.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Political Divisions in U.S. Are Widening, Long-Lasting, Poll Shows
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Axios
HuffPost:
Republicans Want A DACA Fix, But Not Without Democratic Concessions
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Axios
Mike Allen / Axios:
Spicer gets the last laugh on Trump
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple files a lawsuit at the EU's General Court to challenge a March 2024 decision to impose a €1.8B fine for thwarting competition in music streaming

Sara Fischer / Axios:
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