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5:30 PM ET, September 7, 2017

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Washington Post:
Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling  —  President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have agreed to pursue a deal that would permanently remove the requirement that Congress repeatedly raise the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the decision said.
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Washington Post:
Gingrich or Santorum as speaker?  House conservatives plot mischief for the fall … Several influential House conservatives are privately plotting ways to use the legislative calendar this fall to push their hard-line agenda — including quiet discussions about possibly mounting a leadership challenge to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Upbeat Trump raves to Schumer, Pelosi about news coverage of their deal  —  Many Republicans were furious with President Donald Trump's budget deal Wednesday, stunned that the president quickly gave in to Democratic demands to pair hurricane relief with a three-month debt limit hike — though getting nothing in return.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Trump's head-scratching deal with “Chuck and Nancy”  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is perplexed, with no idea what President Trump thinks he was gaining.  — In fact, McConnell rather doubts the president has a strategy, a close source tells Axios.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's triangulation shows what might have been  —  (Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)  —  THE BIG IDEA: In early 2016, as the field of Republican candidates winnowed, Bob Dole said that Donald Trump was preferable to Ted Cruz because he could “probably work with Congress.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly and NBC News
Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
Trump Just Undermined His Own Agenda on Tax Reform
Wall Street Journal:
The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump Congress
Discussion: Shareblue and Breitbart
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump, Schumer will revisit plan to scrap debt ceiling
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
Trump Jr. Says He Wanted Russian Dirt to Determine Clinton's ‘Fitness’ for Office  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Thursday that he set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton …
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CNN:
Exclusive: Mueller seeks interviews with WH staff over Trump Tower meeting statement  —  Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Jr. Hoped for Insights Into Clinton's ‘Fitness’ From Russian Lawyer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Betsy DeVos: The Era of Weaponized Title IX in Campus Rape Cases Is Over  —  In a major speech assailing the deprivation of due process protections under the Obama administration, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will vow to rein in the federal guidance compelling colleges to adjudicate sexual assault disputes between students.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Joanne Jacobs
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Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
DeVos ignites backlash with rewrite of campus sexual assault policy  —  ignited a backlash after announcing plans to revamp an Obama-era guidance for colleges and universities on how to handle sexual assaults on campuses to better protect students who are accused.
Discussion: Daily Wire, Raw Story and The Root
Emily Jashinsky / Washington Examiner:
Betsy DeVos announces Education Department's new approach to Title IX investigations
Washington Post:
DeVos decries ‘failed system’ on campus sexual assault, vows to replace it
Discussion: ROMPER, New York Magazine and Splinter
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats dread Hillary's book tour  —  President Donald Trump may be the only person in politics truly excited about Hillary Clinton's book tour.  —  Democratic operatives can't stand the thought of her picking the scabs of 2016, again — the Bernie Sanders divide, the Jim Comey complaints …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election  —  Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice.  So it was last year when Melvin Redick of Harrisburg, Pa., a friendly-looking American with a backward baseball cap and a young daughter …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Did Facebook ads traced to a Russian company violate U.S. election law?
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The First White President  —  It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact.  With one immediate exception, Trump's predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness …
CBS News:
Steve Bannon says Catholic Church has “economic interest” in “unlimited illegal immigration”  —  In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is speaking out about President Trump's decision to end the DACA program.
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NBC News:
Hurricane Irma Skirts Puerto Rico, Leaves 1 Million Without Power  —  Hurricane Irma carved a merciless path of destruction through the Caribbean, killing at least nine and leaving thousands homeless before plunging more than 1 million residents of Puerto Rico into darkness.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Koch Brothers Will Push Congress to Protect DREAMers … The political network of libertarian billionaires Charles and David Koch is poised to back a bill protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation.  —  Spokespeople for the Koch network confirmed to The Daily Beast …
Discussion: Axios
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Graydon Carter to End 25-Year Run as Vanity Fair's Editor  —  Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, plans to step down from the magazine in December after a 25-year tenure, leaving the role that established him as a ringmaster of the glittery spheres of Hollywood, Washington and Manhattan media.
Kari Pugh / Fauquier Times:
Court records: Wife of Trump Org ethics attorney arrested after tryst with Fauquier inmate  —  An ongoing investigation into “suspicious” activity in the back seat of a car involving an inmate trustee at the Fauquier County jail led to the Tuesday arrest of Teresa Jo Burchfield …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Highlights Lingering Divisions in the GOP  —  More than 60% of President Trump's primary voters said they were uneasy with social changes that have made the U.S. more diverse and tolerant, versus 35% of Republicans who supported other primary candidates
Discussion: Axios
Brandon Champion / MLive.com:
Kid Rock gets political during electric show at Van Andel Arena  —  Gallery: Kid Rock talks politics from the stage at Van Andel  —  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Amid accusations of campaign finance violations and protests calling for his Michigan concerts to be cancelled, Kid Rock didn't shy away …
Prashant S. Rao / New York Times:
Amazon Announces Plans for Huge New North America Offices  —  Amazon said on Thursday that it was searching for a second headquarters in North America, a huge new development that would cost as much as $5 billion to build and run, and would house as many as 50,000 employees.
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Harvey and Irma, Married 75 Years, Marvel at the Storms Bearing Their Names  —  Harvey and Irma Schluter have been married for 75 years.  He turned 104 in July; she will be 93 in November.  —  They vividly remember many of the major events of the 20th century, from her first time spotting an airplane …
Discussion: ROMPER
Elise Labott / CNN:
The UN ambassador is the breakout star of Trump's Cabinet.  But will she succeed?  —  Nikki Haley was under consideration to become Donald Trump's secretary of state when she flew to New York to meet the President-elect for the first time since his election victory.  —  The South Carolina governor was torn.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
What We Know About Next Week's Bogus Voter Fraud Commission Meeting  —  The so-called “elections integrity” commission President Trump created after falsely claiming millions voted illegally in 2016's election posted its agenda for its second meeting, which will be held in New Hampshire next Tuesday.
 
 
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Fox News:
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Senate passes hurricane aid, government funding package
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 Earlier Items: 
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Wray: No ‘whiff of interference’ with Trump-Russia probe
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
This White House staffer might have the most important behind-the-scenes job in the administration …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump says that he would sign the DREAM Act if it passed
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Mediaite
Detroit News:
GOP pressures Stabenow about Menendez trial
Discussion: CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Betsy Klein / CNN:
The ‘Ivanka drop-by’: Trump's not-so-secret meeting trick
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Did Imran Want Capitol Police To Find Wasserman Schultz's Laptop?
Loren Grush / The Verge:
SpaceX launches Air Force's spaceplane just before Hurricane Irma reaches Florida
Discussion: CNN and Gizmodo
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR