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9:50 AM ET, September 7, 2017

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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Republican leaders ‘visibly annoyed’ after Ivanka Trump enters Oval Office during debt ceiling talks  —  Negotiations between Republican and Democratic congressional leaders and President Trump broke down when first daughter Ivanka Trump entered the Oval Office to say hello during the Wednesday meeting …
Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine and Splinter
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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.
Discussion: Associated Press, Townhall.com and IJR
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Freedom Caucus leaders vent to Paul Ryan after talks with Steve Bannon  —  Leaders of the Freedom Caucus met with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday to candidly express their frustrations with his leadership and his handling of the Republican legislative agenda, according to two people familiar with the discussion.
New York Times:
To Allies' Chagrin, Trump Swerves Left  —  WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders perched on the couches in the Oval Office froze in mid-smile on Wednesday afternoon when they realized President Trump was bypassing them to cut a short-term spending and debt ceiling deal with Democrats, and not them.
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Democrats Rolled Trump on the Debt Ceiling  —  On Wednesday morning, Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, stepped before cameras on the Hill and spoke about the fraught negotiations on debt and spending that will consume Washington through the end of the year.
Discussion: The Hill and FiveThirtyEight
John Bresnahan / Politico:
GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats  —  President Donald Trump's and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's tête-à-tê te on Tuesday — after a summer of sniping between the two — lifted Republican hopes that the GOP was finally back in sync ahead of a brutal fall of fiscal deadlines.
NBC News:
Trump Gets His Payback Against McConnell and Ryan  —  First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  Trump makes budget deal with Democrats, confounding GOP 2:54  —  Trump gets payback against Ryan and McConnell
Discussion: Washington Post
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Art of the Deal? Not so much
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Meet the Swamp: Donald Trump Punts September Agenda to December After Meeting with Congress
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Blair Shiff / ABC News:
Hurricane Irma destroys 90 percent of structures, vehicles on Barbuda  —  Hurricane Irma ripped into the Caribbean island of Barbuda Wednesday morning, killing at least one person and destroying 90 percent of its structures and vehicles, according to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.
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Washington Post:
Extreme Category 5 Irma crashes into Caribbean, sets sights on Florida and Southeast U.S.
Facebook:
An Update On Information Operations On Facebook  —  There have been a lot of questions since the 2016 US election about Russian interference in the electoral process.  In April we published a white paper that outlined our understanding of organized attempts to misuse our platform.
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Washington Post:
Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election … Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters …
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:   Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says
CBS News:
Steve Bannon says he's “a street fighter,” vows to support Trump  —  Steve Bannon's “60 Minutes” conversation with Charlie Rose is the former White House chief strategist's first extensive interview since he left the Trump administration.  —  The founding board member of the conservative …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNBC
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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.
Discussion: Axios
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Clinton's score-settling frustrates Democrats
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 …
Joe Concha / The Hill:
CNN's Powers: Trump thinks daughter Ivanka is ‘his prized possession’  —  CNN's Kirsten Powers said Wednesday night that President Trump believes his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump “isn't that impressive to people” and is treated as a “prized possession” by her father.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
(CNN)President Trump is expected to return to Camp David again this weekend — but this time with his full Cabinet in tow.  —  CNN has learned that the President will host the members of his Cabinet at the secluded government-owned retreat in Maryland starting Friday.
Discussion: ABC News and The Daily Caller
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Curse of the Woke Conservatives  —  So what does the GOP establishment do in 2018 when it comes before us dirty, nasty normals and tries to make the case that its members deserve being reelected to Congress instead of being tarred and feathered?  After seven years of solemn assurances …
NBC News:
Russian Lawyer in Trump Tower Meeting Says Mueller Hasn't Called  —  Natalia Veselnitskaya says she feels like a character in a movie.  —  American investigators are trying to determine whether it's a spy thriller or a farce.  —  Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who was at the center …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr. to Meet With Senate Russia Investigators
Discussion: Splinter
Emily Yoffe / The Atlantic:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Campus Rape Policy  —  This is the first story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic.  —  Kwadwo “Kojo” Bonsu, 23, was on track to graduate …
Darren Sands / BuzzFeed:
New York Official Pushes To Rename Trump Park For Heather Heyer  —  “The renaming would acknowledge that its current designation does not reflect the goals of uplifting and unifying New Yorkers,” says Nily Rozic. … A New York lawmaker is proposing a bill to rename a state park named …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Hackers Gain Direct Access to US Power Grid Controls  —  IN AN ERA of hacker attacks on critical infrastructure, even a run-of-the-mill malware infection on an electric utility's network is enough to raise alarm bells.  But the latest collection of power grid penetrations went far deeper …
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Michael Cohen Would Take a Bullet for Donald Trump  —  In advance of his congressional testimony, Trump's personal lawyer wants the world to know that his loyalty to the president is deep and unwavering, and then some.  “I'd never walk away,” he says.  —  “The part that's most disappointing …
Discussion: Business Insider
 
 
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Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:
Cory Booker sits front row for Menendez's bribery trial
New York Times:
New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Discussion: Chalkbeat
Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
What Democrats Have Wrong on DACA and the Dreamers
Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Buried in backlog, Feds give top-secret clearances to murderers, rapists
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
White House claims ‘dreamers’ take jobs away from blacks and Hispanics. Here's the truth.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Democrats Begin Legal Assault on Trump's Move to End ‘Dreamer’ Program
Discussion: New York Magazine
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Apple's Refusal to Approve India's Anti-Spam App Angers Regulators
Stephen Ide / providencejournal.com:
Tom Perez, former U.S. labor secretary, to teach at Brown
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County to pay $1.5 million to family of disabled man who was fatally shot after being mistaken as suspect
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Washington Post's Scott Wilson is out as national editor
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Hamilton Nolan / Splinter:
Amazon Warehouse Employees Are the Most Important Workers in America
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Celebrity polling firm rates Spicer 13 out of 100
Discussion: Raw Story
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Kobach on Dreamers: ‘Correct policy’ is to ‘deport the whole family’
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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