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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 …
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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.
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
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
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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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
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
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:   Maddow: Jared Kushner may have helped Russian operatives with targeted political ads on Facebook
Michelle Castillo / CNBC:   Facebook gave special counsel Robert Mueller data on Russian ads, report says
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.
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: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Clinton's score-settling frustrates Democrats  —  is settling old scores in a campaign tell-all book — and angering some Democrats in the process.  —  Excerpts from “What Happened,” the Clinton campaign memoir scheduled to be released next week, find her letting loose on the Democratic Party's …
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 …
Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Alleged Russian political meddling documented in 27 countries since 2004  —  Russia has meddled in the affairs of at least 27 European and North American countries since 2004 with interference that ranges from cyberattacks to disinformation campaigns, according to an analysis by a surveillance organization.
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Reuters:
Putin rues awarding U.S. top diplomat Tillerson Russian state honor
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
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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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 …
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
Gregory McCarriston / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
26% of Americans say a negative internet comment has ruined their day  —  But more than half say that it doesn't matter whether they get “likes” on their photos  —  Social media is a preoccupation for many Americans, but social media users have a complex relationship with the feedback they receive on the platforms.
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 …
Stephen Ide / providencejournal.com:
Tom Perez, former U.S. labor secretary, to teach at Brown  —  Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former U.S. labor secretary under President Barack Obama, will join Brown University as a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for Public Affairs, the university has announced.
 
 
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Patricia Manson / Chicago Daily Law Bulletin:
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NBC News:
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