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4:55 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.
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.
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.
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump suggested scrapping future debt ceiling votes to congressional leaders  —  President Donald Trump suggested to congressional leaders on Wednesday morning that votes to raise the debt ceiling could be done away with altogether, according to three people familiar with the conversation.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's triangulation shows what might have been
Discussion: Washington Monthly and NBC News
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump, Schumer will revisit plan to scrap debt ceiling
Discussion: RedState
CNN:
Republican leaders in the room ‘shell-shocked’ following Trump deal with Democrats
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Pelosi: Trump says that he would sign the DREAM Act if it passed
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Mediaite
Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
Trump Just Undermined His Own Agenda on Tax Reform
Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox, Politico and Daily Kos
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 …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Wray: No ‘whiff of interference’ with Trump-Russia probe
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
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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: Raw Story and The Root
Washington Post:
DeVos decries ‘failed system’ on campus sexual assault, vows to replace it
Discussion: New York Magazine and Splinter
Emily Jashinsky / Washington Examiner:
Betsy DeVos announces Education Department's new approach to Title IX investigations
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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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 …
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton: I Should Have Gone Nuclear on James Comey
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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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 …
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.
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Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Seeks Prime Location for $5 Billion Second HQ
Discussion: Aaron M. Renn, CityLab and AOL
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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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
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.
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.
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 …
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
Charles Murray / Weekly Standard:
Harvard Shows How It Should Be Done  —  Giving a speech on a college campus is easy, if the adults are in charge.  —  I was apprehensive as I flew to Boston on Wednesday.  Protests were being organized for the lecture I was to give at Harvard that evening, and the intel made me think that another Middlebury might be in the works.
Discussion: Power Line
New York Post:
Hulk Hogan's lawyer sets sights on new target: Jezebel  —  Charles Harder (center) with Hulk Hogan (right) and David Houston AP  —  The lawyer who brought down Gawker with Hulk Hogan is now taking aim at its sister blog, Jezebel.  —  Hogan's attorney Charles J. Harder filed …
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Senate passes hurricane aid, government funding package  —  The Senate on Thursday passed legislation that would temporarily lift the nation's debt ceiling and fund the government, while delivering the first installment of emergency aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey.
Discussion: Axios and CNN
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro!
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
What We Know About Next Week's Bogus Voter Fraud Commission Meeting
Fox News:
Graham wants to haul back Comey to testify on Clinton email case, says ‘I smell a rat’
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
‘American Horror Story: Cult’ Debut Ratings Fall From 2016 ‘Roanoke’
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
Associated Press:
The Latest: US official not disputing NKorea H-bomb claim
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Andrew Seidman / Philly.com:
Bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez and friend an ‘attack’ on Hispanics, defense says
Discussion: twitchy.com
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
This White House staffer might have the most important behind-the-scenes job in the administration …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Alan B. Krueger / The Extinction Market:
Where have all the workers gone?  An inquiry into the decline of the U.S. labor force participation rate
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Heather Alexandra / Kotaku:
New South Park Game Gets Harder If You Play A Black Character
Discussion: Mashable
Detroit News:
GOP pressures Stabenow about Menendez trial
Discussion: CNN and Washington Free Beacon
Ted Nordhaus / USA Today:
Impossible Environmentalism: Green groups promote utopian fantasies
Betsy Klein / CNN:
The ‘Ivanka drop-by’: Trump's not-so-secret meeting trick
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
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Curse of the Woke Conservatives