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Manu Raju / CNN:
Republican Sen. Bob Corker weighs whether to retire in 2018 — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, the influential chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee who was once considered for a spot in President Donald Trump's Cabinet, is weighing whether to call it quits next year.
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Charlie Rose / CBS News:
Breitbart's Bannon declares war on the GOP — Steve Bannon, Trump's ex-chief strategist, tells 60 Minutes why he's out at the White House and criticizes the GOP for not supporting the president. “They're gonna be held accountable,” he says — Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon …
CBS News:
Steve Bannon's not done... More from Charlie Rose's 60 Minutes interview with Steve Bannon, the controversial former chief strategist and campaign architect for President Trump — President Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon left the White House on August 18 after a turbulent tenure …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bannon plotting primaries against slate of GOP incumbents
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David Cohen / Politico:
Bannon: Hill Republicans said Obamacare would be replaced by Easter
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Washington Post and Axios
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump tamed by storms, but how long will it last?
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Politico
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump promised not to work with foreign entities. His company just did — WASHINGTON — A major construction company owned by the Chinese government was hired to work on the latest Trump golf club development in Dubai despite a pledge from Donald Trump that his family business …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump company hires Chinese government-owned firm despite promise: report
Bryan Schott / utahpolicy.com:
Exclusive: Mitt Romney planning to run for Senate if Orrin Hatch retires — Sources tell UtahPolicy.com that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is preparing to run for Senate in 2018 if Sen. Orrin Hatch decides to retire. — Sources close to Romney say the two-time presidential candidate …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Conspiracies, Corruption and Climate — After the devastation wreaked by Harvey on Houston — devastation that was right in line with meteorologists' predictions — you might have expected everyone to take heed when the same experts warned about the danger posed by Hurricane Irma.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Soul Survival in Trump's Hell — My mother always told me that when I was going through something tough and dispiriting. It was her way of saying that trouble doesn't last forever, that even in your darkest place, hold fast to the hope and the light, that though today you are in the valley, tomorrow you shall scale the peak.
USA Today:
Hurricane Irma: Where it is now and what we know — Hurricane Irma was downgraded to a tropical storm early Monday after it barreled into Florida on Sunday, crashing through the Florida Keys before making a second landfall near Naples on the Gulf Coast and setting a course for Georgia.
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Katie Shepherd / Willamette Week:
Nobody was hurt in the incident, but the echoes of Charlottsville are hard to miss. — Police in Vancouver this afternoon arrested a man after a Patriot Prayer rally when he nearly ran his truck into a crowd of antifascist counter-protesters. — After a rally organized …
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Yahoo:
Sputnik, the Russian news agency, is under investigation by the FBI … WASHINGTON — The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency, as part of an investigation into whether it is acting as an undeclared propaganda arm …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump Has Left America Less Prepared for Another 9/11 — The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks struck an unprepared America mere months into President George W. Bush's first term. Nothing in his tenure to that point was particularly memorable. Nothing he had ever faced in life was remotely comparable.
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New York Times:
Where Trump's Hands-Off Approach to Governing Does Not Apply — The Trump administration opened the door to allowing more firearms on federal lands. It scrubbed references to “L.G.B.T.Q. youth” from the description of a federal program for victims of sex trafficking.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
TMZ.com:
Eric Chase Bolling Jr. Died in Bed After ‘Emotional Torture’ Over Dad's Firing — Eric Chase Bolling, Jr. — Died in Bed After Suffering ‘Emotional Torture’ — EXCLUSIVE — Eric Chase Bolling, Jr. died in his bed, TMZ has learned, after enduring “emotional torture” …
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The Daily Caller, Hollywood Life, IJR and Daily Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republican Party — Political scientist Lee Drutman argues in a Vox essay that American politics is descending into what he calls “doom-loop partisanship.” Drutman notes that Americans have been “retreating into our separate tribal epistemologies …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Brian Williams Mocked For Suggesting Viewers Take Credit For Others Work — Brian Williams is getting dragged on Twitter after he seemed to suggest that people should repost other people's stuff and take credit for it. — Earlier today, the MSNBC anchor was reviewing photos …
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The Daily Caller
Karen Townsend / NewsBusters:
Miss America Contestants Asked to Condemn President Trump — Though the ominous feeling of concern for those in the path of Hurricane Irma in Florida hung heavy in the air, the show must go on. Miss America 2018 on ABC aired September 10th and throughout the show, donations for hurricane relief …
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IJR and Grabien News
Michael Tanglis / Salon:
Trump Inc: Inside the president's not-so-blind trust — Trump's run for president likely started as a marketing pitch. The problem is, he won — Seven days after Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the highest office in the land, he formed more business entities than he had on any previous day …
Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
For Democrats, no Catholic guilt — Hatred of Christians is not new — By now it's hardly a surprise that so many national Democrats have nothing but contempt for Roman Catholics. But what is surprising is that they no longer even bother to hide their distaste for devout Christians.
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