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3:55 PM ET, September 12, 2017

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John Hudson / BuzzFeed:
Russia Sought A Broad Reset With Trump, Secret Document Shows  —  A Russian proposal obtained by BuzzFeed News reveals Moscow's ambitious plan to break with the past and launch a major rapprochement with the United States.  —  Reporting From Washington, D.C.
Discussion: The Hill, Axios, Raw Story and The Week
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Wall Street Journal:
Some Trump Lawyers Wanted Kushner Out  —  Aides, worried about complications arising from Russia probe, drafted statement explaining departure  —  Some of President Donald Trump's lawyers earlier this summer concluded that Jared Kushner should step down as senior White House adviser …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Russia probes pose loyalty test for Team Trump  —  Lawyers representing Donald Trump's current and former aides are giving their clients one simple piece of advice: Don't lie to protect the president.  —  As special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional investigators prepare …
Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon Says He Talks to Donald Trump Every Two to Three Days  —  Former White House strategist discusses the president at events in Hong Kong  —  HONG KONG—Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with President Donald Trump every two to three days …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller haunts the West Wing
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump's legal team debated whether Kushner should leave White House
Discussion: Politico and Balloon Juice
Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton says Trump associates helped Russia meddle in the 2016 election  —  In a candid, angry new book, Hillary Clinton relives her stunning defeat to Donald Trump.  She admits personal mistakes, but also lays blame on Former FBI Director James Comey.  (Sept. 8) AP  —  CONNECT
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
Clinton's account of how she was ‘shivved’ in the 2016 presidential election
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Some people who write about me ‘know nothing about me & have zero access’
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and Political Wire
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Key takeaways from Hillary Clinton's new book “What Happened”
Discussion: Politico
New York Daily News:
Here's who Hillary Clinton blames for her defeat in campaign memoir ‘What Happened’
Discussion: Townhall.com and The Daily Caller
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Pelosi: Single-payer isn't a litmus test for Democrats … House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that single-payer health insurance is not a litmus test for Democrats and that she herself is focused on protecting health-care coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Pelosi not endorsing Sanders' single-payer bill
Discussion: America Rising PAC
The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Russia Used Facebook Events to Organize Anti-Immigrant Rallies on U.S. Soil … Russian operatives hiding behind false identities used Facebook's event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.S., including an August 2016 anti-immigrant …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Ted Cruz blames staffer for ‘liking’ porn tweet  —  Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday that a staff member of his was responsible for “liking” a pornographic Twitter post with the Texas lawmaker's account, chalking up the social media snafu to a “mistake.”  —  “There are a number of people on the team who have access on the account.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Says Democrats' Glee on Debt Limit Deal Was Premature  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell thinks Democrats were a tad premature in exuberantly celebrating the surprise spending deal they struck last week with President Trump.  —  “Let's put it this way,” Mr. McConnell …
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Edith Windsor, Whose Same-Sex Marriage Fight Led to Landmark Ruling, Dies at 88  —  Edith Windsor, the gay-rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights …
Ernice Gilbert / viconsortium.com:
Trump To Visit U.S. Virgin Islands In Wake Of Irma; More Police, National Guard, Arrive On St. John  —  President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Virgin Islands “within the next six or seven days,” Governor Kenneth Mapp said during a press conference at Government House late Monday.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Trump Campaign Has Begun Turning Over Documents to Mueller … The Trump campaign has begun handing over documents to Bob Mueller as his investigators probe potential interference by Russia in the 2016 election.  —  A team of attorneys at Jones Day, the firm representing the Trump campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court blocks penalties in new New Hampshire voting law  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire judge has blocked recent changes to the state's voting laws that would have exposed some first-time voters to a fine or jail time if they failed to submit residence paperwork within 10 days of registering.
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David Bernstein / Chicago magazine:
His Life in Prison … ABOVE:Our photo of Rod Blagojevich is anything but traditional.  Since Chicago wasn't allowed inside the ex-governor's prison, he rented a camera from the commissary and had it shot himself.  —  Rod Blagojevich's first summer in prison was, he recalls, “quite an awakening.”
Discussion: Political Wire
David Moye / HuffPost:
No, ‘60 Minutes’ Didn't Purposely Make Steve Bannon Look Like A ‘Bleary-Eyed Drunk’  —  News experts rejected the color-coordinated conspiracy theory.  —  After a Los Angeles-based photographer accused “60 Minutes” of purposely altering the color to make former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon …
NewsBusters:
Study: The Liberal Media's Summer of Pummeling Trump  —  The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, although the networks appear to be easing up on their obsessive wall-to-wall coverage of the administration.
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
President Trump just gushed about the Coast Guard.  It really needed the boost.  —  There is no such thing as bad publicity, the saying goes.  For President Trump, the wisdom works for disasters.  —  On Sunday, Trump singled out the Coast Guard for its suddenly high profile amid dueling …
Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times:
After an earthquake and a hurricane — and Trump's failure to send condolences — Mexico rescinds offer of aid to U.S.  —  President Enrique Peña Nieto talks to survivors in the city of Juchitan after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake killed at least 95 people in Mexico.
 
 
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Senate Approves Measure Condemning White Nationalists In Light Of C'ville
Discussion: Daily Kos
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a “sociopath” and “a very sick individual”
Discussion: Daily Kos, Campus Reform and Raw Story
Melissa Etehad / Los Angeles Times:
Wildfires continue to wreak havoc across the West
Discussion: Mother Jones
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Trump's Deal With Dems Funds Planned Parenthood
Tennessean.com:
Woman charged with attempted murder of homeless man in Nashville, father says she was threatened
Discussion: RT and Raw Story
Brittany Britto / Baltimore Sun:
‘DaddyOFive’ YouTubers sentenced to five years probation for child neglect
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Irma, and the Rise of Extreme Rain
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CBS Philly:
Insects Attack: Swarm Of Bugs Creating Buzz In Philadelphia
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Associated Press:
Unhappy moderate House Republicans complicate 2018 for GOP
Discussion: The Last Tradition and Power Line
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump's voter fraud commission is hearing a proposal to make every voter pass a gun background check
Jack Goldsmith / The Atlantic:
Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency?
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