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9:15 AM ET, September 16, 2017

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CNN:
Brooke Baldwin: Speaking like this to women in 2017?  No way  —  Brooke Baldwin is a Peabody Award finalist who anchors the 2-4 p.m. ET edition of CNN Newsroom.  The views expressed in this commentary are solely the author's.  —  (CNN)"Boobs."  —  Yep, he said it.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
'I'm Done': CNN's Brooke Baldwin Ends Segment After Clay Travis Says He Believes in ‘Boobs’  —  Well, that was something.  —  During a panel discussion on the Jemele Hill controversy and the White House calling her to be fired, things took an entirely different turn when sports radio host …
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Congressman Sought Trump Deal on WikiLeaks, Russia  —  Rep. Rohrabacher asks for pardon of Julian Assange in return for evidence of no 2016 election meddling  —  WASHINGTON—A U.S. congressman contacted the White House this week trying to broker a deal that would end WikiLeaks founder …
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Gave Special Counsel Robert Mueller More Details on Russian Ad Buys Than Congress  —  Social-media company shared copies of ads and account information, people familiar with the matter said  —  Facebook Inc. FB .40% has handed over to special counsel Robert Mueller detailed records …
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Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Did Jared Kushner's Data Operation Help Select Facebook Targets for the Russians?  —  The Russians used social media to rile the electorate.  Investigators wonder if they had inside help.  —  The headlines were about Facebook admitting it had sold ad space to Russian groups trying to sway the 2016 presidential campaign.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Facebook handed Russia-linked ads over to Mueller under search warrant  —  What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run on Facebook during the presidential election, after they obtained a search warrant for the information.
Associated Press:
Still no charity money from leftover Trump inaugural funds  —  https://apnews.com/0756ba7480444895b4fa bc9a2f0909b3  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's inaugural committee raised an unprecedented $107 million for a ceremony that officials promised would be …
Discussion: Shareblue
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump inaugural committee has yet to give funds to charity despite pledge: report
Discussion: RedState
Chicago Tribune:
Judge rules in city's favor on sanctuary cities, grants nationwide injunction  —  The U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to require sanctuary cities like Chicago to give notice when immigrants in the country illegally are about to be released from custody …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Department ends program scrutinizing local police forces
Discussion: The Root
Brandon Carter / The Hill:   Federal judge blocks Trump from denying funds to sanctuary cities
Brian Patrick Byrne / The Daily Beast:
Twitter Lets You Target Ads to Millions of People Who Use the N-Word … Twitter's advertising platform tells prospective marketers it has 26.3 million users interested in the derogatory term “wetback,” 18.6 million accounts that are likely to engage with the word “Nazi,” and 14.5 million users who might be drawn to “n**ger.”
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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Trump Advisers Secretly Met With Jordan's King While One Was Pushing A Huge Nuclear Power Deal  —  Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon met with King Abdullah II while Flynn was reportedly pressing for a controversial, for-profit deal to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Declines to Release List of His Visitors at Mar-a-Lago  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining, even in the face of a federal court order, to release the identities of individuals visiting with President Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Feds claim ‘thousands of intercepts’ in the case of Ukrainian billionaire, Trump ex-campaign boss  —  Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash arrives for the start of his trial at the courts of justice in Vienna, Austria on Feb. 21, 2017.  Firtash was arrested in Vienna in March 2014 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Los Angeles Times:
Dealing with Democrats?  Protecting ‘Dreamers’?  Here in Arizona that's just fine with these Trump supporters  —  Supporters of President Trump in Arizona said they had no problem with him cutting deals Democrats to allow so-called Dreamers to stay in the U.S. (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Faced with an up-or-down choice on Charlottesville resolution, Trump chooses third option  —  WASHINGTON — In sending the president a joint resolution condemning “racist violence” in Charlottesville, Congress gave President Trump a choice: sign the resolution and reject white supremacists, or veto it and align with the far right.
Patrick Redford / Deadspin:
Here's What ESPN Employees Are Saying About The Jemele Hill Situation On Their Private Message Board  —  ESPN spent this week caving to the most cynically motivated people on the fringes of sports media and their manufactured outrage at SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill's accurate comments about the president.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Another prosecutor joins Trump-Russia probe  —  An attorney working on the Justice Department's highest-profile money laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned.
Discussion: Political Wire
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Hill Republicans' influence ebbs, and they're not sure what to do about it  —  President Trump's latest tendency to turn to Democrats to hash out major legislative deals has left Republican leaders facing a new reality as a daunting fall agenda looms: They are at their lowest moment of influence this year.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Meghan McCain to Leave Fox News Channel (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Meghan McCain, the political scion who turned a stint as a blogger and TV show host into a role as a contributor at Fox News Channel, is leaving the network.  —  McCain is the oldest daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain …
Olivia Nuzzi / thecut:
Here's Why Steve Bannon Wears So Many Shirts  —  Physically, I feel slightly inhibited; but spiritually, I feel oddly secure.  This is due to the many shirts I'm wearing as I type — three (3) shirts to be precise — a tank top, a dress shirt, another dress shirt, and on top of that, a blazer.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Chelsea Manning hung up phone on Harvard dean who delivered fellowship snub  —  Chelsea Manning, the former US soldier who leaked hundreds of thousands of state secrets and served seven years in military prison, abruptly terminated a phone call with the dean of the Harvard Kennedy school …
Hadas Gold / CNNMoney:
The complicated politics holding up Rupert Murdoch's Sky deal  —  There's a question floating among the British political and media figures.  Are Rupert Murdoch's dreams of owning all of Sky plc falling apart?  —  In a surprising blow for Murdoch's company 21st Century Fox …
BuzzFeed:
Friends Are Saying That Anthony Scaramucci Wants To Run For Something  —  “He was 100% serious about it and asked us if we thought he would be a good president,” said a person familiar with the matter.  (Reached for comment, Scaramucci denied that he would run for office.)
KMOV-TV:
Former St. Louis officer Stockley found not guilty  —  ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) - A St. Louis judge has acquitted former police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Smith.  —  “This court, as the trier of fact, is simply not firmly convinced of defendant's guilt.
 
 
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