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11:40 AM ET, September 15, 2017

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Harvard Kennedy School:
Statement from Dean Elmendorf regarding the invitation to Chelsea Manning to be a Visiting Fellow  — HOME - NEWS - STATEMENT FROM DEAN ELMENDORF REGARDING THE INVITATION TO CHELSEA MANNING TO BE A VISITING FELLOW  —  Statement from Douglas W. Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School …
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Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Chelsea Manning's Harvard Fellowship Withdrawn After Criticism  —  Facing harsh criticism, a Harvard dean said early Friday morning that he was revoking his invitation to Chelsea Manning, a former United States soldier convicted of leaking classified information, to be a visiting fellow at the university.
Andrew Degrandpre / Washington Post:
Harvard dean rescinds Chelsea Manning's visiting fellow invitation, calling it a ‘mistake’
Felicia Gans / BostonGlobe.com:   Harvard Kennedy School rescinds invite for Chelsea Manning to serve as visiting fellow
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside Trump's dalliance with Democrats  —  After months of hammering Republicans over their failure to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump huddled this week with moderate House Democrats and Republicans who were trying to sell him on a fix to the health care law.
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National Review:
The Chuck and Nancy Amnesty
Discussion: Politico
Dan Diamond / Politico:
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Obamacare repeal still tops GOP voters' to-do lists
Discussion: Political Wire
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump and Democrats strike DACA deal. Yes? No? Sort of? Trump's world can be confusing.
New York Times:
Why Did Trump Work Again With Democrats? ‘He Likes Us,’ Schumer Says
Discussion: NTK Network
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Democrats Dare to Trust Trump on DACA
Discussion: Washington Post
BBC:
Parsons Green: London Underground blast is terror incident  —  An “improvised explosive device” was detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday's rush hour, Scotland Yard has confirmed.  —  Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives, working with MI5 …
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New York Times:
London Underground Is Struck by Crude Bomb at Parsons Green  —  LONDON — Britain was hit by a terrorist attack on Friday morning, when a crude device exploded on a crowded London Underground train, injuring commuters, sowing panic, disrupting service and drawing a heavy response from armed police officers and emergency workers.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Sanderscare is all cheap politics and magic math  —  For years Democrats have (rightfully) hammered Republicans for spouting empty slogans and magic math.  —  Tax cuts will pay for themselves?  Uh-huh, if you say so.  Maybe have a chat with Kansas.  —  Build a wall, and Mexico will pay for it?
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff  —  How rudderless is the Democratic Party?  Its membership is so bereft of leadership and policy direction that 16 of its senators have signed on to a health care bill sponsored by a self-avowed independent democratic socialist from Vermont.
New York Times:
Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
Sessions receives message of support from Trump after new report of past turmoil
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's new world  —  Over the past week or so, we've heard all kinds of theories from administration officials and President Trump's friends on the outside about why he's cutting deals with “Chuck and Nancy” and softening on his core issue of immigration.  —  The points we keep hearing:
Discussion: The Daily Caller
ProPublica:
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’  —  Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally?  Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you.  —  Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world's largest social …
Itay Hod / The Wrap:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Call for ESPN to Fire Jemele Hill  —  “She crossed the line and put herself in dubious legal territory,” Democratic Coalition Chairman Jon Cooper says  —  The Democratic Coalition, an anti-Trump Super PAC, has filed an ethics complaint …
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, AOL and IJR
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Lindsay Gibbs / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
U.S. Army kills contracts for hundreds of immigrant recruits.  Some face deportation.  —  U.S. Army recruiters have abruptly canceled enlistment contracts for hundreds of foreign-born military recruits since last week, upending their lives and potentially exposing many to deportation …
Discussion: Splinter and The Week
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
The Loneliest President  —  “ISOLATED?” read the subject line.  —  “Friend,” Donald Trump wrote recently to supporters in a fundraising email.  “The fake news keeps saying, ‘President Trump is isolated.’ ... They say I'm isolated by lobbyists, corporations, grandstanding politicians, and Hollywood.
Discussion: Raw Story
Isaac Avilucea / The Trentonian:
Shellshocked Trenton police department hit with more brutality allegations  —  TRENTON >> A city man said he was beaten to a pulp this month, suffering a concussion, broken bones and head injuries, at the hands of Trenton police officers who pulled him over for allegedly blowing through a red light.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
A white security officer told police he was shot by a black man.  Turns out, he'd shot himself.  —  In a dimly lit, wooded area on the southwest side of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn., the handgun Brent Ahlers brought to work discharged.  —  As a security officer …
Discussion: The Root and twitchy.com
WDIV-TV:
Farmington Hills teacher accused of assaulting 6th-grader who sat during Pledge of Allegiance  —  Student at East Middle School in Farmington Hills doesn't stand for Pledge  —  FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - Many NFL players have expressed their beliefs by kneeling for the national anthem before games …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Root
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
The Cassini spacecraft just crashed into Saturn  —  PASADENA, Calif. — NASA scientists just received their last-ever message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning.  Those final bits of data signal the end of one of the most successful planetary science missions in history.
BBC:
Fanged creature found on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey  —  A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified.  —  Preeti Desai found the decaying fish on a beach in Texas City, and asked Twitter for help.
Joseph Bottum / Weekly Standard:
The Joy of Destruction  —  What explains the sudden mania for toppling statues?  —  Josh Cobin seems a good enough guy.  A little pudgy, maybe, with his hair thinning on top and a beard borrowed from a Civil War officer—one who forgot to get a trim before Mathew Brady showed up to take the battalion photograph.
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
California legislature passes bill requiring presidential candidates to release tax returns  —  The California State Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would require all presidential candidates to release their tax returns prior to being placed on the state's ballot.
Discussion: Splinter and Politicus USA
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Roald Dahl's Widow Says ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Hero Was Supposed to be Black  —  The widow and the biographer of the beloved British children's writer Roald Dahl told the BBC in an interview this week that Charlie Bucket, the young boy whose life is changed by a golden ticket in …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Resurrects His Claim That Both Sides Share Blame in Charlottesville Violence  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump thrust himself back into the racial storms of Charlottesville on Thursday, repeating his charge that those resisting the neo-Nazis and white supremacists were as much to blame …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump condemns Rice's unmasking: ‘What she did was wrong’  —  President Trump ripped former national security adviser Susan Rice on Thursday for unmasking the names of his top aides in an intelligence report.  —  “She's not supposed to be doing that, and what she did was wrong,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
 
 
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FT journalist presumed dead after being ‘dragged into water by crocodile’
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