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9:05 AM ET, September 18, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers spill beans thanks to terrible choice of restaurant — next door to the New York Times  —  It is every Washington reporter's dream to sit down at a restaurant, overhear secret stuff, and get a scoop.  It rarely happens.  —  Still, everyone in town important enough …
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year  —  Ex-president speaks to Carlyle, Cantor, Northern Trust  —  ‘If someone is willing to pay him to give a speech, God bless’  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's message for the United Nations: Reform  —  The Trump administration on Sunday emphasized reform will be on the agenda when President Trump heads to the United Nations for the first time this week.  —  Senior level officials previewed themes in Trump's upcoming Tuesday speech …
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Shinzo Abe / New York Times:
Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Just Security
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's dark view of North Korea options
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites …
Discussion: The Week and East Bay Times
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Jim Carlton / Wall Street Journal:
Interior Report Recommends Cuts or Changes to Seven National Land Monuments  —  White House has yet to act on the recommendations  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended cutbacks or other changes to nearly half the geographic national monuments he recently reviewed at the request …
Discussion: Washington Times
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
How Graham-Cassidy redistributes federal money  —  Data: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis ; Cartogram: Andrew Witherspoon / Axios  —  There's a lot of skepticism in Washington over whether the latest Affordable Care Act repeal bill, proposed by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, can pass.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale  —  From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers.  Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sean Spicer's yucky cameo at the Emmys  —  Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got a turn on one of Hollywood's glitziest stages Sunday night.  And he used it to laugh about the falsehoods he told the American people in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.  —  I'm all for a good laugh.
Discussion: Althouse and Mashable
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Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Sean Spicer's Emmy Awards Cameo Was a Sickening, Cynical Laugh Grab
Discussion: Mediaite
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
The Fake Outrage Over Breastgate Shows Why We Must Not Play Liberals' New Rules Game  —  The Brooke Baldwin mammary mess is just another example of how liberals leverage their ability to create new rules out of thin air as a means of asserting their power over us normals.
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Tucker: Trump Thinks TV More Accurately Reveals The Public's Beliefs Than Polls Do  —  Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson says President Trump told him that television programming is a more accurate reflection of the public's beliefs than polling is.  —  “I know that he watches a lot of television.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Both parties to move on Facebook and other tech giants  —  Members of Congress in both parties have begun exploring possible legislative action against Facebook and other tech giants, setting the stage for a potentially massive battle in the midterm election year of 2018.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump's team gunning for potential 2020 reelection rivals  —  Allies of Donald Trump have begun plotting to take down or weaken potential Democratic challengers in 2020, including several who will be on the ballot in next year's midterms.  —  The 2018-focused work ranges …
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David Siders / Politico:
California tears into Trump
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Scaramucci Is Thinking About Running For President!  —  Anthony Scaramucci called a BuzzFeed News report about his political plans “fake news.”  The only fake thing was his denial, according to his own correspondence.  —  Anthony Scaramucci told a friend, in writing …
Discussion: ABC News
Susan Hogan / Washington Post:
St. Louis officers chant ‘whose streets, our streets’ while arresting protesters  —  St. Louis police arrested more than 80 people Sunday after a peaceful protest turned violent as night fell.  In a concentrated area downtown, some protesters smashed windows and overturned trash cans …
Discussion: The Root and Associated Press
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Feinstein: We intend for Trump Jr. to testify publicly  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday it was her and the Republican committee chairman's intention to bring Donald Trump Jr. before the committee for public testimony.
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Reuters:
Cohen, close Trump business adviser, to testify in Senate on Tuesday
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to appear before Senate panel Tuesday
Discussion: IJR
George Stephanopoulos / ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 9-17-17: British Prime Minister Theresa May, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster and Rep. Adam Schiff  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 AND WILL BE UPDATED.  —  UNIDENTIFIED MALE: THIS WEEK with George Stephanopoulos starts right now.
Discussion: AOL and Politicus USA
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Luke Barnes / ThinkProgress:
Meet the racist birther Donald Trump just retweeted  —  It comes two days after Trump was rebuked by British officials for ‘speculating’ on Twitter.  —  President Trump retweeted an animated GIF on Sunday morning that showed him hitting a golf ball at Hillary Clinton and knocking her to the ground …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump retweets GIF of him hitting Clinton with golf ball
 
 
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
Facing ‘enormous’ legal bills, Michael Flynn establishes legal defense fund
Discussion: Politico
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Is Trump a White Supremacist?
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Knife-wielding campus pride leader killed by police at Georgia Tech
Discussion: The Week
Leah Singer / USA Today:
I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life
William Mathis / Talking Points Memo:
Refugees Spend Weekend In Trump's Childhood Home In Queens
Discussion: The Week
Natalie Neysa Alund / Tennessean.com:
Lipscomb president apologizes for cotton stalk centerpieces
Discussion: Red Alert Politics and Raw Story
Associated Press:
How Trump's advisers schooled him on globalism
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
House Democrats Break Campaign Fundraising Record
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Stop acting surprised, America: Donald Trump is a white supremacist
CNN:
Four Boston College students attacked with acid in France
Discussion: Jezebel and Mediaite
CNN:
Maria, following Irma's path, is now a Category 1 hurricane
Discussion: The Week, Gizmodo and IJR
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's divisive presidency reshapes a key part of his private business
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Rex Tillerson alienated every ally he needs
Discussion: israpundit.org
 

 
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New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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