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11:00 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 …
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
How to Read Bob Mueller's Hand
Discussion: Instapundit
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.
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
Trump's claim there were long gas lines in North Korea has residents puzzled  —  TOKYO — In his latest Twitter outburst against North Korea, President Trump said that “long gas lines [are] forming in North Korea,” adding an exclamatory “Too bad!”  (In the same tweet, he bestowed a new nickname on Kim Jong Un: “Rocket Man.")
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
N. Korea: We'll speed up nuclear plans if more sanctions imposed  —  North Korea on Monday said that additional sanctions will push it to accelerate its nuclear plans, Reuters reported.  —  A spokesman described the most recent round of sanctions passed by the United Nations Security Council as …
Discussion: RedState
Shinzo Abe / New York Times:
Solidarity Against the North Korean Threat
Discussion: RedState, Politico and Axios
Sean Moran / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Lindsey Graham Drives Obamacare Repeal Bill on Breitbart Radio: Melt Phone Lines to Congress, ‘Insist That We Have the Vote’  —  Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Americans to melt the phone lines into Congress on Monday morning, during an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday …
Discussion: Axios
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
How Graham-Cassidy redistributes federal money
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP tries one last time to repeal Obamacare
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 …
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Jim Carlton / Wall Street Journal:
Interior Report Recommends Cuts or Changes to Seven National Land Monuments
Discussion: Washington Times
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77  —  Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.  —  A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he had begun his shift as the duty officer …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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RT:
‘I was just doing my job’: Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77
Discussion: Gizmodo
Christina Cauterucci / Slate:
Sean Spicer's Emmy Awards Cameo Was a Sickening, Cynical Laugh Grab  —  When Sunday night's Emmy Awards began, it seemed like it was going to face the horror of the current political landscape head-on.  The crux of Stephen Colbert's opening sequence was that people are turning to TV escapism because the world is going to s**t.
Discussion: Mediaite and New York Times
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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 …
Leah Singer / USA Today:
I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life  —  Money ranked 100 cities to live in 2017.  We based it off 170,000 data points.  Here are the top 10.  Time … 2631  —  35  —  46  —  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — I used to say I'd never move to a red state.  And then I did.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
House Democrats Break Campaign Fundraising Record  —  WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats has posted its highest off-year August fundraising haul ever, the group told NBC News.  —  While their Republican counterparts haven't yet released their August results …
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Legal defense fund set up for Michael Flynn  —  The family of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has set up a legal defense fund for him, soliciting donations to ease the “tremendous financial burden” from the ongoing investigations into his actions and the 2016 presidential campaign.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:   Facing ‘enormous’ legal bills, Michael Flynn establishes legal defense fund
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
For those in the Party of Trump, the Republicans — not the president — are to blame  —  OXFORD, N.C. — During one of their usual morning gatherings at the Bojangles' restaurant in this rural town near the Virginia border, a group of retirees from a local Baptist church shook their heads …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Politicians in New York  —  It was hardly a secret that Herman D. Farrell Jr. had planned to retire.  The governor feted him at a goodbye breakfast in June.  Colleagues sent the 85-year-old assemblyman off to shouts of “for he's a jolly good fellow.”
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.
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 …
Betsy McCaughey / New York Post:
How BernieCare slams working people  —  MORE FROM: … Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act, introduced last Wednesday, outlaws private health insurance.  Curiously, not one of the Democratic presidential wannabes crowding around Sanders for photo ops mentioned this alarming fact.
The Guardian:
Trump in Moscow: what happened at Miss Universe in 2013  —  The pageant and the president's attempts to get close to Putin have become a focus of the investigation into Trump's links to Russian interference in the US election … Sitting in a makeshift studio overlooking the Moscow river …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Knife-wielding campus pride leader killed by police at Georgia Tech  —  Georgia Tech police fatally shot the president of the Pride Alliance student group Saturday night in full view of dorm residents.  —  Police encountered Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old computer engineering student …
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Why the statue-smashers will never stop
Discussion: NewsBusters
New York Times:
Facebook Navigates an Internet Fractured by Governmental Controls
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Governments turn tables by suing public records requesters
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Has Megyn Kelly's Star Already Been Eclipsed?
Discussion: The Week
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Donald Trump ‘experts’ forget America First presidents
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Is Trump a White Supremacist?
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's message for the United Nations: Reform
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Natalie Neysa Alund / Tennessean.com:
Lipscomb president apologizes for cotton stalk centerpieces
Mike Allen / Axios:
Both parties to move on Facebook and other tech giants
Associated Press:
How Trump's advisers schooled him on globalism
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump's team gunning for potential 2020 reelection rivals
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Scaramucci Is Thinking About Running For President!
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Tucker: Trump Thinks TV More Accurately Reveals The Public's Beliefs Than Polls Do
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Rex Tillerson alienated every ally he needs
Discussion: Daily Wire and israpundit.org
 

 
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