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11:35 PM ET, September 21, 2017

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Haley Byrd / IJR:
Republicans Attempt to Buy Murkowski's Vote in New Draft of Health Care Bill  —  A Republican Senate aide told Independent Journal Review Thursday that Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) are attempting to buy Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's support through new changes …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
New CMS estimate shows key holdouts' states lose funding under Graham-Cassidy  —  A new estimate obtained by Axios from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that Alaska, home to key swing vote Sen. Lisa Murkowski, would lose 38% of federal funding for premium subsidies …
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
State-by-State Estimates of Changes in Federal Spending on Health Care Under the Graham-Cassidy Bill  —  A new health care bill recently introduced by a number of senators led by Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy would repeal major elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
This Republican health-care bill is the most monstrous yet  —  Motivated by the cynical aims of fulfilling a bumper-sticker campaign promise and lavishing tax cuts on the wealthy, Republicans are threatening to pass a health-care bill they know will make millions of Americans sicker and poorer.
Discussion: CNN, Shareblue and WTVR-TV
Brian Galle / Whatever Source Derived:
The “Alaska Purchase” Is Probably Unconstitutional
Discussion: Washington Post
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
How Democrats Gave the GOP One More Chance to Repeal Obamacare
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Cassidy-Graham could still blow up in the GOP's face. Here's how.
Associated Press:
Kim Jong Un: ‘Deranged’ Trump will ‘pay dearly’ for threat  —  UNITED NATIONS — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called President Donald Trump “deranged” and said, in a statement carried by the state news agency, that the U.S. president will “pay dearly” for his threats.
Discussion: USA Today, The Hill, Axios and IJR
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
There is No Trump Doctrine, Only Contradictions and Bluster  —  The things our President says.  At a lunch with African leaders on Wednesday, Donald Trump praised the continent's business potential by noting that many of his friends were “going to your countries to get rich.”
Mark Zuckerberg:
I just went live a minute ago.  Here's what I said:  —  Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave.  It was really special to be with Priscilla and August after she was born, and to get to spend some more time with Max.  —  While I was out on leave …
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Colin Stretch / Facebook:
Facebook to Provide Congress With Ads Linked to Internet Research Agency
Washington Post:   Facebook to give Congress copies of 3,000 political ads bought through Russian accounts, reversing previous decision
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has taken at least 24 flights on private charter planes at taxpayers' expense since early May, according to people with knowledge of his travel plans and a review of HHS documents.
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Maria Danilova / Associated Press:
On work trips, DeVos flies on her plane at own expense
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Mueller requested phone records about Air Force One statement  —  The special counsel has also recently made requests for documents concerning a statement made by Sean Spicer in the days preceding James Comey's firing as FBI director.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller has sought phone records concerning …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Another potential Mueller honey pot: Spicer's notebooks
CNN:
Senate candidate Roy Moore in 2005: ‘Homosexual conduct should be illegal’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Roy Moore, a Republican US Senate candidate in Alabama, said in a 2005 interview that he believes “homosexual conduct” should be illegal.  —  Moore, a hardline conservative Christian …
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John Verhovek / ABC News:
5 moments that mattered in the Alabama US Senate debate
Discussion: Politico
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:   45 After Dark: The Gambler edition
Financial Times:
Steve Bannon held secret meeting in Beijing  —  Steve Bannon flew to Beijing last week for a secret meeting with the second most powerful Chinese Communist party official, less than a month after the former chief White House strategist declared that America was at “economic war with China”.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Quietly Built A Massive List With The Personal Information Of Thousands Of People  —  The list began traveling the dark corners of the internet around April as a scattered collection of names, addresses, phone numbers and social media accounts.  It's now a massive organized database of thousands of people.
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Skadden, Big New York Law Firm, Faces Questions on Work With Manafort  —  The Justice Department wants information about Skadden's work on behalf of a Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine.  —  September 21, 2017  —  Mueller Seeks White House Documents Related to Trump's Actions as President
Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson offers epic apology after tweeting anti-Semitic story: ‘One should not tweet while moving’  —  Valerie Plame Wilson offered another apology Thursday hours after tweeting an anti-Semitic article titled “America's Jews Are Driving America's Wars,” …
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Aaron Hernandez Found to Have Severe C.T.E.  —  Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who committed suicide in April while serving a life sentence for murder, was found to have a severe form of C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Flint's lead-poisoned water had a ‘horrifyingly large’ effect on fetal deaths, study finds  —  The fertility rate in Flint, Mich., dropped precipitously after the city decided to switch to lead-poisoned Flint River water in 2014, according to a new working paper.
Discussion: Verrit, AOL and TheBlaze
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Jonathan Capriel / Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa girl, 4, dies of gunshot reaching for candy  —  TAMPA — One day last week, 4-year-old Yanelly Zoller reached into her grandmother's purse looking for candy, her father says.  —  Instead, she found a gun.  She accidently pulled the trigger and was shot in the chest.
New York Times:
Trump Poised to Drop Some Limits on Drone Strikes and Commando Raids  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to dismantle key Obama-era limits on drone strikes and commando raids outside conventional battlefields, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations.
Discussion: Just Security
 
 
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Bernie Sanders Just Gave the Progressive Foreign-Policy Speech We've Been Waiting For
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Vladimir Kozlov / Hollywood Reporter:
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Washington Post:
Russia threatens retaliatory strikes against U.S. troops and their allies in Syria
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