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Politico:
Trump publicly backs healthcare effort, privately harbors doubts  —  While the president appears all in some in the White House wonder about Graham-Cassidy's contents and its chances.  —  In public, President Donald Trump is all-in on the Senate's final chance to repeal Obamacare.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies  —  Graham-Cassidy, the health bill the Senate may vote on next week, is stunningly cruel.  It's also incompetently drafted: The bill's sponsors clearly had no idea what they were doing when they put it together.  Furthermore, their efforts to sell the bill involve obvious, blatant lies.
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Sandoval doubles down on criticism of Heller-sponsored measure; state analysis highlights up to $2 billion loss  —  Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday that the flexibility fellow Republican Sen. Dean Heller promised will be good for Nevada in a health-care bill he's sponsoring is a “false choice” …
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The key states that would 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 and Medicaid by 2026 under the Graham-Cassidy proposal.
CNN:
Axelrod: I cried when they passed Obamacare
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Medicaid directors issue warning on new ObamaCare repeal bill
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
New York Times:
New Effort to Kill Obamacare Is Called ‘the Most Radical’
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump cautions GOP to pass Obamacare repeal or face the consequences
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Washington Post:
Federal estimate shows states' big win-loss gap by 2026 under Cassidy-Graham bill
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Kim Jong Un Calls President Trump ‘Dotard’ and ‘Frightened Dog’  —  North Korea's leader called President Donald Trump “a frightened dog” and a “gangster fond of playing with fire” in an official statement released Thursday.  —  Kim Jong Un responded to Trump's United Nations speech in a dispatch written in the first person.
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The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Imposing Additional Sanctions with Respect to North Korea
Bob Grip / WALA-TV:
Roy Moore leads Luther Strange in FOX10 News poll  —  If the Alabama GOP Senate runoff election were held today, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore would defeat incumbent Senator Luther Strange, according to an exclusive, FOX10 News/Strategy Research statewide poll, conducted Wednesday.
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Donald Trump Can't Lose
Discussion: CNN
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: Strange has ‘gained mightily’ since my endorsement
Discussion: ABC News
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
How Tom Price decided chartered, private jets were a good use of taxpayer money  —  After Tom Price was sworn in as health and human services secretary, the Georgia Republican faced an inconvenience known to millions of Americans: His flight was delayed, an aide said, and he was forced to spend hours at an airport.
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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.
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump aides begin looking for the exits  —  A fast-growing number of White House staffers are starting to look for the exits, even though the one-year mark of President Donald Trump's first term is still months away.  —  Many who joined the administration in January did so with the explicit idea …
New York Times:
Trump's Travel Ban to Be Replaced by Restrictions Tailored to Certain Countries  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's ban on travelers from six majority-Muslim countries is set to be replaced as soon as this weekend with more targeted restrictions on visits to the United States that would vary by country …
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Finalizes New Restrictions to Replace Travel Ban  —  Targeted rules would affect about eight or nine countries, vary based on factors including cooperation with U.S. mandates  —  The Trump administration is preparing to replace its controversial travel ban …
Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, KTLA and IJR
Bloomberg:
Trump's Travel Ban Decision Could Set Off New Wave of Turmoil
Discussion: Axios
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump says this is all a hoax.  Mueller, Congress and Facebook disagree.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and three congressional committees are investigating Russian interference in the election, but President Trump is still telling his fans it's a “hoax.”
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Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Monitored Manafort After He Left Trump Campaign  —  The surveillance came as part of a counterintelligence probe into Russian interference with presidential election  —  U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump's campaign manager …
Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed:
Sebastian Gorka Gave A Classified “Tirade” About Radical Islam  —  The former Trump aide delivered a two-and-a-half-hour speech to students at a US Army elite special operations center, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.  People who were there said it was a fiery speech …
Discussion: Axios
Scott Schwebke / Orange County Register:
End-of-world prediction interrupts TV broadcasts in Orange County  —  Some Orange County residents were stunned Thursday, Sept. 21, when television programming was suddenly interrupted for about a minute with an ominous message predicting the end of the world.
TMZ.com:
Woman from Video Yelling About Service Dog in Restaurant Defends Herself  —  The woman who was recorded going OFF on restaurant diners about a veteran's service dog being allowed inside says the clip of her profanity-laced tirade doesn't tell the full story.
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Root
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Coulter: If we're not getting the wall, we may as well have an attractive dignified president  —  Ann Coulter on Wednesday slammed President Trump as less “attractive” and “dignified” than Vice President Pence and doubled down on her recent harsh criticism of the president by advocating replacing him with his second in command.
Discussion: RedState
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 and The Week
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
Virginia Republican unleashes most racist attack ad since Willie Horton  —  In this year's Virginia gubernatorial race, Republican candidate and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie is often portrayed as a gentlemanly, clean alternative to the ugliness of Donald Trump.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Sorry I can't go to your thing.  I must call my senator to plead for my life.  —  An email template from the near future.  —  I am sorry I cannot make it to your event, but I have to call Congress every eight minutes to plead for my life.  —  Would I like to go to your wedding/bar mitzvah …
New York Times:
Fighting Breaks Out at Turkish President's Speech in New York  —  Violence broke out at a New York hotel Thursday afternoon when protesters disrupted a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.  —  In the middle of Mr. Erdogan's speech, delivered in Turkish, a man …
Brownsville Herald:
De Leon apologizes; Leaked audio clips of foul language, slurs go viral  —  City Commissioner Cesar De Leon was apologetic Wednesday after multiple social media users this week shared audio clips of him using derogatory slurs to describe two assistant district attorneys.
 
 
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Margherita Stancati / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Shows Off New Ballistic Missile in Defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump's Criticism
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Politico:
Obama-era school sexual assault policy rescinded
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Melania is the most popular Trump
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Jessica Grotjahn / WHNT-TV:
Ardmore students Snapchat shirts with racist language at school, get in trouble
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Simon Osborne / Daily Express:
Spain CRISIS: Police boats BLOCKED by Catalan ports as unrest threatens to RIP Spain APART
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Big Majority Want Congress to Stabilize Obamacare
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