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1:10 PM ET, September 22, 2017

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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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Future Development Reads:
How will the Graham-Cassidy proposal affect the number of people with health insurance coverage?  —  Editor's Note: … On September 13, Senators Graham and Cassidy, together with two other Republican colleagues, introduced legislation that would repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
This Republican health-care bill is the most monstrous yet
Discussion: CNN, KTLA, WTVR-TV, Daily Kos and Forbes
Washington Post:
Federal estimate shows states' big win-loss gap by 2026 under Cassidy-Graham bill
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 …
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Joshua Stewart / sandiegouniontribune.com:
Rep. Hunter calls for preemptive strike against North Korea  —  U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the United States will be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea unless Pyongyang backs down from its nuclear standoff, mocking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a “rocket man” on a suicide mission.
Discussion: CNNMoney, AOL, New York Magazine and IJR
Bloomberg:
Trump's Travel Ban Decision Could Set Off New Wave of Turmoil
Discussion: Axios
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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
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 …
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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.”
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
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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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.
Chip Cummins / Wall Street Journal:
London Won't Reissue Uber's License, Saying It Is Unfit to Operate  —  Uber will be allowed to operate during appeal process  —  LONDON—The U.K. capital's top transport authority said Friday it won't reissue a private-car hire license to Uber Technologies Inc., saying it found the company unfit to hold such a permit.
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Politico:
Obama-era school sexual assault policy rescinded  —  The Trump administration announced today that it is now rescinding Obama-era school sexual assault guidance and issuing a question-and-answer document while a formal review is undertaken.  —  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said a new direction …
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
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Protesters disrupt James Comey's Howard University convocation speech  —  Former FBI director James Comey struggled on Friday to give the convocation address at Howard University, speaking over a group of about 20 students who sang and chanted continuously throughout the speech.
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 …
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The insane news cycle of Trump's presidency in 1 chart  —  If it feels like the Trump presidency has been hit by non-stop scandals and crises from day one, it's probably because it has been.  The Google News Lab looked at the search trends for stories about 40 of the biggest news events of Trump's presidency from Jan. 20 until Sept. 1.
Discussion: Mashable
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
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 …
 
 
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Hurricanes may compel even more Puerto Rico residents to flee to the mainland, officials warn
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Margherita Stancati / Wall Street Journal:
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Big Majority Want Congress to Stabilize Obamacare
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
White House plan for tax cuts moves forward
Discussion: Mother Jones, Axios, Political Wire and CNBC
Vann R. Newkirk II / The Atlantic:
There and Back Again  —  “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Medicaid directors issue warning on new ObamaCare repeal bill
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Week
Financial Times:
Steve Bannon held secret meeting in Beijing
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week