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Ryan Hannable / WEEI:
Tom Brady on K&C: ‘I certainly disagree with what [Donald Trump] said’  —  On Friday night, President Donald Trump had some pointed comments towards the NFL when it comes to players protesting during the national anthem.  —  “Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners …
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Will Schmitt / Springfield News-Leader:
A local WWII vet took a knee to support black NFL players.  He's going viral.  —  AP reporters counted more than 200 NFL players who did not stand during the national anthem before their games on Sunday.  Six refused to stand the week before, mainly protesting police brutality.  AP  —  CONNECT
Jack Holmes / Esquire:
The NFL Won't Forget September 24, 2017 Anytime Soon  —  What started last year with one player and one knee became something much larger today.  —  September 24, 2017 has been a day of immense consequence for the National Football League.  Across the nation, an unprecedented number of players …
Rachel Cumberbatch / FOX Carolina 21:
Upstate restaurant owner to stop showing NFL games in response to kneeling players
Discussion: Raw Story
Griffin Connolly / Roll Call:
Gohmert Calls for McCain's Recall  —  Texas Republican suggests way to support senator and get health care repeal  —  Pelosi Calls Out Trump for War on NFL, NBA Former Governor, Senate Candidate Announces Bid for Reichert's Seat State Medicaid Directors Say Graham-Cassidy ‘Fails to Deliver’
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump blasts McCain over health bill vote  —  https://apnews.com/bf3631c051cf4a06a8bf a901ea24cee6  —  Link copied!  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican effort to overhaul the Obama health law (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says Arizona GOP …
Discussion: baker and Axios
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP facing likely failure on ObamaCare repeal
Discussion: Washington Monthly
John Wagner / Washington Post:
In radio interview, Trump slams McCain, dings McConnell and botches a Senate candidate's name
Associated Press:   McCain calls brain cancer prognosis ‘very poor’
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon Sought To Infiltrate Facebook Hiring  —  According to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News, Bannon hoped to spy on Facebook's job application process.  —  Steve Bannon plotted to plant a mole inside Facebook, according to emails sent days before the Breitbart boss took …
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Harper Neidig / The Hill:   Facebook hires former Sessions aide
CBS News:
Poll: Most disapprove of Graham-Cassidy health care bill  —  Most Americans — 52 percent — disapprove of the Graham-Cassidy health care bill, according to a CBS News Poll conducted between Sept. 21 and 24.  —  Only 20 percent of those polled said they approved of the Republican legislation aimed …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Cruz still a no on Graham-Cassidy
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
A New Obamacare Repeal Draft Is Out And It Attacks Pre-Existing Protections More Severely
Washington Post:
Hot, isolated, and running out of supplies, parts of Puerto Rico near desperation  —  JUNCOS, Puerto Rico — In the heat and humidity here in the central mountains, Meryanne Aldea fanned her bedridden mother with a piece of cardboard Sunday as the ailing woman lay on her side, relieving a large ulcer in her back.
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New York Times:
Puerto Rico's Agriculture and Farmers Decimated by Maria  —  YABUCOA, P.R. — José A. Rivera, a farmer on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico, stood in the middle of his flattened plantain farm on Sunday and tried to tally how much Hurricane Maria had cost him.  —  “How do you calculate everything?”
Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner gets hard time  —  Weiner leaves court after being sentenced to 21 months in prison. … It's hard time for Anthony Weiner.  —  The disgraced ex-congressman broke down crying as he was sentenced to 21 months in prison Monday for convincing a high school student to undress and touch herself via Skype in 2016.
Discussion: Daily Wire and IJR
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Associated Press:   The Latest: Anthony Weiner must report to prison by Nov. 6
Kelly Swanson / Vox:
Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal just landed him a 21-month prison sentence
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and New York Times
New York Daily News:
Anthony Weiner sentenced to 21 months in prison for teen sexting scandal
Leada Gore / al.com:
Trump calls ‘Rick & Bubba,’ calls Roy Moore ‘Ray’ as he stumps for Strange  —  Gallery: President Trump at Luther Strange for Senate Rally in Huntsville, ALa.  —  A primary win by “Ray” Moore would open Alabama's U.S. Senate seat to Democrats, President Donald Trump told radio-hosts “Rick and Bubba” this morning.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump claims he doesn't know much about ‘Ray’ Moore
Discussion: Axios, The Nation and Breitbart
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
GOP senators to unveil new ‘Dreamers’ bill  —  A new Senate GOP proposal is being released Monday that creates a pathway to legalization for so-called Dreamers, but it won't allow them to sponsor family members to the United States — one of several provisions that make the bill far …
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Allison De Jong / ABC News:
Americans back DACA by a huge margin (POLL)
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Axios:
North Korea says U.S. has “declared war on our country”  —  North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong-ho, said Monday that President Trump has declared war by tweeting that North Korea “won't be around much longer” if the foreign minister “echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man,” per AP.
Discussion: Mediaite and Reuters
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NBC News:
North Korean Foreign Minister Says Trump Has ‘Declared War’
John Legend / Slate:
The NFL Protests Are Patriotic  —  The kneeling players are asking America to do better on criminal justice.  If I could, I'd take a knee and join them.  —  The president of the United States loves to drape himself in the symbols of patriotism, but fails to respect the ideals at the core of our Constitution and national identity.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Of course Trump's outrage at the NFL protests had to do with race
Discussion: Daily Kos
Peter Baker / New York Times:
A Divider Not a Uniter, Trump Widens the Breach  —  WASHINGTON — Over the course of just 17 hours this weekend, President Trump assailed John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Stephen Curry, the National Football League, Roger Goodell, Iran and Kim Jong-un — the “Little Rocket Man.”  And that was on his day off.
Discussion: Washington Post and Opinion Today
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
‘Sunday Night Football’ Ratings Down Again On Day Of Player Protests  —  On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league …
Washington Post:
Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook  —  Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played a key role in the U.S. election, President Barack Obama pulled …
Lucia Graves / The Guardian:
Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women - and their husbands  —  But new research shows that for white women, having a husband trumped the sisterhood  —  illary Clinton hoped to wear white on election night, a tribute to the suffragettes and the sweep of political history.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why the divider in chief embraces culture wars  —  THE BIG IDEA: The most fitting slogan for Donald Trump's populist campaign, which continues nearly a year after the 2016 election ended, might be “us against them.”  I don't know Latin, but I do know that what we saw …
 
 
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CNN:
Far-right party AfD in disarray a day after historic German election result
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Axios
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
GOP leaders circulating plan that could end up as massive tax cut for the wealthy
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Chiefs QB: Why is Trump condemning football players more harshly than white supremacists?
Discussion: Kansas City Star and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Politicization of Everything
Fox News:
Deadly Tennessee church shooting: Sudanese immigrant arrested, FBI launches civil rights investigation
The White House:
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