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New York Times:
Trump Could Save More Than $1 Billion Under His New Tax Plan  —  Highlighted areas show what parts of President Trump's 2005 tax return could have been affected by the new tax plan.  —  President Trump could cut his tax bills by more than $1.1 billion, including saving tens of millions …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Has Trump had his ‘heckuva job’ moment with Puerto Rico?  —  THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein  —  The first two storms, it appears, were only wind-ups to the presidential moment that presents itself now.  The crisis in Puerto Rico figures to define President Trump's responses to this remarkable string of powerful storms.
New York Times:
Private Emails, Private Jets and Mr. Trump's Idea of Public Service  —  Electing him, Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail, would “make every dream you ever dreamed for your country come true.”  Among those reveries, he suggested, would be a government free of self-dealing and one devoted to public service.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Exclusive: Kushner didn't disclose personal email account to Senate intel committee
Axios:
USAFA superintendent: “Grab your phones”  —  Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria, superintendent of the Air Force Academy, yesterday “stood all of his 4,000 cadets at attention ...  [c]hins in and chests out ... to deliver a message on racial slurs found written on message boards at the academy's preparatory school …
Discussion: YouTube
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:   Racial slurs written on doors of five black cadet candidates at Air Force Academy Preparatory School
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Price took military jets to Europe, Asia for over $500K  —  The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.
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Washington Post:
Zinke took $12,000 charter flight home in oil executive's plane, documents show  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke chartered a flight from Las Vegas to near his home in Montana this summer aboard a plane owned by oil-and-gas executives, internal documents show.
Ben Lefebvre / Politico:
Interior Secretary Zinke traveled on charter, military planes
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema enters Senate race, hoping to unseat Jeff Flake  —  U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema is running for the Senate seat held by Jeff Flake, ending months of speculation about her political future and giving Democrats a top-tier fundraiser with experience on Capitol Hill.
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Jennifer E. Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Arizona Senate: Sinema's Candidacy Puts Race in Toss Up  —  Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake is getting challenged from both the right and the left in his bid for a second term.  The first hurdle will be a competitive primary.  If he clears that obstacle, he will likely face a competitive challenge …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie backers give Dem incumbents a pass in 2018
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Deadly Narcissism  —  According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority of Americans believe that Donald Trump is unfit to be president.  That's pretty remarkable.  But you have to wonder how much higher the number would be if people really knew what's going on.
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Washington Post:
U.S. response in Puerto Rico pales next to actions after Haiti quake … After an earthquake shattered Haiti's capital on Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. military mobilized as if it were going to war.  —  Before dawn the next morning, an Army unit was airborne, on its way to seize control of the main airport in Port-au-Prince.
Discussion: The Root and Hullabaloo
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Millionaire Trump Adviser Says Americans Can ‘Buy A New Car’ With $1,000 Tax Cut  —  Gary Cohn also suggested that money could be used for a substantial home renovation.  —  President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser — Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs president worth an estimated $266 million …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Make America Gipper Again
CBS News:
U.S. plans major withdrawal of staff from embassy in Cuba  —  Two sources tell CBS News the U.S. is preparing to announce a major withdrawal of staff and family from the U.S. embassy in Cuba in response to attacks targeting diplomats.  Only essential personnel will be left.
Discussion: CBS Miami
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New York Times:
U.S. to Pull More Diplomats Out of Cuba After Attacks
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
CNNMoney:
Exclusive: Fake black activist accounts linked to Russian government  —  Fake black activist accounts linked to Russia  —  A social media campaign calling itself “Blacktivist” and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Berniecrats Have an Obama Problem  —  The ideological vanguard of the Bernie Sanders movement emerged from the 2016 election overflowing with dialectical certainty.  Hillary Clinton's narrow win in the primary was the last gasp of a dying neoliberal order, the overthrow of which is now preordained.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Melania Trump fires back at librarian who rejected gift of Dr. Seuss books as ‘racist’  —  First lady Melania Trump fired back Friday at a Massachusetts elementary school librarian who rejected her donation of Dr. Seuss books, claiming their illustrations are examples of “racist propaganda.”
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lawlessness of Roy Moore  —  Both sides of my family hail from Alabama: my mother's people from the coal mining country of Walker County in the north and the tiny burg of Union Springs farther south; my dad's, from a speck of a cotton-mill town just east of Montgomery.
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Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Failed to Disclose Massive Amount of Income on His Senate Ethics Form
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
This Is My Last Blog Post At The Daily Caller Dot Com  —  Not a Rickroll, honest.  —  Looks like this is it.  I've been blogging here at the Daily Caller since the site launched, all the way back on January 11, 2010.  But now it's time for me to go.  —  Daily blogging can be a fun job, but it can also be a grind.
Scott Allen / Washington Post:
A kid walked into a GameStop wearing a Kaepernick jersey.  Two NFL players bought him an Xbox.  —  Saundra Watts was getting her makeup done in the Dulles 28 Centre in Sterling on Tuesday, killing time while her dog was groomed at Petco, when her 10-year-old grandson, Jaden, came running into the store.
Discussion: The Root, Unfogged, WREG-TV and USA Today
Washington Post:
Losing the part  —  How Darrell Hammond, SNL's best impressionist ever, found life after Trump  —  There is just a time when things end, Lorne will say.  Even for the greatest impressionist in “Saturday Night Live” history.  —  For Darrell Hammond, that moment came last September.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Lili Anolik / Vanity Fair:
The Kate McKinnon Report
Discussion: The Ringer - All and Splinter
Chris D'Angelo / HuffPost:
Here's All The Expensive Nonsense Trump's EPA Chief Is Wasting Your Taxes On  —  That swamp is looking mighty cushy.  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt — a climate change denier who is pushing for sweeping budget cuts at the agency — apparently has no qualms …
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Beyond the daily drama and Twitter battles, Trump begins to alter American life  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even without delivering on his biggest campaign promises, President Donald Trump has begun to reshape American life in ways big and small.  —  Over his first nine months …
 
 
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Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:
ICE arrests hundreds of immigrants in ‘sanctuary cities’ around the nation, California
Discussion: RedState
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Retirements May Hold the Key in Whether Republicans Can Keep the House
Dave Levinthal / Center for Public Integrity:
FEC fines contractor that gave pro-Clinton super PACs illegal cash
Meghan Linsey / Washington Post:
I'm a white country singer. I still took a knee after I sang the national anthem at an NFL game.
Associated Press:
Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November
Discussion: Axios
Ben Strauss / Politico:
‘This Is Bad for America, But Great for Us’
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Christopher Hooks / The Texas Observer:
Texas GOP's Favorite Meme-Maker is Now Helping the Far-Right in Germany
Discussion: Texas Monthly and Raw Story
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Citizens United For Conservative Patrick Morrisey Over Mitch McConnell-Backed Evan Jenkins …
Reshma Saujani / New York Times:
The Case for Shunning the White House
Steven Malanga / City Journal:
Bench the NFL  —  The league enjoys an antitrust exemption …
Discussion: Instapundit
Detroit Free Press:
Snyder backs state police director amid backlash over FB post condemning NFL protests
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘Miracles really do happen’: Rep. Steve Scalise returns to Congress 15 weeks after he was shot
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Treasury Removes Paper at Odds With Mnuchin's Take on Corporate-Tax Cut's Winners
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Week and Axios