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10:25 AM ET, September 29, 2017

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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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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Exclusive: Kushner didn't disclose personal email account to Senate intel committee  —  Washington (CNN)In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account …
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
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Make America Gipper Again
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Republicans Ditched Tax Reform for Tax Cuts
Discussion: Vox
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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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Tom Price Wanted To Reopen His Department's Executive Dining Room, Sources Say
Discussion: Salon
New York Times:
Chastened, Tom Price Tries to Deflect Anger Over Chartered Flights
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: Hullabaloo
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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.
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Racial slurs written on doors of five black cadet candidates at Air Force Academy Preparatory School  —  Five black cadet candidates found racial slurs written on the message boards on their doors at the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School this week, leading school officials to denounce racism and launch an investigation.
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Stephen Losey / Air Force Times:
Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates
Discussion: AOL and Raw Story
Axios:
USAFA superintendent: “Grab your phones”
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Jessica Schneider / CNN:
DOJ demands Facebook information from ‘anti-administration activists’  —  Washington (CNN)Trump administration lawyers are demanding the private account information of potentially thousands of Facebook users in three separate search warrants served on the social media giant, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Failed to Disclose Massive Amount of Income on His Senate Ethics Form … Roy Moore, the controversial Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, neglected to disclose as much as $150,000 in income to federal ethics officials, according to a Daily Beast review of public records.
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Michelle Cottle / The Atlantic:
The Lawlessness of Roy Moore
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Roy Moore opposed the appointment of an ‘admitted homosexual’ to an ambassadorship in 2006
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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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie backers give Dem incumbents a pass in 2018
Christopher Hooks / The Texas Observer:
Texas GOP's Favorite Meme-Maker is Now Helping the Far-Right in Germany  —  On Monday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote about the role played by the Austin-based political consultant Vincent Harris in the recent success of the Alternative für Deutschland party, or AfD, in the German federal election last weekend.
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Leif Reigstad / Texas Monthly:
How an Austin Ad Agency Helped the Alt-Right Rise Again in Germany
Discussion: CNNMoney and Raw Story
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Citizens United For Conservative Patrick Morrisey Over Mitch McConnell-Backed Evan Jenkins in West Virginia Senate Battle  —  The Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CUPVF) is backing Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, the conservative candidate for U.S. Senate in West Virginia …
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.
Discussion: IJR
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 …
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.
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: Unfogged, WREG-TV and USA Today
Ben Strauss / Politico:
‘This Is Bad for America, But Great for Us’  —  “Is ‘tank’ too strong a word?”  Clay Travis asked gleefully, tapping out a tweet to his nearly 500,000 followers.  It wasn't, he decided, and he hit send: “NFL ratings tank as Trump feuds with NFL protesters, ESPN subscribers plummet.”
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 …
New York Times:
Alabama Victory Provides Blueprint for New Bannon Alliance  —  WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon and two of his longtime benefactors are putting together a political coalition designed to ensure that the victory of a Republican insurgent in the Alabama Senate primary this week was just the beginning …
Lili Anolik / Vanity Fair:
The Kate McKinnon Report … If journalists played it straight with movie stars, they'd call it an interrogation not an interview.  It'd be conducted at a police station—some grimy, windowless room at the back, cramped and full of the hot stink of fear and funk.
Discussion: The Ringer - All and Splinter
 
 
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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.
CBS News:
U.S. plans major withdrawal of staff from embassy in Cuba
Discussion: New York Times and CBS Miami
Associated Press:
Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November
Discussion: Axios
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
This Is My Last Blog Post At The Daily Caller Dot Com
Reshma Saujani / New York Times:
The Case for Shunning the White House
Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg:
New ‘KJU’ Shower Gel Not Named After Kim Jong Un, Insists Unilever
Discussion: Mashable
 Earlier Items: 
Steven Malanga / City Journal:
Bench the NFL  —  The league enjoys an antitrust exemption …
Discussion: Instapundit
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Democrats need to put forward a tax plan too
Discussion: The Week
Detroit Free Press:
Snyder backs state police director amid backlash over FB post condemning NFL protests
Discussion: The Root and The Daily Caller
Jake Gibson / Fox News:
DOJ files suit against company for allegedly not hiring Americans
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: The Week and Axios
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: World going to hell in a handbasket as nation comes apart at seams
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Opinion Today
Twitter:
Russian Interference in 2016 US Election, Bots, & Misinformation
 

 
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Louis Staples / Rolling Stone:
Ahead of the Eurovision finals on May 11, tensions over the Israel-Gaza war complicate the organizers' efforts to maintain an appearance of political neutrality

John Ourand / Puck:
Sources: Netflix is nearing a deal to stream two NFL games on December 25

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
C-SPAN's own business choices keep the network from being offered on streaming TV platforms like YouTube TV, as it stays reliant on cable and satellite funding

 
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