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7:05 AM ET, September 30, 2017

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Wall Street Journal:
Officials Expressed Concerns White House Counsel Would Quit Over Donald Trump-Jared Kushner Meetings  —  Don McGahn was frustrated the parleys could be construed by investigators in the Russia probe as an effort to coordinate stories  —  WASHINGTON—White House Counsel Don McGahn this summer …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly struggling to make sense of Kushner's West Wing role  —  As Secretary of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly spent months touting a hard line on immigration.  He argued publicly and privately with Congress that if there were objections to the laws, it was up to legislators to change them …
Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Raw Story
CBS News:
Trump kids' ski vacation incurs over $300,000 in security costs  —  The annual Aspen ski vacation taken in March by President Trump's children, Ivanka and Eric Trump, and their families, including son-in-law Jared Kushner, left taxpayers on the hook for security costs of at least $330,000, CBS News has learned.
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS Denver
Josh Meyer / Politico:
NSA warned White House against using personal email  —  The National Security Agency warned senior White House officials in classified briefings that improper use of personal cellphones and email could make them vulnerable to espionage by Russia, China, Iran and other adversaries, according to officials familiar with the briefings.
Discussion: Raw Story and ABC News
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Special counsel investigators start questioning White House staffers
Discussion: The Hill
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Are Confounded by His Hospital Lie: 'He's Just, You Know, Doing His Thing.'
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House hits reset in search for Homeland Security chief: Sources
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Lost weekend: How Trump's time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria … At first, the Trump administration seemed to be doing all the right things to respond to the disaster in Puerto Rico.  —  As Hurricane Maria made landfall that Wednesday, there was a frenzy of activity publicly and privately.
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
‘Not enough’ troops, equipment in Puerto Rico, says general in charge of relief  —  The Defense Department has not sent enough troops and vehicles to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico but will soon send more, according to the three-star general newly in charge of coordinating the military response.
Discussion: Washington Post and Shareblue
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
San Juan mayor's harrowing plea: ‘Mr Trump, I am begging.  We are dying here’ … Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, spoke on Friday afternoon at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum.  Like the rest of the US territory, the capital of Puerto Rico was hit hard this month by two hurricanes, Jose and Maria.
Washington Post:
San Juan mayor slams Trump administration comments on Puerto Rico hurricane response  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital sharply criticized a senior Trump administration official Friday for calling the government's disaster response “a good-news story,” …
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
San Juan mayor: ‘Dammit, this is not a good news story’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz reacted with shock and anger to acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke on Friday, saying Puerto Rico's recovery is “not a good news story.”
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
San Juan mayor: ‘I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying’
Discussion: Mother Jones and Mediaite
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
General who handled Katrina response blasts Trump on Puerto Rico
Discussion: Politico and IJR
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's breaking point with Price  —  Tom Price's downfall was his penchant for pricey jets.  —  But his demise was months in the making, as the president continued to lose trust in the Health and Human Services secretary who rarely attended Oval Office strategy meetings …
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Washington Post:
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigns after criticism for taking charter flights at taxpayer expense
CNN:
Price out as HHS secretary after private plane scandal
Washington Post:
VA chief took in Wimbledon, river cruise on European work trip; wife's expenses covered  —  Nearly three days into a trip to Europe this past July, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin had attended a Wimbledon championship tennis match, toured Westminster Abbey and taken a cruise on the Thames.
taxpolicycenter.org:
A Preliminary Analysis of the Unified Framework  —  ABSTRACT  —  The Tax Policy Center has produced preliminary estimates of the potential impact proposals included in the “Unified Framework for Fixing our Broken Tax Code.”  We find they would reduce federal revenue by $2.4 trillion …
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
GOP tax plan would provide major gains for richest 1%, uneven benefits for the middle class, report says
ddhq.io:
Alabama Senate Special Election Poll  —  Immediately after the runoff Tuesday, we commissioned Opinion Savvy to conduct a poll of the upcoming special U.S. Senate general election in Alabama.  Opinion Savvy contacted 590 voters through landline and mobile devices on September 27th and 28th.
Discussion: Daily Kos, TheBlaze and Politicus USA
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The Cook Political Report:
Why Virginia's Delegate Races Could Be the Most Telling 2017 Elections
Isaac Arnsdorf / ProPublica:
Robert Mueller Subpoenas an Associate of the Man Who Hired Michael Flynn as a Lobbyist  —  The special prosecutor investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election has subpoenaed an associate of Gen. Michael Flynn's Turkish lobbying client.
TMZ.com:
Cops: Michael Bennett Body Cam Footage Justifies Police Takedown  —  BODY CAM FOOTAGE JUSTIFIES POLICE TAKEDOWN  —  The Las Vegas Metro Police Dept. says the body cam footage absolutely justifies why police took down Michael Bennett at gunpoint during a search for an active shooter ... saying it was NOT about race.
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Colin Kaepernick donated $25,000 to group named after convicted cop killer and former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur who broke out of jail and fled to Cuba  —  Colin Kaepernick's $25,000 donation to a charitable group honoring a convicted cop killer has been revealed.
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:
Uber Ex-CEO Travis Kalanick Names Directors in Power Play  —  Surprise move to appoint Ursula Burns and John Thain bolsters company co-founder's clout  —  Uber Technologies Inc.'s ousted chief executive, Travis Kalanick, is appointing two new directors to the ride-hailing firm's board …
 
 
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Freddy Monares / Bozeman Daily Chronicle Audio:
U.S. Senate candidate charged with nine Montana hunting violations
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Tennessee Church Suspect May Have Sought Charleston Revenge
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Robert Mueller Is Facing His Biggest Question Yet: Should He Prosecute the Cover-Up Before He's Certain There's a Crime?
Discussion: NewsBusters
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Chuck Schumer Describes Immigration Negotiations at WH: Trump Said 'OK, We Won't Do The Wall'
Discussion: Daily Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Rockfall at Yosemite's El Capitan ‘10 times bigger’ than slide that killed tourist a day earlier
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their Demands
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Monthly
Steven L. Hall / Washington Post:
Russian intelligence would have seen Paul Manafort as the perfect mark
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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