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8:55 AM ET, October 9, 2017

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New York Times:
Bob Corker Says Trump's Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward …
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Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Trump's tweetstorm against Corker may cost him a key policy ally
Brandon George / Dallas Morning News:
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: Any player who is ‘disrespectful to the flag’ won't be allowed to play  —  ARLINGTON — Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Sunday that any of his players who disrespect the flag during the national anthem won't play in games.  —  Jones is the first NFL owner to publicly …
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Rene Marsh / CNN:
The price tag for Pence's trip to Indianapolis  —  (CNN)How much did Vice President Mike Pence's trip to Indianapolis to watch — and then abruptly leave — a football game Sunday between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers cost?  —  Here is an estimate of just the air costs …
Josh Alper / ProFootballTalk:
Eric Reid: Vice President's visit was a P.R. Stunt  —  Vice President Mike Pence briefly stopped by the Colts game on Sunday, but left when 23 members of the 49ers took a knee during the national anthem.  —  Pence said, via Twitter, that he left because he will not “dignify any event …
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Pence leaves Colts game after protest during anthem
Gregg Doyel / Indianapolis Star:
Vice President Mike Pence uses Colts for political purposes
New York Times:
Trump Tells Pence to Leave N.F.L. Game as Players Kneel During Anthem
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Sports reporter claims Kaepernick would now stand for anthem if signed to NFL team
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
'Harvey Weinstein's Media Enablers'?  The New York Times Is One of Them  —  The paper had a story on mogul's sexual misconduct back in 2004 — but gutted it under pressure … He apologized and took an immediate leave of absence from the company he co-founded, but that wasn't enough.
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Daily Mail:
It comes after a  —  bombshell New York Times report on Thursday revealed Weinstein's long record of misconduct.  —  The report said he had reached at least eight settlements with women including one who said she was coerced into giving him a massage while he was naked.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein Is Fired After Sexual Harassment Reports  —  Harvey Weinstein has been fired from his film studio, the Weinstein Company, in response to reports that he sexually harassed women for decades.  —  “In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged …
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Hollywood is America's Conscience or Something
Wall Street Journal:
Weinstein Co. Board Fires Harvey Weinstein, Citing Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Brent Lang / Variety:
Harvey Weinstein Forced Out of His Own Company
Washington Post:
Google uncovers Russian-bought ads on YouTube, Gmail and other platforms  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google for the first time has uncovered evidence that Russian operatives exploited the company's platforms in an attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the company's investigation.
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The Daily Beast:
Russia Recruited YouTubers to Bash ‘Racist B*tch’ Hillary Clinton Over Rap Beats … According to the YouTube page for “Williams and Kalvin,” the Clintons are “serial killers who are going to rape the whole nation.”  Donald Trump can't be racist because he's a “businessman.”
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Trump campaign's embrace of Facebook shows company's growing reach in elections
Discussion: Axios
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Bannon expands his list of Senate Republican targets for 2018  —  Washington (CNN)Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is expanding his efforts to unseat sitting Senate Republicans in primaries next year.  —  In the two weeks since Bannon-backed former judge Roy Moore defeated …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
The League of Extraordinary Candidates: Economic Nationalist Leaders Plan for Anti-Establishment …
Discussion: Axios, RedState, The Atlantic and IJR
Bloomberg:
Bannon Plans to Back Challengers to Most GOP Senators
Discussion: Washington Post
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Makes Hard-Line Demands for Any ‘Dreamers’ Deal  —  WASHINGTON — The White House on Sunday delivered to Congress a long list of hard-line immigration measures that President Trump is demanding in exchange for any deal to protect the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers …
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David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump administration releases hard-line immigration principles, threatening deal on ‘dreamers’
Discussion: Politicus USA
Associated Press:
Trump links border wall, green-card overhaul to DACA
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump lists immigration demands that could derail ‘Dreamers’ deal
Jeff Mason / Reuters:   Exclusive: Trump seeks border wall, crackdown on unaccompanied minors for ‘Dreamer’ deal
Richard H. Thaler / Nobelprize.org:
The Prize in Economic Sciences 2017  —  The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 to  —  “for his contributions to behavioural economics”  —  Integrating economics with psychology
Discussion: Cafe Hayek, Marginal REVOLUTION and NPR
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Tyler Cowen / Marginal REVOLUTION:
Nobel Prize awarded to Richard Thaler
Discussion: Washington Post
Tim Johnson / miamiherald:
As some Puerto Rico mayors stumble, U.S. militarizes relief campaign.  —  AGUADILLA, PUERTO RICO  —  As U.S. soldiers Sunday handed out dozens of boxes of emergency food and water rations in this coastal town, a federal relief official pronounced himself satisfied.  —  “They seem pretty happy right now.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Washington Post:
Traveling in style: Trump's White House wrestles with Cabinet costs  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and wife Louise Linton exit Marine One in July.  Mnuchin and other Cabinet officials have come under scrutiny for their use of private and military jets.  (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
Reuters:
Trump's popularity is slipping in rural America: poll  —  (Reuters) - Outside the Morgan County fair in McConnelsville, in a rural swath of Ohio that fervently backed U.S. President Donald Trump in last year's election, ticket seller John Wilson quietly counts off a handful of disappointments with the man he helped elect.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Frank Sinatra told Donald Trump to “go f*** himself”, new book reveals
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Reuters:
Iran warns U.S. against imposing further sanctions
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All news is local  —  WEST NEWTON, PA — There used to 324 newspapers …
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Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:
Graydon Carter opens a physical store called Air Mail Newsstand in NYC, as an extension of his digital newsletter Air Mail, selling books, magazines, and more

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