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9:45 AM ET, August 27, 2018

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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain  —  President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
As a Nation Mourns McCain, Trump Is Conspicuously Absent  —  WASHINGTON — As leaders of both political parties and foreign dignitaries publicly mourned John McCain on Sunday, President Trump conspicuously avoided a national moment of tribute to a senator whose death seemed to be its own metaphor …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Flags at White House return to full-staff after brief tribute to McCain  —  U.S. flags at the White House returned to full-staff on Monday morning as the nation continued to mourn the death of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).  —  The flags were lowered Saturday night following McCain's death from brain cancer.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Arizona Governor Faces a Tough Choice: A Senator Cut From McCain's Mold or Trump's  —  TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — Senator John McCain's death this weekend laid bare the long-simmering Republican tensions over who will be appointed to fill his Arizona seat, pitting the pragmatic wing of the party …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
In most of the country, McCain is being lauded as a hero.  On Arizona's GOP campaign trail, he's a pariah.
Karen Ruiz / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SARAH PALIN ON JOHN MCCAIN …
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:
John McCain's Death Leaves Foreign-Policy Void
Discussion: Just Security and Washington Post
Navy.mil The Official Website …:   U.S. Navy Statements on Passing of Sen. John McCain
Eric Bradner / CNN:
How Arizona will fill John McCain's seat — and who might fill it
Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell  —  Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell.  Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that's circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Worried GOPers Privately List Potential Probes If Dems Retake House
Discussion: Breitbart
Colin Deppen / The Incline:
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette no longer prints a daily newspaper  —  Saturday and Tuesday papers are a thing of the past now.  —  Pittsburgh is now the largest city in America without a daily newspaper.  —  After many iterations, Pittsburgh's last remaining daily, the 232-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:   Pittsburgh becomes largest US city without a daily print newspaper
Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore man identified as gunman in Jacksonville shooting  —  Federal authorities were at a home near in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on Sunday night as part of an investigation into the Jacksonville mass shooting.  (Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun)  —  A Baltimore man has been identified …
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Daily Mail:
Pro-gamer, 24, who shot dead two and injured 11 after LOSING: Florida tournament killer 'used …
New York Times:
3 Dead, Including Gunman, in Shooting at a Florida Gaming Tournament
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Multiple fatalities reported, including a suspect, in mass shooting at Jacksonville, Fla., video game tournament
WJXT-TV:
Sources: Mass shooting at Jacksonville Landing leaves 4 dead, 11 wounded
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
John McCain's Epiphany About Paul Manafort  —  A central feature of John McCain's biography was his capacity for change.  After he sullied himself in the Savings and Loan scandal of the late eighties, he self-consciously transformed into a warrior on behalf of the cause of political reform.
New York Times:
Hard Partying and a Corruption Scandal: Duncan Hunter's Political Life Unravels  —  SAN DIEGO — In Alpine, Calif., a suburban Southern California enclave, Duncan Hunter was a good neighbor.  He'd help people do yard work, or move heavy furniture.  He drove the same dented-up truck for years.
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Attorney for Michael Cohen backs away from confidence that Cohen has information about Trump's knowledge on Russian efforts  —  An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investigators …
Ian Parker / New Yorker:
Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance  —  A leftist journalist's bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.  —  Like a man in the first draft of a limerick, Tennys Sandgren is a tennis player from Tennessee.  Last winter, after scraping his way onto …
Michael Sean Winters / National Catholic Reporter:
Vigano letter exposes the putsch against Pope Francis  —  Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's testimony proves one thing: The former Vatican ambassador to the United States is to the clergy sex abuse crisis what Oliver Stone is to the assassination of President John Kennedy …
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
It Would Only Take a Single Senator  —  A few days ago I wrote a long item about changing assessments of Donald Trump: which first impressions had held up, and which called for second thoughts over time.  —  The last part of the post concerned the main, and depressing, area where second thoughts were called for.
Politico:
Democrats fret Nelson is choking in Florida Senate race  —  Nelson's laid-back style and fundraising deficit have left Democrats concerned that Rick Scott will trounce him.  —  When Sen. Claire McCaskill began to choke in a Democratic Caucus lunch in June, Sen. Bill Nelson stepped in to perform the Heimlich maneuver.
Discussion: ABC News
Christine Kenneally / BuzzFeed News:
Nuns Killed Children, Say Former Residents Of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage  —  Millions of American children were placed in orphanages.  Some didn't make it out alive.  —  It was a late summer afternoon, Sally Dale recalled, when the boy was thrown through the fourth-floor window.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
‘Sleeper’ case could torpedo Mueller report  —  It might even keep the special counsel from sending a report to Congress, shaking Democrats' hopes that such a document could provide the impetus for impeachment proceedings.  —  A little-noticed court case stemming from the apparent murder …
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Gather Round, Everyone.  It's Time to Play ‘Find the Collusion’!  —  WASHINGTON — Have you heard the one about the collusion?  Nobody can seem to find it.  —  It was about halfway through President Trump's speech to thousands of supporters last week in West Virginia — right after referring to …
Weekly Standard:
Democrats Have a New New Kavanaugh Tactic  —  If the goal is to postpone the Supreme Court nominee's hearings, any argument will do.  —  Senate Democrats are frustrated.  They need a reason to postpone Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings until after the election, and so far there just isn't one.
David Beard / Poynter:
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Katherine Burgess / Wichita Eagle:
Kansans drank contaminated water for years.  The state didn't tell them.  —  The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
 
 
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Discussion: The Daily Caller and Axios
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