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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
President non grata: Trump often unwelcome and unwilling to perform basic rituals of the office  —  Shunned at two funerals and one (royal) wedding so far, President Trump may be well on his way to becoming president non grata.  —  The latest snub comes in the form of the upcoming funeral …
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Politico:
Ducey aims to please Trump with McCain fill-in  —  The Arizona governor has grown closer to the White House since cautiously embracing the president in 2016, but can't risk alienating moderate voters.  —  Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey's decision to replace the late John McCain …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
McCain conspiracists say his brain cancer was a hoax  —  President Trump displayed his innate grace and decency Saturday by spiking a White House statement honoring the late Sen. John McCain's life.  Monday morning, the flag over the White House was ( until criticism poured in ) back to full staff …
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and NTK Network
Ashley Killough / CNN:
GOP senator praises McCain but says he's ‘partially to blame’ for White House flag controversy
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham says any new attorney general must let Mueller finish his job
Discussion: Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Want to honor McCain, GOP? Grow a spine.
Discussion: CNN and The Political Insider
Washington Post:
Trump's economic adviser: 'We're taking a look' at whether Google searches should be regulated  —  The Trump administration is “taking a look” at whether Google searches should be regulated by the government, said Larry Kudlow, President Trump's economic adviser, outside the White House Tuesday.
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Manafort Sought Deal in Next Trial, but Talks Broke Down  —  Negotiations stalled after Mueller raised issues  —  Paul Manafort's defense team held talks with prosecutors to resolve a second set of charges against the former Trump campaign chairman before he was convicted last week …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: On Trump and McCain
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Three-judge panel rules unconstitutional gerrymandering in North Carolina
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Splinter and Politico
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
SOURCES: China Hacked Clinton's Private Email Server  — A Chinese-owned company penetrated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private server, according to sources briefed on the matter.  — The company inserted code that forwarded copies of Clinton's emails to the Chinese company in real time.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Lanny Davis Says He Was A Source For CNN's Trump Tower Story  —  Attorney Lanny Davis says he was an anonymous source in a July CNN story that reported his client, Michael Cohen, had privately claimed that President Trump had advance knowledge of the infamous Trump Tower meeting between his son …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fox News Hasn't Always Shared Robert Driscoll's Credentials With Its Viewers  —  Fox News has repeatedly gone to former Justice Department official Robert Driscoll to comment on the Russia investigations, but what viewers don't hear is that he's also the attorney for Maria Butina, the suspected Russian spy charged with criminal counts.
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Pete Madden / ABC News:   Lover or cover? Maria Butina and the romance at the heart of an alleged Russian influence operation
Amy Chozick / Vogue:
Stormy Daniels Isn't Backing Down  —  Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels, photographed in New York.  Zac Posen dress.  Tiffany & Co. earrings.  —  Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 2018  —  BY THE TIME I knock on the door of Stormy Daniels's room at the Roger Smith Hotel …
Natasha Bertrand / The Atlantic:
Devin Nunes's Curious Trip to London  —  Earlier this month, as all eyes were on the courtroom dramas unfolding in Virginia—where President Donald Trump's campaign chairman was just convicted on bank- and tax-fraud charges—and in New York—where the president's longtime personal lawyer pleaded guilty …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and New York Times
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Ted Cruz passes the hat for campaign cash as concern rises about challenger Beto O'Rourke  —  Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during a lunch with colleagues last week in Washington passed the hat for campaign cash, as the Texas Republican's anxiety mounts about the unusually brisk challenge from Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke.
Discussion: MSNBC and Roll Call
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Justin Wise / The Hill:   Poll: Cruz leads O'Rourke by 1 point in Texas Senate race
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Source: FBI Agent Told Congress The Bureau Used Leaked Stories To Obtain Spy Warrants  — FBI Special Agent Jonathan Moffa told Congress on Friday that the FBI has used leaked stories to obtain FISA warrants  — Meadows' tweet was referring to Moffa's testimony, a source tells The Daily Caller News Foundation
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jane Lytvynenko / BuzzFeed News:
Here Are The Rumors And Hoaxes We're Tracking About The Jacksonville Shooting  —  A shooting at a Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, left two dead and 11 injured Sunday.  The suspect has been named as David Katz, a participant in the tournament.
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USA Today:
Jacksonville shooting: Suspect had strange online persona, mental health issues
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
The Catholic abuse scandal now leads all the to way the Vatican  —  An ecclesial straight shooter.  A reliable character.  A serious man.  That's how sources familiar with Carlo Maria Viganò describe the Italian archbishop, who served as the Vatican ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2016.
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David Nather / Axios:
Exclusive poll: Americans believe Cohen, don't want impeachment  —  Data: Survey Monkey online poll conducted August 22-24, 2018 among 4,362 U.S. adults.  Total margin of error is ±3.0 percentage points.  Modeled error estimates: African-American women ±7.0, age 18 to 34 ±4.5 …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
Mollie Tibbetts's father decries vitriol against Hispanics, saying they're ‘Iowans with better food’  —  Rob Tibbetts spoke kind words about the Hispanic community during his daughter's funeral.  —  It did not take long after authorities in Iowa named a suspect in the killing …
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New York Times:
In Defending Trump, Is Giuliani a Shrewd Tactician — or ‘Untethered’?  —  Rudolph Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer, detailed for the first time his strategy for representing the president, in blunt and divisively political terms.  —  The man identified these days as President Trump's lawyer seems vaguely familiar.
Discussion: Political Wire
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CNN:   Giuliani: Trump's lawyers haven't heard from Mueller in weeks
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
Whistleblower Exposes Key Player in FBI Russia Probe: “It was all a Set-up”  —  Former DOD employee uncovered a long history of questionable behavior by FBI informant  —  Key player in Russia probe appears to have significant ties to Russian government  —  Adam Lovinger, a former Defense …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Steve Large / CBS Sacramento:
Student Who Took Classmate's MAGA Hat Says She Was Making Political Statement  —  EL DORADO (CBS13) — A Union Mine High School student is facing battery charges after an altercation in her classroom over a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” campaign hat.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Crisis of Democracy’ Is Overhyped  —  Ask the professional hand-wringers: Would you rather be in Iran?  Venezuela?  China?  —  As Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashes out against the “interest-rate lobby” for his country's economic crisis, as Nicaragua's dictatorship mobilizes …
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Falsely Calls Preliminary Pact Between U.S. and Mexico ‘Maybe the Largest Trade Deal Ever’  —  “I cannot imagine any metric in which an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico can be the largest,” a trade expert said.  —  WHAT WAS SAID … THE FACTS  —  False.
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Andrew Mayeda / Bloomberg:
Here's How the U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal Would Differ From Nafta
Discussion: BloombergQuint
 
 
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Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
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The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Announces Seventeenth Wave of Judicial Nominees
Discussion: National Review
Scott Bixby / The Daily Beast:
Only Latino Employee Resigns From Anti-Immigration Group Over Racial Slurs
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
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Emily Birnbaum / The Hill:
Pallbearers, speakers announced for McCain's DC memorial service and Capitol ceremony
Discussion: Axios
Elena Schneider / Politico:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Patrick Redford / Deadspin:
Report: Baylor Secretly Infiltrated Sexual Assault Survivor Groups
Discussion: Boing Boing and Inside Higher Ed
Erik Pedersen / Deadline:
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The Onion / politics.theonion.com:
White House Releases Moving Statement Honoring Woman Who Called Obama An Arab In 2008