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6:55 PM ET, August 29, 2018

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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question  —  PHARR, Tex. — On paper, he's a devoted U.S. citizen.  —  His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas.
Discussion: Shareblue Media and The Week
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
Inside The Trump Administration's Secret War On Weed  —  The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat …
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Murray Waas / NYR Daily:
The Flynn Tapes: A New Tell  —  In early February 2017, a senior White House attorney, John Eisenberg, reviewed highly classified intelligence intercepts of telephone conversations between then-National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak …
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
Scoop: Don McGahn's coming White House exit  —  Top White House officials and sources close to White House counsel Don McGahn tell Axios that McGahn will step down this fall — after Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, or after the midterms.  —  The big picture …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Exclusive: here's the photo of a very white summer intern class the White House didn't release  —  The Trump administration has been criticized for the lack of diversity among its interns in the past.  —  Past group photos of White House interns under President Donald Trump have drawn criticism …
Discussion: The White House and The Guardian
New York Times:
White House Counsel Donald McGahn Will Leave This Fall, Trump Announces on Twitter  —  WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, will be leaving the administration this fall, President Trump tweeted Wednesday morning, leaving the president's side just as the sprawling investigation …
Washington Post:
Trump says White House Counsel Donald McGahn will leave his job in the fall
Aris Folley / The Hill:
DeSantis: Florida voters shouldn't ‘monkey this up’ by voting for Gillum  —  (R) on Wednesday warned Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by voting for his Democratic gubernatorial opponent Andrew Gillum.  —  “You know, this is a guy, although he's much too liberal for Florida …
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Chad Smith / American Ledger:
DeSantis Moderates Hate-Filled Facebook Group That Attacks African-Americans, Parkland Survivors and Muslims  —  Ron DeSantis, the Trump-endorsed congressman who won Tuesday's GOP primary for Florida governor, is an administrator on an active Facebook group where conservatives share racist …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
John Wagner / Washington Post:
DeSantis says Florida voters would ‘monkey this up’ if they elect Gillum as governor
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
New U.S. Sexual Misconduct Rules Bolster Rights of Accused, Protect Colleges  —  WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing new policies on campus sexual misconduct that would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, harassment or rape, lessen liability for institutions …
CNN:
Sources: Second Trump Org employee discussed immunity deal  —  (CNN)A second Trump Organization employee discussed a potential immunity deal with the federal prosecutors who charged Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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MJ Lee / CNN:   Michael Cohen is resigned to going to prison to protect his family
USA Today:
Poll: Michael Cohen's guilty plea raises serious questions about Donald Trump's behavior
Discussion: National Review
Jay Cassano / Sludge:
Cuomo Received $25,000 From Weinstein Lawyer's Firm as He Suspended Probe  —  The contribution from Weinstein's former lawyer was made the same month Cuomo suspended an investigation into the New York district attorney's failure to prosecute Harvey Weinstein in 2015.  —  EDITED BY
BuzzFeed News:
“Suspicious” Transactions At Russian Embassy Sparked Deeper Bank Probe Than Previously Known  —  When BuzzFeed News reported earlier this year on dozens of suspicious financial transactions by Russian diplomats living in Washington, Kremlin officials objected with ferocity.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
HuffPost:
Democrats Just Confirmed Lots Of Trump's Judges So They Could Skip Town  —  The resistance wilts in August.  —  WASHINGTON Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump: They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
FBI rebuts Trump tweet about China hacking Hillary Clinton's email  —  “The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised,” an FBI official told NBC News.  —  WASHINGTON — Sixteen hours after President Trump tweeted about a right-wing media story alleging …
Discussion: CNN, Fox News, ThinkProgress and The Week
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Associated Press:   FBI: No evidence Clinton server hacked despite Trump tweet
John Wagner / Washington Post:
FBI pushes back on unfounded Trump claim that China hacked Hillary Clinton's email
Alex Burness / The Colorado Independent:
Body-cam vid shows Denver cops cuffed Indy editor as she photographed their badges  —  Police body camera footage released today shows two Denver officers told The Colorado Independent's editor, Susan Greene, to “act like a lady” as they handcuffed and detained her in July for attempting …
Discussion: YouTube and The Republic
Morgan Lee / Associated Press:
Charges dismissed against 3 in New Mexico compound case  —  TAOS, N.M. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday dismissed child neglect charges against three of five people arrested at a remote desert compound in northern New Mexico where 11 children were found living in filth and the body of a 3-year-old boy was discovered.
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Sarah Palin, Loyal Running Mate, Excluded from John McCain's Funeral  —  Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who was Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)'s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has been excluded from his funeral.  —  Breitbart News has independently confirmed an earlier report …
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Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story:
Sarah Palin is not invited to John McCain's funeral: report
Discussion: The Political Insider, IJR and Reuters
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform:
Reps. Connolly and Cummings Request IG Investigation into Postal Service's Reported Release of Congressional Candidate's SF-86 and Personnel File  —  Washington, D.C.—Today, Vice Ranking Member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) of the House Committee on Oversight …
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Alex Ward / Vox:
Exclusive: Trump promised Kim Jong Un he'd sign an agreement to end the Korean War  —  He hasn't followed through yet — and North Korea talks may have stalled because of it.  —  President Donald Trump told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their Singapore summit in June that he'd sign …
Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
Tabloid that kept Trump secrets faces losses, legal trouble  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Enquirer has long explained its support for Donald Trump as a business decision based on the president's popularity among its readers.  But private financial documents and circulation figures obtained …
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Capital & Main:
Ohio, New Jersey Pension Funds Invested $625 Million in Hedge Fund That Controls National Enquirer Parent
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
Several Women Say Airlines Don't Do Enough To Protect Them From Men Who Masturbate On Flights  —  Mikaela Dixon was sitting in the middle seat on a United flight from Orange County to Chicago on August 11 when she realized the stranger next to her was masturbating.
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Trump: We did a “fantastic job” handling the Puerto Rico hurricane that killed 3,000  —  The government just increased the Hurricane Maria death toll to 2,975 from its original estimate of 64.  —  President Donald Trump defended the federal government's response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico …
Discussion: CNN, Axios and EcoWatch
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Emma Schwartz / FRONTLINE:
Hurricane Maria's New Death Toll Estimate Is Higher than Katrina's
Discussion: MSNBC
CNBC:
Dick's Sporting Goods' shares slide as sales miss expectations and company blames Under Armour  — Dick's Sporting Goods says it sold less merchandise during the second quarter than analysts were expecting.  — Still, the sporting goods retailer says headwinds should weaken …
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Daisy Alioto / Vox:
The big problem with the animal crackers “cage free” box redesign  —  The new art doesn't address any of the underlying issues about ethics, exploitation, and corporate greed.  —  Nabisco's animal crackers are a staple of American snack food aisles, and the box — a red …
Alex Pareene / HuffPost:
Southerners Tore Down Silent Sam.  Now Northerners Need to Tear Down Confederate Flags.  —  Contrary to what a Confederate sympathizer would tell you, it is not an erasure of history to remove a Confederate monument.  It is the opposite: a long-overdue acknowledgment of history and an attempt …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Maria Butina: Private Messages Reveal Accused Russian Spy's True Ties to D.C. Wise Man … When federal prosecutors charged Maria Butina with covertly infiltrating the conservative movement on behalf of the Kremlin, questions began to swirl around a Washington think tank that had published …
Tom Sietsema / Washington Post:
La Vie on the Wharf is so bad I'm only writing about it as a warning  —  Every now and then I encounter a restaurant that's so dismissive of diners' senses, my initial reaction is simply not to write about it.  Why waste the money, the words and your precious time?
Discussion: DCist and Washingtonian
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Probing Whether Malaysian Fugitive Laundered Funds to Pay Chris Christie and Trump Lawyer  —  Jho Low under investigation for alleged embezzlement of $4.5 billion from 1MDB fund  —  The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a fugitive Malaysian financier laundered tens …
Discussion: Shakesville and Washington Post
Foreign Policy:
In Tacit Rebuke, U.S. Embassy in South Africa Rejects Trump Tweet  —  Internal cable cites report that farm murders in South Africa are at their lowest level in 19 years.  —  President Donald Trump incensed South Africa by wading into a politically fraught debate on land reform issues …
 
 
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Matthew Mosk / ABC News:
After weeks of uncertainty, Papadopoulos decides to accept plea deal with Mueller
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mueller team seeks more time to decide if they'll retry Manafort on deadlocked charges
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Trump's Ludicrous Attack on Big Tech
expresspros.com:
Blue Collar Workers: Career and Life Satisfaction High; Trust in Elected Officials Low
Discussion: IJR and National Review
James Gordon Meek / ABC News:
As his isolation intensifies, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange faces possible threat of eviction, extradition
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Oklahoma Teachers Just Purged the Statehouse of Their Enemies
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
A New Book Details the Damage Done by the Right-Wing Media in 2016
Crime Russia:
Senior executive of steel plant in Russia, Bruno Charles de Kooman, falls out of window in Moscow
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
The New Lobbying: Qatar Targeted 250 Trump ‘Influencers’ to Change U.S. Policy
Politico:
Trump lawyer Giuliani got paid to lobby Romanian president
 

 
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