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Michael R. Gordon / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Close Palestine Liberation Organization Office in Washington  —  The Trump administration is expected to announce Monday it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, widening a campaign of pressure amid stalled Middle East peace efforts.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court and the P.L.O.
Politico:
White House to close Palestine Liberation Organization's D.C. office
Discussion: ABC News
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:   Trump closing Palestinian mission in pro-Israel move
CBS News:
Trump admin. closing Palestine Liberation Organization D.C. office
Washington Post:
GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis steps down from Congress to focus on governor's race  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis is resigning from his seat in Congress to focus on his race for Florida governor, his campaign confirmed Monday.  —  DeSantis is a three-term member of Congress representing the 6th District, a coastal seat just south of Jacksonville.
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?  —  The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.  —  At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook …
Discussion: AOL, more at Techmeme »
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering  —  How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.  —  Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump.  If he needs to discard friends, allies or wives along the way, so be it.
Discussion: Shakesville
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Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Michael Caputo Says He Figured Out the Identity of NYT Op-Ed Writer: She ‘Believes that She is a Hero’  —  On Sunday, former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo claimed he knows who the author of the mysterious New York Times op-ed is and insisted the person behind the prose is a woman.
Discussion: Splinter and The Gateway Pundit
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:   The Circus of Resistance  —  The resistance to Donald Trump …
Shervin Malekzadeh / HuffPost:
I Am The Anonymous Iranian The NYT Published In 2009. The Trump Op-Ed Writer Is No Hero.
Discussion: The Federalist, NPR and Raw Story
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them  —  Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics to delete an article he had written …
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Who Compared Trump to Bin Laden Also Said ‘Nazis’ Work in White House  —  VIDEO: Illinois Dem Sean Casten twice referred to ‘Nazis and racists’ working in White House  —  Illinois Democrat Sean Casten, who found himself in hot water after his belief that President Donald Trump has a …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and NRCC
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Emily Goldberg / Politico:
Trump says he'll ‘write the real book’ to counter Woodward's
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The stress on Trump's machine
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump's ‘Lies’  —  In a new tape played by Omarosa Manigault Newman on ‘The View,’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders can be heard confirming Trump's distortion of the Russia story.  —  With Bob Woodward's new book climbing the best-seller charts ahead …
Discussion: Mediaite and ABC News
YouTube:
Inside the making of Ben Folds's ‘Mister Peepers’  —  The Washington Post Magazine asked Ben Folds to write a song about anything.  He chose Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  Subscribe to The Washington Pos...
NBC News:
North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line  —  The newest intelligence shows Kim's regime has stepped up efforts to hide its nuclear weapons production, say three senior U.S. officials.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump issues a steady stream …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Veteran Broadway actress asks: 'Where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?'  —  Veteran Broadway actress Carole Cook referenced Abraham Lincoln's assassin while responding to a question about President Trump  —  , asking: “Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?”  —  “Now will that get me in trouble?”
Discussion: twitchy.com
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TMZ.com:
Broadway Star Carole Cook on Trump, 'Where's John Wilkes Booth When You Need Him?'
Discussion: Breitbart
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Scott Walker fatigue’ haunts Republicans  —  Signs that the Wisconsin governor is ripe to be taken down are everywhere.  —  GREEN BAY, Wisc.  — There's every reason to believe this is the beginning of the end for Scott Walker.  —  His presidential bid crashed and burned.
Jon Henley / The Guardian:
Sweden faces political impasse after inconclusive election  —  PM refuses calls to resign while second-placed Moderates rebuff overtures from far right  —  The leaders of Sweden's main left and rightwing parliamentary blocs have staked claims to form the next government …
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Pete Madden / ABC News:
Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina was paid to pursue access to Vladimir Putin for TV show  —  Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who stands accused of developing a covert influence operation in the United States, boasted of connections to high-ranking Kremlin officials and was even paid …
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted  —  BROOKLYN—"Right now, I don't want to talk about it," Jerry Nadler told his curious, concerned constituent.  “We don't want to talk about it.”  —  The man positioned to lead the House of Representatives' impeachment effort …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CNN:
Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds  —  (CNN)Rep. Mia Love's campaign has informed the Federal Election Commission that it will refund or redesignate less than half of what the government says was more than a million dollars improperly raised for a primary …
Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire
Robert Herguth / Chicago Sun-Times:
Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’  —  The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.
Christopher Bodeen / Associated Press:
Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning bibles in China  —  BEIJING (AP) — China's government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces, destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith …
Discussion: Reuters, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Killing an Executive Order Is Harder Than You Think … This has been sitting in a browser tab for a while, and it's about time I either closed it or used it.  So let's use it: … I only have one purpose here: to demonstrate the difficulty of repealing executive orders put in place by a previous administration.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Steve Kornacki / NBC News:
Shhhh!  Dem leaders don't want to say ‘impeach.’ Bill Clinton's case explains why.  —  The top three Democratic leaders in the House — Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn — were all there in '98.  —  A majority of Democratic voters want President Donald Trump impeached, and …
 
 
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
In rare event, Atlantic, Pacific churn with storms at same time
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Amazon Is Worth $1 Trillion. Its Workers Are on Food Stamps.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Koch network unveils new super PAC as Republicans fight to hold majorities in Congress
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New York Times:
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Dana Rubinstein / Politico:
Mass transit absentia: Don't look for Cuomo on the subway platform
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Nancy Pelosi: As long as Trump is here, 'I'm here'
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
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Discussion: Washington Post
BuzzFeed News:
How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says Syria Plans Gas Attack in Rebel Stronghold
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside the GOP's rescue mission for Ted Cruz