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11:45 AM ET, September 11, 2018

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NBC News:
U.S. officials suspect Russia in mystery ‘attacks’ on diplomats in Cuba, China  —  The strong suspicion that Russia was behind the alleged attacks is backed by signals intelligence, meaning intercepted communications, say U.S. officials.  —  WASHINGTON — Intelligence agencies investigating mysterious …
Mark Price / The Charlotte Observer:
‘Life-threatening’ Florence spawns first hurricane watches, could bring 30" of rain  —  The National Hurricane Center has issued its first Hurricane Watches for the east coast as Hurricane Florence continues its trek toward North Carolina.  —  The “extremely dangerous major hurricane” …
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Abbie Bennett / The Charlotte Observer:
What happens to NC's wild horses when a major hurricane like Florence hits?  —  North Carolina coastal residents are evacuating or battening down ahead of Hurricane Florence — at least the human ones.  —  READ MORE  —  The wild horses that make their homes on the coast of the Tar Heel state …
Bloomberg:
Hurricane Risks Include Toxic Sludge and Lagoons of Pig Manure  — Flooding could unleash toxic waste left from power plants  — North Carolina is major producer of hogs, turkeys, chickens  —  Hurricane Florence's potential for destruction also includes increased risks for the environment …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
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Allan Smith / INSIDER:
Trump reportedly exploded at his ex-lawyer after he heard Mueller was looking into his relationship …
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Don Jr. Claims NY Times Op-Ed Writer Committed Crime By ‘Subverting the Will of the People’
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
John Wagner / Washington Post:   Donald Trump Jr. says his father can't trust everyone around him after the anonymous op-ed
Harry Enten / CNN:
It's not just CNN's poll.  All polling shows Trump's approval rating dropping.  —  Poll: Trump approval drops amid op-ed, ‘Fear’  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating in the latest CNN poll stands at just 36%.  That's a 6-point drop from 42% last month.
Discussion: Vox, Hot Air and Daily Kos
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Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
On the Supreme Court, Democrats finally get their just deserts 31 years later  —  Are you happy now, Teddy Kennedy?  Are you happy, Joe Biden?  Are you happy now, Harry Reid?  It's due to the things that you did and said that Donald J. Trump is now naming his second Supreme Court justice in under two years in office.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:   The Case for Michael Avenatti 2020
Robert Reich / American Prospect:   Kavanaugh Will Further Divide Us
Roisin O'Connor / The Independent:
9/11 anniversary: On September 11, New Yorkers remember their favourite story about Steve Buscemi  —  Hollywood actor known for playing oddballs and gangsters originally trained as a firefighter  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  Seventeen years ago, on 11 September 2001, Hollywood actor Steve Buscemi …
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
The 9/11 toll still grows: More than 16,000 Ground Zero responders who got sick found eligible for awards
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Tim Sullivan / Fox News:   New York City firefighter: How September 11, a day of tragedy, can be a day of inspiration 17 years later
Joe Quinn / New York Times:
The Real Lesson of Sept. 11  —  I went to war to avenge my brother's death.  But the only person I truly wanted to kill died 17 years ago.  —  Mr. Quinn is a United States Army veteran.  —  It has taken me a while to realize something.  —  Seventeen years ago, I saw a picture of Mohamed Atta …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Shakesville
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Stephen Marche / Foreign Policy:
Al Qaeda Won … This year marks the 17th anniversary of 9/11, an awkward number offering an awkward amount of hindsight.  The day is not quite memory, not yet history.  Subsequent events during those 17 years—not only the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but also the arrival of the smartphone …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did Brett Kavanaugh signal he supports ‘going after birth control’?  —  “Kavanaugh chooses his words very carefully, and this is a dog whistle for going after birth control.  He was nominated for the purpose of taking away a woman's constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decisions.
Discussion: Althouse and National Review
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Manuela Tobias / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Did Brett Kavanaugh call birth control abortion-inducing drugs? No
The Hill:
Eight weeks out: Dems see narrow path to Senate majority  —  Eight weeks out from the midterm elections, both Republicans and Democrats find themselves with a path to a Senate majority.  —  For Democrats, it is a surprising development given this year's difficult political map …
The Daily Beast:
Lindsey Graham's Under-the-Radar Push to Turn Trump Into a Defense Hawk  —  'It's good versus evil.  Good versus evil never ends.'  —  In September 2017, just days after President Donald Trump dubbed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “little rocket man,” the president assembled …
Discussion: Raw Story
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump is harming the dream of America more than any foreign adversary ever could  —  Cataclysmic events often bring with them violent and abrupt endings to settled ages and long-established norms.  Those absorbing the impact of these historical aftershocks rarely grasp the epochal changes in real time.
Kevin Doyle / Independent.ie:
US President Donald Trump cancels controversial planned visit to Ireland  —  US President Donald Trump has cancelled his visit to Ireland planned for later this year, Independent.ie understands.  —  Sources say the controversial trip, planned for November 12, will not now go ahead.
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Bob Woodward Has A Trail Of Accuracy Issues That Nobody Is Talking About  — Bob Woodward's new book “Fear” presents a scathing depiction of President Donald Trump's administration.  — Woodward has a muddy history with a trail of allegations that he embellished the truth or otherwise misled his readers.
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, taking its third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change, is preparing to make it significantly easier for energy companies to release methane into the atmosphere.
Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
A CUNY Student Was Investigated for Criticizing Israel  —  On June 1, an announcement was posted to the City University of New York's Earth and Environmental Sciences listserv advertising Fulbright grants to study in Israel.  The next day, Rafael Mutis, a sixth-year Ph.D. student in that department …
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
“The House Is Already Lost”: As the Midterms Approach, G.O.P. Insiders Prepare for an Electoral D-Day  —  Inside the swamp, Republican operatives have already made their peace with losing the House.  But the coming Democratic wave won't affect all Republicans equally, purging moderates and leaving only Trump loyalists behind.
Alec MacGillis / ProPublica:
How Struggling Dayton, Ohio, Reveals the Chasm Among American Cities  —  “Left Behind America,” a ProPublica/Frontline collaboration, premieres on PBS on Sept. 11 and can also be streamed.  —  The news this past year has been full of the tribulations facing the cities at the vanguard of the great urban rebirth.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Ahead of the Primary, Cuomo Administration Offered Sweeteners to Get New Bridge Open  —  The administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo offered the contractor building the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge enticements to meet a late August deadline to open, including the possibility of absorbing extra costs …
Discussion: Vox, Splinter and Eschaton
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Voter backlash to Trump, bathroom law has put conservative N.C. legislature in play.  —  APEX, N.C. — The owner of a small vodka distillery near this traditionally Republican enclave in suburban Raleigh says he is so fed up with GOP leadership in the state capital that he took leave from his job to try to defeat a state senator.
Discussion: Spectator USA
Elena Schneider / Politico:
‘Something has actually changed’: Women, minorities, first-time candidates drive Democratic House hopes  —  A flood of women, minorities and first-time candidates is poised to radically alter the composition of Congress next year after winning Democratic primaries in record numbers in 2018.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg:
Russian General Challenges Putin Critic to a Duel  — National Guard chief threatens to beat Navalny to a pulp  — Navalny accused Zolotov's force of corruption last month  —  The head of Russia's National Guard has thrown down the gauntlet to opposition leader Alexey Navalny by challenging him to a duel.
Jonathan Oosting / Detroit News:
Poll: Whitmer leads Schuette by comfortable edge in Michigan governor's race  —  Lansing — Democrat Gretchen Whitmer holds a comfortable lead over Republican Bill Schuette in the Michigan governor's race and is doing a better job attracting critical independent voters, according to a new statewide poll conducted last week.
Lili Bayer / Politico:
Viktor Orbán says European Parliament ‘verdict already written’  —  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is preparing his supporters for a potential loss in a key vote among MEPs Wednesday regarding the rule of law in his country.  —  “Pro-migration representatives have a majority …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Protest is as American as football.  Why doesn't Trump get it?  —  The tang of fall is nearly in the air.  The summer is all but over.  Football season is here.  Are you ready for some . . . culture war?  —  This war may feel unending, but it began only a little more than two years ago.
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
'And now it's the tallest': Trump, in otherwise somber interview on 9/11, couldn't help touting one of his buildings  —  “Donald Trump is on the line.”  —  It was the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, at WWOR's station in Secaucus, N.J., and Rolland Smith, the lead anchor for the news outlet's coverage …
Discussion: CNBC, HuffPost and Bustle
Nancy Barnes / Houston Chronicle:
A note from the editor of the Houston Chronicle  —  In these challenging times for our country, with journalism and journalists often under attack, trust between a newspaper and its readers is absolutely essential.  —  We spend our days trying to ferret out the truth on school quality …
John Melloy / CNBC:
Small business optimism surges to highest level ever, topping previous record under Reagan  —  U.S. small business optimism surged to a record in August as the tax cuts and deregulation efforts of President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress led to more sales, hiring and investment …
 
 
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Kristin Thorne / abc7ny.com:
Possible crack pipe vending machines found on Long Island
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Matthew Brown / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Tester did rank No. 1 in cash from lobbyists
Politico:
Cuomo scrambles to stamp out Cynthia Nixon revolt
Dave Greber / WIVB-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: Congressman Chris Collins gives first interview since insider trading indictment
Politico:
Hurricane Florence undercuts Miami Beach convention bid
Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump's assault on Woodward riddled with contradictions
Daniel Benjamin / Politico:
17 Years After 9/11, Nobody Cares About Terrorism Anymore
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Rick Scott plays ‘keep away from Trump’
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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Andrew Gumbel / The Guardian:
'You didn't get our message': key Trump aide Stephen Miller condemned by childhood rabbi
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed News:
The Maria Butina Case Was Never About The Sex Life Of A Russian Spy
Discussion: ABC News and Boing Boing
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
We're Trying Something New. This Is ‘On Politics.’
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Why John Bolton vs. Int'l Criminal Court 2.0 is Different from Version 1.0
Discussion: The White House
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As I See It: National Debt
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Officials Discussed ‘Media Leak Strategy’ Ahead Of Major Trump-Russia Revelation