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6:50 PM ET, September 12, 2018

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Hugh Son / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon says he could beat Trump in an election: 'I'm smarter than he is'  —  J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made some interesting comments on today's political affairs, even though he's said publicly he won't run for president and is committed to head the bank for the next five years.
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Bloomberg:
Jamie Dimon Quickly Backtracks on Bragging He Could Beat Trump  — 'I'm as tough as he is, I'm smarter than he is,' Dimon said  — JPMorgan's CEO then backtracked: ‘I should not have said it’  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Jamie Dimon picked a fight with President Donald Trump — and immediately regretted it.
John Santucci / ABC News:
Manafort seeking plea deal with special counsel that would avoid cooperation ahead of second trial: Sources  —  Sources familiar with negotiations tell ABC News former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been in ongoing negotiations with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office over a potential plea agreement.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: More approve of Mueller than of Trump
Discussion: NPR, Washington Post and Political Wire
Erin Kelly / USA Today:   Donald Trump Jr. says he's not afraid of going to jail in Russia investigation
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt, Former E.P.A. Chief, Is in Talks for His Next Job: Coal Consultant  —  WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is in discussions to work as a consultant to the Kentucky coal mining tycoon Joseph W. Craft III, according to two industry executives familiar with the plans.
Discussion: CNN, ThinkProgress, Politico, Axios and Splinter
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Pruitt faced mounting financial pressures as EPA chief, new documents show
Discussion: Political Wire
Barbara Res / New York Daily News:
Trump and his flunkies: Why aren't staffers standing up to him?  —  On this particular day, the architect had come to Donald Trump's office to show him what the interior of the residential elevator cabs would look like.  —  Trump looked at the panels where the buttons you push to reach a floor were located.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Splinter
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Jessica Kwong / Newsweek:   Donald Trump Ordered Illegal Removal of Braille Because ‘No Blind People are Going to Live in Trump Tower’: Report
Washington Post:   Trump asked to have Braille removed from elevators in early 1980s, executive says
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump administration diverted nearly $10 million from FEMA to ICE detention program, according to DHS document  —  The Trump administration appears to have diverted nearly $10 million in funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: West Wing intrigue distracts from what the Trump administration is, and isn't, doing
Washington Post:
Residents see a failure at all levels of government
Discussion: Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
2018 Senate Forecast  —  FiveThirtyEight's predictions for the 2018 Senate elections
Discussion: ABC News
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever  —  Even though hundreds of children separated from their families after crossing the border have been released under court order, the overall number of migrant children under detention has exploded to the highest ever recorded …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Republican challenger ahead in North Dakota Senate race  —  Republican Kevin Cramer tops incumbent Democrat Sen. Heidi Heitkamp among North Dakota likely voters by 48-44 percent, in a Fox News poll released Wednesday.  Cramer's edge in the Senate race is within the poll's margin of sampling error.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:   Republicans Are Favorites In The Senate, But Democrats Have Two Paths To An Upset
Ron Charles / Washington Post:
Bob Woodward's ‘Fear’ is the fastest-selling adult title in three years  —  Sales of “Fear,” Bob Woodward's new book about the first year of the Trump administration, are off to a phenomenal start this week.  —  Barnes and Noble announced that “Fear” is the fastest-selling adult title since Harper Lee's …
Discussion: Axios
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Washington Post:
Another hurricane is about to batter our coast.  Trump is complicit.  —  YET AGAIN, a massive hurricane feeding off unusually warm ocean water has the potential to stall over heavily populated areas, menacing millions of people.  Last year Hurricane Harvey battered Houston.
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Linda Bloodworth Thomason / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Designing Women’ Creator Goes Public With Les Moonves War: Not All Harassment Is Sexual (Guest Column)  —  Linda Bloodworth Thomason, one of CBS' biggest hitmakers, reveals the disgraced mogul kept her shows off the air for seven years: “People asked me for years, ‘What happened to you?’
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
GOP lawmaker caught on tape: Orphanages better than gay adoption  —  In an exchange with high school students that was caught on tape, a Republican congressman from New Jersey was tongue-tied over the prospect of same-sex couples adopting children and suggested kids would be better off in orphanages than with LGBT families.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
John McCain appears in N.J. Democratic House candidate's TV ad  —  A Democratic candidate in New Jersey is invoking Sen. John McCain in a campaign ad, a little over two weeks after the Arizona Republican's death from brain cancer Aug. 25.  —  Tom Malinowski, a former Obama assistant secretary …
Discussion: Politico, YouTube and Roll Call
Politico:
CBS ousts ‘60 Minutes’ chief Jeff Fager amid harassment allegations  —  CBS announced on Wednesday that Jeff Fager, the longtime executive producer of “60 Minutes,” would be leaving the company amid allegations that he inappropriately touched female employees and condoned a toxic culture …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:   “Shock and a Sadness”: Inside CBS News After the Ax Falls on Fager
Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
Not just Salazar: 12 women cite pattern of improper behavior by PM's aide Keyes  —  As well as NY State Senate hopeful, 2nd woman, insisting on anonymity, alleges physical aggression; others say Keyes was kept away from female interns; he denies claims  —  A total of 12 women have accused David Keyes …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham's Brother Goes to War Against Her  —  Curtis Ingraham wants people to know that his sister, the right-wing Fox News host Laura Ingraham, is the ultimate ‘hypocrite.’  —  Curtis Ingraham uses Twitter to vent his political frustrations—like many left-leaning users in the Trump era.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Dianne Feinstein Withholding Brett Kavanaugh Document From Fellow Judiciary Committee Democrats  —  Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have privately requested to view a Brett Kavanaugh-related document in possession of the panel's top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein …
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership's Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election  —  A video recorded by Google shortly after the 2016 presidential election reveals an atmosphere of panic and dismay amongst the tech giant's leadership, coupled with a determination to thwart both the Trump agenda …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Zero Hedge and The Verge
Census.gov:
Income and Poverty in the United States: 2017  —  Introduction  —  This report presents data on income, earnings, income inequality, and poverty in the United States based on information collected in the 2018 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Meduza.io:
‘First it was his vision, then his speech, and then his legs’ Pussy Riot member Pyotr Verzilov is hospitalized in critical condition and friends fear he was poisoned  —  Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Pussy Riot and one of the publishers of the independent news website Mediazona, was hospitalized in critical condition late on September 11.
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
The Policymakers Saved the Financial System.  And America Never Forgave Them.  —  It's hard to overstate how deeply Americans despised their government's response to the global financial crisis.  It has helped shape the last decade of American politics, fueling distrust of powerful institutions …
Rio Lacanlale / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Report: Las Vegas professor shot himself in arm to protest Trump  —  College of Southern Nevada (Las Vegas Review-Journal File)  —  A longtime College of Southern Nevada sociology professor is facing felony gun charges in connection with an on-campus shooting on the second day of classes.
David French / National Review:
Why I Changed the Way I Write about Police Shootings  —  Here's the truth: Most cops are good, and too many bad cops go free.  —  Yesterday I wrote a piece that's gone viral — an extended denunciation of a terrible police shooting in Texas.  A white officer went to black man's apartment, apparently thinking it was her own.
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged with murdering her husband  —  Nancy Crampton Brophy seemed to have a knack for writing about the murder of spouses.  —  The Portland, Ore.-based romance novelist wrote books about relationships that were “wrong” but …
Reuters:
Special Report: Slamming the door - How Trump transformed U.S. refugee program  —  WASHINGTON/KAKUMA, KENYA (Reuters) - On Jan. 19, 2017, Aden Hassan's long wait to start a new life ended when he stepped off a plane in Columbus, Ohio, half a world away from the Kenyan refugee camp where he had lived for a decade.
David Badash / Raw Story:
Eric Trump's ugly ‘three extra shekels’ attack on Bob Woodward draws accusations of anti-Semitism  —  ‘Damn, That Is Some Top Shelf Antisemitism’  —  Eric Trump is lashing out at veteran Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, and his remarks are drawing accusations of anti-Semitism.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Planned Parenthood Names Doctor, a Chinese Immigrant, as its New President  —  Planned Parenthood, under fire from conservatives in Washington and state capitols, chose Leana Wen, an emergency room doctor whose family fled China when she was a child, as its next president Wednesday …
Discussion: Axios, IJR, Bustle and YouTube
Associated Press:
Deviating from McCain, Sen. Graham goes all in on Team Trump  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — By the end, Sen. John McCain had rejected President Donald Trump.  The president was so infuriated by McCain he put a biting reference to the dying Republican senator in his stump speech.
Noah Smith / Bloomberg:
Ben Carson and HUD Get Ready to Take On the Nimbys  —  A proposal to roll back exclusionary zoning would make housing more affordable.  —  According to official statistics, Americans have been getting slowly richer since 1980.  Real median personal income growth slowed in the 2000s and took …
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
New lawsuit alleges Larry Nassar drugged, raped and impregnated teen at Michigan State  —  The suit claims that the teen's rape was videotaped and that a coach who reported it was told to resign.  —  A new lawsuit alleges that Michigan State University officials were made aware of a videotaped rape …
Discussion: Detroit News and Daily Wire
USA Today:
Andrew Gillum leads Ron DeSantis for Florida governor, says Chamber of Commerce poll  —  STUART, Fla. - Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum leads his Republican rival Ron DeSantis by 4 percentage points, according to a Florida Chamber of Commerce poll released Wednesday.
Discussion: Breitbart
Hollywood Reporter:
Henry Cavill Out as Superman Amid Warner Bros.' DC Universe Shake-Up (Exclusive)  —  Talks broke down for a cameo in ‘Shazam!’ due to scheduling conflicts, and the door is now closing on other potential appearances for the actor.  —  The DC cinematic universe appears to be losing its Man of Steel.
Hannah Thomas-Peter / Sky News:
World exclusive: Video shows Harvey Weinstein behaving inappropriately with businesswoman  —  Sky News has obtained a video that shows Harvey Weinstein behaving inappropriately with a young woman at a business meeting.  —  The footage, which has never been broadcast before, shows him hugging …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Jezebel and Mediaite
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Voters Divided in CD19  —  Dem challenger seen more positively than GOP incumbent  —  West Long Branch, NJ - First-term Congressman John Faso is in a tight race with attorney and former hip-hop performer Antonio Delgado in New York's 19th Congressional District, according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
 
 
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
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Mike Rogoway / Oregonian:
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Caitlin Andrews / Concord Monitor:
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
New Strzok-Page texts reveal others were ‘leaking like mad’ in lead up to Trump-Russia probe
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The Daily Beast:
GOP Chief Shocked to Discover His Candidate Jim Hagedorn's Crazy Remarks
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo:
Brett Kavanaugh wants to do away with legal abortion. He told us so.
Washington Post:
With all the world's crises, this is John Bolton's top concern?
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come
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