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BuzzFeed News:
A Series Of Suspicious Money Transfers Followed The Trump Tower Meeting  —  The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower has become one of the most famous gatherings in American political history: a flashpoint for allegations of collusion, the subject of shifting explanations by the president and his son …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Axios
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
‘Shipwreck’: GOP grows fearful about losing Senate as candidates struggle, Trump support tumbles  —  Republicans have grown increasingly worried about losing control of the Senate, as President Trump's approval rating tumbles and Democrats gain steam in key battleground races.
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
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New York Times:
In Texas, Ted Cruz Has ‘A Dogfight on His Hands,’ Some Republicans Admit  —  HOUSTON — Days after a top adviser to President Trump questioned Senator Ted Cruz's chances of winning re-election, the Texas lawmaker casually stepped into the pinnacle of his hometown's energy industry on Tuesday …
Discussion: Mother Jones, IJR, Vox, Politico and HuffPost
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell screws Dems ahead of election with October session
Discussion: Townhall, BuzzFeed News and The Hill
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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The Charlotte Observer:
Hurricane Florence, ‘storm of a lifetime,’ shifts toward South Carolina as ‘extreme’ threat  —  The path of Hurricane Florence is still set squarely on the Carolinas, but early Wednesday morning, the storm's path shifted south and west, encompassing more of South Carolina and western North Carolina.
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.
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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YouTube:   NY-19: “Who Am I”  —  Paid for by the NRCC and not authorized …
Oxfam America:
In response to Secretary Pompeo's full certification of the US' refueling of Saudi-led coalition planes in the Yemen conflict, Oxfam's Humanitarian Policy Lead Scott Paul said:  —  Today, the Trump administration once put its Gulf allies ahead of Yemeni families who are struggling to survive.
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Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
Washington, DC  —  Pursuant to Section 1290 of the John S …
Discussion: Politico
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Congress forces a reckoning on U.S. role in Yemen
Christal Hayes / USA Today:
Trump administration took nearly $10 million from FEMA's budget to support ICE, documents show  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration took nearly $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's budget this summer to help boost U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to budget documents shared with USA TODAY.
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Manafort in talks with prosecutors about possible plea, according to people familiar with the discussions  —  Days before in-person jury selection is set to begin in his second trial, President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is in talks with the special counsel's office …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Why Susan Collins claims she's being bribed over her Kavanaugh vote  —  A Crowdpac crowdfunding campaign to encourage Collins to vote against Kavanaugh has the senator and others sounding the alarm.  —  Is Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins being bribed to vote against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh?
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Surprisingly, the Senate Is Now in Play  —  ANALYSIS — I have argued repeatedly that while the House is up for grabs — and indeed likely to flip to the Democrats in November — the Senate is not in play.  I now believe that it is, so I must revise and extend my remarks.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
George W. Bush Raising Money to Maintain Trump Cover-up  —  George W. Bush, who declined to endorse Donald Trump (or anybody) in 2016, and made muttered elliptical criticisms of the 45th president, has thrown himself into the task of covering up Trump's many crimes.
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 …
CNN:
CNN Poll: More approve of Mueller than of Trump  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's approval rating for handling the Russia investigation stands at 50% in a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.  That outpaces President Donald Trump's approval rating on the matter by 20 points.  —  CNN'S SEPTEMBER POLL
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Exclusive: Three-quarters of the secret money in recent elections came from 15 groups  —  WASHINGTON - Just 15 groups account for three-quarters of the anonymous cash flowing into federal elections since the Supreme Court paved the way for corporate and union money in candidate races eight years ago …
US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA takes new steps to address epidemic of youth e-cigarette use, including a historic action against more than 1,300 retailers and 5 major manufacturers for their roles perpetuating youth access  —  Warning letters and civil money penalty complaints to retailers are largest coordinated enforcement effort …
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Laurie McGinley / Washington Post:   FDA chief calls youth use of Juul, other e-cigarettes an ‘epidemic’
Axios:
Trump eyes life under subpoena  —  President Trump, who rarely focuses beyond the moment before him, is starting to acknowledge the growing chance Democrats could very well win in November — and very well try to impeach him.  —  The big picture: A few months ago, he was scoffing at midterm consequences for him.
Discussion: Raw Story
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: Splinter
Bloomberg:
There's Never Been a President This Unpopular With an Economy This Good  — Trump's unpopularity poses problems for Republican candidates  —  President Donald Trump's unpopularity is unprecedented given the strength of the economy.  —  That's according to a Bloomberg analysis of polling data.
Discussion: BloombergQuint
New York Post:
Email from Cuomo aide casts doubt on claims over anti-Semitic mailer  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was blindsided by an “inappropriate” political mailer tying Cynthia Nixon to anti-Semitism — but just a day before the inflammatory literature surfaced, one of his top campaign aides pitched …
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.
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?’
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
New census data undermines Democratic attack of Trump ‘sabotage’ of Obamacare  —  Democrats have made the charge that President Trump and Republicans have engaged in “sabotage” of Obamacare a central part of their argument in the upcoming midterm elections, but on Wednesday the Census Bureau released …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo:
Brett Kavanaugh wants to do away with legal abortion.  He told us so.  —  WASHINGTON — Watching Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh  —  testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, legal analyst Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza noticed something curious: In his exchanges with Democratic legislators …
Paul Blest / Splinter:
What's Dana Rohrabacher's Deal With the Racist Trope of Chinese People Eating Dogs?  —  In newly surfaced footage from a February 2018 interview on Voice of America (VOA) China, the U.S. government-funded broadcasting service, Republican U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was asked if he wanted …
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 …
Discussion: Althouse, Jezebel and Mediaite
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come  —  Editor's Note: This article is part of a series that attempts to answer the question: Is democracy dying?  These stories appear in the October 2018 print edition.  —  On December 31, 1999, we threw a party.
Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
How Anti-Trump Leakers Moved From Offense to Defense  —  A trail of evidence appearing in major news outlets suggests a campaign to undermine President Trump from within the government through illegal leaks of classified information, and then to thwart congressional investigators probing the disclosures.
Wall Street Journal:
Nearly 600 Russia-Linked Accounts Tweeted About the Health Law  —  The majority of the nearly 10,000 tweets on the Affordable Care Act seem intended to pit one side against the other  —  On the March 23 anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law, Democrats attacked Republicans …
Discussion: Axios
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
This Election Is All About Trump - Not Obama  —  Midterm elections are a referendum on the sitting president.  But, what happens when you have a former president getting in on the election action too?  Last week we got our first glimpse of the split-screen midterm.
Alexandra Lange / Curbed NY:
Is America's densest city ready to make room?  —  Our New York-based architecture critic says, “Yes, in my backyard”  —  At its current rate of growth, Brooklyn is about to be more populous than the entire city of Chicago.  —  Saying “we need more housing” is a given, but no one agrees on where, how high, and for whom.
Washington Post:
Government borrowing soars despite robust economy  —  The U.S. budget deficit is reaching levels that are abnormally high for a robust economy, and lawmakers from both parties are proposing ideas that would make the deficit swell even further.  —  The government spent $895 billion …
Jon Campbell / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
When do the polls open in New York on Primary Day?  Depends where you live  —  2018 is a big election year in New York.  Here are some key dates you need to know.  Jon Campbell, jcampbell1@gannett.com  —  CONNECT  —  ALBANY - Hoping to cast your primary ballot Thursday before dropping the kids off at school or heading into work?
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Media Needs to Stop Hiring Young Know-Nothings  —  The American news media is quick to blame President Trump for their current woes, but they have no one to blame but themselves.  A revealing poll issued Tuesday shows how much the public's trust in the news media has tanked over the past ten years …
Washington Post:
Middle-class income hit an all-time high of $61,372 last year, U.S. Census Bureau says  —  Middle-class income rose to a record level in 2017 as the strong economy lifted the fortunes of more Americans, the U.S. Census reported Wednesday.  —  The median U.S. household earned $61,372 last year …
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
NRCC spending almost $5 million on ads to help Barbara Comstock  —  Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock may be the most vulnerable House incumbent of the cycle, but it's not stopping the campaign arm of House Republicans from investing a significant sum into her defense—in the pricey Washington D.C. area media market.
 
 
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Black-ish’ Creator Kenya Barris Breaks Silence on That Shelved Anti-Trump Episode, His ABC Exit and …
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
New York Is One Of The Bluest States In The Country. Its Voting Laws Are Horrendous.
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Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They're Not.
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