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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 and Mediaite
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 …
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Rachel Roubein / Politico:   Census: Uninsured rate held steady in Trump's first year
Sam Baker / Axios:   The uninsured rate hasn't changed under Trump
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.
Discussion: Vox
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YouTube:   NY-19: “Who Am I”  —  Paid for by the NRCC and not authorized …
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: Daily Kos, 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 …
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 …
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:   The Recovery Threw the Middle-Class Dream Under a Benz
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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Christal Hayes / USA Today:   Trump administration took nearly $10 million from FEMA's budget to support ICE, documents show
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 …
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 …
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: ProPublica
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
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.
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?’
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
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
Washington Post:
With all the world's crises, this is John Bolton's top concern?  —  IN A normal U.S. administration, the president's national security adviser would be preoccupied by the daunting array of current global crises, including: the incipient Russia-backed offensive in Syria that could kill …
Discussion: Power Line
Rebecca Johnson / Vogue:
Senator Tammy Duckworth on the Attack that Took Her Legs—and Having a Baby at 50  —  Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 2018  —  ILLINOIS SENATOR Ladda Tammy Duckworth owns a great pair of legs.  They're painstakingly painted by an artist to match the skin tone of her arm …
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 …
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 …
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
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Eric Trump Rips CNN's Coverage of Woodward's ‘Sensational Nonsense Book’  —  Eric Trump joined Fox & Friends on Wednesday in order to slam the “sensational nonsense” inside Bob Woodward's explosive new book on his father's administration.  —  Last night, the Trump scion spoke to Sean Hannity …
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.
Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
Washington, DC  —  Pursuant to Section 1290 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA), I certified to Congress yesterday that the governments of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm …
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.
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.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Right mounts campaign to make Jim Jordan the GOP leader  —  A collection of outside groups wants the Freedom Caucus co-founder to succeed Paul Ryan.  But rank-and-file members aren't likely to abide.  —  A collection of powerful conservative groups is mounting an aggressive campaign …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Marc Morano / Climate Depot:
GREAT AGAIN: USA Is Now The Largest Global Crude Oil Producer - Surpasses Russia and Saudi Arabia  —  The United States Is Now The Largest Global Crude Oil Producer  —  The United States likely surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world's largest crude oil producer earlier this year …
Discussion: EIA, Breitbart and Sean Hannity
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.
Politico:
Attacks on Myrie raise questions of improper electioneering  —  A Brooklyn anti-gentrification group has been sending out emails attacking Zellnor Myrie, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton's opponent in this week's Democratic primary election, raising questions about whether the nonprofit is improperly electioneering on Hamilton's behalf.
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
GOP Chief Shocked to Discover His Candidate Jim Hagedorn's Crazy Remarks
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Midterm Seat Loss Averages 37 for Unpopular Presidents
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Pramila Jayapal Is Starting The First Medicare For All PAC
Discussion: Splinter
Jon Campbell / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
When do the polls open in New York on Primary Day? Depends where you live
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Trump set a new dishonesty record in August, his third straight record month
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
Media Needs to Stop Hiring Young Know-Nothings
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Houston Chronicle:
Taco Bell named best Mexican restaurant
Discussion: KDFW
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
‘Black-ish’ Creator Kenya Barris Breaks Silence on That Shelved Anti-Trump Episode, His ABC Exit and …
NBC News:
Despite Trump's promise to protect them, Christian refugees struggle to enter U.S.
Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
How Anti-Trump Leakers Moved From Offense to Defense
Wall Street Journal:
Nearly 600 Russia-Linked Accounts Tweeted About the Health Law
Discussion: Axios
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Education Dept. Reopens Rutgers Case Charging Discrimination Against Jewish Students
Discussion: The Daily Caller
New York Post:
Email from Cuomo aide casts doubt on claims over anti-Semitic mailer
 

 
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