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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany  —  Madeleine Westerhout, who left her White House job suddenly on Thursday as President Trump's personal assistant, was fired after bragging to reporters that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Getting Fired Ain't the Story  —  Today we have yet another in the endless story of Trump White House dysfunction.  President Trump's personal assistant was abruptly fired, translated into a “separated employee” after Trump learned that she'd blabbed to the press about Trump's family.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump heads into buzzsaw in North Carolina
CNBC:
Trump says the US wasn't involved in apparent launch pad explosion in Iran  —  KEY POINTS  — President Donald Trump on Friday insisted that the U.S. had nothing to do with the apparent launch pad explosion of an Iranian rocket.  — Trump's denial also included what looked …
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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
President Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image of Iran  —  President Trump has tweeted what experts say is almost certainly an image from a classified satellite or drone, showing the aftermath of an accident at an Iranian space facility.  —  “The United States of America was not involved …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A Fox host's tirade against Trump exposes depths of the president's corruption  —  The impunity is the point.  —  For days now, President Trump has been embroiled in a public feud of sorts with Fox News, because he's angry that the network isn't functioning dutifully enough as his 24/7 propaganda channel.
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Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
'We don't work for you': Fox News's Neil Cavuto rebukes Trump for slamming network  —  Fox News host Neil Cavuto delivered a scorching rebuke on Thursday to President Trump's recent criticism that the cable network “isn't working for us anymore,” and called out his tenuous relationship with the media.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Cavuto roasts Trump over criticism of network
Caitlin Lally / KMOX-AM:
KMOX EXCLUSIVE: Illinois GOP congressman John Shimkus will not run in 2020  —  He announced it Friday on the Mark Reardon Show.  —  ST. LOUIS (KMOX) — Illinois GOP Rep. John Shimkus announced Friday on the Mark Reardon Show that he will not run for reelection in 2020.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Bolton sidelined from Afghanistan policy as his standing with Trump falters  —  As the president's top aides prepared for a high-stakes meeting on the future of Afghanistan earlier this month, one senior official was not on the original invite list: national security adviser John Bolton.
Vicky Ward / CNN:
Pro-Trump super PAC paid thousands to firm owned by Brad Parscale's wife  —  (CNN)A company owned by the wife of Brad Parscale, President 239; Donald Trump's campaign manager, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the President's flagship political action committee …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:   Firm tied to top Trump campaign aide Brad Parscale has side deal with pro-Trump super PAC
Leah Askarinam / Inside Elections:
North Carolina 9: McCready Has Narrow Lead in New Bipartisan Poll  —  By Nathan L. Gonzales and Leah Askarinam  —  Democrat Dan McCready has a narrow advantage over Republican Dan Bishop heading into the final days of the Sept. 10 redo election in North Carolina's 9th District, according to a new bipartisan poll for Inside Elections.
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Former Canadian prime minister roots for Dorian to hit Trump's Mar-a-Lago  —  Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell said she is hoping for a bull's-eye hit by Hurricane Dorian on Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's prized Florida resort and so-called Winter White House.  —  “I'm rooting for a direct hit on Mar a Lago!”
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Comey IG report exposes the hypocrisy of the ‘Russia hoax’ crowd  —  To hear the Trump team tell it, the media's biggest sin was reporting on potential collusion and obstruction of justice.  When special counsel Robert S. Mueller III concluded there was no criminal conspiracy and punted on obstruction …
Discussion: RedState and Right Wing Watch
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Of Course Comey Was Right to Share the Memos
Discussion: Washington Post
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Diamond and Silk Lawyer Up  —  Plus, Santa Claus fanatics have opened up a civil war in QAnon, and the Iraqi dinar gets a rival scam.  —  NEWSLETTERS  —  Right Richter  —  See what's happening with the extreme right wing from the safety of your inbox.  —  Subscribe  —  This week:
Discussion: Law & Crime and Boing Boing
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
World's ‘Saddest’ Rally?  Donald Trump Jr. Mocked For Speaking To Mostly Empty Arena  —  Just a couple hundred people turned out for the event meant to help Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R).  —  Don't expect to hear much bragging about this crowd.  —  Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Shareblue Media, The Root and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Pull it together, Joe Biden  —  As you may have heard, speaking to an audience in New Hampshire, Joe Biden told a very moving story about his interaction with a war hero.  The only problem is that he got just about every detail in the story wrong, as a Post investigation subsequently revealed.
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Warren lovefest ending as 2020 competitors fear her rise  —  The Elizabeth Warren honeymoon may be coming to an end.  —  Warren's weak fundraising and Native American controversy out of the gate gave her the look of a second-rate candidate, and her rivals have treated her as such, even as she's rebounded from those early troubles.
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
The 2020 Democratic Candidates and Their Coalitions
Discussion: Washington Post
David Harrison / Wall Street Journal:
Historic Asset Boom Passes by Half of Families  —  Scant wealth leaves families vulnerable if recession hits, economists say  —  The decadelong economic expansion has showered the U.S. with staggering new wealth driven by a booming stock market and rising house prices.  —  But that windfall has passed by many Americans.
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Laura Reiley / Washington Post:
How the Trump administration limited the scope of the USDA's 2020 dietary guidelines  —  The 80 topics that will be addressed do not include the health effects of consumption of red and processed meat. the dramatic increase in ultraprocessed foods and sodium levels.
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
Trial for Men Charged With Plotting 9/11 Attacks Is Set for 2021  —  WASHINGTON — A military judge on Friday set Jan. 11, 2021, as the start of the joint death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four men charged with plotting the Sept. 11, 2001 …
Sonam Sheth / Business Insider:
US spies say Trump's G7 performance suggests he's either a ‘Russian asset’ or a ‘useful idiot’ for Putin  — Current and former spies are floored by President Donald Trump's fervent defense of Russia at this year's G7 summit in Biarritz, France.  — “It's hard to see the bar anymore since it's …
Associated Press:
DNC to recommend scrapping Iowa, Nevada virtual caucus plans  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Democratic National Committee will recommend scrapping state plans to offer virtual, telephone-based caucuses in 2020 due to security concerns, sources tell The Associated Press.
Discussion: Axios, The Week and Talking Points Memo
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
‘Iowa will be first’: Party chair says DNC ruling won't scuttle caucuses
Discussion: Fox News and Slate
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Women voters spell trouble for Trump in 2020  —  Polls show President Trump losing women voters by huge margins, presenting his reelection campaign with a massive hurdle to overcome as he seeks a second term in office.  —  Perhaps most alarmingly for Trump, the president is losing support …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Longtime lobbyist and former congressman Vin Weber resigns from consulting firm  —  Vin Weber, the former Minnesota congressman who has provided guidance to Republican presidential candidates and corporate executives, resigned his position Friday as a partner in a prominent consulting firm …
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
Anna Merlan / Jezebel:
Emily Yoffe Back on Her Bullshit—Here's What an Alleged Victim Says She Left Out in Her Latest Contested MeToo Story  —  Emily Yoffe, a current contributing editor at the Atlantic and Slate's former advice columnist, has a specialty, of sorts: as I wrote in the prehistoric days of 2015 …
Gerry Shih / Washington Post:
China expels Wall Street Journal reporter over coverage of Xi's family  —  BEIJING — China effectively expelled a Wall Street Journal reporter from the country, one month after the newspaper published a report detailing allegations that a cousin of Chinese leader Xi Jinping was involved …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Iran's attacks on one U.S. think tank are a threat to all  —  For repressive regimes to preserve their power, they must snuff out all independent and critical voices inside their own countries, often through violence.  But when these regimes threaten to silence or harm independent …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Man Trump Wishes He Were  —  Jim Mattis and the formation of character.  —  In the first few months of his presidency, Donald Trump surrounded himself with a certain sort of ramrod military man: John Kelly, Michael Flynn, H.R. McMaster and Jim Mattis.  These men had or appeared …
James Queally / Los Angeles Times:
Man with links to neo-Nazi group charged with threatening to kill Jewish man and infant in L.A.  —  A Los Angeles man whose social media accounts had links to a neo-Nazi organization is facing hate crime charges after he yelled anti-Semitic slurs at a Jewish man and his infant and threatened …
Discussion: KTLA
 
 
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Toufiq Rashid / Nieman Reports:
Amidst Crackdowns, Kashmiri Journalists Struggle to Report
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and NPR
Federal Register:
AGENCY:  —  Office of the United States Trade Representative.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:
Tomi Lahren Admits Her ‘Freedom’ Clothing Line Not Made in USA
Sigal Samuel / Vox:
Brain-reading tech is coming. The law is not ready to protect us.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mother Jones
Andrew C. McCarthy / The New Criterion:
Full-court press  —  A review of Justice on Trial …
Mark Hemingway / Real Clear Politics:
24 Hours of Media Malpractice
 Earlier Items: 
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Prosecutors call for Flynn sentencing amid impasse with defense attorneys
Discussion: Daily Kos and Fox News
William Davis / The Daily Caller:
‘Error’ Page On Trump's Website Shows Hillary Clinton As President
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
West Virginia Poll: If Manchin gets in, right now he would beat Justice
Brian Naylor / NPR:
As FEC Nears Shutdown, Priorities Such As Stopping Election Interference On Hold
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind
Ryan Teague Beckwith / Bloomberg:
Elizabeth Warren Once Wrote a Book on How to Get Rich
Discussion: The Week
bellingcat:
Suspected Assassin In The Berlin Killing Used Fake Identity Documents