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7:50 PM ET, September 4, 2019

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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Arrest Warrant Issued for Jacob Wohl  —  The blundering conservative operative faces one charge of unlawfully selling securities in California.  —  California authorities issued an arrest warrant for blundering conservative operative Jacob Wohl, who is now due to be arraigned on a felony charge next month, court records show.
Washington Post:
President Trump shows doctored hurricane chart.  Was it to cover up for ‘Alabama’ Twitter flub?  —  President Trump had erroneously stated Hurricane Dorian threatened Alabama.  —  On Wednesday, it appears the White House attempted to retroactively correct a tweet that President Trump issued …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Why does Trump's hurricane map look different than others?  —  The president has claimed for days Hurricane Dorian was projected to hit Alabama.  Forecasters said it was not.  —  After days of claiming without evidence that Alabama was projected to be hit by Hurricane Dorian …
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
Did Trump Doctor a Hurricane Map With Sharpie to Prove His False Prediction That Dorian Could Hit Alabama?  —  While warning of Hurricane Dorian, President Donald Trump today displayed a NOAA map that appeared to be doctored to line up with his proclamation that Hurricane Dorian could hit Alabama.
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Miriam Lord / The Irish Times:
How Mike Pence shat on the new carpet in Ireland's spare room  —  Stoical smiles as US vice-president delivers strong endorsement of Johnson and Brexit  —  The hospitable hosts buttered up their important guest and made a big fuss of his family and hoped he would say nice things …
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CNN:
Pence faces heat over Doonbeg boondoggle  —  Pence stayed in Trump hotel during official Ireland visit  —  Washington (CNN)With fealty to President Donald Trump as his defining political trait, Vice President Mike Pence isn't typically the man in the spotlight.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
‘Boris knows how to win’: Trump backs Johnson amid Brexit turmoil
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Pence's office now says it wasn't Trump's idea to stay at his hotel in Ireland
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Soft-landings and Twitter shame: How the White House handles ex-aides with stories to tell  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's relationship with his chief of staff John Kelly was beyond repair when he announced last December that Kelly would be stepping down.  —  So before Kelly could leave …
Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
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Los Angeles Times:
Trump's schedule shows a president with plenty of downtime this summer
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben White / Politico:
‘They are riding a rubber ducky into alligator-infested waters’
Discussion: Breitbart, Spectator USA and Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The White House thinks The Post ignored Trump's summertime successes. So, about that.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is in serious danger, and his own advisers know it
Craig Gilbert / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner won't run for re-election in 2020 after more than 40 years in Congress … (Photo: Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)  —  Wisconsin Republican Jim Sensenbrenner, the second longest-serving member of the U.S. House of Representatives, will not run for a 22nd term, he said Wednesday.
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Andre Castro / Flores:
Bill Flores Announces Intent to Not Seek Re-election in 2020
Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:   Republican Jim Sensenbrenner announces he won't seek reelection
Gigi Sukin / Axios:
GOP Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner will not seek re-election
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Labor Department To Reinstate Aide Wrongfully Accused Of Anti-Semitism  — Trump appointee Leif Olson will return to his post after resigning following a Bloomberg Law article that falsely accused him of anti-Semitism.  — The Facebook post at issue was actually sarcastically mocking …
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Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner:
Labor Department rehires staffer Bloomberg accused of anti-Semitism
Washington Post:
Pentagon takes money from Puerto Rico, European projects to fund Trump's wall  —  The Pentagon is defunding Hurricane Maria recovery projects at military installations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to pay for President Trump's border wall, and is also taking money …
Discussion: Big League Politics
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Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Document reveals the FBI is tracking border protest groups as extremist organizations  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI is monitoring groups on the border that are protesting U.S. immigration policy, according to a document obtained by Yahoo News.  —  The FBI has gathered intelligence from people with …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Lawyer Greg Craig Is Acquitted  —  White House counsel for President Obama is vindicated over false-statement charge  —  WASHINGTON—Former White House counsel Greg Craig was acquitted by a federal jury on Wednesday on a felony false-statement charge, a major vindication for one of the most prominent lawyers in Washington.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
A Top White House Reporter Is Taking Over The Washington Free Beacon  —  A leading political reporter is leaving Politico to lead the neoconservative flagship Washington Free Beacon, the latest move in a conservative media world attempting to adjust to the age of Donald Trump.
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Suffer From Debilitating Back Pain?  So Does Seb Gorka, According to His New Gig as Spokesman For Fish Oil Pills  —  Former White House assistant Seb Gorka once suffered from debilitating lower back pain, but he is now miraculously “pain free” after taking a job hawking fish oil supplements …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Trump Voters Whose ‘Need for Chaos’ Obliterates Everything Else  —  Political nihilism is one of the president's strongest weapons.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  Over the four years during …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Four Things That Are Not White Nationalism  —  Conservatism's racism problem is real.  So is a pattern of media smears against non-racist conservatives.  —  The American right in the Trump era has a racism problem.  It's fed by a Republican president who race-baits, a media ecosystem whose guardrails …
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:   It's time to create a conservative ecosystem that doesn't welcome racists
Rebecca Keegan / Hollywood Reporter:
The Season of Scarlett Johansson: Two Hot Films, Her Marvel Future, Woody Allen and a Pick for President  —  With Noah Baumbach's ‘Marriage Story’ and Taika Waititi's ‘Jojo Rabbit’, her Avengers spinoff ‘Black Widow’ and the mantle of the world's highest-grossing actress …
Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
A Tomato Grows in the East River  —  A single tomato plant has sprouted on a piling by the Brooklyn Bridge.  Who knows how it got there?  —  On a wooden piling in the waters off Brooklyn Bridge Park, a lone red fruit grows between Pier 1, right next to the Brooklyn Bridge, and Pier 2.
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Dan Crenshaw is worried that universal background checks might keep him from arming his friends  —  Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), an NRA-backed gun-rights advocate, dismissed calls for universal background checks even after a mass shooting in his own state that might have been prevented by such a law.
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Miya Shay / ABC13:
Woman shoots man who reached into car and tried to steal purse in SW Houston: Police
CNBC:
‘Hundreds of other people could be implicated’ in Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell court documents  —  KEY POINTS  — Secret court filings related to Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged procurer Ghislaine Maxwell could implicate “hundreds of other people,” Maxwell's lawyer said.
Christien Kafton / KTVU-TV:
San Francisco Board of Supervisors designates NRA domestic terrorist organization  —  SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - The city of San Francisco has formally adopted a resolution calling the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization.  —  San Francisco's Board of Supervisors …
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
After Climate Forum, Biden Heads to a Fundraiser Co-Hosted by a Fossil Fuel Executive  —  The day after Joe Biden participates in CNN's climate forum in New York, the former vice president will head to a high-dollar fundraiser co-hosted by a fossil fuel executive tied to a major natural gas development project.
Discussion: CNBC and Washington Free Beacon
Angela Ryan / The Independent:
I was one of those white women who voted for Donald Trump in 2016.  Now I see what a terrible mistake I made  —  And this political era has instilled an outrage and activism in me I never knew existed  —  Prior to the 2016 presidential election, I was a happily uninvolved voter.
Discussion: Raw Story
Yael Halon / Fox News:
Grey's Anatomy Star Isaiah Washington opens up about decision to leave the Democratic party after Trump White House visit  —  On Fox Nation's latest episode of “Nuff Said,” Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington opened up about his decision to leave the Democratic Party, and the reaction he got …
Discussion: The Daily Caller, IJR and The Root
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Democratic Rep. Susan Davis says she won't seek reelection in 2020  —  Democratic Rep. Susan A. Davis, who has represented her Southern California district since 2001, announced Wednesday that she would not seek reelection in 2020.  —  Davis, 75, is the fourth Democratic House member to decide …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
21 British Conservatives put country over party.  Why can't 21 Republicans do the same?  —  Among them are two former chancellors of the exchequer, an array of former cabinet ministers, and many old and familiar stalwarts of Conservative party conferences and Conservative think tanks.
Discussion: BBC and Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
Top Interior official who pushed to expand drilling in Alaska to join oil company there  —  Joe Balash, a Trump appointee, had served as assistant secretary for land and minerals management until Aug. 30.  —  Last summer, Scott Pruitt left his job heading the Environmental Protection Agency …
John Schwartz / New York Times:
White House to Relax Energy Efficiency Rules for Light Bulbs  —  The Trump administration plans to significantly weaken federal rules that would have forced Americans to use much more energy-efficient light bulbs, a move that could contribute to greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Where the leading 2020 Democrats stand on climate change policy
Discussion: Vox, Breitbart and Washington Monthly
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judiciary panel issues subpoena on Trump's alleged offer to pardon DHS officials
Hannes Grassegger / Medium:
The unpublished Cambridge Analytica Interview
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Stone aide who battled Mueller will testify at former boss' trial
CBS News:
Andrew Yang on why he'll beat Biden and lure Trump voters
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Democrats Have Reached A Crossroads
Discussion: Townhall
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Pope on critics: It's ‘an honor if the Americans attack me’
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Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune:
Charges officially dropped against ex-U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock in unusual deal with feds
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Joe Biden says he opposed the Iraq War soon after it started. A check of his record shows otherwise
Discussion: Mediaite
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Conflicting Rulings on the Electoral College Could Throw the Next Election Into Chaos
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election
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