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12:15 PM ET, October 15, 2017

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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
President Trump ‘went rogue’ on Iran deal, health care: Pelosi  —  The Democratic leader of the House of Representatives said President Donald Trump “went rogue” with his decisions on ending Obamacare subsidies, changing birth control coverage mandates and decertifying the Iran nuclear deal.
Discussion: Politico
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Promise the Moon?  Easy for Trump.  But Now Comes the Reckoning.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump leaves little doubt about what he thinks of his predecessor's top domestic and international legacies.  The health care program enacted by President Barack Obama is “outrageous” and “absolutely destroying everything in its wake.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, IJR and Mediaite
F.H. Buckley / New York Post:   Behind Trump's latest moves: A return to constitutional government
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:   Iranian foreign minister: ‘Nobody else will trust’ U.S. if it pulls out of Iran deal
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump governs by disruption — and overloads all the circuits
Discussion: Politico
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood's Oldest Horror Story  —  In her autobiography, “Child Star,” Shirley Temple described going with her mother to see her new bosses at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after leaving Fox.  —  Louis B. Mayer spirited away Gertrude Temple.  The curly-haired superstar …
Discussion: Althouse and The Last Tradition
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Sarah Polley / New York Times:
The Men You Meet Making Movies
Discussion: IndieWire
Christina Anderson / New York Times:
‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes  —  ENKOPING, Sweden — The discovery of Arabic characters that spell “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes in boat graves in Sweden has raised questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia.  —  The grave where the costumes …
Mike Allen / Axios:
A truce of necessity  —  We've learned that after months of frosty distance, President Trump picked up the phone yesterday and called Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — ahead of a week when they absolutely have to work together on a budget, or risk losing tax reform.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Bannon promises ‘season of war’ against McConnell, GOP establishment
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Why I Went to North Korea  —  Since my five-day visit to North Korea recently, I've encountered pushback from critics who ask, “Why go?” … Frankly, these are legitimate arguments.  So let's seize the moment for an honest discussion — and, in the process, let me offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of reporting there.
Discussion: Political Wire and Axios
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CBS News:
Nation Tracker: Americans feel tax reform plans would favor wealthy  —  Most Americans continue to call for deals and cooperation in the back-and-forth between the president and Congress.  And that includes many of the president's strongest backers and most Republicans.  Some even want to see Congress assert itself more.
Discussion: Vox and Politico
New York Post:
Shrinks take to streets to demand ‘narcissistic’ Trump's ouster … They're not nuts about Trump.  —  Some 125 psychologists and other mental health professionals marched along lower Broadway Saturday to demand that President Trump be thrown out of office, based on a constitutional clause allowing presidents …
Discussion: RedState, Raw Story and twitchy.com
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Psychologists march through NY to call for Trump's removal
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
The drug industry's triumph over the DEA  —  Amid a targeted lobbying effort, Congress weakened the DEA's ability to go after drug distributors, even as opioid-related deaths continue to rise, a Washington Post and ‘60 Minutes’ investigation finds.  —  In April 2016, at the height …
Discussion: Axios
Timothy Meads / Townhall.com:
A “Terrified” Paul Krugman Wakes Each Morning in a “State of Existential Dread”  —  New York Times Keynesian economics columnist Paul Krugman as has been having a hard time ever since Donald J. Trump was elected President in November 2016.  —  However, the “conscience of liberalism” …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies, Lies  —  Modern conservatives have been lying about taxes pretty much from the beginning of their movement.  Made-up sob stories about family farms broken up to pay inheritance taxes, magical claims about self-financing tax cuts, and so on go all the way back to the 1970s.
Mary Orlin / Mercury News:
Six more wineries destroyed by Wine Country fires, bringing total to 16  —  Updated 4:13 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6: Six more wineries were confirmed destroyed Friday, as a sixth day dawned with fires still burning throughout Northern California.  —  Paras Vineyard, Roy Estate, Pulido-Walker's Estate Vineyard …
Discussion: Mashable
John Bowden / The Hill:
Gingrich: ‘The alligators are really unhappy’ that Trump is ‘draining the swamp’  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the Washington, D.C. establishment is enraged with President Trump because he is following through on his promise to “drain the swamp.”  —  “Donald Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Have dirt that could impeach Trump?  Larry Flynt will pay you $10 million.  —  Larry Flynt's ad in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post is hard to miss.  —  For one, it takes up a full page.  And there are no pictures — just bold, all-caps text dominating the top third of the page:
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Donald Trump and the Dawn of the Evangelical-Nationalist Alliance
Los Angeles Times:
California Senate leader Kevin de León tells several Democrats he will challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Discussion: Axios
New York Times:
Somalia Truck Bombings Kill Over 200, Officials Say
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Wary of Hackers, States Move to Upgrade Voting Systems
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Political Wire
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Trump's great call on UNESCO
Discussion: National Review
Mara Siegler / Page Six:
George Lopez booed off stage after Trump jokes flop at gala
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 Earlier Items: 
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump voter fraud commission researcher arrested on child pornography charges
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Clinton: We made a person who committed sexual assault president
Discussion: Channel 4 News and Washington Post
Alana Goodman / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea Clinton runs from questions about handing back Harvey Weinstein's tainted …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, appears to have left sensitive …
Discussion: Politico
 

 
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