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Uninsured Rates Grow During Trump Presidency

Trump Nominees Working Before Being Confirmed By Senate
Hilton Won't Host Upcoming Racist 'Conference'
Putin Tells U.S. To Stop Making Fun Of Trump
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Climate Kook Is Trump's Choice For Top Environmental Post

By Reynard Loki
Gorsuch Already Broadly Disliked By Top Court Colleagues

By Jacob Sugarman
Racist, Violent, Unpunished: A White Hate Group’s Campaign Of Menace

By ProPublica
Pressure Mounts On Insurance Companies To Consider Their Role In Opioid Epidemic

By Charles Ornstein

Top News

White House: Don't Question Gen. Kelly!
That seems to be what happened at the White House press briefing Friday afternoon as she took questions about dramatic and controversial remarks by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Thursday, when he lashed out at a Democratic congresswoman over the president’s call to an Army widow.
By Matthew Cooper

Former AG Holder Warns Against Sessions' New Drug War
Attorney General Jeff Sessions's stance on crime, sentencing, private prisons and drugs is "disappointing, dispiriting and ultimately dangerous," Holder told a crowd of law enforcement leaders from around the country who had gathered in Washington, D.C., according to The Hill.
By Christal Hayes

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Coulter: If DACA Champion Kamala Harris Runs, She'll Win 2020 Nomination

By Joe Conason

Only A Wave Election Will Win House For Democrats
FairVote, the national democracy reform group, has dismal news for Democrats seeking to regain a House majority in 2018. Unless there is a turnout wave of voters disgusted with Republicans unlike anything seen in decades, they can forget it.
By Steven Rosenfeld
Russia-Sponsored Troll Networks Still Operating, Targeting America
The number of networks of Russian-sponsored trolls spreading propaganda to the United States and Europe may number in the hundreds, including the one team drawing wide attention for blitzing American social media outlets last year with divisive information in a bid to tip voter sympathies to Donald Trump, according to an Obama administration Pentagon official.
By Peter Stone and Greg Gordon
Fox's Tucker Carlson Is Mad About An Undocumented Teen Paying For Her Own Abortion
Fox News host Tucker Carlson and guest Kristan Hawkins, president of the anti-abortion group Students for Life of America (SFLA), on Wednesday repeated the right-wing myth of so-called “taxpayer-funded abortion,” alleging that a recent judicial ruling requires taxpayers to pay for abortions for undocumented immigrants.
By Julie Tulbert
Trump Sinks To New Low In Call To Grieving Widow Of Fallen Soldier
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) told CNN's Don Lemon that President Donald Trump made a horrifying remark to the widow of fallen soldier Sgt. La David Johnson, who lost his life in Niger. "Basically he said, 'Well, I guess he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt,'" Wilson recounted.
By Chris Sosa
Facebook Allowed Questionable Ads In German Election Despite Warnings
On Sept. 15, nine days before the elections in Germany, the Green party complained to Facebook about a popular series of attack ads deriding its stances on gender-neutral bathrooms, electric cars and other topics.
By ProPublica
Network And Cable News Ignore Rohingya Plight In Primetime
The Myanmar government’s military forces are conducting ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya Muslim population -- an ethnic and religious minority in Myanmar -- through systematic violence and expulsion.
By Nina Mast

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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax
By National Memo
Religious Right Using Hurricane Tragedies To Grab Public Funds For Churches
In between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Trump took the time to plant a tweet bomb under the First Amendment. “Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others),” he twittered.
By Katherine Stewart
Inspector General Debunks (Again) The IRS 'Scandal' That Never Was
The “IRS scandal” -- the right-wing delusion that the Internal Revenue Service was disproportionately targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status and slow-walking their approvals -- began as a political hit job by a partisan Republican congressman. It matured into a full-fledged scandal, with President Barack Obama apologizing and the IRS commissioner resigning in disgrace.
By Matt Gertz

Health

Uninsured Rates Grow During Trump Presidency
The Gallup poll behind this finding selected 500 people at random and asked them daily if they were insured. During the third quarter of 2017, July 1 to September 30, the adult uninsured rate was 12.3 percent. That was 0.6 percent higher than the rate from the second quarter of 2017, and 1.4 percent higher than the rate at the end of 2016.
By Newsweek
Pressure Mounts On Insurance Companies To Consider Their Role In Opioid Epidemic
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote to the companies after an article by ProPublica and The New York Times found that insurance companies sometimes favor cheaper, more addictive opioids over less addictive, but more expensive, alternatives.
By Charles Ornstein
Trump Says He Has Killed Obamacare
President Donald Trump declared Monday that his predecessor Barack Obama's signature reform and expansion of the US health insurance system is defunct, after he cut subsidies to insurers. "Obamacare is finished. It's dead. It's gone," he told reporters.
By AFP

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Danziger: News From Nowhere
By Jeff Danziger
#EndorseThis: Why Is Trump Always Feuding With Gold Star Families?
By National Memo
How Much Time Does Trump Spend Tweeting? Too Much
What has he tweeted now? Odds are you've asked yourself this question in the wee hours of the morning with a knot in your stomach or a tightness in your chest. And while there's no way to anticipate what horrors await—threat of nuclear war? Personal attack on a private citizen? The possibilities are endless!
By Jacob Sugarman

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#EndorseThis: Why Is Trump Always Feuding With Gold Star Families?

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#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah And Michelle Wolf Solve 'The Weinstein Problem'

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#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax

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Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

By Brendan Gauthier

This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent

Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

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This Week In Crazy: Trump's God-Given Mission To Nuke North Korea

Nuclear holy war, Chi-Raqi occupation, and Al Gore's "big ugly ass." Welcome to This Week In Crazy.

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The News At A Glance

POLITICS

Putin Tells U.S. To Stop Making Fun Of Trump
By Newsweek

How Much Time Does Trump Spend Tweeting? Too Much
Trump Campaign Staff Promoted Russian Trolling
OPINION

The Reckoning Arrives For Donald Trump, Fox News, And The GOP
By Eric Boehlert

Evangelical Leaders Still Support Trump -- But Will Lewd Remarks Repel Voters?
In 24 Years of Town Hall Debates, The Winners, The Losers, And The Weird
BOOKS

Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The Nobel Prize For Literature
By Carolyn Kellogg

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Why The Media Want Hillary Clinton To Shut Up

NATIONAL

Another Way To Banish The Bump Stock
By Steve Chapman

Trump Boasts About Federal Wildfire Response
California Wildfires Are 'All Combining Into One'
MONEY

#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax
By National Memo

Religious Right Using Hurricane Tragedies To Grab Public Funds For Churches
Inspector General Debunks (Again) The IRS 'Scandal' That Never Was
LIFESTYLE

#EndorseThis: Why Is Trump Always Feuding With Gold Star Families?
By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah And Michelle Wolf Solve 'The Weinstein Problem'
#MeToo: How I Learned What Predators Like Weinstein Do To Women Every Day

WORLD

Network And Cable News Ignore Rohingya Plight In Primetime
By Nina Mast

Gingrich Wife Confirmed To Vatican Embassy
Joe Biden Says Donald Trump Makes The World Dangerous
HEALTH

Uninsured Rates Grow During Trump Presidency
By Newsweek

Pressure Mounts On Insurance Companies To Consider Their Role In Opioid Epidemic
Trump Says He Has Killed Obamacare
VIDEO

#EndorseThis: Why Is Trump Always Feuding With Gold Star Families?
By National Memo

#EndorseThis: Trevor Noah And Michelle Wolf Solve 'The Weinstein Problem'
#EndorseThis: John Oliver Exposes The Malignant Stupidity And Rampant Greed Of Equifax

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