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Paul Manafort flips on President Trump. Plus 18 trillion gallons of rain along the Eastern Seaboard, gas leaks and explosions in Massachusetts, Monday’s Emmys, and more
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Manafort Flips: Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, has agreed to cooperate “fully, truthfully, and completely” with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Franklin Foer outlines the several big mysteries of the Russia investigation that Manafort’s cooperation could help untangle.

Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday as a North of the storm, explosions erupted in dozens of homes across three towns in Massachusetts late Thursday night, with

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