• It’s official: Debt tops $20 trillion for first time; jumps $317,645,000,000 in 1 day (CNS News)

• Battered Florida tries to assess scope of Irma’s destruction — 13 million without power (Associated Press)

• When the lights go out in a hurricane, blame climate change policies, not climate change (Washington Examiner)

• Illegal immigration in Southwest doubled over past four months, but still lower than under Obama (The Washington Times)

• White House: Border wall funding doesn’t have to be tied to DACA legislation (The Hill)

• Dems fall in line on single-payer, as Sanders prepares to launch Medicare-for-all “campaign” (Fox News)

• Half off: Retailers slash prices on Hillary book before it even hits the shelves (The Daily Wire)

• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been pushing the Trump White House to demand that Israel return millions in military aid (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Menendez aide: You bet he committed official acts on behalf of donor (Hot Air)

• ESPN continues ratings slide for politicizing sports as show cohost calls Trump “white supremacist” (DCF)

• UN agrees to toughest-ever sanctions against North Korea (The Washington Post)

• Policy: How Uncle Sam tempts people into hurricanes’ paths. (New York Post)

• Policy: To help the middle class, cut payroll taxes. (Real Clear Policy)

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