Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:20 AM ET, August 10, 2015

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage  —  As Donald Trump faces a growing backlash from conservative media over his recent attacks on a Fox News host, one prominent right-wing outlet remains firmly in his corner: Breitbart News, which has set itself apart …
RELATED:
NBC News:
New NBC News/Survey Monkey Poll: Donald Trump Still in the Lead After Debates  —  If Donald Trump's comments about Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it's not showing in the numbers.  —  According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: Listening to Fiorina causes headaches  —  Donald Trump on Sunday took a shot at fellow 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, saying you “develop a massive headache” if you listen to the former Hewlett-Packard CEO.  —  “I just realized that if you listen to Carly Fiorina …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The August Doldrums and Donald Trump  —  August is the doldrums of political season.  The winds stop and one story can stick around and take up attention.  August is the season of Monica Lewinsky, Chandra Levy, Cindy Sheehan, the Obamacare protests, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, etc., etc., etc.
Wall Street Journal:   Donald Trump Won't Retreat From Dust-Up Over Megyn Kelly
Jon Karl / ABC News:
Donald Trump Considering Taking Pledge Not to Run as Third-Party Candidate  —  Donald Trump may soon do what Republican leaders have been asking the billionaire candidate to do — pledge not to run as an independent candidate for president, a senior Trump adviser told ABC News.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Donald Trump struggles to turn political fling into a durable campaign
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   It's Not the First Time Donald Trump Has Flirted With a Third-Party Run
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Donald Trump Remains Defiant on News Programs Amid G.O.P. Backlash
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘Black Lives Matter’ and the G.O.P.  —  Only one candidate in last week's Republican presidential debate was asked to directly address the Black Lives Matter movement and that candidate was Gov. Scott Walker.  —  Moderator Megyn Kelly asked Walker:  —  “Governor Walker …
RELATED:
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Booker: Sanders has ‘long record of civil rights’
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Lauren Haviland / WJHL:
“I really hope racism stops,” 9-year-old at “Black Lives Matter” march in JC
Discussion: Raw Story and Addicting Info
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates and Obama's Failure to Fail  —  What did the men who would be president talk about during last week's prime-time Republican debate?  Well, there were 19 references to God, while the economy rated only 10 mentions.  Republicans in Congress have voted dozens of times to repeal …
Lisa Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
1 person shot during protests late Sunday in Ferguson  —  Updated at 3:10 a.m. with father identifying shooting victim.  —  FERGUSON  • A peaceful day of protest and remembrance dissolved into chaos late Sunday when a man fired multiple shots at four St. Louis County plainclothes detectives in an SUV.
RELATED:
Nick Gutteridge / Daily Express:
Hero SAS sniper saves father and eight-year-old son from being beheaded by ISIS maniac  —  A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.  —  ALAMY  —  An SAS sniper took out the ISIS executioner just in time
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Lawsuit could reveal secret Saudi connection to 9/11  —  Smoldering ruins seen at Ground Zero.  —  A federal lawsuit moving forward in Manhattan could open the floodgates to tightly held government secrets about foreign connections to the 9/11 attacks.  —  While the Obama administration refuses …
Discussion: Daily Mail
Politico:
Can Bernie Sanders Win the Love of a Party He Scorns?  —  The long, troubled history of Bernie Sanders and the ‘ideologically bankrupt’ party whose White House nod he now seeks.  —  SHARES  —  “You don't change the system from within the Democratic Party.”  —  Get POLITICO Magazine in your feeds
Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Sam Brownback's brother accused of terrorizing rural neighbors  —  Joann Peine, social worker by profession and farm wife by marriage, ended a period of soul-searching by asking a Linn County District Court judge to issue protection orders for stalking against Jim Brownback and his stepdaughter.
Dan Witters / Gallup:
In U.S., Uninsured Rates Continue to Drop in Most States  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arkansas and Kentucky continue to have the sharpest reductions in their uninsured rates since the healthcare law took effect at the beginning of 2014.  Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington join …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:20 AM ET, August 10, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Robert Windrem / NBC News:
China Read Emails of Top U.S. Officials
Discussion: The Verge and Mashable
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders draws 28,000 people in Portland, his campaign says — largest 2016 contender crowd by far
New York Times:
The Pentagon's Dangerous Views on the Wartime Press
Discussion: Defense One
Reuters:
U.S. consulate in Turkey targeted as wave of attacks kills eight
Discussion: The Agonist and The Week
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
Taking a long view on corporate reform
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton starts taking some risks — and landing some punches
 Earlier Items: 
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Ex-NATO supreme commander rips Obama over military cuts
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
U.S.A., Land of Limitations?
Jonathan Gonzalez / KUSA-TV:
Dog missing for 9 years reunited with owners
Discussion: Daily Mail and Associated Press
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
More twists and turns in Hillary's email saga
Peter Georgescu / New York Times:
Capitalists, Arise: We Need to Deal With Income Inequality
Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
Millions of African migrants threaten standard of living, Philip Hammond says
Discussion: Vox Popoli
 

 
From Techmeme:

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Bloomberg:
Preqin data: Southeast Asia's AI startups raised just $1.7B across 122 deals so far in 2024, out of ~$20B across 1,845 deals for the whole Asia-Pacific region
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page