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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Anthony Scaramucci's wife files for divorce  —  MORE FROM: … Anthony Scaramucci, the White House's potty-mouthed new communications director, has been dumped by his beautiful blond wife because of his “naked political ambition,” multiple sources exclusively tell Page Six.
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New York Times:
Reince Priebus Pushed Out After Rocky Tenure as Trump Chief of Staff  —  WASHINGTON — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff who failed to impose order on a chaos-wracked West Wing, was pushed out on Friday after a stormy six-month tenure, and President Trump replaced him with John F. Kelly …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump “loved” Scaramucci's quotes — but he hates being upstaged  —  Top Republicans tell us that yesterday may have been an inflection point in the West Wing meltdown — that if behavior like this continues, apparently sanctioned by the President, people will finally leave.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Names Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as New Chief of Staff  —  Kelly to replace former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Friday that he has replaced his chief of staff Reince Priebus with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump says he wants a ‘general’ to replace Priebus: report  —  President Trump has said privately that he wants to appoint “a general” to replace White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, The New York Times reports.  —  The president, the Times reported on Thursday, has so far focused …
Vicky Ward / HuffPost:
Here's The Real Reason Anthony Scaramucci Hates Reince Priebus  —  It all started in January. … In the public feud between Anthony Scaramucci and Reince Priebus, what hasn't been fully explained is why Scaramucci so dislikes the president's now-former chief of staff …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Why Anthony Scaramucci's Rant Probably Ticked Off the FBI … In his immediately infamous phone call to a New Yorker staff writer, Anthony Scaramucci didn't just say the White House chief of staff was a “f-king paranoid schizophrenic” or accuse the president's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, of engaging in autofellatio.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Priebus out as chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly to replace him
Discussion: ABC News and Mediaite
CNN:
Reince Priebus out, John Kelly in as White House chief of staff
Discussion: TheStreet, IJR and ImmigrationProf Blog
Washington Post:
Trump names Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as White House chief of staff, ousting Reince Priebus
The Onion:
Onion Fact Checks: Anthony Scaramucci's ‘New Yorker’ Interview
Discussion: Booman Tribune
David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Watch The Shocking Moment John McCain Killed The Republican Health Care Bill  —  There is so much going on in this clip.  I can't stop watching.  —  While you were sleeping, Senate Republicans held a late-night vote to try to pass their last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Washington Post
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John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:   Rep. Gohmert: I Prayed For McCain, Cancer 'Doesn't Give Him Right To Make People Suffer'
Alexia Fernández Campbell / Vox:
What McCain did was hard. What Murkowski and Collins did was much harder.
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The night John McCain killed the GOP's health-care fight
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Taking Stock Of Trumpcare's Epic Collapse
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
mccain.senate.gov:
STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON VOTING “NO” ON “SKINNY REPEAL”
BuzzFeed:
Part Four: The Secrets Of The Spy In The Bag  —  Vladimir Putin's former media czar was murdered in Washington, DC on the eve of a planned meeting with the U.S. Justice Department, according to two FBI agents whose assertions cast new doubts on the US government's official explanation of his death.
Discussion: IJR and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump just delivered the most chilling speech of his presidency  —  The president of the United States is explicitly encouraging police violence.  —  In a speech to law enforcement officials in Long Island on Friday, the president of the United States delivered a clear and chilling message …
Discussion: Axios
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Republicans despair after health care collapse  —  Speaker Paul Ryan had none of his Eagle Scout-like optimism.  —  At a closed-door conference meeting with House Republicans hours after Sen. John McCain scuttled perhaps the last best hope of repealing Obamacare, Ryan read an excerpt from …
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Associated Press:
House lawmakers left Washington for their weeks long August vacation …
Discussion: Politico
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor  —  Half his tweets show utter weakness.  They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn.  —  The president's primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive.  It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider.
Discussion: alicublog
Daniel Hoffman / New York Times:
The Russians Were Involved.  But It Wasn't About Collusion.  —  Russians are fond of a proverb, “besplatniy sir biyvaet tol'ko v mishelovke”: “Free cheese can be found only in a mousetrap.”  —  Having long considered the United States its main enemy, the Kremlin deploys a full quiver …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Endorses Police Brutality In Speech To Cops  —  The president said law enforcement officers shouldn't protect suspects' heads when putting them into police cars.  —  WASHINGTON President Donald Trump received applause on Friday when he endorsed police brutality while delivering …
Discussion: Hit & Run, Raw Story and Daily Wire
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:   Trump praises police violence to audience of laughing cops
John Delaney / Washington Post:
Why I'm running for president  —  John Delaney, a Democrat, represents Maryland's 6th Congressional District in the House.  —  The American people are far greater than the sum of our political parties.  It is time for us to rise above our broken politics and renew the spirit that enabled us to achieve the seemingly impossible.
Sally Q. Yates / New York Times:
Sally Yates: Protect the Justice Department From President Trump  —  The spectacle of President Trump's now daily efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country.  But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' relationship …
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Shareblue
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Mark Meadows: New healthcare bill is coming ‘that can get to 51’  —  Rep. Mark Meadows, a key negotiator in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, said a new effort is underway to write a bill that can pass the Senate that would include proposals offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz, and Rob Portman.
Discussion: Axios, Vox, TheBlaze and STAT
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Democrats want to know who's behind Trump dossier  —  There's been a stark partisan divide over the Trump dossier — the collection of “salacious and unverified” allegations about Donald Trump (the words are former FBI Director James Comey's) that was reportedly gathered by Trump's opponents …
Discussion: RedState
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   Who Paid for the ‘Trump Dossier’?
 
 
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Josh Levin / Slate:
Donald Trump Just Stole Jerry Seinfeld's Old Bit About Police Brutality
Discussion: Vox and The Daily Caller
Mary Finlay / The Guardian:
Experience: my dog underwent gender reassignment surgery
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Police cheer Trump after jab at mayors who don't let them do their jobs
Discussion: Politico
John Leland / New York Times:
The Rise and Fall of Liz Smith, Celebrity Accomplice
Discussion: Jezebel
Bjorn Lomborg / Wall Street Journal:
Al Gore's Climate Sequel Misses a Few Inconvenient Facts
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Guarding Trump's Mar-a-Lago club by air and sea has cost taxpayers $6.6 million
Discussion: CBS News
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Choire Sicha wins Times Styles Section Bake-Off
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Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Socialite couple announce ‘Trump divorce’ in press release
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump job approval swings lower
Discussion: RedState
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he's real.
USA Today:
Russia probe could reveal Trump's closest-held secrets
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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