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8:35 PM ET, August 2, 2017

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NBC News:
Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …
The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act”  —  Today, I signed into law the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” which enacts new sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump signs what he calls ‘seriously flawed’ bill imposing new sanctions on Russia
Discussion: Vox and Mediaite
Los Angeles Times:
Read President Trump's statements outlining his concerns about the Russia sanctions bill
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo  —  A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics …
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Inside the McMaster-Bannon War  —  Under the new chief of staff, H.R. McMaster and Steve Bannon have gone to the mattresses.  —  General John Kelly may be trying to institute military-style discipline in the West Wing, but that hasn't put a stop to the civil war happening over President Donald Trump's National Security Council.
Mike Allen / Axios:
John Kelly closes the Oval Office door  —  The door to the Oval Office used to be wide open, with favored officials drifting in and out — even in the middle of meetings — to kibitz with Trump.  —  Now, the door is closed.  Gen. John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly cracks down on West Wing back channels to Trump
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's New Top Aide Assures Sessions His Job Is Safe
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:   Trump plan to hire 15,000 border and immigration personnel isn't justified, federal watchdog says
Dara Lind / Vox:
What John Kelly's final ICE raid tells us about Trump's new chief of staff
Discussion: Daily Kos
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired  —  “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes.  —  Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …
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Mike Cernovich:
Exclusive — Scaramucci Memo Showed Content Focused Vision for White House Communications Team  —  “An effective Comms shop will dictate the news of the day on most days,” former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci wrote in a rough draft of a memo sent to Cernovich Media.
David Crary / Associated Press:
Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech  —  https://apnews.com/aedbaf4543ea464dbcef 78491ba281b9  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.
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CNBC:
As the lies and contradictions mount, federal officials are deciding to simply ignore Trump  — Evidence arrives every day of the government treating the man elected to lead it as someone talking mostly to himself.  — The phenomenon has grown more pronounced as Trump keeps struggling …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’ in bizarre exchange  —  White House senior adviser Stephen Miller smiled as he volunteered to “take one actual last question” at Wednesday's news briefing, before press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to the podium.
Discussion: Occidental Dissent and Gothamist
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Rebekah Entralgo / ThinkProgress:
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Discussion: Raw Story
Garet Williams / Vox:
Stephen Miller couldn't defend a new immigration bill without demeaning the press
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Trump nominee Sam Clovis blasted progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’ in old blog posts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's USDA pick referred to progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’
Discussion: RedState
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos.  Over Investment-For-Visa Program  —  Records sought from development firm owned by family of White House adviser Jared Kushner  —  Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Oh, Wait.  Maybe It Was Collusion.  —  Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election?  Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
Discussion: LewRockwell
Annie Karni / Politico:
Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Video Casts Doubt on Officers  —  State attorneys are dismissing dozens of cases in Baltimore after reviewing a video that appears to show a police officer planting evidence while two other officers look on.  —  Over a hundred criminal cases …
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Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
South Carolina governor candidate Catherine Templeton's ‘proud of the Confederacy’ remarks stir controversy  —  COLUMBIA — Catherine Templeton made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy” and pledged “we're not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story and Splinter
Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President  —  Months before he declared himself a candidate, Trump was set to play commander-in-chief in the schlocky Syfy film franchise that has lured everyone from Ann Coulter to Charo for cameos while regular Tara Reid makes a quarter of one male co-star's pay.
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump  —  Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich took to Periscope to announce that he's doing “a big pivot” away from “being a pro-Trump guy.”  Cernovich enthusiastically supported President Donald Trump throughout …
James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Remember all those left-wing pundits who drooled over Venezuela?  —  The majority of Venezuelans oppose the assembly and the new charter it will draft, fearing it will give Maduro dictatorial powers.  —  “Pundits should have fixed terms,” left-wing author Naomi Klein recently told the BBC.
Ian Cummings / Kansas City Star:
NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri  —  NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.  —  But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
JAMES COMEY HAS BOOK DEAL, PUBLICATION SET FOR NEXT SPRING  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey has a book deal.  —  Flatiron Books told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Comey is writing a book about leadership and decision making that will draw upon his career in government.
Amy Koski / Nature:
Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos … Abstract  —  Genome editing has potential for the targeted correction of germline mutations.  Here we describe the correction of the heterozygous MYBPC3 mutation in human preimplantation embryos with precise CRISPR-Cas9-based targeting accuracy …
Drew Johnson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Gore's Home Devours 34 Times More Electricity Than Average U.S. Household  —  On Friday, Al Gore's sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth” - “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” - arrives in movie theaters across the country.  But there's another inconvenient sequel worth noting and …
Grace Rauh / NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm eyes return to Congress  —  The Staten Island political world is buzzing with talk that a former Republican congressman may want his old job back.  NY1 Political Reporter Grace Rauh has that story.  —  For months now, there has been talk that Michael Grimm would try to get back into politics.
 
 
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Lynn Vavreck / New York Times:
The Great Political Divide Over American Identity
Discussion: Instapundit
Associated Press:
Trump administration says current war authority sufficient
Discussion: Axios
Peter Hancock / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Kobach had duty to publicize new voting schedule; it appears that he didn't
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
MS-13 doesn't fear Trump, rival gangs or the police - but they are terrified of La Sombra Negra
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New York Post:
Residents fuming over sex-crazed hotel guests
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Patti Smith / New Yorker:
My Buddy  —  He would call me late in the night from somewhere …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Althouse
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump, GOP senators to introduce bill to slash legal immigration levels
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The marketplace of ideas is killing the Trump administration
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Billy House / Bloomberg:
House Judiciary Chairman's Priority: Investigating Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Shakesville and Daily Kos
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda
 

 
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