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5:40 PM ET, August 4, 2017

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CNN:
Exclusive: FBI tracked ‘fake news’ believed to be from Russia on Election Day  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The FBI monitored social media on Election Day last year in an effort to track a suspected Russian disinformation campaign utilizing “fake news,” CNN has learned.
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Eddie Scarry / Washington Examiner:
CNN insiders rip Jim Acosta's antics as ‘auditions’ for his own show  —  Jim Acosta is suddenly one of CNN's most controversial figures even among some of his CNN colleagues, who say his public battles with the Trump administration are going too far.  —  One of Acosta's colleagues …
New York Times:
Martin Shkreli Is Found Guilty of Fraud  —  Martin Shkreli, accused of defrauding his hedge fund investors and a pharmaceutical company, was convicted on three of eight counts on Friday, after a five-week trial in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn.  —  He faces as much as 20 years in prison.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Gothamist and Gizmodo
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli found guilty of 3 of 8 charges, including securities fraud  —  A federal jury found notorious “Pharma bro” Martin Shkreli guilty of multiple criminal charges Friday.  —  Shkreli, 34, was convicted of some of the eight criminal counts that he had faced …
Discussion: IJR, The Verge and Raw Story
CNNMoney:
Martin Shkreli convicted of securities fraud, conspiracy
New York Times:
Leak Investigations Triple Under Trump, Sessions Says  —  Washington — Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Friday that the Justice Department was now pursuing three times as many leak investigations as the previous administration, a significant devotion of law enforcement resources …
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Sessions: DOJ reviewing policies on media subpoenas
Discussion: ABC News and Daily Kos
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Reality closing in on Trump with grand jury investigation
Discussion: Vox, Politico and The Week
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
National security adviser attempts to reconcile Trump's competing impulses on Afghanistan  —  In meeting after meeting with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, this spring and summer, President Trump angrily hammered home two questions:  —  He wanted to know why the U.S. military …
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The Daily Caller:
National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is thwarting President Donald Trump's foreign policy prescriptions, two former senior NSC officials told The Daily Caller News Foundation.  —  “Everything the president wants to do, McMaster opposes,” a former senior official said in a wide-ranging interview.
Wall Street Journal:
Kelly's Rules for Trump's West Wing: Stop Bickering, Get in Early, Make an Appointment  —  New Chief of Staff John Kelly moves quickly to bring order and discipline to a West Wing riven by conflict  —  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly with Donald Trump's son-in-law and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner at the White House on Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Ivanka and Jared, move back to New York
New York Times:
John Kelly Quickly Moves to Impose Military Discipline on White House
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Jarrett calls grand juries ‘undemocratic farce’ one day after calling for one for Clinton  —  Former defense attorney and Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett called grand juries an “undemocratic farce” on Thursday, just one day after writing an op-ed asking why a grand jury had not been impaneled …
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Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Poll: Americans in battleground districts would strongly oppose Trump firing special counsel Robert Mueller
Discussion: Delphi Analytica Inc., Politico and Vox
David Herzig / Washington Post:
This Trump real estate deal looks awfully like criminal tax fraud  —  Two tax lawyers break down the president's sale of two condos to his son. … President Trump clearly doesn't want to release his income tax returns to the public.  Members of the public and commentators …
Discussion: Mediaite
Mike Vilensky / Wall Street Journal:
Cuomo May Face a Primary Hurdle in 2018  —  An actress, an upstate mayor and a former state senator are three potential democratic contenders  —  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a rally in support of the Affordable Care Act and against the Senate replacement bill in July.
Discussion: AOL and Washington Free Beacon
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John Bowden / The Hill:
‘Sex and the City’ star considers primary challenge to NY Gov. Cuomo: report  —  Actress Cynthia Nixon is being floated as a possible primary challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) in 2018.  —  The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the “Sex and the City” star is considering a run against Cuomo …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Wasserman Schultz Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From Police Was Awan's, Not Hers  —  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz never actually saw the computer she fought to block the Capitol Police from examining as evidence in a criminal case against her IT aide by saying it was hers, she told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Thursday.
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Alexander Nazaryan / Newsweek:
TRUMP, AMERICA'S BOY KING: GOLF AND TELEVISION WON'T MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN  —  Now that he's president, Trump frequently departs the White House and spends the weekend golfing at either his South Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, or his country club in the New Jersey suburb of Bedminster.
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Keep the Trump Leaks Coming  —  The president is too incompetent to serve, and Congress must be pressured into removing him.  —  Both in content and in context, the official transcripts of Donald Trump's January phone calls with Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull …
Natalya Veselnitskaya / The Moscow Times:
Russian Lawyer Tells State TV She Met Trump Jr. to Ask for ‘Help’  —  The Russian lawyer who reportedly met with Donald Trump Jr. to offer him compromising material on Hillary Clinton, told state television she wanted to “ask him for help.”  —  “It was a private meeting,” …
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Hunt for Trump dossier author inflames Russia probe  —  Two Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers traveled to London earlier this summer to track down the former British intelligence operative who compiled a controversial dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Zerlina Maxwell / Shareblue:
Kamala Harris is one of the most progressive (and attacked) leaders in America  —  Please let's not do this again.  Do not preemptively attack a rising bonafide star in the Democratic Party who happens to be an imperfect human being who shares a gender with Hillary Rodham Clinton.  —  No politician is perfect.
Discussion: Mediaite
Jeff Guo / Vox:
In the key 2018 battlegrounds, Trump's support is as high as ever  —  Why Democrats can't really crow about the president's declining approval numbers.  —  Ever since Inauguration Day, the public's faith in the president has been eroding.  According to the latest Gallup surveys …
Discussion: Mother Jones
John Harwood / CNBC:
Amid Washington dysfunction, lack of accomplishments, Trumps clings to his shrinking support  — As political and legal troubles mount, President Donald Trump holds ever tighter onto a base of support that grows ever smaller.  — Trump has placed cultivation of intensity within his base …
BostonGlobe.com:
Forget scenic traditions — Trump vacations in the land of spray tans  —  WASHINGTON — There's been an unspoken norm among presidents that their vacations are glamorous, or at the very least, scenic.  —  In election years, they tend to bow more to the masses.  But most other years are set aside for mixing with elites.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US created 209,000 jobs in July, vs 183,000 jobs expected  — The U.S. economy added 209,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3 percent, according to a government report Friday.  — The report comes with the economy at a crossroads as President Trump has promised 3 percent economic growth.
Virginian-Pilot:
Republican donor from Virginia Beach sues GOP, accusing the party of fraud over failed Obamacare repeal  —  A retired attorney in Virginia Beach is so incensed that Republicans couldn't repeal the Affordable Care Act he's suing to get political donations back, accusing the GOP of fraud and racketeering.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Murder conviction in Blackwater case thrown out, other sentences overturned  —  A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out the first-degree murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard sentenced to life in prison in the killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.
Discussion: Axios and New York Times
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Lost Cause Rides Again  —  HBO's prospective series Confederate will offer an alternative history of post-Civil War America.  It will ask the question, according to co-creator David Benioff, “What would the world have looked like ... if the South had won?”
 
 
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Rose Troup Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
Russia Is Trying To Deport This Gay Reporter To Uzbekistan.  Activists Say It'll Be A Death Sentence.
Discussion: Raw Story
WANE-TV:
Manhunt underway for ‘armed and dangerous’ escaped inmate
Discussion: WKBN-TV
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Other presidents paused to meet the press before going on vacation — not Trump
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Amazon selling toilet paper printed with Trump tweets
Discussion: TheBlaze
Damon Linker / The Week:
The left's immigration problem
Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months
Discussion: Pacific Standard
Shamlet / RRH Elections:
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Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Amanda Knox / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Amanda Knox: Michelle Carter deserves sympathy and help, not prison
Discussion: CBS Boston and AOL
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
EMILY's List Expands After 16,000 Women Reach Out About Running For Office
Discussion: Shareblue and Daily Kos
Jing Cao / Bloomberg:
Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO
Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
COMPLAINT: TRUMP STRATEGIST MAY HAVE IMPROPER PR ARRANGEMENT
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
It's Time For Millennials To Rise And Claim Their Inheritance
Economist:
How to avoid nuclear war with North Korea
Discussion: The Week