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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.
Discussion: Business Insider and BuzzFeed
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Gen. John Kelly learned how to deal with civilians, but nothing like Trump
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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  —  The Justice Department is considering making changes to its policies on subpoenaing news organizations as part of its crackdown on government leaks, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday.  —  At a news conference …
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces broad crackdown on leaks
Discussion: New York Magazine
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Reality closing in on Trump with grand jury investigation
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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 …
Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Poll: Americans in battleground districts would strongly oppose Trump firing special counsel Robert Mueller  —  WASHINGTON - Americans in 99 congressional battleground districts - primarily represented by Republicans - would disapprove by a two-to-one margin if President Trump fires Russia special counsel Robert Mueller.
Discussion: Vox and Politico
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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
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Newsweek: Trump is a ‘Lazy Boy’
Discussion: Infowars and RedState
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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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   The Scandal That Matters  —  Democratic IT staff who had access …
Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:
Exclusive: Wasserman Schultz talks about arrested aide Imran Awan
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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.
Amanda Knox / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Amanda Knox: Michelle Carter deserves sympathy and help, not prison  —  Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter on June 16 for her 18-year-old boyfriend's suicide after she encouraged him to kill himself via text message.  (Aug. 3, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR)
Discussion: CBS Boston and AOL
Economist:
How to avoid nuclear war with North Korea  —  There are no good options to curb Kim Jong Un.  But blundering into war would be the worst  —  IT IS odd that North Korea causes so much trouble.  It is not exactly a superpower.  Its economy is only a fiftieth as big as that of its democratic capitalist cousin, South Korea.
Discussion: The Week
Shamlet / RRH Elections:
RRH Elections AL-Sen R Primary Poll: Moore Leads Strange 31-29  —  Moore, Strange likely headed to runoff; Brooks likely to finish third; Race for first is tight and runoff may be very competitive  —  With less than two weeks until the closely-watched special Republican primary …
Discussion: Political Wire
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
mypalmbeachpost:
EXCLUSIVE: Boynton girl, 8, dead after dare to drink boiling water  —  A Boynton Beach girl has died months after she was injured drinking boiling water out of a straw on a dare, state authorities said.  —  The 8-year-old told her mother's “paramour” late Sunday she couldn't breathe …
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
Sen. John McCain aims to revive immigration reform when he returns to Congress  —  A week after his dramatic call for bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, Sen. John McCain says he wants to revive a long-standing attempt to reform the nation's immigration system when he returns to Washington.
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.
Discussion: Axios
Jing Cao / Bloomberg:
Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO  —  Blue Apron Holdings Inc. is cutting almost a quarter of its staff barely a month after its initial public offering as the meal kit delivery company struggles to become a profitable business.  —  The company is cutting 1,270 jobs …
Discussion: Mashable
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate blocks Trump from making recess appointments over break  —  The Senate blocked President Trump from being able to make recess appointments on Thursday as lawmakers leave Washington for their summer break.  —  Sen. Lisa Murkowski  —  (R-Alaska), doing wrap up for the entire Senate …
Julie Bykowicz / Associated Press:
COMPLAINT: TRUMP STRATEGIST MAY HAVE IMPROPER PR ARRANGEMENT  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Campaign Legal Center is complaining in a letter to the White House that a top adviser to President Donald Trump may be illegally accepting outside professional services.
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Diplomats laughing at Trump over leaked Mexico transcript  —  When Jorge Guajardo, one of Mexico's most senior and seasoned foreign policy hands, got out of bed Thursday morning, a couple of interesting messages were waiting on his cell phone.  —  One was a link shared by a U.S. diplomat …
 
 
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Patrick Gillespie / CNNMoney:
Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months
Discussion: Pacific Standard
George J. Borjas / Politico:
Why Trump's New Immigration Bill Makes Sense
Pew Research Center:
Partisan Shifts in Views of the Nation, but Overall Opinions Remain Negative
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
EMILY's List Expands After 16,000 Women Reach Out About Running For Office
Discussion: Daily Kos
Neil Connor / Telegraph:
Legal robots deployed in China to help decide thousands of cases
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Playing Defense
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
It's Time For Millennials To Rise And Claim Their Inheritance
Axios:
Bernie Sanders was the only vote against the FDA bill
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Tony Cook / Indianapolis Star:
After six months, Pence has now turned over all state-related AOL emails, his attorney says
Discussion: New York Times and Shakesville
Robert Salonga / Mercury News:
Disturbing texts on San Jose-bound plane leads to child-sex arrests
Discussion: Raw Story and myfox8.com
Mike Adams / Townhall.com:
My Resignation from UNC-Wilmington
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Obamacare Rage in Retrospect
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Ivanka and Jared, move back to New York
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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