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3:15 PM ET, August 4, 2017

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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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New York Times:
John Kelly Quickly Moves to Impose Military Discipline on White House  —  WASHINGTON — In his six months as Homeland Security secretary, John F. Kelly often described the White House as one of the most dysfunctional organizations he had ever seen, complained to colleagues and allies about its meddling …
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
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 …
Discussion: USA Today and New York Magazine
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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 …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Reality closing in on Trump with grand jury investigation
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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
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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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
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.
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Newsweek: Trump is a ‘Lazy Boy’
Discussion: Infowars and RedState
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: CNBC, Gothamist and The Week
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Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of three of eight securities fraud charges
Discussion: Boing Boing
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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
Zerlina Maxwell / Shareblue:
Kamala Harris is one of the most progressive (and attacked) leaders in America  —  We have seen what happens when the left assails a competent and inspiring woman for being insufficiently progressive.  It's not an outcome anyone in the Democratic Party should wish to replicate.  —  Please let's not do this again.
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 …
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Ivanka and Jared, move back to New York  —  After delivering a blistering speech critiquing Donald Trump's performance as president at a recent conference, I was challenged by an audience member to say something nice about our commander in chief.  I answered without a second's hesitation.
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.
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.
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
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
It's Time For Millennials To Rise And Claim Their Inheritance  —  Yesterday a friend shared this excerpt from millennial author Lindy West's new book, “Shrill,” about why she would never want to be an astronaut.  It is a distillation of the protagonist's line from Christopher Nolan's …
 
 
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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
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
EMILY's List Expands After 16,000 Women Reach Out About Running For Office
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jing Cao / Bloomberg:
Blue Apron Plans to Cut 24% of Staff Barely a Month After IPO
Discussion: Mashable
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: 
Axios:
Bernie Sanders was the only vote against the FDA bill
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Caller
Franco Ordoñez / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Diplomats laughing at Trump over leaked Mexico transcript
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, Refinery29 and myfox8.com
Mike Adams / Townhall.com:
My Resignation from UNC-Wilmington
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Obamacare Rage in Retrospect