Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo  —  Engineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture”  —  CEO Pichai said Google employee violated Code of Conduct  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting …

I Found Trump Fan Nicole Mincey and She's Not a Twitter Bot … Even though she's been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey.  The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend.  The one everyone thinks is a bot.

Trump at 200 days: Declining approval amid widespread mistrust  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump's overall approval rating stands at its lowest point in CNN polling, while three-quarters of Americans say they can't trust most of what they hear from the White House.

Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval …

US spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat  —  Despite the United States' insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country's east coast just days ago.

Trump, Blumenthal exchange jabs on Twitter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal called President Donald Trump out on Twitter for “bullying” after a Twitter attack from the President accused the senator of lying and being a “phony Vietnam con artist.”

In decisive Rust Belt, Trump's approval is starting to look like Romney's  —  (CNN)Even as the White House this week firmly insists President Donald Trump is determined to seek a second term, a new analysis of polling data shows that he's caught in a three-way political squeeze in the states …

The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!  —  Bill Burr's 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error  —  The man who wrote the book on password management has a confession to make: He blew it.

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart … Higher Income Lower Income … Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using post-tax income. … Many Americans can't remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away.

Pat Robertson Weighs in On Eric Bolling — And It's as Bad as You Think … Occasionally we are reminded that Pat Robertson is still alive.  —  The televangelist ex-presidential candidate and founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network weighed in last night on the Eric Bolling imbroglio …

Heller gets GOP primary challenger in Nevada  —  Danny Tarkanian announced his bid on 'Fox and Friends,"'where he criticized Heller as a ‘Never-Trumper.’  —  Danny Tarkanian, the son of a legendary Nevada college basketball coach who has run for office several times, announced Tuesday morning …

How America Lost Its Mind … When did america become untethered from reality?  —  I first noticed our national lurch toward fantasy in 2004, after President George W. Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, came up with the remarkable phrase reality-based community.

Now Starring in the West Wing: Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  WASHINGTON — Pickle did not go as planned.  —  When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly minted White House press secretary, began her first official briefing by reading a child's letter to President Trump — “Everybody calls me Pickle …

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes.  Full stop.  —  Seventy-two years ago this week the United States committed war crimes against the Japanese people on a scale that was previously unimaginable in human history.  —  It is almost impossible to utter this truism …

What If Mike Pence Becomes President?  —  Mike Pence—who's quietly launched his own PAC and already begun glad-handing big dollar donors—is shocked (shocked!) by the rumors that he might be laying the groundwork for his own presidency.  Fake news, he calls it.

Sanders ‘litmus test’ alarms Democrats  —  House and Senate Democrats have wondered for months whether Bernie Sanders' supporters might choose to focus their energy on launching primary challenges to party moderates in 2018.  They're about to get an answer.

Kushner-Owned Company Lobbied Against Obamacare Repeal  —  Jared Kushner owned a stake in his brother's Obamacare-dependent health insurance company when it hired lobbyists to fight repeal of the law shortly before he divested from it earlier this year.  —  Kushner's younger brother …

Law professor warns: Congress must act on growing sexbot industry  —  As the sale and use of lifelike sex robots that allow people to simulate rape continues to gain steam, one famed law professor is sounding the alarm.  —  John Banzhaf, a well-known activist professor of public interest law …

Airbnb boots white nationalists headed to ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville  —  After a series of raw-throated public confrontations earlier this year, Charlottesville is bracing for an influx of white nationalists from across the country to Saturday's “Unite the Right” rally.

The Trump Show Never Ends  —  HUNTINGTON, W.V.—Every day brings new drama, but the Trump Show's themes remain the same.  He's come to tell his people that everyone else is wrong and they are right.  —  “The change you voted for is happening every single day,” he proclaims …

The Political Payoff of Making Whites Feel Like a Minority  —  Nationality, race and ethnicity are a large part of identity for most people.  Factors like this matter more for some people than others — and for some groups more than others — but a sense of group awareness or membership exists …

Strange new super PAC solicits money both for and against Trump  —  A new super PAC was quietly registered with the Federal Election Commission late last month with the nondescript name of “Taking America Back Fund.”  While the front page of the site makes it appear that this new committee …

‘May you die in pain’: Northern California GOP congressman gets an earful at town hall  —  “May you die in pain.”  —  That was the nastiest moment of Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa's early morning town hall in Chico on Monday.  —  The wish was uttered by an older man who criticized LaMalfa …

Ethics Hipsters are the new Puritans  — An Austin Texas psyche rock band, Dream Machine, is deported from its label because its lead singer, a refugee from Bosnia, makes supportive remarks about legal immigration.  (Here is a link to an interview I did with the band: https://vimeo.com/225709341)

Game of Thrones stars' personal details leaked as HBO hackers demand ransom  —  Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online  —  Hackers of US television network HBO have released personal phone numbers …