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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say … North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
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.
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CNN:
Trump threatens North Korea after US assesses they have miniaturized a nuclear warhead — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary ultimatum to North Korea on Tuesday warning Pyongyang not to make any more threats against the United States or they will …
New York Times:
Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ Against North Korea if It Endangers U.S. — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump threatened on Tuesday to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangers the United States as tensions with the isolated nuclear-armed state grow into perhaps …
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CNBC:
North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam: Reports, citing state media — North Korea is considering a plan to fire missiles at Guam, state media said. — A spokesman for North Korea's military told KCNA that it would carry out a pre-emptive operation if there were signs of U.S. provocation.
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Raw Story
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Haley decries leaks after Trump tweets Fox story — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley lashed out at leaks of classified information in a Fox News story Tuesday morning on North Korean missiles, saying it is “incredibly dangerous” that it was reported, even after President Trump tweeted out the story.
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CBS News:
Trump warns North Korea will be “met with fire and fury”
Trump warns North Korea will be “met with fire and fury”
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump warns North Korea: Threats will be met with ‘fire and fury’
Trump warns North Korea: Threats will be met with ‘fire and fury’
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Alex Thompson / Vice News:
It's known as the “propaganda document” — Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus …
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USA Today:
President Trump has exchanged private messages with Russia special counsel Robert Mueller — WASHINGTON - President Trump has publicly called the widening federal investigation into Russia's election meddling a “witch hunt.” But through his lawyer, Trump has sent private messages of “appreciation” to special counsel Robert Mueller.
Anita Hill / New York Times:
Class Actions Could Fight Discrimination in Tech — The recent leak of a Google engineer's screed against the company's diversity initiatives is a reminder that the notion of Silicon Valley as the seat of human progress is a myth — at least when it comes to the way the women behind the latest in technology are treated.
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Inez Feltscher / The Federalist:
Google Fires Engineer For Noticing Men And Women Are Different
Google Fires Engineer For Noticing Men And Women Are Different
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Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal:
Google Fires Employee Who Wrote Memo Criticizing Diversity Initiatives
Google Fires Employee Who Wrote Memo Criticizing Diversity Initiatives
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Jim Michaels / USA Today:
Trump White House weighs unprecedented plan to privatize much of the war in Afghanistan — The White House is actively considering a bold plan to turn over a big chunk of the U.S. war in Afghanistan to private contractors in an effort to turn the tide in a stalemated war …
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Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips — IBD/TIPP Poll — President Trump's approval rating dropped 5 percentage points in August to a new low of 32%, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Poll: Trump's approval rating sinks to new low
Poll: Trump's approval rating sinks to new low
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RedState and The Washington Journal
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
McConnell criticizes Trump's ‘excessive expectations’ — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered some of his toughest criticism yet for President Donald Trump in a speech Monday to a Rotary Group in northern Kentucky. — McConnell, who has been relatively measured …
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
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.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It — The Trump administration redoubled its support on Monday for efforts to remove people from voter registration rolls, siding with the state of Ohio in a case that could allow states to cancel registrations for voters who fail …
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Patrick Doyle / Rolling Stone:
Glen Campbell, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ Singer Who Fused Country and Pop, Dead at 81 — Singer-guitarist and TV host who achieved crossover success succumbs to Alzheimer's disease — Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” died Tuesday.
David Dayen / New Republic:
The Left's Misguided Debate Over Kamala Harris — My article about a bank's law-breaking during the housing crisis became a political football, obscuring the real issue at hand. — Back in January, after Donald Trump had nominated Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary …
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
David Letterman Returning to TV With Netflix Talk Show — The six-episode untitled series will feature in-depth interviews as well as topics outside of the studio. — Two years after signing off CBS' The Late Show, David Letterman is returning to the small screen.
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Exclusive First Interview — New RNC Spokeswoman: Whole GOP Needs to Get Behind Trump and Listen to American People — Kayleigh McEnany, formerly of CNN and now the Republican National Committee's new spokeswoman, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday's Breitbart News Daily to stress …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Deep State Teams with Fake News: Email Evidence Proves New York Times Soliciting Anti-Trump Bureaucracy Leakers — Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper's employees …
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
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.
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Jason Zengerle / GQ:
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.
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Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
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 …
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Politicus USA
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
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.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
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 …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster — Donald Trump has scrambled the political spectrum in certain ways, and one of them has been to introduce a new set of players onto the national scene. “Nationalists” or “populists” (as they now call themselves), or the “alt-right” …
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Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
White House defends silence on mosque bombing, says it might have been faked by liberals — The White House will not officially comment on the bombing of a Minnesota mosque because it may be a hate crime faked by a liberal, according to Trump national security adviser Sebastian Gorka.
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Washington Times:
Illegal immigration spikes in July; still lower than Obama years — UAC up 27 percent, families up 46 percent — Illegal immigration across the southwest border surged 15 percent in July compared to the month before, Homeland Security announced Tuesday, signaling that President Trump's early success …
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Sundar Pichai / Google:
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai — This note was sent to Google employees this evening. -Ed. — This has been a very difficult time. I wanted to provide an update on the memo that was circulated over this past week. — First, let me say that we strongly support the right …