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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.
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 …
CBS News:
Trump warns North Korea will be “met with fire and fury”  —  President Trump addressed the ongoing crisis between the U.S. and North Korea at a briefing on opioids in New Jersey on Tuesday, issuing a stern warning to the regime for its continued provocations.
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.
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 …
CBS News:
Americans uneasy about North Korea and Trump's ability to handle it
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller
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Sundar Pichai / Google:
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai
Bloomberg:
Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
John Bowden / The Hill:
Poll: Trump's approval rating sinks to new low  —  President Trump's approval rating is at an all-time low in a new poll amid losses in support from key demographics.  —  Trump's approval rating is at 32 percent in the latest IBD/TIPP poll, down 5 points from July.
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Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips — IBD/TIPP Poll
Discussion: Political Wire and Politicus USA
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's base is officially crumbling
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 …
Discussion: Axios and Talking Points Memo
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Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell vents about Trump's ‘excessive expectations’ regarding legislation
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Week
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 …
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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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Justice Department reverses position to support Ohio purging inactive voters in high-profile case
Discussion: New York Magazine
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 …
Discussion: Eschaton
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Vox and Hullabaloo
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 …
Discussion: Politicus USA
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: IJR and Washington Free Beacon
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 …
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
 
 
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David Montgomery / New York Times:
Texas Transgender Bathroom Bill Falters Amid Mounting Opposition
Robert Salonga / Mercury News:
Exclusive interview with woman who saw airplane passenger's child-sex texts, helped rescue kids
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Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
White House defends silence on mosque bombing, says it might have been faked by liberals
John Abraham / The Guardian:
Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year
Discussion: Daily Kos
Scott Alexander / Slate Star Codex:
Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
Discussion: Liberty Blitzkrieg
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
New York Times fact-checks Trump's claim that it's ‘failing’
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When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster
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Roger McNamee / USA Today:
I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it. I helped create a monster.
Kate Hardiman / The College Fix:
Law professor warns: Congress must act on growing sexbot industry
Discussion: Althouse and WND
Kurt Andersen / The Atlantic:
How America Lost Its Mind
Matthew Walther / The Week:
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were war crimes. Full stop.
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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