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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN severs ties with Jeffrey Lord — CNN severed ties with Jeffrey Lord on Thursday, hours after he ignited controversy by tweeting the words “Sieg Heil!” at a prominent liberal activist. — “Nazi salutes are indefensible,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. “Jeffrey Lord is no longer with the network.”
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Media Matters for America:
CNN's Jeffrey Lord just issued a Nazi victory salute. Really. — CNN contributor Jeffrey Lord tweeted the Nazi victory salute. — On August 10, the American Spectator published an attack piece by Jeffrey Lord against Media Matters. The screed lashed out at what Lord describes as “Media Matters Fascists.”
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Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
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Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
MMF'S Angelo Carusone Responds
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Bloomberg:
With Bank Subpoenas, Mueller Turns Up the Heat on Manafort — Investigators seek account records linked to Trump ex-adviser — Special counsel pressuring Manafort's son-in-law, associates — Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Manafort switching legal team as feds crank up heat on him — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is changing his attorneys as a federal investigation heats up into his financial transactions, according to people familiar with the matter. — Manafort's case will now be handled …
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CNN:
Manafort's son-in-law met with federal investigators, sources say
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump ‘surprised’ by Manafort raid in Russia probe
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line — For those worried that President Trump might get into nuclear war with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson provided some solace Wednesday. “Americans should sleep well at night …
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Fox analyst dismisses that millions would die in nuclear strike because “they'll be mostly North Koreans” — THOMAS MCINERNEY: Declare any missile launches from North Korea have to be — we say are hostile, because of what Kim Jong Un said about attacking Guam, and we will hit them as a target before they get airborne.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Senator Lindsey Graham On The Crisis On The Korean Peninsula
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says he is ‘very thankful’ to Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats from Russia — BEDMINSTER, N.J. — President Trump said here Thursday that he is “very thankful” to Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling hundreds of U.S. diplomats from Russia, because he said it helps him cut the U.S. government's payroll.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump thanks Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats, infuriating State Department — President Donald Trump on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling American diplomats from Russia on the grounds that “we're going to save a lot of money,” prompting dismay among many of the rank-and-file at the State Department.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump thanks Putin for cutting US diplomats: ‘We want to reduce our payroll’
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
'When you put this guy in a cage and think you're controlling him, things like this happen' — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights — President Trump, left, speaks to reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., on Aug. 10, as Vice President Pence looks on.
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Washington Post:
Trump escalates rhetoric on threat from North Korea
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Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
A Top Trump Adviser Compared The North Korea Situation To The Holocaust
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Business Insider and Media Matters for America
Foreign Policy:
Here's the Memo That Blew Up the NSC — Fired White House staffer argued “deep state” attacked Trump administration because the president represents a threat to cultural Marxist memes, globalists, and bankers. — The memo at the heart of the latest blowup at the National Security Council paints …
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Kara Swisher / Recode:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai cancels all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment — Doxxing of search company staffers had already started. — Google's CEO Sundar Pichai has cancelled its much anticipated meeting to talk about gender issues today.
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James D. Miller / Business Insider:
Get ready for the ‘tech alt-right’ to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley
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HBR.org, Vox Popoli and The Guardian
Nathan Heller / Vogue:
Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She's Focusing on Herself — “It's not like I'm living in fear or anything,” Manning says. “I'm so glad to be out and about and walking around.” Here, Manning in a Norma Kamali swimsuit. — Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, September 2017
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Washington Post:
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it — Critics of President Trump have repeatedly warned of his potential to undermine American democracy. Among the concerns are his repeated assertions that he would have won …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails — Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack. — U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled …
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Bob Dreyfuss / Rolling Stone:
Sebastian Gorka, the West Wing's Phony Foreign-Policy Guru — Gorka's a former Breitbart editor with Islamophobic views and ties to neo-Nazi extremists - and he has the ear of the president — The Breitbart News headline, back in November 2014, rang like a five-alarm fire bell: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OVERRUNS NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IN DC.
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Dan Molinski / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Gov. Justice Asks Trump for $4.5 Billion to Save Eastern Coal — Miners in Western states say proposal goes against free market principles — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is asking President Donald Trump to extend his support for the coal industry by providing some $4.5 billion …
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Tim Loh / Bloomberg:
Governor Says Trump Interested in His Plan to Prop Up Coal Mining
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Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:
Republicans limiting early voting in Marion County, letting it bloom in suburbs — Absentee voting in Hamilton County grew in 2016 with the addition of early polling places. Why was Marion County limited to just one? Stephen J. Beard / IndyStar — CONNECT
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: The chaos behind the scenes of Fox News' now-retracted Seth Rich story — Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing — For more than two months, Fox News has declined to explain the story behind one of its most high-profile journalistic disasters …
ABC News:
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Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
Why Republicans Didn't Repeal and Replace Obamacare
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