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2:20 AM ET, August 11, 2017

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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.
Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Gorka backpedals on Tillerson remarks, blames ‘fake news industrial complex’  —  White House Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka retreated Thursday from remarks implying it was “nonsensical” for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to discuss the likelihood of military action against North Korea.
Discussion: The Week
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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 …
New York Times:
Wrestling With North Korea, Trump Finds Perilous Options
Discussion: TheBlaze
Media Matters for America:
Fox analyst dismisses that millions would die in nuclear strike because “they'll be mostly North Koreans”
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Eschaton
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Pyongyang challenge: Should US shoot Kim's missiles down?
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and twitchy.com
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump doesn't need Congress's approval for North Korea strike
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   More drama in Trumpland: Gorka publicly shuns Tillerson's effort to scale back North Korea red line
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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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.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump says he was surprised by FBI raid of Manafort's home, which sent a ‘very strong signal’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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  —  Employees of Google listen to a town hall meeting led by Senator John McCain at Google in 2007.  —  The firing of James Damore over his “Google's Ideological Echo Chamber” memo will empower the tech alt-right.
Discussion: HBR.org and Vox Popoli
Julie Bort / Business Insider:
Over half of Google employees polled say the web giant shouldn't have fired the engineer behind the controversial memo
Discussion: IJR, The Daily Caller and Hit & Run
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: CNN
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ABC News:
Trump answers reporters' questions on Sessions, McConnell and Kelly
Discussion: Politico
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
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans  —  The application process for schools, fellowships, and jobs always came with a ritual: a person who had a role in choosing me—an admissions officer, an interviewer—would mention in his congratulations that I was “different” from the other Asians.
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 …
German Lopez / Vox:
What declaring a national emergency over the opioid epidemic could actually do  —  President Donald Trump said he will declare a national emergency on Thursday.  Here's what that could mean.  —  President Donald Trump is gearing up to declare a national emergency on the opioid epidemic.
Discussion: Washington Post, IJR, Axios and CNBC
Greg Milner / Bloomberg:
Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City  —  Before a single raindrop fell, Alan Leidner knew the waters could rise and throw the city into darkness.  On this point, the maps were as clear as a crystal ball.  All you had to do was look.  —  It was 2010, and Leidner was consulting …
Discussion: CityLab
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel's Getting a New Wall, This One With a Twist  —  KFAR SIRKIN, Israel — Israel is building another wall to protect itself from its enemies.  But rather than a major eyesore, much of this one will be invisible.  —  In the coming months, military officials say, the army …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump attacks on McConnell won't improve his weak showing in Congress  — Since Ronald Reagan's 1980 election propelled a political realignment, every new president has scored a major early legislative victory except one - Trump.  — History shows a new president's best opportunity …
 
 
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Hamed Aleaziz / San Francisco Chronicle:
Deportation order splits Oakland family and highlights shift under Trump
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
You Heard It Here First: NY Times Editors Deny Reading Their Own Newspaper
Discussion: twitchy.com
Adam Johnson / FAIR:
Conspiracies Pushed by Atlantic's Editor Excluded From Atlantic's Denunciation of Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: Eschaton
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Trump D.C. hotel turns $2 million profit in four months
Discussion: Boing Boing
CNNMoney:
Trump immigration plan to cost 4.6 million jobs, Ivy League study finds
Discussion: Issues and The Daily Caller
Philly.com:
Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly set to make first appearance on CNN
Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
Dana Loesch explains why the NRA didn't defend Philando Castile
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The ‘No-Nonsense’ Judge Who Could Decide Trump's Fate
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge orders new searches for Clinton Benghazi emails
Washington Post:
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney expects to spend $24B on content in 2025, up from $23.4B in 2024, due to sports programming expenses rising after NFL rate increases and NBA contracts

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
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