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Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Beyond bluster, US, NKorea in regular contact — https://apnews.com/686ac7c761694b28b677 93a1d8297145 — Link copied! — WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months …
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Christopher Brennan / New York Daily News:
NRA TV host apologizes for suggesting North Korea attack California — An NRA television host has apologized for suggesting that one of America's enemies abroad could switch their sights from the Western Pacific to liberals in the U.S. — “Let's send a note to North Korea that Sacramento changed its name to Guam!”
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Jasmine Stole / Pacific Daily News:
'Don't look at the flash or fireball' — Guam Homeland Security releases fact sheet in light of North Korea threats — Guam Homeland Security issued a new fact sheet Friday, which the agency says will help residents prepare for an imminent missile threat. — The information was released following …
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Ankit Panda / The Diplomat:
US Intelligence: North Korea's ICBM Reentry Vehicles Are Likely Good Enough to Hit the Continental US
US Intelligence: North Korea's ICBM Reentry Vehicles Are Likely Good Enough to Hit the Continental US
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Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
China warns North Korea: You're on your own if you go after the United States
China warns North Korea: You're on your own if you go after the United States
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Wins Round One with North Korea
Donald Trump Wins Round One with North Korea
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Despite Trump's threats to North Korea, the U.S. military doesn't appear to be on a new wartime footing
Despite Trump's threats to North Korea, the U.S. military doesn't appear to be on a new wartime footing
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Mike Ives / New York Times:
North Korea Aside, Guam Faces Another Threat: Climate Change
North Korea Aside, Guam Faces Another Threat: Climate Change
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Angela Dewan / CNN:
Mattis claims North Korea diplomacy is working, but Trump intensifies threats
Mattis claims North Korea diplomacy is working, but Trump intensifies threats
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Andrew Degrandpre / Washington Post:
Guam releases guidance to prepare residents for North Korean nuclear strike
Guam releases guidance to prepare residents for North Korean nuclear strike
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James Damore / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Was Fired by Google — James Damore says his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn't be tolerated in the company's ‘ideological echo chamber’ — I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote and circulated internally raising questions …
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Manchin Emerges as Possible Pick for Energy Department — Move would let West Virginia's GOP governor to name successor — Idea in early stages of discussion, with Perry stance unclear — Some White House and Republican officials are exploring the idea of putting West Virginia Democratic …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Combative Trump Pulls His Punches for One Man: Putin — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The roster of villains in President Trump's world is legion. The list of people he has been willing, even eager, to publicly attack includes not just Mitch McConnell, his latest target, but Jeff Sessions …
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump just thanked Putin for slashing America's diplomatic presence in Russia — President Donald Trump today thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for demanding the US Embassy eliminate roughly 755 jobs — Putin's response to the United States' newly imposed Russia sanctions.
Cynthia Lee / Vox:
I'm a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. — I'm a lecturer in computer science at Stanford. I've taught at least four different programming languages, including assembly. I've had a single-digit employee number in a startup. Yes, I'm a woman in tech.
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Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
The General Services Administration removed Trump hotel data from its website. You can read it here. — On Thursday afternoon, three documents providing detailed financial information about President Trump's D.C. hotel could be found posted on the website of the General Services Administration.
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Alexandra Berzon / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Hotel in Washington Saw Strong Profit in First Four Months of 2017
Trump Hotel in Washington Saw Strong Profit in First Four Months of 2017
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Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
MELANIA, IVANKA AND IVANA TRUMP WEAR HIGH HEELS, A SYMBOL OF EVERYTHING THAT IS BEAUTIFUL AND HORRIFYING ABOUT THEM — U.S. IVANKA TRUMP MELANIA TRUMP FIRST LADY DONALD TRUMP SHOES — There's been no rest for the wicked just a week into President Donald Trump's 17-day vacation …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Won't Let Ex-Fox News Star Keep Secret Her Feminism Book Was Ghostwritten by a Man — A judge rejects Andrea Tantaros' argument that professional jeopardy overcomes a presumption of access to judicial documents. — A New York federal judge has decided to lift the veil from a case captioned as [Under Seal] v. [Under Seal].
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Former Mueller deputy on Trump: ‘Government is going to kill this guy’ — CNN counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd warned that President Trump is agitating the government, saying during a Thursday afternoon interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper that the U.S. government “is going to kill this guy.”
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Peter Maass / The Intercept:
Steve Bannon's Tall Tale About How He Visited Pakistan in the Navy and Saw the Muslim Threat — If you ask Steve Bannon how he got the idea that Muslims in the Middle East are a civilizational threat to America, he will say that his eyes were first opened when he served on a Navy destroyer in the Arabian Sea.
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Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Silicon Valley billionaire loses bid to prevent access to public beach — Court decision is blow to Vinod Khosla and other wealthy landowners seeking to buy renowned beaches, making public land private … A California court has ordered a Silicon Valley billionaire to restore access …
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Republicans, Remove This Madman From Power — As Trump tweets yet more provocations at North Korea, his ruling party must act before it's too late. — When Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama warned last year that Donald Trump was unfit to control the U.S. nuclear arsenal …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Daniel Loeb, a Cuomo Donor, Makes Racial Remark About Black Leader — The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African-American woman who leads the Democrats …
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John McCain / ABC News:
Congressional investigators want to question Trump's longtime secretary, Rhona Graff, in Russia probe — Congressional investigators want to question President Donald Trump's longtime personal secretary as part of their ongoing probe into a controversial meeting between Trump campaign officials …
Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Omarosa causes uproar at National Assoc. of Black Journalists conference … There's some “heavy drama” in New Orleans at the National Association of Black Journalists conference after organizers decided to add top Trump aide Omarosa Manigault to a panel. — “The majority there don't want her involved.
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - August 2017: The Politics of ACA Repeal and Replace Efforts — KEY FINDINGS: — The August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that the majority of the public (60 percent) say it is a “good thing” that the Senate did not pass the bill that would have repealed and replaced the ACA.
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Reuters:
Special Report: Vladimir's Venezuela - Leveraging loans to Caracas, Moscow snaps up oil assets — CARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Venezuela's unraveling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive - and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Neo-Nazi Website Tells Fat U.S. Nazis to ‘Get it Together,’ Offers Fashion Tips — In a blog post on the neo-nazi website Daily Stormer, its editor — Andrew Anglin — offered tips to his fellow alt-righters on how to “Dress For Success” and “Be in Good Shape” for their rallies.
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside — SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat. CEO Alex Ljung will step aside though remain chairman as former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor replaces him.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Breitbart's war on McMaster bites Bannon — The conservative news site Breitbart has waged a nonstop campaign against national security adviser H.R. McMaster, but so far it seems to have done the most damage to someone else: Steve Bannon. — A Wall Street Journal editorial earlier …
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Dan Primack / Axios:
Exclusive: Uber shareholder group wants Benchmark off board — A group of Uber investors has asked that venture capital firm Benchmark step down from the company's board of directors, Axios has learned. It also wants Benchmark to divest enough shares so as to no longer have board appointment rights …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Sundar Pichai Should Resign as Google's C.E.O. — There are many actors in the whole Google/diversity drama, but I'd say the one who's behaved the worst is the C.E.O., Sundar Pichai. — The first actor is James Damore, who wrote the memo. In it, he was trying to explain why 80 percent of Google's tech employees are male.
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John Feinstein / Washington Post:
The NFL cowards who aren't signing Colin Kaepernick — John Feinstein is a Post contributor and author of “Next Man Up: A Year Behind the Lines in Today's NFL.” His book “The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder Cup” will be published in October.
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