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8:20 AM ET, August 11, 2017

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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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globaltimes.cn:
Reckless game over the Korean Peninsula runs risk of real war  —  The US and North Korea have both ramped up their threatening rhetoric.  The Pentagon has prepared plans for B-1B strategic bombers to make preemptive strikes on North Korea's missile sites.  US Secretary of Defense James Mattis issued …
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
Wrestling With North Korea, Trump Finds Perilous Options  —  WASHINGTON — North Korea's threat on Thursday to test-fire ballistic missiles soon near the American territory of Guam deepened the challenge confronting the Trump administration: how to defang Pyongyang's missile programs without risking all-out war.
Discussion: TheBlaze and NBC News
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
Chinese paper says China should stay neutral if North Korea attacks first  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea's government China will stop them …
Discussion: Axios and The Last Tradition
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Gorka backpedals on Tillerson remarks, blames ‘fake news industrial complex’
Discussion: Rolling Stone and The Week
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
US and South Korea to stage huge military exercise despite North Korea crisis
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Dems urge Tillerson to rein in Trump on North Korea
Discussion: Common Dreams
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
China warns North Korea: You're on your own if you go after the United States
Discussion: Politico, The Week and AOL
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
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Could Trump's hard line work on North Korea?
Discussion: Instapundit
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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Jeffrey Lord / The American Spectator:
Fascist Media Matters Moves to Silence Hannity
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
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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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Breitbart's war on McMaster bites Bannon
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Trump's Twitter Fury at McConnell Risks Alienating a Key Ally  —  WASHINGTON — By preventing President Barack Obama from filling a Supreme Court vacancy, Senator Mitch McConnell secured Donald J. Trump the signature accomplishment of his young presidency: the confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Behind the Trump-McConnell feud
Discussion: New York Times, The Week and ABC News
John Harwood / CNBC:   Trump attacks on McConnell won't improve his weak showing in Congress
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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.
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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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
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and Axios
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.
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.
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
Daniel Burke / CNN:
First on CNN: The email Hillary Clinton's pastor sent her the day after the election  —  (CNN)This is the email Hillary Clinton's pastor, the Rev. Bill Shillady, sent her on the morning of November 9, 2016, the day after she lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:   Hillary Clinton's pastor compared her election loss to Jesus' death and resurrection
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Says ISIS Used eBay to Send Terror Cash to U.S.  —  Affidavit alleges American citizen Mohamed Elshinawy was part of a global network stretching from Britain to Bangladesh  —  U.S. investigators uncovered a global financial network run by a senior Islamic State official that funneled money …
Discussion: The Verge and NPR
 
 
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Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Omarosa causes uproar at National Assoc. of Black Journalists conference
Discussion: Raw Story
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - August 2017: The Politics of ACA Repeal and Replace Efforts
Discussion: Axios
Us Weekly:
Sean Spicer Wants to Do ‘Saturday Night Live’
Discussion: Raw Story
Julián Aguilar / The Texas Tribune:
Judge dismisses Paxton lawsuit over “sanctuary cities” law
Discussion: Off the Kuff and The Daily Caller
Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel's Getting a New Wall, This One With a Twist
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Greg Milner / Bloomberg:
Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
Discussion: CityLab
 Earlier Items: 
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
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Exclusive: The chaos behind the scenes of Fox News' now-retracted Seth Rich story
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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