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10:20 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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Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
China warns North Korea: You're on your own if you go after the United States  —  BEIJING — China won't come to North Korea's help if it launches missiles threatening U.S. soil and there is retaliation, a state-owned newspaper warned on Friday, but it would intervene if Washington strikes first.
Discussion: Politico, The Week, Instapundit and AOL
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
US and South Korea to stage huge military exercise despite North Korea crisis  —  Tens of thousands of troops to take part in joint drill this month, while Trump adds to war of words with ‘locked and loaded’ tweet … Are US defences strong enough to ward off North Korean missiles?  —  Read more
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Says Military Is ‘Locked and Loaded, Should North Korea Act Unwisely’
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Dems urge Tillerson to rein in Trump on North Korea
Discussion: ABC News and Common Dreams
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
Meet Kim Jong-un, a Moody Young Man With a Nuclear Arsenal
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Hot Air
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Gorka backpedals on Tillerson remarks, blames ‘fake news industrial complex’
Discussion: The Week and Rolling Stone
New York Times:
Wrestling With North Korea, Trump Finds Perilous Options
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Could Trump's hard line work on North Korea?
Discussion: Instapundit
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
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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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.
Tegna / KPNX:
Sinema aiming for Senate, Stanton preps for congressional seat
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Behind the Trump-McConnell feud
Discussion: New York Times, The Week and ABC News
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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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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James D. Miller / Business Insider:
Get ready for the ‘tech alt-right’ to gain power and influence in Silicon Valley
Discussion: Maggie's Farm, Bloomberg and Vox Popoli
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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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 …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to re-emerge in ‘delicate dance’ with Dems  —  Former President Obama will re-emerge on the national scene this fall, though Democrats expect him to do so with caution.  —  One aide describes the beginning of a “delicate dance” that aims to put Obama in the Democratic fray, but prevent him from remaining the face of the party.
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and theGrio
Matt Motta / Washington Post:
Republicans are increasingly antagonistic toward experts.  Here's why that matters.  —  (AP Images for The Hollywood Reporter)  —  Since 2015, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, Republicans' attitudes toward colleges and universities have become much more negative.
Jesse Green / New York Times:
Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’  —  THE TERMS OF MY SURRENDER - Broadway, Play, Solo Performance - 1 hr. and 30 min. - Closing Date: October 22, 2017 - Belasco Theatre, 111 W. 44th St. - 212-239-6200  —  In 1972, having campaigned on a platform …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's IRS Swamp  —  Obama-era lawyers are still obstructing lawsuits to hold the agency accountable.  —  Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, and here's a seven-month progress report: The Washington bog is still as wide and fetid as ever.  Consider that Mr. Trump's Justice Department …
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.
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and Axios
 
 
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus seeks to force ObamaCare repeal vote
Discussion: RedState
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Says ISIS Used eBay to Send Terror Cash to U.S.
Discussion: The Verge and NPR
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
 Earlier Items: 
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans
Adam Johnson / FAIR:
Conspiracies Pushed by Atlantic's Editor Excluded From Atlantic's Denunciation of Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: Eschaton
CNNMoney:
Trump immigration plan to cost 4.6 million jobs, Ivy League study finds
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump thanks Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats, infuriating State Department
 

 
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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

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

 
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