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8:45 PM ET, August 6, 2018

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Dana Bash / CNN:
President urged to stop tweeting on Trump Tower meeting  —  Did Trump Tower meeting violate this law?  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has been urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump's top advisers and several Russians, a source familiar with discussions tells CNN.
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
LISTEN: Don Jr.'s Line Drops After Ingraham Asks About Conflicting Statements on Trump Tower Meeting  —  President Donald Trump's wonderful son Don Jr. called into Laura Ingraham's radio show on Monday, and had some well-timed technical difficulties.  —  Ingraham questioned Don Jr …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
AP Explains: Why the 2016 Trump Tower meeting matters  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Adoptions of Russian children?  Opposition research on Hillary Clinton?  —  President Donald Trump has for the first time acknowledged that a June 9, 2016 meeting at Trump Tower was the latter.
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Double Damage of the President's Trump Tower Admission
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On a quiet Sunday, Trump Tower mania strikes
Discussion: CNN, BloombergQuint and Vox
New York Times:
Rick Gates Testifies He Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort  —  ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's right-hand man for years, began testifying against his former boss on Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Va. He is considered the most important witness in Mr. Manafort's trial on tax and bank fraud charges.
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Cristian Farias / New York Magazine:
Paul Manafort's First Trial Is a Sideshow.  The Next One Won't Be.  —  Back in May, T.S. Ellis, the veteran federal judge who is overseeing Paul Manafort's first trial in Virginia, whipped the Fox News set into a frenzy when he seemed to berate prosecutors working for special counsel Robert Mueller.
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort trial Day 5: Gates sings  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's star witness, Rick Gates, finally took the stand on Monday, incriminating his former boss Paul Manafort in multimillion-dollar tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding offshore accounts, while also admitting to stealing hundreds …
Washington Post:
Rick Gates says he lied for years at Manafort's request and stole from him in the process
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Talking Points Memo:   Rick Gates: I Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort
Reuters:
Star witness Gates testifies he committed crimes with Manafort
Discussion: The Atlantic
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Mike Pence's moral case for removing a president from office  —  (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence once argued the president of the United States should be held to the highest moral standards to determine whether he should resign or be removed from office.  —  Pence made the argument in two columns …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Inaccurately Claims California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn  —  In his first remarks on the vast California wildfires that have killed at least seven people and forced thousands to flee, President Trump blamed the blazes on the state's environmental policies and inaccurately claimed …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
It's Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters  —  There's a growing group of Trump supporters who are convinced that the president is secretly trying to save the world from a global pedophilia ring.  —  They call the conspiracy “QAnon” and last week its believers ended up on national television.
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Anonymous vows to take down, expose QAnon
Discussion: Hill Reporter and YouTube
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
LeBron James to Create Showtime Doc Series Called Shut Up and Dribble  —  You'll recall, back in February, Laura Ingraham of Fox News calling on LeBron James to “shut up and dribble” — in other words, to stick to basketball and not opine on politics.  —  The new Los Angeles Lakers star has decided …
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ESPN:
LeBron James adds Showtime documentary to TV portfolio
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed News:
Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper  —  Jared Kushner personally ordered a software developer at his newspaper to remove stories critical of his friends and real estate peers.  —  Now a senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Trump …
Henry Olsen / New York Times:
Why the Midterms Won't Be Won by Playing to the Base  —  Some people changed which party's nominee they voted for from 2012 to 2016.  They are key to who wins the House and Senate.  —  Mr. Olsen, the editor of the “Flyover Country” section at UnHerd.com, is the director and a co-founder of the Voter Study Group.
Facebook:
Enforcing Our Community Standards  —  We believe in giving people a voice, but we also want everyone using Facebook to feel safe.  It's why we have Community Standards and remove anything that violates them, including hate speech that attacks or dehumanizes others.
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
An Airline Scans Your Face.  You Take Off.  But Few Rules Govern Where Your Data Goes.  —  WASHINGTON — The program makes boarding an international flight a breeze: Passengers step up to the gate, get their photo taken and proceed onto the plane.  There is no paper ticket or airline app.
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Trump's Border Wall Could Waste Billions of Dollars, Report Says
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Amber Athey / The Daily Caller:
NYT Makes Up New Abbreviation For The State Of Maine  —  The New York Times ran a shoddy graphic on Monday that included two extinct postal abbreviations for Maine and Texas.  —  “These Women Could Shatter Glass Ceilings in Governor's Races,” a story about women running in governor's races across …
Amanda L Gordon / Bloomberg:
Gary Cohn Is Happy in the Hamptons, Golfing and Crypto Investing  — Trump's former economic adviser also looking at medical tech  — Working on his short game and a memoir of time in Washington  —  Gary Cohn may be the most famous unemployed person in the Hamptons thanks to his wife, Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn.
Discussion: Axios and Breitbart
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trump Backs Kris Kobach in Kansas Race, Against Republican Advice  —  President Trump turned aside the advice of party officials and intervened in the Kansas Republican primary for governor Monday, throwing his support behind the polarizing secretary of state, Kris Kobach, one day before voters go to the polls there.
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Associated Press:   Trump breaks with aides, tweets endorsement of Kobach
Grace Schulman / New York Times:
The Nation Betrays a Poet — and Itself  —  I was the magazine's poetry editor for 35 years.  Never once did we apologize for publishing a poem.  —  Ms. Schulman was poetry editor at The Nation from 1971 to 2006.  —  During the 35 years that I edited poetry for The Nation magazine …
Globe and Mail:
Saudi Arabia's bold move has nothing to do with Canada  —  Bessma Momani is Professor at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs.  She's a senior fellow at Centre for International Governance and Innovation and non-resident fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington.
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:   State Department On Saudi Arabia-Canada Spat: We're Staying Out
Manu Raju / CNN:
Trump Supreme Court pick: Presidents can ignore laws they think are unconstitutional  —  Kavanaugh reveals views on Mueller probe  —  (CNN)Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it's a “traditional exercise” of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional …
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Elites' War on the Deplorables  —  Recently, Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.  —  So Caputo tweeted of them, “If you put everyone's mouths together in this video, you'd get a full set of teeth.”
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Mueller Secures ‘Firewall’ Counsel Over Evidence in Russia Case  —  The U.S. judge overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal case against Russians accused of interfering in the 2016 election agreed to appoint an independent lawyer to review pretrial evidence for possible national security issues …
CBS New York:
Police: Stranger Jumps Out Of Restaurant Freezer, Attacks Kitchen Staff, Dies At Hospital  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Police say a man jumped out of a popular Upper West Side eatery's walk-in freezer, grabbed a knife and started attacking employees, then died later at a hospital on Sunday morning.
Discussion: KTLA, New York Post and Daily Wire
Anna Schecter / NBC News:
‘Manhattan Madam’ Kristin Davis set to testify before Mueller grand jury this week  —  Last week an investigator on Mueller's team questioned Kristin Davis, an associate of former Trump adviser Roger Stone, about Russian collusion.  —  Kristin Davis, the “Manhattan Madam” …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Moms arrested after 11 children found in ‘filthy’ New Mexico compound with armed Muslim ‘extremists,’ cops say  —  The three mothers of the 11 malnourished children found living in a filthy New Mexico compound were arrested and charged Sunday along with two men described as armed Muslim …
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
New York race could spark new Trump investigation  —  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — While special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of  —  Russia's interference in the 2016 election could pose the most immediate threat to Donald Trump's presidency, there's another looming threat on the horizon.
The Daily Beast:
Fox News' ‘Hard News’ Shows Have a ‘Ban’ on Sebastian Gorka … Fox News' “hard news” shows—which fall under the network's news division and pride themselves on being at least somewhat distinct from Fox's pro-Trump agitprop apparatus—want nothing to do with former White House official Sebastian Gorka …
 
 
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Amusing ourselves to Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Trump says hire American.  These businesses say they can't — and foreign labor limits are killing them
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Miami New Times:
ICE's Biggest Private-Prison Contractor Threatens to Sue Florida Civil-Rights Activists
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Splinter
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:
Ruth Wilson's Character, One of the Principals of “The Affair,” Killed Off — Actress Complained About Pay Parity
The New York Times Company:
Expanding Our Journalism in Australia
Discussion: Splinter
 Earlier Items: 
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon restricts use of fitness trackers, other devices
Discussion: Axios, more at Techmeme »
Martin Kramer:
The New York Times stands by its error
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Some Big Names in Republican Fundraising Are Financing Trump's Legal Defense Fund
Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News and Politico
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Democrats May Have Finally Found The Candidate To Take Down Scott Walker
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. restores some Iran sanctions lifted under nuclear deal
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We'll Give You Our Users
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
X sues to block California's AB 2655, aimed at curbing AI-generated deceptive election content on social media, claiming it impinges on free speech

John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View
 
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