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11:10 AM ET, August 6, 2018

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BuzzFeed News:
Apple Is Removing Alex Jones And Infowars' Podcasts From iTunes  —  Apple has removed the entire library for five of Infowars' six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcast apps, BuzzFeed News has learned.  Among the podcasts, which were removed from Apples' iTunes directory, are the show …
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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.
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Facebook, Apple and Spotify ban Infowars' Alex Jones
Mike Allen / Axios:
A historic Trump tell-all  —  The President of the United States admitted, on the record, that he misled the American people about the infamous Russia meeting in Trump Tower.  —  The big picture: It's one of the most striking public reversals in modern presidential history …
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NBC News:
The White House's story on the Trump Tower meeting shifts — yet again  —  First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.  —  WASHINGTON — First, it was just about adoptions.
Discussion: MSNBC, HuffPost and Breitbart
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
The Day Trump Told Us There Was Attempted Collusion with Russia
New York Times:
President Admits Trump Tower Meeting Was Meant to Get Dirt on Clinton
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
In Ohio Election, Republicans Test a Midterms Rescue Plan: Polarization  —  DUBLIN, Ohio — Republicans everywhere are confronting an ominous political environment, a Democratic opposition rippling with energy and a president on their own side prone to divisive outbursts and policy decrees.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Democrats surging on eve of pivotal special election
John Fund / National Review:   Columbus, Ohio, Is America's Test Market
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: All eyes on Ohio
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Jack Torry / The Columbus Dispatch:
Balderson won't address Kasich claim he did not invite Trump to central Ohio
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador after Ottawa criticizes arrests of Saudi activists  —  OTTAWA — Saudi Arabia ordered the expulsion on Monday of the Canadian ambassador and the halting of all new trade and investment deals between the two countries after Canada said it was …
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Stepan Kravchenko / Bloomberg:
U.S. Senator Invites Russian Lawmakers to Washington for Talks  — Russian senators invited by Rand Paul after talks in Moscow  — Meeting signals Russia's desire for dialogue, Kosachyov says  —  U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he invited Russian lawmakers to Washington …
Discussion: Axios and BloombergQuint
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Mary Ilyushina / CNN:
Rand Paul, in Moscow, invites Russian lawmakers to Washington
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We'll Give You Our Users  —  Facebook has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about customers as it seeks to boost user engagement  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.50% wants your financial data.  —  The social media giant …
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Steel Giants With Ties to Trump Officials Block Tariff Relief for Hundreds of Firms  —  WASHINGTON — Two of America's biggest steel manufacturers — both with deep ties to Trump administration officials — have successfully objected to hundreds of requests by American companies that buy foreign steel …
Discussion: National Review
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream  —  If you were standing in the smoldering ashes of 9/11 trying to peer into the future, you might have been overjoyed to discover this happy snapshot of 2018: There has been no subsequent major terrorist attack on America from Al Qaeda or its heirs.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Forget left and right.  This is what will determine the midterms.  —  Politics is regularly described in terms of “left” vs. “right.”  But other binaries can be more relevant.  “Forward” vs. “backward” often define a choice facing an electorate better than the standard ideological categories.
Jason Gay / Wall Street Journal:
The LeBron James Interview About Bicycles  —  ‘It was a way of life,’ says the world's greatest basketball player.  ‘If you had a bike, it was a way to kind of let go and be free.’  —  I spoke to LeBron James about bicycles on Friday.  —  This was a few hours before President Trump decided …
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
In Deeply Blue New Jersey, an Unexpected Battle for Senate  —  Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial had barely ended at the federal courthouse in Newark, but his team was already feverishly working the phones.  Within 24 hours, nearly every major Democratic public official in New Jersey …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's imagined steel mills, Russian ‘hoax’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is imagining steel mill openings that aren't happening and in denial about Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election.  —  He points broadly to a “Russian hoax,” …
Washington Post:
Don't do evil at China's bidding, Google  —  THAT SPARKLING adage of the digital age that “information will set you free” turns out to carry a giant asterisk.  Authoritarian regimes have figured out how to control digital space, put firewalls around their countries and send violators to prison.
Discussion: The Federalist and The Week
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Republicans eye another ACA repeal vote if midterms go their way  —  Many Republicans assume their party will take another stab at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act if the midterm elections go their way, even though GOP candidates aren't making a big deal about it on the campaign trail.
Chicago Tribune:
25 shot in multiple-victim shootings over 2.5 hours in Chicago: 'If they shoot you, they don't even run'  —  At least 41 people were shot in Chicago from 11 a.m. Saturday, August 4, 2018, through Sunday morning, four fatally.  Many of those injured were treated at Stroger Hospital.
Associated Press:
Yemen: US allies spin deals with al-Qaida in war on rebels  —  ATAQ, Yemen (AP) — Again and again over the past two years, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States has claimed it won decisive victories that drove al-Qaida militants from their strongholds across Yemen …
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans  —  For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy.  —  The signs of potential trouble — vanishing pensions, soaring medical expenses …
Discussion: Mother Jones and SSRN
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
How Trump Radicalized ICE  —  Settling into a sense of safety is hard when your life's catalog of memories teaches you the opposite lesson.  Imagine: You fled from a government militia intent on murdering you; swam across a river with the uncertain hope of sanctuary on the far bank …
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The spot where Emmett Till's body was found is marked by this sign.  People keep shooting it up.  —  Emmett Till's black, broken body was plucked from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi days after his killing in August 1955, a heavy cotton gin fan tied on his neck with barbed wire.
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Rick Gates — and the lies he's admitted telling — to take center stage at Manafort trial  —  Whom to believe — the accused liar, or the admitted one?  A Virginia jury is expected to wrestle with that question this week, when it is scheduled to hear testimony from the former protege of Paul Manafort …
Dan Hannan / Washington Examiner:
The soft bigotry of the New York Times  —  If l'affaire Jeong has taught us one thing, it's that the people who claim most vociferously to be anti-racist are nothing of the sort.  On the contrary, they're obsessed with race, seeing almost everything through the prism of ethnicity.
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
Fox News' ‘Hard News’ Shows Have a ‘Ban’ on Sebastian Gorka
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The local-news crisis is destroying what a divided America desperately needs: Common ground
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Trump promised to fix veterans' problems. Now they call his hotline desperate for help.
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Pompeo says sanctions a pillar of US policy toward Iran
Discussion: Townhall and The Week
Sonia Rao / Washington Post:
The Washington Post to publish book examining Russian interference in 2016 election
Xuan Loc Doan / Asia Times:
China's new woes unravel Xi's personality cult
Discussion: Instapundit
BBC:
New Mexico: Police find 11 starving children in compound
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
President Trump is winning the story-telling game, with help from his friends in the media
 Earlier Items: 
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
If Team Trump can't reunite border families, someone needs to go to jail
Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
What Are Capitalists Thinking?
Discussion: Althouse
Weekly Standard:
Two-Faced Hackery at the Times
Discussion: Breitbart
Elana Schor / Politico:
Dems zero in on Kavanaugh ties to judge in sexual harassment scandal
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Top 2020 Democrats missing in Iowa but working backchannel
Discussion: al.com
Corey Pein / The Daily Beast:
Armed Trump Supporters March on Portland, Beating Up Opponents and Calling for Hillary Clinton's Arrest
Discussion: HuffPost and Willamette Week
Associated Press:
Amid James flap, Melania Trump again charts her own course
 

 
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