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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.
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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 …
Jack Morse / Mashable:   InfoWars' Pinterest page goes offline after Mashable inquiry
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
YouTube removes Alex Jones' page, following bans from Apple and Facebook
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.
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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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 …
Amie Ferris-Rotman / Washington Post:
Sen. Rand Paul goes to Moscow and invites Russians to Washington in unofficial bid to boost ties  —  MOSCOW — Sen. Rand Paul, one of President Trump's more eager defenders on Russia, jetted into Moscow on Monday in a bid to increase engagement with the country.
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Mary Ilyushina / CNN:
Rand Paul, in Moscow, invites Russian lawmakers to Washington
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
After Rand Paul meeting, Russian lawmakers agree to Washington visit
Discussion: Townhall and ABC News
Stepan Kravchenko / Bloomberg:
U.S. Senator Invites Russian Lawmakers to Washington for Talks
Discussion: BloombergQuint and Axios
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The White House:
Statement from the President on the Reimposition of United States Sanctions with Respect to Iran
Discussion: Washington Post, RedState and Breitbart
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Political Wire
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.”
Ashe Schow / Daily Wire:
As Illinois Celebrates ‘Barack Obama Day,’ 73 Wounded In Chicago Gun Violence  —  President Barack Obama celebrated his birthday on Saturday, August 4, and for the first time, Illinois marked the date to honor the former president.  This weekend, however, also marked a surge of gun violence in Obama's adopted hometown of Chicago.
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Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
Meet Bill Nelson, the Under-the-Radar Senate Candidate in Florida.  He's the Incumbent.  —  STUART, Fla. — A few steps away from the St. Lucie River, which has been choked lately with thick blue-green algae that made neighbors sick, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida sat solemnly with a group …
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
In Deeply Blue New Jersey, an Unexpected Battle for Senate
Discussion: Splinter and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Democrats May Have Finally Found The Candidate To Take Down Scott Walker  —  Can a wisecracking, occasionally cringe-inducing black firefighter finally capture the Democrats' Wisconsin white whale?  —  SUPERIOR, Wis. It was a little early for a drink, but that wasn't going to stop Mahlon Mitchell.
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
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
Sorry, Democratic Socialists — you're still pushing poison  —  In the crazy, topsy-turvy year of 2018, socialism is somehow on the rise in America.  To those of us unfortunate enough to have been born in the Soviet Union, this is troubling.  —  The new socialists say it's different this time.
Discussion: IJR
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Michael Tomasky / New York Times:
What Are Capitalists Thinking?
Discussion: Althouse
Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
Antifa members in Berkeley smash windows of US Marine Corps recruiting office during protest  —  An Antifa protest in Berkeley turned violent Sunday when one masked group member sucker-punched a detractor and other agitators smashed the windows at a Marine Corps recruiting post, cellphone video showed.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Politico, Outside the Beltway and CNN
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Some Big Names in Republican Fundraising Are Financing Trump's Legal Defense Fund … Some of the richest individuals in the energy, real estate and casino industries are financing a controversial legal defense fund to help the president foot legal bills associated with the federal investigation into Russian election meddling.
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Trump endorses Kobach for Kansas governor  —  President Donald Trump leaped into another competitive Republican governor's race on Monday, endorsing Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach over incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer a day before the state's primaries.  —  “Kris Kobach, a strong …
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,” …
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 …
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 …
Martin Kramer:
The New York Times stands by its error  —  Hard to part with a Ben-Gurion fable  —  Max Fisher of the New York Times has taken to Twitter to defend his claim that David Ben-Gurion “emerged from retirement in July 1967 to warn Israelis they had sown the seeds of self-destruction.”
 
 
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David Catron / The American Spectator:
Trump Frees Obamacare Captives, Dems Sue
Discussion: Power Line and The Federalist
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Elizabeth Warren: Our Justice System Is ‘Racist, All the Way, Front to Back.’
Discussion: Oregonian
Halle Kiefer / Vulture:
Broadway Performers and Rosie O'Donnell to Stage a Musical Protest Outside the White House
Seth Masket / Pacific Standard:
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 ELECTION
The Guardian:
UK poised to ask Russia to extradite Salisbury attack suspects
Naomi ‘SexyCyborg’ Wu / Naomi 'SexyCyborg' Wu:
Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
Discussion: naked capitalism, Instapundit and CNN
Greg Bluestein / politics.myajc:
Opening maneuvers: Kemp attacks, Abrams avoids ‘fisticuffs’
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Gay / Wall Street Journal:
The LeBron James Interview About Bicycles
Discussion: USA Today
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Republicans eye another ACA repeal vote if midterms go their way
Discussion: Splinter and Daily Kos
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Forget left and right. This is what will determine the midterms.
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
Trump promised to fix veterans' problems. Now they call his hotline desperate for help.
Discussion: Splinter and Mother Jones
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
The spot where Emmett Till's body was found is marked by this sign. People keep shooting it up.
Discussion: CNN
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
How Trump Radicalized ICE
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream
Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Steel Giants With Ties to Trump Officials Block Tariff Relief for Hundreds of Firms
Discussion: New Republic and National Review
 

 
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Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

 
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