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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.

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.

U.S. to Restore Sanctions on Iran Following Withdrawal From Nuclear Deal  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said it would restore sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear accord at midnight on Monday, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran while worsening a divide with Europe.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.”

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.

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 …

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.

‘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” …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.”

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.

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,” …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.