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5:55 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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Double Damage of the President's Trump Tower Admission  —  In an attempt to defend his son Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday, President Donald Trump may instead have incriminated him—and himself.  —  Responding to a Washington Post report that he is increasingly concerned about his eldest son's legal exposure …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!, Vox and MSNBC
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
On a quiet Sunday, Trump Tower mania strikes  —  One story dominated news coverage and analysis Sunday: President Trump “admitted” that the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, son-in-law, campaign chairman, and a group of Russians and Russian-Americans …
Discussion: Mediaite, MSNBC and Washington Monthly
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  —  The hacking collective Anonymous is pledging to expose the people behind the “QAnon” conspiracy theory.  —  The anarchist hacking group slammed the QAnon conspiracy as potentially dangerous and driven by a “brainless political agenda” …
Discussion: Hill Reporter
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
Jack Morse / Mashable:
InfoWars' Pinterest page goes offline after Mashable inquiry
Discussion: infowars.com and The Week
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 …
Politico:
Manafort trial day 5: Rick Gates to take the stand  —  Rick Gates is set to take the stand Monday afternoon in his former boss Paul Manafort's trial on charges of bank and tax fraud related to overseas earnings, a lawyer for Gates told POLITICO.  —  Gates is considered the star witness …
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Fox News:
Rick Gates testifies he and Manafort conspired to commit fraud
Discussion: Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Gates says he and Manafort didn't report 15 foreign accounts, knew it was illegal
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
Daniel Strauss / Politico:   Trump endorses Kobach for Kansas governor
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.
Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Says California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn.  California Disagrees.  —  In his first remarks on the deadly wildfires that have raged in California, killing at least seven people and forcing thousands to flee, President Trump blamed the blazes on the state's environmental policies.
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
Associated Press:
Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador and freezes all trade after Ottawa calls for jailed activists to be freed  —  Saudi Arabia said it was expelling the Canadian ambassador and had recalled its envoy in protest at Ottawa's vigorous calls for the release of jailed women's rights activists.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Jihad Watch
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Washington Post:
Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador after Ottawa criticizes arrests of Saudi activists
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Observer, Splinter and New York Times
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
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 …
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.”
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.”
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:
Ruth Wilson's Character, One of the Principals of “The Affair,” Killed Off — Actress Complained About Pay Parity  —  Ruth Wilson's character, Alison, was killed off in a major surprise last night on Showtime's “The Affair.”  The show was recently renewed for a fifth and final season next year.
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 …
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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 …
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
WPRI-TV:
WPRI 12/RWU Poll: Raimondo, Fung still in tight race for RI governor  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo's slim lead over her strongest challenger hasn't budged since last winter, despite her campaign spending more than $1 million on TV ads, an exclusive WPRI 12/Roger …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Elizabeth Warren: Our Justice System Is ‘Racist, All the Way, Front to Back.’  —  You think you have a tough job this morning?  Imagine being the guy who has to organize “Cops for Warren 2020” in a year or so.  —  Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, speaking at Dillard University in New Orleans this weekend:
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 …
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 …
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.
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon restricts use of fitness trackers, other devices  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Military troops and other defense personnel at sensitive bases or certain high-risk warzone areas won't be allowed to use fitness tracker or cellphone applications that can reveal their location, according to a new Pentagon order.
Discussion: Axios
John Sexton / Hot Air:
Left-Wing Mob Interrupts Candace Owens' Breakfast With Primal Screams  —  Earlier, Ed wrote about Twitter coming after Candace Owens for quoting NY Times hire Sarah Jeong's tweets (but replacing the word “white” with “Jewish").  Twitter apologized after realizing they had helped make Owens' point.
 
 
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Amusing ourselves to Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Fashion Police  —  What is it that Paul Manafort is charged with again?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Trump says hire American.  These businesses say they can't — and foreign labor limits are killing them
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
CBS Sacramento:
Sikh Man Attacked, Told To ‘Go Back To Your Country’ In Stanislaus County
Discussion: TheBlaze and Talking Points Memo
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Some Big Names in Republican Fundraising Are Financing Trump's Legal Defense Fund
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
Seth Masket / Pacific Standard:
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 ELECTION
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Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
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Greg Bluestein / politics.myajc:
Opening maneuvers: Kemp attacks, Abrams avoids ‘fisticuffs’
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.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
In Ohio Election, Republicans Test a Midterms Rescue Plan: Polarization
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and CNN
Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's imagined steel mills, Russian ‘hoax’
Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream
 

 
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How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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