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Zac Anderson / Sarasota Herald:
Email indicates Florida House candidate may have staged college degree deception  —  Miami University says Melissa Howard never graduated, despite her posting images of a diploma.  —  Facing accusations that she lied about having a degree from Miami University in Ohio …
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David Bishop / FLA News Online:
EXCLUSIVE: Candidate Melissa Howard Faked Her Diploma, University Alleges  —  After FLA News exclusively reported Tuesday that Republican State House candidate Melissa Howard didn't have the college degree from Miami University in Ohio that she claimed to have earned, Mrs. Howard flew to Ohio Friday to prove our report wrong.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Joe.My.God.
Tim Swift / WPLG-TV:
Florida candidate poses with fake diploma after questions about her credentials  —  Melissa Howard pushed back against news report with forgery, university says  —  SARASOTA, Fla. - A Republican candidate for the Florida House lied about having a college degree and posed with a fake diploma …
Politico:
Rep. Chris Collins, fighting prosecution, seeks to end reelection bid  —  Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), who was charged this week as part of an insider trading scheme, is suspending his re-election campaign and will attempt to remove his name from the ballot.
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Roll Call:   Chris Collins Suspends Campaign Just Days After Criminal Indictment
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:   Days after indictment, Chris Collins suspends re-election campaign
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
New York congressman facing insider trading charges suspends reelection bid
Discussion: IJR, USA Today and Washington Monthly
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Trump's résumé is rife with mob connections  —  Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas titled their classic group portrait of Harry S. Truman's foreign policy team, “The Wise Men.”  A book about Donald Trump's associations might be called “The Wise Guys.”  —  Mario Puzo would've been just the man to write it.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Michael Avenatti Urges Democrats to Reject Michelle Obama's Advice on Trump  —  CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Michael Avenatti, fresh off his declaration that he may run for president in 2020, used his first big speech as a prospective candidate to call on the Democratic Party to reject Michelle Obama's …
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Ben Jacobs / The Guardian:   Michael Avenatti says Democrats must ‘fight fire with fire’ as he eyes presidential run
John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP corruption scandals may help Democratic candidates, but it's not clear how much  — President Trump and GOP candidates face a plethora of ethical and corruption scandals leading up to the midterms.  — As long as that list is, something larger dominates this election season, too: Trump's uniquely polarizing governing style.
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Politico:   Trump pivots to border wall, China and ‘Manafort this, Manafort that’
Associated Press:
Trump, at golf club, intent on projecting he's hard at work
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
BuzzFeed News:
An Airline Employee Stole A Plane From Seattle Airport And Was Chased By Fighter Jets Before Crashing  —  “I'm just a broken guy.  I've got a few screws loose I guess, I never really knew it until now,” the rogue pilot said to air traffic control.  —  An airline employee stole a plane …
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
When the Tide Comes In  —  From the very beginning, NR has stood against the ‘irresponsible Right.’  —  D  —  “Save Ike from the Kikes.”  —  I'd better explain.  —  This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the Nazi troll armies' march on Charlottesville, Va. To commemorate it, there will even be a march in Washington.
Discussion: New York Times and alicublog
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Trump's War With Harley-Davidson Has Divided America's Bikers  —  A move by the company has put one of the country's most iconic brands in the uncomfortable position of clashing with a president who is immensely popular with most of its customers.  —  STURGIS, S.D. — Gary Rathbun rumbled …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Are you still sure there's no need to worry?  —  “Don't worry, the institutions will stop him.”  Or: “Don't worry, he hasn't done any real damage yet, the institutions have stopped him.”  How many times have you heard some version of this analysis since the election of President Trump?
Discussion: Salon
Michael Walsh / American Greatness:
Farewell to the ‘Conservative Movement’  —  The #NeverTrumpumpkins define themselves by their visceral distaste for the president.  He offends their fastidious sensibilities, outrages them with his unfiltered Twitter musings, and violates their sense of propriety with his secular hedonism and sheer joy in his own vulgarity.
El Paso Times:
Let's remove Capitol plaque that lies about history: House Speaker Joe Straus  —  It has been a year since a horrific tragedy in Charlottesville, Va., caused a loss of life and painfully reminded us that bigotry still exists and needs to be confronted.  —  It was bigotry also …
Discussion: Raw Story
Chiara Giordano / The Independent:
Trump tariffs have forced us into bankruptcy and liquidation, says PC case maker CaseLabs  —  'Our user community has been very devoted to us and it's awful to think that we have let any of you down'  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  A high-end PC case maker says it has been “forced into bankruptcy and liquidation” …
Michael H. Keller / New York Times:
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views  —  Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos' popularity and creating an environment ripe for manipulation.  —  Interactive illustration by Adam Ferriss for The New York Times.  Video footage by Scott Dalton, William Widmer, Joshua Lott and Martin Vassilev.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Of Course There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Perjury Trap’  —  And it's a legitimate reason for President Trump to decline to be interviewed.  —  Studies will someday be done on the deleterious effect Donald Trump has had on the brains of people who loathe him.  It drives them to say things …
Discussion: The New Neo
Clare Foran / CNN:
GOP lawmaker: Russian meddling fanned the flames in Charlottesville  —  Charlottesville anniversary of deadly rally  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Tom Garrett said Saturday that he was told during a briefing with the FBI director that Russian meddling played in a role in …
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
‘So, So Jaded’: The Campaign to Stop Brett Kavanaugh Struggles for Liftoff  —  PORTLAND, Maine — The two dozen or so liberal activists who had gathered in a darkened cafe on an unusually sticky evening recently were wrestling with a familiar challenge: how to persuade Susan Collins, Maine's moderate Republican senator, to vote no.
Montgomery Herald:
Woman killed by neighborhood dogs  —  Montgomery County Sheriff Chris Watkins released this statement Friday, August 10.  —  a resident of a Lake Tillery development on the western side of Montgomery County went missing while taking her daily walk.  After several hours the 66 year old female did not return home.
Fortune:
‘On Both Sides’  —  Trump drew condemnation in the days that followed when he appeared to equivocate the actions of white supremacists and those that opposed them.  —  “I think there is blame on both sides,” Trump said during a press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.
Discussion: Instapundit
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Omarosa's New Book Claims Trump Wanted To Be Sworn In With ‘Art of the Deal’ … Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House staffer and contestant on “The Apprentice,” claims in a new book set to be released on Tuesday that President Trump had an unprecedented idea for his inauguration.
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico, CNN and Raw Story
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot  —  SAN JUAN, P.R. — At least 10 trailers full of food, water and baby supplies donated for victims of Hurricane Maria were left to rot at a state elections office in Puerto Rico, where they broke open and became infested by rats.
 
 
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Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
Online Retail Platform Terminates Cody Wilson Account Without Explanation
Discussion: NewsBusters
NBC News:
Ex-KKK member denounces hate groups one year after rallying in Charlottesville
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
‘Abolish ICE’: How Republicans Seized on a Liberal Rallying Cry
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Republicans Are Caught in a Trump Bind as the Midterms Approach
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
We like to mock Trump, but Britain's Russia stance is even worse
Discussion: Reuters and Politico
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump calls for unity on anniversary of Charlottesville rally
 Earlier Items: 
Joshua Caplan / Breitbart:
Kamala Harris Unable to Name a Legislative Accomplishment When Asked
Stephanie Nebehay / Reuters:
U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps
Irwin M. Stelzer / Weekly Standard:
Trump's Economy Might Not Be Enough to Save the House
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
A Lifelong Political Scrapper, Roger Stone Is Fighting for His Own Legal Future
Discussion: CNBC and Political Wire
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
At Carrier, the Factory Trump Saved, Morale Is Through the Floor
Discussion: ThinkProgress
John Riley / Metro Weekly:
Study: 78,000 transgender Americans could be prevented from voting in 2018
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Fresno Bee:
Devin Nunes is protecting Trump, but the Constitution requires a check on the president
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

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

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

 
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