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Aris Folley / The Hill:
DeSantis: Florida voters shouldn't ‘monkey this up’ by voting for Gillum  —  (R) on Wednesday warned Florida voters not to “monkey this up” by voting for his Democratic gubernatorial opponent Andrew Gillum.  —  “You know, this is a guy, although he's much too liberal for Florida …
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Even Fox News isn't OK with this Trump-backed nominee's casual racism  —  Republican nominee Ron DeSantis somehow managed to be too racist for Fox News.  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) couldn't even wait 24 hours after winning the Republican nomination for the Florida governor's race …
Discussion: Townhall, Vox and Washington Post
John Wagner / Washington Post:
DeSantis says Florida voters would ‘monkey this up’ if they elect Gillum as governor  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis, the newly christened Republican gubernatorial candidate in Florida, said Wednesday that voters would “monkey this up” if they elect his Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, who would be the state's first African American governor.
New York Times:
A Black Progressive and a Trump Acolyte Win Florida Governor Primaries
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Don't ‘monkey this up’ and elect Andrew Gillum, Ron DeSantis says
Discussion: Washington Times and YouTube
Axios:
Scoop: Don McGahn's coming White House exit  —  Top White House officials and sources close to White House counsel Don McGahn tell Axios that McGahn will step down this fall — after Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, or after the midterms.  —  The big picture …
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Washington Post:
Trump says White House Counsel Donald McGahn will leave his job in the fall  —  White House Counsel Donald McGahn, who has led the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the judiciary while confronting turmoil in the West Wing surrounding the ongoing special counsel probe …
Murray Waas / NYR Daily:
The Flynn Tapes: A New Tell  —  In early February 2017, a senior White House attorney, John Eisenberg, reviewed highly classified intelligence intercepts of telephone conversations between then-National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak …
Andrew Harnik / RealClearInvestigations:
There's Method in Trump's Slackness on Opening Files
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Philip Elliott / TIME:
Why the Senate May Not Rename a Building for John McCain After All  —  Congress might want to hold off ordering new signage for one of its office buildings.  —  A proposal to rename the Russell Senate Office Building in honor of Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday, seems to have found its first sticking point.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP eyes another shot at ObamaCare repeal after McCain's death  —  Senate Republicans say they would like Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to appoint a successor to late Sen. John McCain  —  (R-Ariz.) who, unlike McCain, would support GOP legislation to repeal ObamaCare.
HuffPost:
Democrats Just Confirmed Lots Of Trump's Judges So They Could Skip Town
Discussion: Common Dreams, Rewire.News and IJR
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans can't even agree to take a segregationist's name off a building
Discussion: Conservative News Today, IJR and DCist
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Probing Whether Malaysian Fugitive Laundered Funds to Pay Chris Christie and Trump Lawyer  —  Jho Low under investigation for alleged embezzlement of $4.5 billion from 1MDB fund  —  The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a fugitive Malaysian financier laundered tens …
Discussion: Washington Post and Shakesville
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
CIA Analyst Turned Candidate Fears She'll Get Doxxed Next … Elissa Slotkin has a sinking suspicion that her private life may be exposed by her political adversaries.  —  Slotkin is a former CIA analyst and senior Pentagon official running for Congress in Michigan as a Democrat.
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BuzzFeed News:
In An Unprecedented Move, The US Postal Service Released A Former CIA Officer's Security Application …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Michael Tackett / New York Times:
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
BuzzFeed News:
“Suspicious” Transactions At Russian Embassy Sparked Deeper Bank Probe Than Previously Known  —  When BuzzFeed News reported earlier this year on dozens of suspicious financial transactions by Russian diplomats living in Washington, Kremlin officials objected with ferocity.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
Inside The Trump Administration's Secret War On Weed  —  The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat …
CNN:
Sources: Second Trump Org employee discussed immunity deal  —  (CNN)A second Trump Organization employee discussed a potential immunity deal with the federal prosecutors who charged Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, according to people familiar with the matter.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Politico:
Trump lawyer Giuliani got paid to lobby Romanian president  —  Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was being paid by a global consulting firm when he sent a letter to the president of Romania last week that contradicted the U.S. government's official position.
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Jay Cassano / Sludge:
Cuomo Received $25,000 From Weinstein Lawyer's Firm as He Suspended Probe  —  The contribution from Weinstein's former lawyer was made the same month Cuomo suspended an investigation into the New York district attorney's failure to prosecute Harvey Weinstein in 2015.  —  EDITED BY
Discussion: The Intercept and BuzzFeed News
Sara Carter / Sara A. Carter:
BREAKING: Day After Ohr's Testimony, Congress Seeks to Question His Wife  —  Lawmakers are also seeking all communications - texts and emails - between Bruce Ohr and top officials at the FBI  —  Numerous congressional sources are telling SaraACarter.com that after Department …
Discussion: Fox News
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Russian oligarch, Justice Department and a clear case of collusion
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Maria Butina: Private Messages Reveal Accused Russian Spy's True Ties to D.C. Wise Man … When federal prosecutors charged Maria Butina with covertly infiltrating the conservative movement on behalf of the Kremlin, questions began to swirl around a Washington think tank that had published …
New York Times:
Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The post went up quietly on Facebook's internal message board last week.  Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social network.
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed:
The Diver Elon Musk Called A “Pedo” Is Preparing A Libel Claim  —  “You published through three different tweets to your twenty-two million followers that Mr. Unsworth engages in the sexual exploitation of Thai children, and you did so at a time when he was working to save the lives of twelve Thai children.”
Christopher Flavelle / Bloomberg:
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon.  Its Drinking Water Could Go First  —  One morning in June, Douglas Yoder climbed into a white government SUV on the edge of Miami and headed northwest, away from the glittering coastline and into the maze of water infrastructure that makes this city possible.
Discussion: Shakesville
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
An ode to one of the worst GOP candidates in recent memory  —  For the second time in two years, Arizona Republicans held a Senate primary.  And for the second time in two years, a uniquely bad and desperate candidate named Kelli Ward went down in flames.  —  Ward lost to Sen. John McCain …
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
The New Lobbying: Qatar Targeted 250 Trump ‘Influencers’ to Change U.S. Policy  —  Blockaded by Mideast neighbors, the emirate deployed an unconventional lobbying campaign to win over an unconventional U.S. president  —  Longtime New York restaurateur Joey Allaham visited Manhattan's Park East Synagogue late …
Crime Russia:
Senior executive of steel plant in Russia, Bruno Charles de Kooman, falls out of window in Moscow  —  The senior executive's acquaintance was a witness of the tragedy.  —  According to Telegram-channel Mash, the senior executive of Novolipetsk Steel Plant (NLMK) Bruno Charles de Kooman fell …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Liker, a Facebook Alternative for Liberals, Is Hive of False Claims About Trump … In the world of the anti-Trump Facebook #Resistance, no one has a bigger soapbox than Omar Rivero, the founder of the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.  —  Along with his brother Rafael, Rivero …
Alex Burness / The Colorado Independent:
Body-cam vid shows Denver cops cuffed Indy editor as she photographed their badges  —  Police body camera footage released today shows two Denver officers told The Colorado Independent's editor, Susan Greene, to “act like a lady” as they handcuffed and detained her in July for attempting …
Discussion: The Republic
Janosch Delcker / Politico:
Germany to launch US-style agency to develop cyber defense  —  Agency will be modeled after the US Pentagon research agency DARPA.  —  BERLIN — Germany will invest €200 million over the next five years to launch an agency that will develop its own cyber defense capabilities …
BuzzFeed News:
This Is How Russian Propaganda Actually Works In The 21st Century  —  TALLINN, Estonia — The Russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news websites in Eastern Europe to pump out stories dictated to them by the Kremlin, BuzzFeed News and its reporting partners can reveal.
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Tom Sietsema / Washington Post:
La Vie on the Wharf is so bad I'm only writing about it as a warning  —  Every now and then I encounter a restaurant that's so dismissive of diners' senses, my initial reaction is simply not to write about it.  Why waste the money, the words and your precious time?
Discussion: Washingtonian and DCist
Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:
Jerry Brown just abolished bail in California  —  Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill fully abolishing bail in the Golden State.  This is the logical conclusion of the BS “right on crime” movement of the Kochs and Soros that has been quietly and surreptitiously dismantling …
 
 
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Inside Stephen Miller's hostile takeover of immigration policy
Richard Sokolsky / Politico:
What Is Trump Getting for Sucking up to Saudi Arabia?
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Peter Thiel gives first six-figure donation of the midterm campaign cycle to the RNC
Discussion: NBC News
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
LGBTQ community embraces first bisexual Senate nominee
Jona Ison / Chillicothe Gazette:
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Trump Has Changed How Teens View the News
Jerry Zremski / The Buffalo News:
Chris Collins turned down a plea deal in insider trading case
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A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
August 2018 Ratings: CNN Has Its Second-Best August Ever
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Sirin Kale / The Guardian:
Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media
John Wagner / Washington Post:
FBI pushes back on unfounded Trump claim that China hacked Hillary Clinton's email
Paul Starr / American Prospect:
No, Trump Is Far from Finished
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HBO is out of the adult entertainment business
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Inside McCain's surprise eulogy invitation to Obama
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