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9:50 PM ET, August 2, 2017

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NBC News:
Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Kelly cracks down on West Wing back channels to Trump  —  When new White House chief of staff John Kelly huddled with senior staff on his first day at work, he outlined a key problem in President Donald Trump's White House that he planned to fix: Bad information getting into the president's hands.
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's New Top Aide Assures Sessions His Job Is Safe  —  New White House chief of staff John Kelly, in one of his first acts in his new post, called Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reassure him that his position was safe despite the recent onslaught of criticism he has taken from President Donald Trump.
Dara Lind / Vox:
What John Kelly's final ICE raid tells us about Trump's new chief of staff
Discussion: Daily Kos
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo  —  A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics …
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Inside the McMaster-Bannon War  —  Under the new chief of staff, H.R. McMaster and Steve Bannon have gone to the mattresses.  —  General John Kelly may be trying to institute military-style discipline in the West Wing, but that hasn't put a stop to the civil war happening over President Donald Trump's National Security Council.
The White House:
Statement by President Donald J. Trump on Signing the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act”  —  Today, I signed into law the “Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” which enacts new sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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Los Angeles Times:
Read President Trump's statements outlining his concerns about the Russia sanctions bill
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired  —  “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes.  —  Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …
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Mike Cernovich:
Exclusive — Scaramucci Memo Showed Content Focused Vision for White House Communications Team  —  “An effective Comms shop will dictate the news of the day on most days,” former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci wrote in a rough draft of a memo sent to Cernovich Media.
David Crary / Associated Press:
Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech  —  https://apnews.com/aedbaf4543ea464dbcef 78491ba281b9  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:   Those Calls to Trump? White House Admits They Didn't Happen
CNBC:   As the lies and contradictions mount, federal officials are deciding to simply ignore Trump
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos.  Over Investment-For-Visa Program  —  Records sought from development firm owned by family of White House adviser Jared Kushner  —  Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner …
Discussion: The Hill, Axios and Raw Story
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House aide blasts CNN reporter for ‘cosmopolitan bias’ in bizarre exchange  —  White House senior adviser Stephen Miller smiled as he volunteered to “take one actual last question” at Wednesday's news briefing, before press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders returned to the podium.
Discussion: Occidental Dissent
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Rebekah Entralgo / ThinkProgress:
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Discussion: Raw Story
Garet Williams / Vox:
Stephen Miller couldn't defend a new immigration bill without demeaning the press
Discussion: Politico
CNN:
Trump nominee Sam Clovis blasted progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’ in old blog posts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's USDA pick referred to progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’
Discussion: RedState
Grace Rauh / NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm eyes return to Congress  —  The Staten Island political world is buzzing with talk that a former Republican congressman may want his old job back.  NY1 Political Reporter Grace Rauh has that story.  —  For months now, there has been talk that Michael Grimm would try to get back into politics.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Oh, Wait.  Maybe It Was Collusion.  —  Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election?  Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
Discussion: LewRockwell
Annie Karni / Politico:
Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Has Launched A “Real News” Program On His Facebook, Hosted By His Daughter-In-Law  —  In one video, Lara Trump said she'd be back every week to provide updates on the president's accomplishments.  —  After months of denigrating the media as fake news, President Trump has launched …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:   Trump launches ‘real news’ Facebook series to combat mainstream media
Andy Shain / Post and Courier:
South Carolina governor candidate Catherine Templeton's ‘proud of the Confederacy’ remarks stir controversy  —  COLUMBIA — Catherine Templeton made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy” and pledged “we're not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story and Splinter
Ian Cummings / Kansas City Star:
NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri  —  NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.  —  But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump  —  Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich took to Periscope to announce that he's doing “a big pivot” away from “being a pro-Trump guy.”  Cernovich enthusiastically supported President Donald Trump throughout …
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Video Casts Doubt on Officers  —  State attorneys are dismissing dozens of cases in Baltimore after reviewing a video that appears to show a police officer planting evidence while two other officers look on.  —  Over a hundred criminal cases …
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Seth Abramovitch / Hollywood Reporter:
How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President  —  Months before he declared himself a candidate, Trump was set to play commander-in-chief in the schlocky Syfy film franchise that has lured everyone from Ann Coulter to Charo for cameos while regular Tara Reid makes a quarter of one male co-star's pay.
Drew Johnson / National Center …:
Al Gore's Inconvenient Reality: The Former Vice President's Home Energy Use Surges up to 34 Times the National Average Despite Costly Green Renovations  —  Introduction  —  In February 2007, the day after his panicky global warming film “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Academy Award for best documentary …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Democrats Could Have a 2020 Presidential Field As Wide As an Iowa Cornfield  —  It's the early, silly season of 2020 presidential speculation.  So there's nothing unusual about speculation surrounding two fairly obscure Democratic House members, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Tim Ryan of Ohio.
 
 
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Elyssa Cherney / Chicago Tribune:
Arrest warrant issued for Northwestern professor in Near North Side stabbing death
Discussion: The Guardian
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college.  Now he and his brother have been deported.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Lynn Vavreck / New York Times:
The Great Political Divide Over American Identity
Discussion: Instapundit
James Kirchick / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Remember all those left-wing pundits who drooled over Venezuela?
Peter Hancock / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Kobach had duty to publicize new voting schedule; it appears that he didn't
 Earlier Items: 
Malia Rolt / Affinity Magazine:
Do White Men Really Deserve To Vote?
Discussion: The Daily Caller, IJR and TheBlaze
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
MS-13 doesn't fear Trump, rival gangs or the police - but they are terrified of La Sombra Negra
New York Post:
Residents fuming over sex-crazed hotel guests
Discussion: Jezebel
Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal:
Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna
Billy House / Bloomberg:
House Judiciary Chairman's Priority: Investigating Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Shakesville and Daily Kos
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda
 

 
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The Guardian:
How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns

Rodney Tiffen / Inside Story:
Court discovery docs from the UK's News Group phone hacking cases give more detail about evidence destruction and indicate the company gathered political intel
 
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