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Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
North Korea now making missile-ready nuclear weapons, U.S. analysts say … North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
US spy satellites detect North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to patrol boat  —  Despite the United States' insistence that North Korea halt its missile tests, U.S. spy agencies detected the rogue communist regime loading two anti-ship cruise missiles on a patrol boat on the country's east coast just days ago.
CNBC:
North Korea seriously considering strike on Guam: Reports, citing state media  —  North Korea is considering a plan to fire missiles at Guam, state media said.  —  A spokesman for North Korea's military told KCNA that it would carry out a pre-emptive operation if there were signs of U.S. provocation.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Trump threatens North Korea after US assesses they have miniaturized a nuclear warhead  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary ultimatum to North Korea on Tuesday warning Pyongyang not to make any more threats against the United States or they will …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump warns North Korea: Threats will be met with ‘fire and fury’  —  President Donald Trump's warning Tuesday that North Korea “will be met with fire and fury” if it continues its saber rattling sparked new fears that the standoff over the regime's advancing nuclear and missile programs could devolve into a shooting war.
New York Times:
Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ Against North Korea if It Endangers U.S.  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump threatened on Tuesday to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangers the United States as tensions with the isolated nuclear-armed state grow into perhaps …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump vows North Korea will be met with ‘fire and fury’ if threats continue
Alex Thompson / Vice News:
It's known as the “propaganda document”  —  Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president.  The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus …
USA Today:
President Trump has exchanged private messages with Russia special counsel Robert Mueller  —  WASHINGTON - President Trump has publicly called the widening federal investigation into Russia's election meddling a “witch hunt.”  But through his lawyer, Trump has sent private messages of “appreciation” to special counsel Robert Mueller.
Anita Hill / New York Times:
Class Actions Could Fight Discrimination in Tech  —  The recent leak of a Google engineer's screed against the company's diversity initiatives is a reminder that the notion of Silicon Valley as the seat of human progress is a myth — at least when it comes to the way the women behind the latest in technology are treated.
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller
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Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Approval Hits New Low Of 32% As Support From His Base Slips — IBD/TIPP Poll  —  President Trump's approval rating dropped 5 percentage points in August to a new low of 32%, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Poll: Trump's approval rating sinks to new low
Ryan Nobles / CNN:
McConnell criticizes Trump's ‘excessive expectations’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered some of his toughest criticism yet for President Donald Trump in a speech Monday to a Rotary Group in northern Kentucky.  —  McConnell, who has been relatively measured …
Discussion: Axios and Talking Points Memo
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
I Found Trump Fan Nicole Mincey and She's Not a Twitter Bot … Even though she's been wiped clean from the web, I still found Nicole Mincey.  The Nicole Mincey who was personally thanked by President Trump on Twitter over the weekend.  The one everyone thinks is a bot.
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Trump Administration on the Right to Vote: Use It or Lose It  —  The Trump administration redoubled its support on Monday for efforts to remove people from voter registration rolls, siding with the state of Ohio in a case that could allow states to cancel registrations for voters who fail …
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Justice Department reverses position to support Ohio purging inactive voters in high-profile case
Discussion: New York Magazine
Patrick Doyle / Rolling Stone:
Glen Campbell, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ Singer Who Fused Country and Pop, Dead at 81  —  Singer-guitarist and TV host who achieved crossover success succumbs to Alzheimer's disease  —  Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” died Tuesday.
David Dayen / New Republic:
The Left's Misguided Debate Over Kamala Harris  —  My article about a bank's law-breaking during the housing crisis became a political football, obscuring the real issue at hand.  —  Back in January, after Donald Trump had nominated Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary …
Discussion: Eschaton
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
David Letterman Returning to TV With Netflix Talk Show  —  The six-episode untitled series will feature in-depth interviews as well as topics outside of the studio.  —  Two years after signing off CBS' The Late Show, David Letterman is returning to the small screen.
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Exclusive First Interview — New RNC Spokeswoman: Whole GOP Needs to Get Behind Trump and Listen to American People  —  Kayleigh McEnany, formerly of CNN and now the Republican National Committee's new spokeswoman, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday's Breitbart News Daily to stress …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Deep State Teams with Fake News: Email Evidence Proves New York Times Soliciting Anti-Trump Bureaucracy Leakers  —  Emails from a reporter for the New York Times to government employees obtained exclusively by Breitbart News demonstrate that the newspaper's employees …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart … Higher Income Lower Income … Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using post-tax income. … Many Americans can't remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away.
Discussion: Vox and Hullabaloo
Jason Zengerle / GQ:
What If Mike Pence Becomes President?  —  Mike Pence—who's quietly launched his own PAC and already begun glad-handing big dollar donors—is shocked (shocked!) by the rumors that he might be laying the groundwork for his own presidency.  Fake news, he calls it.
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
In decisive Rust Belt, Trump's approval is starting to look like Romney's  —  (CNN)Even as the White House this week firmly insists President Donald Trump is determined to seek a second term, a new analysis of polling data shows that he's caught in a three-way political squeeze in the states …
Discussion: Politicus USA
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!  —  Bill Burr's 2003 report recommended using numbers, obscure characters and capital letters and updating regularly—he regrets the error  —  The man who wrote the book on password management has a confession to make: He blew it.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Alt-Right and Glenn Greenwald Versus H.R. McMaster  —  Donald Trump has scrambled the political spectrum in certain ways, and one of them has been to introduce a new set of players onto the national scene.  “Nationalists” or “populists” (as they now call themselves), or the “alt-right” …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Now Starring in the West Wing: Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  WASHINGTON — Pickle did not go as planned.  —  When Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the newly minted White House press secretary, began her first official briefing by reading a child's letter to President Trump — “Everybody calls me Pickle …
Sundar Pichai / Google:
Note to employees from CEO Sundar Pichai  —  This note was sent to Google employees this evening.  -Ed.  —  This has been a very difficult time.  I wanted to provide an update on the memo that was circulated over this past week.  —  First, let me say that we strongly support the right …
Addy Baird / ThinkProgress:
White House defends silence on mosque bombing, says it might have been faked by liberals  —  The White House will not officially comment on the bombing of a Minnesota mosque because it may be a hate crime faked by a liberal, according to Trump national security adviser Sebastian Gorka.
Robert Salonga / Mercury News:
Exclusive interview with woman who saw airplane passenger's child-sex texts, helped rescue kids  —  Man and woman charged in federal court with conspiring to produce child pornography after lurid text exchange is uncovered involving two kids under woman's care
Discussion: KFOR-TV, IJR and AOL
 
 
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
A painting of Lady Liberty in hijab hangs in congressman's office.  Despite protests, he says it'll stay.
Discussion: Salon, TheBlaze, Fox News Insider and WND
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
RNC chair on Jeff Flake: Senators who didn't support Trump and lost should be a ‘cautionary tale’
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Meliss Arteaga / Ms. Magazine Blog:
50 Feminist Women to Follow on Twitter
Discussion: Shakesville
Washington Times:
Illegal immigration spikes in July; still lower than Obama years
Discussion: RedState and The Daily Caller
David Montgomery / New York Times:
Texas Transgender Bathroom Bill Falters Amid Mounting Opposition
John Abraham / The Guardian:
Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Alexander / Slate Star Codex:
Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
Discussion: Liberty Blitzkrieg
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism
Roger McNamee / USA Today:
I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it. I helped create a monster.
Kate Hardiman / The College Fix:
Law professor warns: Congress must act on growing sexbot industry
Discussion: Althouse and WND