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10:25 AM ET, August 10, 2017

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Washington Post:
In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it  —  Critics of President Trump have repeatedly warned of his potential to undermine American democracy.  Among the concerns are his repeated assertions that he would have won …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Half of Republicans would back postponing 2020 election if Trump proposed it  —  Slightly more than half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 presidential election if President Trump proposed it to make sure only eligible American citizens can vote, according to a new survey.
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
Kambiz Foroohar / Bloomberg:
U.S. Ambassador Haley Loses Two Key Aides at United Nations  —  Chief of staff and communications director both resigned  —  Haley said on Twitter the men were leaving for family reasons  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has lost two of her top aides …
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Benjamin R. Young / Washington Post:
The Reagan-era invasion that drove North Korea to develop nuclear weapons  —  How we got to warnings about fire and fury. … North Korea's path to nuclear weapons began with the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983.  (Wong Maye-E/AP)  —  Over the past few days, the United States and North Korea …
Jeffrey Lewis / Foreign Policy:
The Game Is Over and North Korea Has Won  —  Donald Trump can whine all he wants, but we're now living in a world where American power is less relevant than ever.  —  The Washington Post reported yesterday that North Korea has a large stockpile of compact nuclear weapons that can arm the country's missiles …
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
It's Not Too Late on North Korea
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
White House Watch: Is Trump Preparing to Leave the Republican Party?  —  The president's latest fight with Mitch McConnell sure looks like he's laying the predicate to abandon the GOP.  —  President Donald Trump is inching closer to abandoning the Republican party, even as the GOP …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Republican progress grinds to halt with infighting at fever pitch
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's ‘Excessive Expectations’ Comment Draws Trump's Ire
Politico:   Trump vs. McConnell
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Ex-Trump staffers reveal love child after campaign trail sex scandal  —  The very first sex scandal of Donald Trump's presidency has just resulted in the birth of a love child.  —  Married former White House communications director Jason Miller has fathered a son with Trump transition adviser …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Democratic Fight in California Is a Warning for the National Party  —  SACRAMENTO — For Democrats across the nation, California has offered a bright if lonely light this year.  The party controls every statewide office and commands supermajorities in the Legislature.
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Michael Whitney / Politico:   The Democratic Party's Looming Fundraising Crisis
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Our Revolution Takes Issue With The “Dictatorial,” “Arrogant,” “Pompous” DNC
Associated Press:
Did Cuba launch acoustic attack on U.S. diplomats?  —  WASHINGTON — The two-year-old U.S. diplomatic relationship with Cuba was roiled Wednesday by what U.S. officials say was a string of bizarre incidents that left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.
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CNN:
US embassy employees in Cuba possibly subject to ‘acoustic attack’
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney:
Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items  —  5 stunning stats about Walmart  —  Walmart has condemned a display inside one of its stores that appeared to market firearms as back-to-school items.  The company said Wednesday it was working to identify which of its stores put up the exhibit.
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Alex Horton / Washington Post:
‘Disgusting’: Walmart draws fire over back-to-school banner placed over gun display
Discussion: Fox News, Mashable and Balloon Juice
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Trump's Legal Team Is No Match for Mueller's  —  The president could learn from Bill and Hillary Clinton's years of litigation.  —  When news broke on Aug. 3 that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had begun using a grand jury in Washington to gather evidence related to his Russia probe, it appeared to catch the White House off guard.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / Slate:
Stop Equating “Science” With Truth  —  Evolutionary psychology is just the most obvious example of science's flaws.  —  It's 2017, and people are still debating whether or not women are intellectually inferior to men, and whether we are entitled to a workplace that isn't toxic to people simply based on their gender and sex.
Discussion: Althouse
CNN:
Poll: Trump finances fair game in Russia investigation  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Seventy percent of Americans believe the federal investigation into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election in the US should be able to look into President Donald Trump's finances …
Discussion: Politico
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
No regrets among the Trump base  —  The Trump base is not as angry as I expected, not as defensive and certainly not as disappointed in how the presidency of the man they carried into office is unfolding.  —  In fact, when I stopped by a Michigan Republicans for Trump rally at a White Lake restaurant …
Discussion: Raw Story
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Feds sought cooperation from Manafort's son-in-law  —  Federal investigators sought cooperation from Paul Manafort's son-in-law in an effort to increase pressure on President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, according to three people familiar with the probe.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Blowback from staffer scandal burns Wasserman Schultz  —  The chatter about a House leadership post is gone.  So is talk of statewide office.  After Hillary Clinton's defeat, there's no prospect of an administration job for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  —  One year after the Florida …
CNN:
Unarmed Russian Air Force jet overflies the Pentagon, Capitol, CIA  —  (CNN)An unarmed Russian Air Force aircraft overflew the US Capitol, the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Base Andrews at low altitude on Wednesday as part of a longstanding treaty that allows the militaries …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's Immigration Agenda Makes a Fundamental Miscalculation  —  Like many of President Trump's policies, the White House's recent embrace of a plan to cut legal immigration in half rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the economic relationship between “the brown and the gray.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Philip Terzian / Weekly Standard:
Joe Biden and the Revenge of the Septuagenarians  —  From the Aug. 14, 2017, issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.  —  In the past half-century, there have been two presidential elections that Democrats should have won by a landslide but did not.  —  The first was in 1976.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Uncle John Taught Trump About Fire and Fury  —  When the president reflects on nuclear weapons, he likes to remind listeners that he's the nephew of an MIT physicist.  —  President Donald Trump returned this week to a recurring and favorite theme of his over the years: nuclear war and annihilation.
 
 
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Blake Nicholson / Associated Press:
Judge approves Jill Stein's plea deal for pipeline protest
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Patrick Lawrence / The Nation:
A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year's DNC Hack
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Inside Drudge's new look
Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:
Democrat Krish Vignarajah enters race for Maryland governor
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive -Zionist Organization of America Analysis Determines McMaster Hostile to Trump, Calls for Reassignment
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Price booed as he throws out first pitch at Nationals game
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US News:
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Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
YouTube Stars Who Met With Feds to ‘Grow’ Trump-Themed Business Were Paid by Trump Campaign
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
GOP And Trump's Transgender Attacks Backfire In Iowa Special Election
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
FBI seized computers and documents in investigation of Rep. Duncan Hunter's campaign spending
 

 
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Richard Stengel / The Atlantic:
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