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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The 11 most dangerous things Donald Trump said in his Montana speech  —  (CNN)On Thursday night, President Donald Trump flew to Montana to headline a rally for Matt Rosendale, the Republican nominee against Sen. Jon Tester (D) this November.  Trump's speech was, like most of his addresses …
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Daily Beast
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Emily Cochrane / New York Times:
Trump Assails Critics and Mocks #MeToo.  What About Putin?  'He's Fine'  —  GREAT FALLS, Mont. — President Trump lobbed personal and derogatory attacks at two Democratic senators, mocked the #MeToo movement and vouched for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday during a freewheeling …
Matthew Rozsa / Raw Story:
A pillar of the American right predicts dire and catastrophic consequences for the Trump-Putin summit  —  Conservative columnist George F. Will, who has been a pillar of the American right for decades, has just predicted that President Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump admin asks for more time to reunite kids and parents separated at border  —  The Justice Department asked a federal judge Friday to extend the court-ordered deadlines for reuniting nearly 3,000 migrant children with their parents.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked …
Discussion: AOL, Shareblue Media, The Week and MSNBC
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Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
Trump Administration in Chaotic Scramble to Reunify Migrant Families
Andrew Desiderio / The Daily Beast:
Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo Blasts HHS for Barring Him From Visiting Detained Kids
Discussion: Axios and Mediaite
BuzzFeed:   The Trump Administration Is Asking For More Time To Meet A Judge's Order To Reunite Separated Families
Adam K. Raymond / New York Magazine:
Manafort Kept in Solitary 23 Hours a Day to ‘Guarantee His Safety,’ Lawyer Says  —  Paul Manafort is being kept in solitary confinement in a Virginia jail in order to “guarantee his safety,” his lawyer said in court documents filed this week.  “He is locked in his cell for at least 23 hours per day …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and The Week
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Ronn Blitzer / Law & Crime:
Why the Heck is Paul Manafort Being Kept in Solitary Confinement?  —  Paul Manafort has been behind bars ever since a federal judge in Washington, D.C. revoked his pre-trial release for violating his bail conditions as he faces money laundering charges.  According to a new court filing …
Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Playmate Files Suit Against GOP Donor Elliott Broidy Over Hush-Money Deal  —  Shera Bechard sues Republican fundraiser after he said breach of nondisclosure agreement over their affair meant he would no longer pay  —  A former Playboy centerfold model has sued a prominent Republican fundraiser …
Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Supreme Court sides with Marquette professor John McAdams in free speech case, orders university to reinstate him  —  The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that embattled Marquette University political science professor John McAdams was improperly suspended after he publicly criticized …
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Wisconsin Supreme Court: Marquette University wrongly fired professor for opinions on personal blog  — Three and a half years after being fired for critiquing a graduate student's attempt to silence a student critical of gay marriage, professor John McAdams can return to the classroom
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Democrats have only themselves to blame for their judicial predicament
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Fox News
Axios:
No end in sight for the trade war  —  If you were looking for signs of a thaw in the trade war between the U.S. and China, you're going to have to wait.  Right now, it's all escalation.  —  Here's how bad it's getting.  — “The conflict is likely to escalate beyond trade.
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Post
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Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Tariffs Hit Trump Counties Harder
Discussion: The Atlantic
Washington Post:
The Trump Tariff Tracker: How severe is the pain?
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
Ed Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
Calls for Rep. Jim Jordan's Resignation Heat Up As 5th Witness — Former UFC Champion — Comes Forward  —  Things aren't looking all that good for Republican Congressman Jim Jordan.  Jordan, who has been a staunch ally of President Trump, in his attempts to discredit the Special Counsel investigation …
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Politico:
‘A cesspool of deviancy’: New claims of voyeurism test Jordan denials
Discussion: ThinkProgress and MSNBC
John Solomon / The Hill:
Memos detail FBI's ‘Hurry the F up pressure’ to probe Trump campaign  —  Multiple reviews of whether FBI agents' political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal communications long withheld from public view.
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
Say Hello to Full Employment  —  This morning, the Labor Department announced that the national unemployment rate ticked up to 4 percent in June for good reasons, as hundreds of thousands more Americans sought work.  For the first time in recorded history, the number of job openings is higher …
Discussion: cepr.net, CNBC, HuffPost and New Republic
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNNMoney:
Another strong jobs report. Here's why unemployment jumped
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Federal prosecutors abruptly dismiss all remaining Inauguration Day rioting cases  —  District prosecutors on Friday dismissed rioting charges against all remaining defendants arrested after destructive Inauguration Day protests, bringing to a close a controversial case which led to allegations of government overreach.
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
The Government Is Dropping All Charges In The Remaining Inauguration Day Prosecutions
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Bill Shine's Wife Darla Complained She Couldn't Use N-Word and Spread Conspiracy Theories About ‘Blacks’  —  The wife of Bill Shine — former Fox News co-president who just joined the Trump administration as White House communications chief — has a lengthy history of defending racists …
Discussion: The Week
Nathan McDermott / CNN:
Democrat running to replace Paul Ryan in Wisconsin has history of arrests, including driving under the influence  —  (CNN)A Democrat from Wisconsin running to replace House Speaker Paul Ryan in Congress was arrested and pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in 1998, in addition to eight other arrests …
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and NRCC
Peter Walker / The Guardian:
Donald Trump to almost entirely avoid London during UK visit  —  Meetings with Theresa May and the Queen to be held away from protests in capital  —  Donald Trump will almost entirely avoid London during his four-day visit to the UK next week, Downing Street has said, unveiling an itinerary likely …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
John Kelly, Scott Pruitt, and the Epic Turnover of the Trump Administration  —  What does the endless death watch for the President's chief of staff tell us about the worst-run White House of modern times?  —  Is John Kelly finally on his way out?  Now that President Trump has accepted …
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
VA-07: Brat Moves from Lean Republican to Toss Up  —  In 2014, economics professor Dave Brat turned the political world upside-down when he upset House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the GOP primary by taking a hard line on illegal immigration.  But four years later, he's at risk of getting swept …
Kang In-sun / Digital Chosunilbo:
Pompeo Brings ‘Rocket Man’ CD for Kim Jong-un  —  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left for North Korea on Thursday for denuclearization talks and brought two gifts for leader Kim Jong-un.  —  One is a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump and the other an Elton John CD with his song “Rocket Man.”
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New York Post:
De Blasio used a $3M counterterrorism plane to zip home from vacation  —  The NYPD used a $3 million counterterrorism plane to shuttle Mayor Bill de Blasio back and forth from his Canada vacation to the Big Apple for an event Thursday, The Post has learned.  —  Hizzoner, who is in Quebec …
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New York Daily News:
Mayor de Blasio used NYPD's $3M counter-terrorism plane to fly from Canada to Bronx for street-renaming ceremony
Discussion: National Review
Washington Post:
Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts a day in recent months, a major shift to lessen …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
New Study Confirms That American Workers Are Getting Ripped Off  —  America's unemployment rate is hovering near half-century lows.  There are now more job openings than unemployed workers in the United States for the first time since the government began tracking that ratio.
Discussion: Common Dreams
Washington Post:
Pruitt is gone.  Congress still doesn't care about ethics.  —  Walter M. Shaub Jr., is a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and currently serves as senior director, ethics for the Campaign Legal Center.  —  Scott Pruitt's resignation should be good news.
Discussion: New York Times, USA Today and CNN
Lili Bayer / Politico:
Israeli intelligence firm targeted NGOs during Hungary's election campaign  —  The Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube was involved in a campaign to discredit NGOs ahead of Hungary's April election, according to a former Black Cube employee and a person with knowledge of the company's inner workings.
Discussion: The Romania Journal
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
The Tunnel That Could Break New York  —  How politics, and Donald Trump, turned America's most important repair job into a $30 billion grudge match.  —  President Donald Trump was in an unusually bipartisan mood on September 7, when he convened a White House meeting about a massive project …
Discussion: New Republic and Scripting News
Miranda Christian / WPTV:
Boynton Beach homeowner says he was attacked over President Trump flag in yard  —  BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - A fun night of fireworks was ruined for a Boynton Beach man.  Jeff Good says he was attacked for having a President Trump flag in his yard.  —  Good said he was watching fireworks …
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
The Onion, Clickhole, A.V. Club Brace for Layoffs … When media giant Univision Communications Inc. bought a reported 40-percent stake in Onion Inc. in 2016, executives believed that being funnier would help connect the Spanish-language media company with a millennial audience.
Reveal:
Defense contractor detained migrant kids in vacant Phoenix office building  —  A major U.S. defense contractor quietly detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets during three weeks of the Trump administration's …
 
 
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Mark Zuckerberg Tops Warren Buffett to Become the World's Third-Richest Person
Erin Dunne / Washington Examiner:
Why the Left will hate Andrew Wheeler at EPA even more than Scott Pruitt
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump: New NFL anthem policy ‘in many ways’ is worse
Discussion: The Root, IJR and Daily Wire
Sarah Blaskey / miamiherald:
Residents called for help as Irma rolled in. These on-duty cops drank Coronas
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS Chicago
John Wagner / Washington Post:
‘So uncalled for’: George W. Bush's former press secretary chides Trump for mocking ‘thousand points of light’
Discussion: CNN, Fox News Insider and Townhall
Brian Flood / Fox News:
Old tweets reveal CNN reporter used to mock network: ‘CNN is really confused’
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
U.S. Department of Justice:
Virginia Man Sentenced for Obstructing Counterterrorism Investigation
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Fox News:
Brad Paisley invites singing police officers to concert gig after ‘God Bless America’ performance
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CBS Boston
Washington Post:
Kavanaugh's unorthodox path to Trump's Supreme Court shortlist
Discussion: Politico and FiveThirtyEight
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What is Devin Nunes up to? House Trump-Russia probe expands as Intel chair focuses on informants
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Sammy Gecsoyler / The Guardian:
BBC presenter Liz Bonnin's likeness was used in an ad after the company running the campaign was tricked by a fake, likely AI-generated, version of her voice

 
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