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Jessie Balmert / USA Today:
Ohio race just got closer after county finds hundreds of uncounted votes  —  A special election in Ohio's 12th Congressional District was too close to call early Tuesday.  It could produce an automatic recount for Democrat Danny O'Connor and Republican Troy Balderson, who was backed by President Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Republicans Gird for House Battle as Ohio and Kansas Races Remain Close  —  Alarmed by the tight race for a congressional seat in Ohio, Republicans are steeling for a 90-day campaign of trench warfare as they fight to keep control of the House, pinning their hopes on well-funded outside groups …
Washington Post:
‘Nothing bodes well’: Lackluster election results spark debate over Trump's midterm role
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Ohio county finds hundreds of uncounted votes in already too-close-to-call special election
Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Red Wave’ Illusion
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:   Trump Claims Election Night Credit. It's Not That Simple.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Devin Nunes, in secretly recorded tape, tells donors GOP majority is necessary to protect Trump: 'We're the only ones'  —  Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, appears to have moved from criticizing the investigation into Russian interference …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Splinter, CNBC and MSNBC
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Phil Helsel / NBC News:
Secret recording shows GOP's Nunes saying Rosenstein impeachment would delay Supreme Court pick  —  “Do you want them [the Senate] to drop everything and not confirm the Supreme Court justice?”  Rep. Devin Nunes said at a recent fundraiser.  —  Hard-line conservative Republicans …
Discussion: New Republic, HuffPost and MSNBC
MSNBC:
TRMS Exclusive: Devin Nunes speaks candidly at fundraiser  —  The Rachel Maddow Show has obtained exclusive audio of Rep. Devin Nunes speaking candidly to donors at a private fundraiser.  —  Below are the transcripts of the portions aired on the August 8, 2018 episode of The Rachel Maddow Show:
Rachel Maddow / MSNBC:   TRMS Exclusive: Devin Nunes at fundraiser audio clip 3
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Rudy's Mueller demand: No questions on Flynn, Comey  —  With his constant commentating and public negotiating, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani is setting up unmeetable expectations for special counsel Robert Mueller — a kind of insurance policy with the president's base.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and POLITICUSUSA
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Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:   Giuliani: This Case Isn't Going To Fizzle, It's Going To Blow Up On Mueller
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Giuliani: Mueller probe is like Watergate ‘on the side of the investigator’
Discussion: Politico, POLITICUSUSA and Daily Kos
Fox News:   Trump's legal team responds to Mueller request for interview
Associated Press:
Like father, like son: Trump Jr. defiant about Russia probe
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers Counter Mueller's Interview Offer, Seeking Narrower Scope
The Daily Beast:
Omarosa Secretly Recorded Trump and Played the Audio to Others, Sources Say … Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal attorney and fixer, isn't the only one with secretly recorded audio of the president.  —  Multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation tell The Daily Beast …
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Sinclair Merger, Sues Broadcast Rival  —  FCC Chairman Ajit Pai had concerns about Sinclair's submissions and sent it to an administrative-law judge, a blow to the merger's approval chances  —  Tribune Media Co. TRCO .99% terminated its merger agreement …
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Washington Post:
Tribune withdraws from Sinclair merger, saying it will sue for ‘breach of contract’
Discussion: CBS Chicago
Hollywood Reporter:   Tribune Media Terminates $3.9B Sinclair Deal, Files Lawsuit for Breach of Contract
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Twitter's CEO doesn't get how conspiracy theories work  —  Jack Dorsey's argument for not banning Alex Jones reveals the limits of his understanding — and a major problem with Big Tech's outsized role in our society.  —  In the past week, tech giants including Facebook, Apple, Youtube …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Case for Banning Alex Jones
Discussion: infowars.com and The Federalist
Sonny Bunch / Washington Post:
The untenable tension between freedom of speech and freedom of association
Sam Baker / Axios:
How one failed drug ensnared so many GOP lawmakers  —  One Australian drug company — with only one (failed) product in one (failed) clinical trial — just keeps tripping up current and former House Republicans.  —  Driving the news: Federal prosecutors in New York indicted Rep. Chris Collins yesterday …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Breitbart
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CBS News:
Chris Collins, a timeline — including video of that phone call at the White House picnic
Discussion: Vox, Washington Post and CNN
Grant Stern / The Dworkin Report:   House Republican just arrested for committing a felony on the White House lawn
Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Man at N.M. compound trained kids for school shooting  —  AMALIA, N.M. (AP) — The father of a missing Georgia boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents obtained Wednesday, as authorities waited to learn …
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Tampa Bay Times:
Bill Nelson: The Russians have penetrated some Florida voter registration systems  —  Nelson amplified concerns about the 2018 midterms.  —  Russian operatives have “penetrated” some of Florida's election systems ahead of the 2018 midterms, Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday, adding new urgency about hacking.
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson  —  Two years ago, I walked downstairs and saw one of my teenage sons watching a strange YouTube video on the television.  —  “What is that?”  I asked.  —  He turned to me earnestly and explained, “It's a psychology professor at the University of Toronto talking about Canadian law.”
Hartford Courant:
Regardless of Trial, New Britain Is Keeping ‘Paul Manafort Drive’  —  New Britain has no plans to change the name of Paul Manafort Drive, according to city officials.  It is named after a former mayor, Paul Manafort, whose son, also named Paul, is making national headlines in his tax fraud trial this week.
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Ken White / NBC News:
The Manafort trial judge keeps yelling at prosecutors. That's not good news for the defendant.
Discussion: Vox, Daily Kos and The Hill
Nicholas Fondacaro / NewsBusters:
GOP Rep's Arrest Gets 7x The Coverage of Entire Scandal for Democrat  —  If you're a politician with “D” at the end of your name, it grants you certain privileges from an all too friendly press.  They go easy on you in interviews, give you the benefit of the doubt, and if you're ever charged …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Whole Republican Party Seems to Be Going to Jail Now  —  The entire Trump era has been a festering pit of barely disguised ongoing corruption.  But the whole sordid era has not had a 24-hour period quite like the orgy of criminality which we have just experienced.  The events of the last day alone include:
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Emails show 2016 links among Steele, Ohr, Simpson — with Russian oligarch in background  —  Emails in 2016 between former British spy Christopher Steele and Justice Department official Bruce Ohr suggest Steele was deeply concerned about the legal status of a Putin-linked Russian oligarch …
CNN:
Dozens dead after school bus carrying children hit by airstrike  —  (CNN)Dozens of children, most believed to be under the age of 10, have been killed after a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a school bus in northern Yemen Thursday.  —  The bus was hit as it was driving through a market …
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
Media boost security as Trump ramps up ‘enemy’ rhetoric  —  TV networks are employing security guards at the president's high-octane rallies.  —  Notebooks, mics, cameras, hairspray — those are all things TV reporters are used to having with them at political rallies.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Weekly Standard:
A Tale of Two Cultures  —  Colombia is a functioning republic with a bright future.  Venezuela, its neighbor, is a nightmare.  What accounts for the difference?  —  A generation ago, Jared Diamond argued in his bestselling book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Don Lemon: Trump told me I couldn't be a fair reporter because I'm black  —  Don Lemon, a black CNN anchor, has accused President Trump of telling him in 2011 that Lemon's race made him incapable of unbiased reporting.  —  Lemon made the claim as he attempted to explain how a years-long feud between …
 
 
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Kai Kupferschmidt / Science:
She's the world's top empathy researcher. But colleagues say she bullied and intimidated them
Katie Reilly / TIME:
The Last Major TV Factory in the U.S. Is Shutting Down Because of President Trump's Tariffs
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
The Marines Didn't Think Women Belonged in the Infantry. She's Proving Them Wrong.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Shine Settles Lawsuit Alleging Fox News Smeared Man Via Media “Sock Puppets”
Shmuel Rosner / New York Times:
Does Sacha Baron Cohen Understand Israel?
Discussion: Althouse
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Stage Version of ‘Network,’ Starring Bryan Cranston, Sets Broadway Opening
Discussion: Gothamist
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney:
Democrats want Facebook to tell them who has seen disinformation
 Earlier Items: 
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
Dianne Feinstein was an easy mark for China's spy
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Hope Hicks getting sucked back into Trump's orbit
Chris McKee / KRQE-TV:
Student accuses Santa Fe store clerk of racial profiling after police called
Discussion: theGrio, The Root and Raw Story
CNN:
Corey Stewart praised southern secession in 2017 campaign appearance
Discussion: Mediaite and New Republic