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11:05 AM ET, August 10, 2018

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David Smith / The Guardian:
Omarosa says Trump is a racist who uses N-word - and claims there's tape to prove it  —  Former Apprentice contestant and ex-White House adviser writes in new memoir that she witnessed ‘truly appalling things’  —  Donald Trump is a “racist” who has used the “N-word” repeatedly …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Used Racial Slur During ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ Ex-Aide Says  —  President Trump frequently used the word “nigger” while he was the host of the reality television show “Celebrity Apprentice” and there are tapes that can confirm it, according to a new memoir by one of Mr. Trump's former …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and The Guardian
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Omarosa book claims there are tapes of Trump using N-word on ‘Apprentice’ set
Discussion: The Guardian
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The White Nationalists Are Winning  —  The year since the white-supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been difficult for the rogues gallery of Nazis and pseudo-Nazis who championed it.  —  Jason Kessler, one of the organizers, was practically run out of town …
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CNNMoney:
White anxiety finds a home at Fox News  —  Critics accuse Fox News host of racism  —  It wasn't so much a dog whistle as it was an airhorn.  Or perhaps a primal scream.  But whatever it was, Laura Ingraham's forceful denunciation of “massive demographic changes” served as another raw example …
CNN:
Vote count discrepancies found in Kansas GOP primary  —  Washington (CNN)The close GOP primary race between Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Gov. Jeff Colyer took a turn on Thursday, with discrepancies discovered between unofficial results from the county and the state levels.
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Kobach Says He Will Recuse Himself From Kansas Primary Vote Count
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump slaps steeper tariffs on Turkey after currency freefall  —  President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he is doubling tariffs on Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan asked citizens to convert foreign currencies, including U.S. dollars, into local lira — leading to a dramatic drop in the Turkish currency.
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Michael Avenatti in Iowa: 'I'm exploring a run for the presidency of the United States'  —  Michael Avenatti, 2020?  Stormy Daniels' lawyer says he could be the latest unlikely candidate to throw his hat into the ring.  Nathan Rousseau Smith has more.  Buzz60  —  CONNECT  —  Michael Avenatti has arrived in Iowa.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:   Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels's Lawyer, Eyes Another Gig: President
Harry Litman / Washington Post:
Time for Mueller to bring out the big guns  —  Harry Litman teaches constitutional law at the University of California at San Diego and practices law at the firm Constantine Cannon.  He was U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2001.
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Elie Honig / The Daily Beast:
Trump Will Fold if Mueller Calls His Bluff. Giuliani Is the Tell.
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
‘I hate this county.’ Democratic House candidate convicted of DUI unloads on cops  —  First-time Georgia candidate to remain on ballot for now  —  A Democratic candidate for Congress in a conservative north Georgia district who was convicted this week of drunken driving challenged the officers …
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Chris Whitfield / The Daily Citizen:
‘I hate this county.  I prayed to God that he would curse it’: Footage shows DUI arrest …
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Most Blissfully Trump-Twitter-Free Place in America  —  Welcome to the money-laundering trial of Paul Manafort, where facts still matter.  —  Late on Wednesday morning, Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, stared directly at Rick Gates, his longtime deputy turned accuser …
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Manafort trial Day 8: A heated exchange, judge admits fault, Airbnb enters the spotlight
CNN:
Mueller request signals Gates may still be cooperating
Discussion: emptywheel and Politico
John Solomon / The Hill:
The handwritten notes exposing what Fusion GPS told DOJ about Trump  —  A memory stick quietly exchanged in a coffee shop.  —  An admission of a “Hail Mary” leak.  —  An unmistakable effort to push the Russia investigation closer to Donald Trump  —  's inner circle with uncorroborated tales.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The only way to save the GOP is to defeat it  —  University of Chicago researchers — who clearly have a lot of time on their hands — have found that the use of certain brands and products is a good predictor of your level of affluence.  This is an exercise in the obvious when it comes to a $1,000 iPhone.
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NBC News:
50 Democratic candidates say they would oppose Pelosi as House speaker  —  NBC News surveyed candidates and their public statements to determine whether they will back the California lawmaker.  —  WASHINGTON — As Democrats battle to retake control of Congress in November, their leader …
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Matthew Sheffield / The Hill:
Poll: Three-quarters of Americans say Nancy Pelosi should be replaced, including half of Democrats
New York Times:
Cables Detail C.I.A. Waterboarding at Secret Prison Run by Gina Haspel  —  WASHINGTON — In late November 2002, C.I.A. interrogators at a secret prison in Thailand warned a Qaeda suspect that he had to “suffer the consequences of his deception.”  —  As interrogators splashed water on the chest of the man …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Common Dreams
Susan E. Rice / New York Times:
President Trump, the Autocrats' Best Friend  —  The Trump administration is tolerating abuses by Saudi Arabia instead of defending its democratic ally, Canada.  —  After Canada's foreign minister tweeted concern about Saudi Arabia's imprisonment of prominent human rights and women's rights activists …
Laura Newberry / Los Angeles Times:
Fed-up locals are setting electric scooters on fire, smearing them with poop and burying them at sea  —  They've been crammed into toilets, tossed off balconies and set on fire.  They've even been adorned with dangling bags of dog droppings.  —  As cities from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills struggle …
Discussion: Althouse
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Sarah Jeong and the Question of “Context”  —  Two years ago, the ESPN host Bomani Jones appeared on the network's “Mike & Mike” morning show wearing a T-shirt that seemed, at first glance, to bear the logo of Cleveland's baseball team, but, in place of the trademark cursive “Indians,” …
New York Times:
U.S. Officials Scrambled Behind the Scenes to Shield NATO Deal From Trump  —  John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, pushed NATO ambassadors to finish a critical policy document before the alliance's summit meeting last month so the president could not reject it.  —  August 9, 2018
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
What would the intelligence community's ‘insurance policy’ against Trump look like?  —  Let's begin in the realm of the fanciful.  —  Assume, for the sake of argument, that powerful, connected people in the intelligence community and in politics worried that a wildcard Trump presidency …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's media blitz  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old self-described “democratic socialist” who unexpectedly toppled a top Democratic incumbent in the primary for New York's 14th Congressional District, is a sudden media star even though she has not been elected to Congress.
Discussion: Shadowproof, Townhall, CNN and Hot Air
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Yes, Donald Trump, you are a ‘racist’  —  CNN anchor Don Lemon revealed that in 2011, then-private citizen Donald Trump once branded him a “racist.”  Why?  “I was racist,” the African American journalist said Tuesday, “because of the way that I challenged him.”  Funny, Trump did the same thing to me four years later.
Matt Miller / Esquire:
James Bond Producers Are Reportedly Leaning Toward Idris Elba as the Next 007  —  Dreams maybe do come true.  —  There are a lot of actors who  —  could  —  play 007 once Daniel Craig retires from the role he despises: Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender (even though he's Irish), Tom Hiddleston …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Jimmy Kimmel Leaves Kanye West Speechless: Does Trump ‘Care About Black People’? … “I feel dragon energy in the air,” Jimmy Kimmel said during his monologue Thursday night.  That's because, after grilling Kim Kardashian West about her husband's “love” for Donald Trump just last week, he had Yeezus himself in the building.
FiveThirtyEight:
We Researched Hundreds Of Races.  Here's Who Democrats Are Nominating.  —  This story was produced in collaboration with ABC News and Ballotpedia.1 Research by Ballotpedia and Roey Hadar, Lee Harris, Adam Kelsey, Adia Robinson, Meena Venkataramanan and John Verhovek of ABC News.
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Outsourcing critic's brand sells foreign parts  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The off-road accessory was shipped in a box emblazoned with the logo of an auto parts brand owned by Mike Braun, a multimillionaire businessman who often rails against foreign outsourcing in his bid to become Indiana's next senator.
Jud Esty-Kendall / NPR:
Loved Ones Of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer Cope With Their Loss Together … It's been nearly one year since Susan Bro lost her daughter to the violence that erupted at last summer's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.  —  Bro's daughter, Heather Heyer …
Discussion: Vox
John Cook / HuffPost:
The Story Behind The Story That Created A Political Nightmare For Facebook  —  In 2016, Gizmodo reported that Facebook workers “suppressed” conservative news.  An editor has second thoughts.  —  When Vice News reported last month that Twitter had been “shadowbanning” conservative voices …
Emily Goldberg / Politico:
Medvedev: U.S. sanctions against Russian banks would be ‘declaration of economic war’  —  Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Friday that his nation could retaliate against the United States' newly issued economic sanctions, saying it would consider any action against its banks an act of economic war.
 
 
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Fearing ‘blue wave,’ drug, insurance companies build single-payer defense
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Common Dreams
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Pragmatic Left Is Winning
Discussion: The Week, Fox News and Splinter
Foreign Policy:
Putin Is Building a Bosnian Paramilitary Force
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Mystery surrounds former sex-ring operator's Mueller probe role
Discussion: ABC News
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Donald Trump Jr posts fake approval ratings graphic to falsely claim his dad is more popular than Obama
Dick Polman / The Atlantic:
The Democrats' Quest to Win the Senate
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Mazie Hirono Is Pressing Trump's Nominees On Sexual Harassment. Brett Kavanaugh Is Next.
Politico:
Trump blows up GOP's formula for winning House races
Matt Stout / BostonGlobe.com:
Charlie Baker signs automatic voter registration bill
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
How Bad are Things for the GOP? A Democratic House Candidate got 30,000 Write-In Votes in Michigan
Rachel M. Cohen / The Intercept:
“It Was All True”: Minnesota Attorney General's Former Deputy Speaks Out About Participation in Political Work
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
Melania Trump's Parents Become U.S. Citizens as Lawyer Acknowledges ‘Chain Migration’
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Twitter says Infowars hasn't ‘violated our rules.’ It looks like that's not the case
 

 
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