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6:10 PM ET, August 23, 2019

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Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Dow drops more than 300 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’  —  China plans to raise import tariffs on $75 billion worth of US goods  —  Stocks fell to their lows of the day on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered in a series tweets …
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Washington Post:
Dow Jones industrial average loses more than 600 points, or 2.4%, after Trump demands companies stop doing business with China  —  The slide came after the trade war between the United States and China worsened Friday, with Beijing imposing retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in American goods.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Orders U.S. Businesses to Find Alternative to China  —  President says 'we don't need China' after Beijing announces tariffs on $75 billion of additional U.S. products  —  President Trump said U.S. companies were “hereby ordered” to start looking for alternatives to doing business …
New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Raise Existing Tariffs on Chinese Goods to 30%  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, angered by Beijing's decision on Friday to retaliate against his next round of tariffs and furious at his Federal Reserve chair for not doing more to juice the economy, said he would increase taxes …
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:   Trump will raise tariff rates on Chinese goods in response to trade war retaliation
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Trade war explodes as Trump clashes with US firms over ‘order’ to abandon China, block fentanyl shipments
ABC News:   Markets tumble on growing tariffs rift between US, China
Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:
Trump vows response as China plans tariffs on $75B US goods
Discussion: Politico and Fox News
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Seth Moulton Ends 2020 Presidential Campaign With a Warning  —  Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a candidacy that emphasized Mr. Moulton's centrist politics and military service but gained no traction with Democratic primary voters.
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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Four Interesting Findings From The Recent Flurry Of 2020 Polls
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:
David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79  —  He and his brother, Charles Koch, helped to build a massive conservative network of donors to support libertarian-leaning economic policies.  —  David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, has died.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Elizabeth Warren's human shield
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79
Wall Street Journal:
Billionaire David Koch, Who Spent Heavily to Back Conservative Causes, Dies
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
A Penn Law Professor Wants to Make America White Again  —  Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is the academic who perhaps best represents the ideology of the Trump Administration's immigration restrictionists.  Wax, who began her professional life as a neurologist …
Discussion: Power Line, Eschaton and Althouse
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated Again For Cancer  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday.  —  The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis …
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Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for new pancreatic cancer
Politico:
Amazon fires spark Macron threat to kill South America trade deal  —  BIARRITZ, France — The Amazon rainforest is ablaze, and Emmanuel Macron feels like he just got burned.  —  Only two months after Europe concluded a landmark trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is set to blow up the G-7. In so doing, he'll reveal the worst.
Dominic Holden / BuzzFeed News:
The Trump Administration Asked The Supreme Court To Legalize Firing Workers Simply For Being Gay  —  The Trump administration took its hardest line yet to legalize anti-gay discrimination on Friday when it asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire workers based only on their sexual orientation.
Discussion: Splinter and Political Wire
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Trump admin to Supreme Court: It's OK to fire workers for being gay
NBC News:
African American employee's office vandalized inside Education Department  —  African art figurines were found beheaded and a school desegregation poster was damaged, leading to fears the attack was racially motivated.  —  WASHINGTON — The office of an African American employee …
Discussion: Political Wire
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The ‘1619 Project’ Isn't Anti-American — It's Anti-White Identity Politics  —  Your great saints were child rapists.  Your sacred texts are false alibis for a world-historic crime.  That isn't a hill your shining city sits upon, but the unmarked graves of men it condemned to unlived lives.
Erica Orden / CNN:
Trump's banks won't tell court if they have his tax returns  —  New York (CNN)Lawyers for Deutsche Bank and Capital One repeatedly refused Friday to tell an appellate court in New York whether the banks are in possession of President Donald Trump's tax returns, citing “contractual obligations” …
Martha C. White / NBC News:
Fed Chair Powell avoided triggering a market reaction — then came Trump  —  “Trump wants the Fed to use low interest rates to help him in his battle with China.  But the Federal Reserve is not in existence for political expediency,” said one economist.  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome …
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Lynh Bui / Washington Post:
Innocent man spent months in jail for bringing honey back to United States  —  Leon Haughton likes honey in his tea.  Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favorite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland.
Emily Yoffe / Reason:
'I'm Radioactive'  —  Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times.  Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest.  There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.
Megan Greenwell / The Concourse:
The Adults In The Room  —  There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless business-doers, concerned about profit above all else.  That would be a convenient story, pitching me and my colleagues and friends …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The speech we want to hear: ‘This is madness’  —  President Trump's increasingly manic, irrational and incoherent rants have not provoked a significant response from the Democratic presidential contenders.  Perhaps they don't want to interrupt while Trump is in the process of self-destruction.
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr Seized on Epstein Case as Doubts Mounted About Justice Dept.  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr was at home in his study, working on a speech, when the call came from his chief of staff: Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of sex trafficking who had connections to an array …
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site.  The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products  —  Just like tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site
Jackie Smith / The Times Herald:
Racist comment shocks Marysville forum amid message of growth, momentum … Capitalizing on Marysville's current momentum — from redeveloping the old Mighty Marysville property to improvements at city parks — quickly became a common theme for city election candidates during a forum Thursday night.
Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:
Top Democrat from L.L. Bean town erases logo from her Patagonia jacket in campaign video  —  Maine Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon's campaign quietly erased a Patagonia logo from a jacket she wore in a video used in Facebook ads soliciting donations to her campaign.
Discussion: Bangor Daily News and Press Herald
 
 
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