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6:55 AM ET, August 14, 2018

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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
President Trump called Donald Jr. ‘a f—kup’ after he released emails about controversial meet with Russian lawyer, book says  —  President Trump blasted his firstborn son as a “f—kup” after learning he had released emails about a controversial Trump Tower meeting attended by a Kremlin-connected lawyer …
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards  —  President Donald Trump's former aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out phony Fox News business cards, Mediaite has learned.  —  Gorka, who was fired from his nebulous role at the White House late last year …
Discussion: Splinter
Politico:
Trump tried to ban top aides from penning tell-all books  —  Sources say top officials were asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement prohibiting such books without the express permission of the president.  —  Long before Omarosa Manigault Newman lodged explosive claims against her former boss …
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Exclusive: Omarosa Said Former TV Contestant Played Tape Of Racist Slur For Her In White House, Sources Say  —  The former White House aide and “Apprentice” contestant claims Trump could be heard using the “n-word” on the alleged audio recording, sources close to her confirm she told them in December.
Haley Byrd / Weekly Standard:
Mark Zaid: ‘Any NDA that extends beyond classified information would be unconstitutional.’  —  President Donald Trump and his allies have recently touted the existence of nondisclosure agreements with White House employees as a response to estranged former employee Omarosa Manigault Newman's attacks on Trump.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
White House paranoia deepens after Omarosa tapes  —  Omarosa releases a recording of her own firing  —  Washington (CNN)Secret tapes.  Nondisclosure agreements.  A lot of name calling.  —  The revelations surrounding Omarosa Manigault Newman's new memoir, and the ensuing fallout …
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:   Omarosa Slams Her Former Colleagues in Forthcoming Tell-All
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump offers White House staffers a special perk at his golf club
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump has no black senior White House staff
Discussion: TheBlaze
Washington Post:
‘Everyone signed one’: Trump is aggressive in his use of nondisclosure agreements, even in government
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Weekly Standard
Daily Mail:
The president tweeted that his onetime African-American outreach director had signed an NDA …
Discussion: AOL, Law & Crime and Hot Air
gofundme.com:
Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok  —  $25,031 of $150,000 goal Raised by 607 people in 3 hours  —  Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok  —  Peter Strzok, a man who has spent his entire life working to help keep us and our nation safe, has been fired.  He needs your help.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Signs grow that Mueller is zeroing in on Roger Stone  —  appears to be narrowing his focus on Roger Stone  —  in his investigation into Russian interference in the election, prompting widespread speculation that the longtime adviser to President Trump  —  is likely a target in the probe.
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Roger Stone / The Daily Caller:
The Witch Hunt Continues
Discussion: emptywheel
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:   House Democrats seek to interview inflammatory ‘alt-right’ activist Chuck Johnson
Daniel Friedman / Mother Jones:
Mueller Is Examining Roger Stone's Emails
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
kob.com:
Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State prosecutors' motion to detain five adults arrested after a raid in northern New Mexico earlier this month was denied by a judge on Monday.  —  Judge Sarah Backus made the determination …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Jihad Watch
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Matt Richardson / Fox News:
Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ compound that allegedly conducted school-shooting training  —  The children discovered at an “extremist Muslim” compound in New Mexico earlier this month were both trained to use firearms and taught multiple tactical techniques …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Zoe Greenberg / New York Times:
What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?  —  The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump Goes for Broke on Claim Military Received No Money Before His Watch.  (He's Still Wrong.)  —  While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.
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CNN:
President Trump visits upstate New York
Luppe B. Luppen / Yahoo:
3 missing men at the Manafort trial  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman resumes today, it appears prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office have decided not to call three seemingly key figures.  The absence of these witnesses offers …
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Bloomberg:   Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job
Kate Taylor / Business Insider:
Rapper Azealia Banks claims she was at Elon Musk's house over the weekend as he was ‘scrounging for investors’  — Rapper Azealia Banks claimed that she spent the weekend at Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk's house, setting social media ablaze.  — Banks told Business Insider she saw Musk at home …
Discussion: Consequence of Sound and Gizmodo
Kellen Browning / Sacramento Bee:
Two men identified in fatal fight on I-5; witnesses say one chased the other with a bat  —  The two men who were killed early Sunday morning after a vehicle collision caused a fight on Interstate 5 in Natomas were identified Monday.  —  Their vehicles hit each other in the northbound lanes …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times:
Today's Supreme Drop Is All Over the New York Post  —  A dramatic cover ad on the New York Post for the street wear company Supreme turned today's tabloid into an impossible to find commodity.  —  Rush hour commuters were hard-pressed to find a copy of The New York Post near the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Times Square on Monday.
Discussion: Observer
Marc Caputo / Politico:
'Where's the blue wave?'  Voter data show Florida Democrats aren't surging  —  What blue wave?  —  While it's notched four consecutive wins in local bellwether races, Florida's Democratic Party has lost a share of its registered voters in Florida since 2016 and the percentage …
Discussion: Daily Wire
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Adrian Carrasquillo / New Republic:
Democrats Are Taking Latino Voters for Granted
Discussion: Daily Wire
Sarah Parvini / Los Angeles Times:
A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum  —  On a recent visit to the federal prison in Victorville, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano was caught by surprise.  Of the hundreds of immigrants detained there, he learned, possibly 40% had traveled from India seeking asylum.
Discussion: KTLA
Eric Holthaus / Grist:
Glacier National Park is on fire — and yes, warming is making things worse  —  This summer has felt like a global warming turning point.  —  Now, another milestone: Saturday was the hottest day in the history of Glacier National Park, and its first recorded time reaching 100 degrees F.
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
Save Yourself, Mr. President  —  When it comes to overseeing the FBI and Justice, he's all tweet and no action.  —  Even a summer respite from Washington at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey couldn't keep Donald Trump off Twitter .  —  Over the weekend the president went on a tear …
Lucia Suarez Sang / Fox News:
Antifa's violent confrontations with police, journalists mar otherwise peaceful rally counterprotesters  —  Members of Antifa were seen launching eggs, fireworks and water bottles at police officers and the Secret Service, beating people in the street and threatening members of the media during the uber-left …
 
 
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John Verhovek / ABC News:
Governors' races take on an understated but outsize role in 2018 landscape
Discussion: Politico and New York Times
Aviva Shen / The Appeal:
NEW ORLEANS COURT ORDERED TO STOP FUNDING ITSELF ON THE BACKS OF THE POOR
John Binder / Breitbart:
More Than Half of Foreign Refugees Are on Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps
teleSUR / telesurtv.net:
TeleSUR English Removed From Facebook for the Second Time
Haiyang Zhang / Voice of America:
VOA Reporters Freed After Hours-long Detention by Chinese Authorities
Mark Richardson / Pitchfork:
Listening for Silence With the Headphones Off
 Earlier Items: 
Axios:
Scoop: Netanyahu and Sisi held secret meeting on Gaza
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Fusion GPS Founder Shared ‘False Story’ About GOP Lawyer In Meeting With DOJ's Bruce Ohr
Discussion: Breitbart
Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones names his allies in the fight against the globalists: Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham …
Nada Farhoud / Mirror.co.uk:
15 acid attacks every week in Britain and even children as young as TWO are doing it
Discussion: Breitbart
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
New Report Uncovers (Even More) Ethical Issues For Wilbur Ross
Discussion: CNBC and CNN
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
An Old OLC Opinion on Whether the President Can Be Subpoenaed
Bloomberg:
Kushner's Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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