| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, July 25 SEX, LIES AND AUDIOTAPE Lawyer Michael Cohen has escalated his feud with Donald Trump by releasing a tape in which they discuss a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Trump. The tape aired last night on CNN. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] TRUMP PLANS MASSIVE BAILOUT FOR FARMERS The Trump administration is planning a $12 billion bailout for U.S. farmers to help protect them from the ravages of a trade war with China, the European Union, and other countries that Trump started. [HuffPost] ELECTION ATTACK IN PAKISTAN LEAVES DOZENS DEAD At least 27 people have been killed and up to 30 injured after a bomb exploded in Quetta, Pakistan. The bloodshed hit on Election Day, as Pakistanis go to the polls. ISIS claimed responsibility. [CNN] QANON CONSPIRACY JUMPS INTO REAL WORLD A man with an AR-15 assault weapon held up a bridge near the Hoover Dam demanding the government release a report that had already been released. Like Pizzagate before it, the QAnon conspiracy has jumped from the Internet into real life. [HuffPost] RYAN: TRUMP JUST ‘TROLLING’ INTEL CHIEFS House Speaker Paul Ryan laughed off concerns that Trump wants to revoke the security clearances of his political opponents, dismissing the revenge threat as just “trolling.” [HuffPost] MCBATH WINS GEORGIA RUNOFF Gun control advocate Lucy McBath won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, and Trump-backed Secretary of State Brian Kemp won a bruising Republican runoff in the race for Georgia governor. [HuffPost] WHITE HOUSE ‘EDITS OFFICIAL PUTIN TRANSCRIPT’ The White House has edited an official transcript of the joint press conference by Trump and Vladimir Putin to remove a question from a reporter that asked if the Russian president wanted Trump to win the 2016 election. [HuffPost]
 INSIDE INCELS’ ‘LOOKSMAXING’ OBSESSION Thousands of “involuntarily celibate” men in online forums are consumed by misogynist entitlement and a skin-deep quest for self-improvement. We go inside incels “looksmaxing” obsession: penis stretching, skull implants and rage. [HuffPost]PAKISTAN’S DEAL WITH CHINA COMES AT HUGE COST We look at how China and Pakistan plan to get rich together through the province of Balochistan, the supposed crown jewel of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and a $62 billion branch of China’s “Belt and Road” plan to expand trade and relationships across Asia and Europe. The plan comes at a cost — human rights. [HuffPost]HOMELAND COUNCIL MEMBERS RESIGN OVER ‘CHILD KIDNAPPING’ Four members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council have resigned over the Trump administration’s forced family separations, with one writing that the policy is “child kidnapping, plain and simple.” [HuffPost]TECH PLATFORMS IGNORE ALEX JONES THREAT Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ latest video accuses special counsel Robert Mueller of covering up sex crimes and threatens him with death. Neither Facebook nor YouTube are doing anything about the video. [HuffPost]TENNESSEE BIRTHER IS LINK BETWEEN RUSSIA AND NRA It was a pro-Confederate birther and Tennessee attorney with an affinity for Vladimir Putin who first introduced the handler of Russian spy Maria Butina to the NRA. [The Daily Beast]TRUMP CANCELS SUMMARIES OF CALLS WITH FOREIGN LEADERS The White House will no longer publish public summaries of Trump’s phone calls with foreign leaders, according to reports. [HuffPost]LOVATO HOSPITALIZED AFTER ‘OVERDOSE’ Demi Lovato was taken to a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday after an apparent drug overdose. The singer and actress later was reported to be “awake and with her family.” [HuffPost]SOCCER PLAYER A SCAPEGOAT FOR RACISTS Germany’s Mesut Özil was a national soccer hero. Now he’s a scapegoat for racists. We look at how Europe’s anti-immigrant hysteria ended his international career. [HuffPost]
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