| No Images? Click here  Friday, August 10DOLPHINS KNEEL FOR ANTHEM Miami Dolphins Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson have defied the football league’s new policy surrounding on-field protests by taking a knee during the national anthem at Thursday’s NFL preseason opener. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]MEDVEDEV: HITTING RUSSIAN BANKS AN ACT OF ‘ECONOMIC WAR’ Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said he would consider any U.S. move to curb the operations of Russian banks or their foreign currency dealings a declaration of economic war. [Reuters]PENCE DETAILS TRUMP’S ‘SPACE FORCE’ Mike Pence has outlined the administration's goal of creating a sixth branch of the U.S. military by 2020, known as the “Space Force.” The vice president said the White House will work to build bipartisan support for the plan in Congress. [HuffPost]THOUSANDS EVACUATED FROM FRENCH FLOODS More than 1,600 people have been evacuated after torrential rain sparked flooding in southern France. Most of the evacuees were campers vacationing in the Gard, Ardeche and Drome regions. [Sky News]UN CALLS FOR YEMEN BUS PROBE The United Nations secretary-general has called for an independent investigation into a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen that killed dozens of children traveling on a bus. [CNN]UNCOUNTED VOTES FOUND IN OHIO Officials in Ohio have discovered 588 uncounted votes in this week’s special election for the 12th Congressional District, tightening a race that was already too close to call. Meanwhile, in the neck-and-neck Republican primary for Kansas governor, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who narrowly leads Gov. Jeff Colyer, says he will recuse himself from overseeing the ballot count. [HuffPost]EPA ORDERED TO BAN PESTICIDE A federal court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban a widely used pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children that ousted EPA chief Scott Pruitt refused to outlaw. [HuffPost] AVENATTI MULLS 2020 RUN Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had an affair with Trump, says he’s in Iowa to explore a run for president in 2020. [HuffPost]INGRAHAM HAS BEEN PUSHING BIGOTRY FOR YEARS Laura Ingraham’s shameless rant about “massive demographic changes” that attacked legal immigrants should be no surprise. The Fox News contributor has been hawking white nationalism for years. [HuffPost]SESSIONS COULD BE HELD IN CONTEMPT A federal judge has threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of court if the government does not bring back a mother and daughter who were deported to El Salvador at the same time he was hearing arguments about why the family should be allowed to stay in the U.S. [HuffPost]MURDER CHARGE FOR PARENTS WHO WITHHELD MEDICAL HELP A Michigan couple who told cops they refused to get medical help for their sick baby over “religious reasons” are facing charges of felony murder and first-degree child abuse following the child’s death. [HuffPost]SOYBEAN SHIP STUCK OFF CHINA COAST A ship packed with $20 million in American soybeans has been sailing in circles off the coast of China after failing to beat the imposition of retaliatory tariffs in Beijing’s trade war with the Trump administration. [HuffPost]OCASIO-CORTEZ HITS BACK AT CONSERVATIVE ‘CATCALL’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shot back at a conservative commentator Ben Shapiro Thursday, comparing an invitation to debate him with a catcaller on the street. “I don’t owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions,” she wrote. [HuffPost]
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