| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, August 7TRUMP: IRAN SANCTIONS ARE FOR ‘WORLD PEACE’ President Donald Trump has claimed in a tweet that “biting” sanctions on Iran that took effect at midnight are for “WORLD PEACE” and warned, “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States.” Earlier, Hassan Rouhani condemned Washington over the measures, describing them as "psychological warfare" designed to "sow division among Iranians." [AP] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]ALEX JONES BEGS TRUMP TO INTERVENE Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who claimed the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors, has begged Trump to intervene after his content was removed from YouTube, Facebook and iTunes. Blaming “globalists” and “the Chinese” — and skipping over his violation of policies on graphic violence and hate speech — Jones urged Trump to make his content ban a campaign issue ahead of the 2018 midterms because it’s “the right thing to do.” [HuffPost]GATES: I COMMITTED CRIMES ALONGSIDE MANAFORT Rick Gates, the political operative who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign, has admitted in federal court that he committed crimes alongside Paul Manafort, helping Trump’s former campaign chairman cheat on his taxes and hide his foreign bank accounts from the government. [HuffPost]TRUMP ‘TOLD TO STOP TWEETING’ ABOUT RUSSIA MEETING Trump has reportedly been told to stop tweeting about the Trump Tower meeting meeting by his aides. After he recently undercut his own initial explanation for the infamous gathering, we compiled all the reasons the president has used to explain why his campaign sat down with the Russians. [CNN]CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES BIGGEST IN STATE’S HISTORY The wildfires raging north of San Francisco, which have already has consumed an area almost as big as Los Angeles, is now the largest fire in modern California history. [HuffPost]MOTHER CONVICTED OF SELLING SON TO PEDOPHILES ON DARK WEB A German mother and her partner have been convicted over the selling of the woman’s young son, now 10, for sex on the dark web. [HuffPost]
 HOLLYWOOD COUNCIL WANTS TRUMP’S STAR GONE The West Hollywood City Council has unanimously approved a resolution urging that Trump’s star be removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, as the site is being repeatedly vandalized. [HuffPost]ANONYMOUS: WE’LL DEBUNK QANON The anarchist hacking group Anonymous has vowed to “wreck” those behind the shadowy right-wing conspiracy generator QAnon. Even though, as BuzzFeed points out, it is looking very likely that QAnon is a leftist prank on Trump voters. [HuffPost]KUSHNER DELETED NEWSPAPER STORIES ABOUT HIS FRIENDS Jared Kushner used to walk around the office of the New York Observer and instruct editors and software engineers to remove stories about his friends. [BuzzFeed]DEPLOYED TROOPS BANNED FROM USING GEOLOCATION TECH Military troops and Defense Department personnel deployed to sensitive areas such as war zones will no longer be able to use fitness trackers and cellphone applications that pinpoint their location. [HuffPost]TRUMP’S WALL WOULD COST BILLIONS MORE Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border could cost billions of dollars more than initially estimated, a watchdog agency has warned. [HuffPost]POLICE SEARCHING PIG FARM FOR MISSING IOWA STUDENT Authorities looking for missing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts have conducted several searches of a Deep River, Iowa, pig farm — about 20 minutes from where Tibbetts was last seen. [HuffPost]
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