| No Images? Click here  Thursday, September 6TRUMP RAGES AT OP-ED: TURN THEM OVER President Donald Trump slammed an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times purportedly written by a senior White House official, calling it a “gutless editorial.” The Times op-ed details an internal effort to derail the president from causing damage to the country, citing his unpredictable urges and “anti-democratic” ideas. Trump raged: “The Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!” The editorial has reportedly led to a “total meltdown” in the White House, while online sleuths have zeroed in on this one word to suggest Vice President Mike Pence is the writer. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]INDIA STRIKES DOWN GAY BAN India’s top court has struck down a colonial-era law that makes homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison. [AP]KAVANAUGH DUCKS QUESTIONS Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced several rounds of tough questions from Democrats, but he emerged largely unscathed Wednesday after successfully sidestepping hot-button legal issues such as abortion, health care and presidential power. [HuffPost]DEM SENATOR: TRUMP’S PICK LIED UNDER OATH Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said the emails being withheld by Senate Republicans show that Kavanaugh may have lied under oath during his judicial confirmation hearings in 2004 and 2006. [HuffPost]EBOLA DEATH IN DRC The Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed its first Ebola death in the eastern city of Butembo, home to almost 1 million people. The urban death, combined with ongoing violence in the region, could quickly escalate the outbreak. [HuffPost]KIM ‘COMMITTED’ TO DENUCLEARIZATION Kim Jong Un has reaffirmed his commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, while expressing faith in Trump’s ability to strike a deal. [AP] GOP CONGRESSMAN ‘SPENT CAMPAIGN CASH ON AFFAIRS’ Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) spent campaign cash on affairs with five separate individuals, according to prosecutors. Hunter and his wife, Margaret, were indicted last month on 60 charges alleging misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds. [HuffPost]MORMON WOMAN CONFRONTS ALLEGED RAPIST A woman who claims a former Mormon leader raped her in the 1980s staged a protest from the pulpit — in the accused man’s own Arizona church. [HuffPost]CHINA FUMES OVER BRITISH SHIP China is raging over a British Royal Navy warship that sailed close to islands claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, saying Britain was engaged in “provocation.” [Reuters]RUBIO CONFRONTED BY ALEX JONES Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) became embroiled in a bizarre confrontation with Alex Jones, telling the conspiracy theorist not to touch him during a recess for Wednesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. [HuffPost]FAST-MOVING WILDFIRE BLOCKS HIGHWAY A major highway connecting California and Oregon is closed due to a fast-moving wildfire that swept through Shasta County, 200 miles north of San Francisco. [AP]POLICE CAPTAIN’S SON JAILED FOR TERROR PLOT The son of a Boston police captain was sentenced this week to 20 years behind bars for plotting a series of terror attacks that federal prosecutors said were inspired by ISIS. [HuffPost]
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