| No Images? Click here  Thursday, August 1EVERYBODY VS. BIDEN Everyone took turns squabbling with former Vice President Joe Biden at Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate. Sen. Cory Booker and Julián Castro both landed solid hits, but it was unclear if the damage to Biden was severe enough to knock him from his front-runner perch. [HuffPost]JAY INSLEE CALLS TRUMP A WHITE NATIONALIST AT DEBATE Asked about immigration reform, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said: “I think we’re missing two central statements... No. 1: We can no longer allow a white nationalist to be in the White House,” Inslee said to applause. “And No. 2, we have to make America what it’s always been. A place of refuge.” [HuffPost]RNC HOST CITY ALREADY HAVING REGRETS Republican Party leaders scoping out locations to renominate Donald Trump for president next year have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, a city that has labeled his statements “racist” and that almost wishes it had never invited the GOP in the first place. [HuffPost]TRUMP RATCHETS PRESSURE ON IRAN The Trump administration has placed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The action blocks Zarif from accessing the U.S. financial system and is an escalation in Trump’s campaign of “maximum pressure” against the Islamic Republic. [HuffPost]N.Y. SAYS NO TO GUN-TOTING TEACHERS New York has banned schools from arming teachers and other non-security staff under a new law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). The measure exempts school resource officers, police and other law enforcement staff. [HuffPost]OSAMA BIN LADEN’S SON CONFIRMED DEAD Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden and heir to al Qaeda leadership, is dead, according to The New York Times. He was apparently killed in the past two years, but it took time to confirm his death. The United States reportedly had a role in the killing, though details are still unknown. [HuffPost].   FEDERAL RESERVE CUTS INTEREST RATES The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time since 2008, citing concerns about the global economy and muted U.S. inflation. The cut lowered the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight lending rate to a target range of 2.00% to 2.25%. [Reuters]ANOTHER GOP REP QUITS Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) announced that he will not seek reelection in 2020, becoming the fifth congressional Republican in just two weeks to announce an imminent retirement. The eight-term congressman said he wanted to “leave on my own terms.” [HuffPost]EQUIFAX PROBABLY WON’T SEND YOU A CHECK AFTER ALL The Federal Trade Commission warned Americans that their eventual payouts with Equifax for the credit agency’s role in a massive data breach could be far less than those promised figures after an “overwhelming” number of people visited the claims website since the settlement was announced. [HuffPost]HONG KONG: CHINESE MILITARY CONDEMNS VIOLENCE The commander of the Chinese military garrison in Hong Kong has addressed the city's ongoing protest movement for the first time, warning that violence by pro-democracy groups "should not be tolerated." [CNN]EPSTEIN TRIAL ‘WILL HAVE A MILLION PAGES OF EVIDENCE’ Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking trial will have a million pages of discovery, including materials on devices seized from his Manhattan mansion, lawyers said. [The Daily Beast]KANSAS ACCUSES HEMP FARMERS OF TRAFFICKING WEED In early January 2017, Kansas Highway Patrol seized what they believed to be marijuana from the back of a FedEx truck. Paperwork verified it was actually hemp. Nothing happened for two years. In the meantime, industrial hemp was legalized. Finally, this year, Kansas prosecutors charged two hemp farmers with felonies. [HuffPost]
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