No Images? Click here Tuesday, August 6NYT NIGHTMARE HEADLINE The alleged gunman in Texas who killed at least 22 people Saturday reportedly shared a manifesto online that used similar language to Trump’s, and used the phrase: “Send them back.” But the first edition of the New York Times suggested that the president was attempting to unify the country with the front page headline: “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.” [HuffPost]TRUMP BLAMES EVERYTHING BUT GUNS AND HIMSELF President Trump spoke Monday in response to the mass shootings over the weekend, calling them a “crime against all of humanity.” The president blamed white supremacy, the internet, video games and mental illness for the massacres. He did not blame guns or himself. [HuffPost]TEXAS GUN LAWS ABOUT TO GET EVEN LOOSER Under the current laws in Texas, legal gun owners don’t require an additional permit to carry long guns, such as the one the El Paso gunman used last weekend, in unrestricted public areas. From Sept. 1, it will be even easier to carry guns in Texas churches, schools, apartment buildings and disaster zones. [HuffPost]TEXAS COP APOLOGIZES AFTER LEADING MAN BY LEASH The Galveston Police Department issued an apology on Monday evening after an image was circulated on social media showing two mounted officers, both white, leading a handcuffed black man behind their horses, attached by what looked like a rope or leash. [HuffPost]STOCKS SINK WORLDWIDE OVER U.S.-CHINA TRADE WAR Global stocks extended already substantial losses on Tuesday, after Washington designated Beijing a currency manipulator and further rattled fragile investor sentiment in a rapid escalation of the U.S.-China trade war. [Reuters]COUNTRIES WARN CITIZENS AGAINST U.S. TRAVEL Venezuela’s government issued a warning Monday telling Venezuelans to postpone planned trips to the U.S. or take precautions due to the “proliferation of violent acts and indiscriminate hate crimes.” The Uruguayan government also warned against hate-based violence in the U.S. [HuffPost]THESE SHOOTERS ARE NOT LONE WOLVES Authorities say the shooter who killed 22 people and wounded dozens in El Paso, Texas, Saturday acted alone. In a narrow sense that may be true, but experts warn that it’s important to recognize his actions were rooted in a wider movement of white nationalism and violent extremism that is behind a growing number of mass murders. [HuffPost]CLIMATE CHANGE AT RUSSIA’S ‘GATEWAY TO HELL’ Yakutsk, six time zones east of Moscow, is one of the coldest inhabited places on earth. It is just one of the dozens of Russian cities choked by the wildfires that have been ravaging the Arctic this season at unprecedented levels. [CNN]NORTH KOREA GENERATED $2 BILLION FOR WEAPONS PROGRAMS North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyber attacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday. [Reuters]HANNITY PROPOSES ARMED FORCE TO SURROUND SCHOOLS Fox News host Sean Hannity is calling for a virtual police state of armed ex-cops and military to “surround” schools and shopping malls to prevent mass shootings. [HuffPost]‘TEAM MITCH’ SUPPORTERS CHOKE CUTOUT OF AOC A group of young men in “Team Mitch” campaign shirts supporting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were captured in a photo smiling as one of them pretended to strangle a cardboard cutout of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). [HuffPost]WALL ST.-FRIENDLY DEM PICKS UP PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGER Melanie D’Arrigo, a progressive activist, is challenging Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat, in the Democratic primary election for New York’s 3rd Congressional District. D’Arrigo objects to Suozzi’s stances on key policies, and his unwillingness to be a more vocal spokesman for mutual causes. [HuffPost]
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