| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, August 14TRUMPER: LADY LIBERTY ABOUT ‘PEOPLE FROM EUROPE’ Ken Cuccinelli, the Trump administration’s acting head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, reinforced his controversial interpretation of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty ― this time giving it a racist twist. [HuffPost]KREMLIN KEEPS QUIET OVER MYSTERY EXPLOSIONS An explosion rocked a secretive Russian nuclear test site inside the Arctic Circle last week. Russian officials initially denied that the blast produced any radioactive activity, but nearby authorities advised locals to vacate the town, and Greenpeace reported that background levels of radiation in the area had spiked to 20 times normal levels. [HuffPost]REPORT: EPSTEIN GUARDS FELL ASLEEP The two prison guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein on the night he died by suicide fell asleep during their shift and failed to check on the accused sex trafficker for about three hours, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing a law enforcement official and a prison official familiar with the investigation. [HuffPost]HONG KONG AIRPORT RESUMES FLIGHTS Hong Kong’s airport resumed operations on Wednesday, rescheduling hundreds of flights that had been disrupted over the past two days as protesters clashed with riot police in a deepening crisis in the Chinese-controlled city. [Reuters]ADVERTISERS DROP CARLSON Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers since Carlson’s claim that white supremacy is a “hoax.” Long John Silver’s, Nestlé and HelloFresh have said that they’re no longer running ads on the show, and on Aug. 9, Stein Mart confirmed that it isn’t either, as more brands follow suit. [HuffPost]TRUMP TURNS ON CONSERVATIVES DEFENDING CUOMO President Donald Trump on Tuesday hit out at conservatives who dared to disagree with him about a video showing CNN anchor Chris Cuomo squaring up to a man who called him “Fredo.” “When a Conservative does even a fraction of what Chris Cuomo did with his lunatic ranting, raving, & cursing, they get destroyed by the Fake News,” Trump wrote. [HuffPost]ANOTHER NEWSLETTER YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN As the United States and other nations grapple with the rise of far-right movements and white supremacy, HuffPost is relaunching the Fringe newsletter to keep you informed about the latest news on political extremism. Get it here.  PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES COURT IOWA Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) and author Marianne Williamson are backing a ban on the creation of new “factory farms” as part of their efforts to court rural voters. [HuffPost]FACIAL RECOGNITION FALSELY IDS LAWMAKERS AS CRIMINALS The ACLU’s Northern California branch released its findings from running photos of all 120 California state legislators against a database of 25,000 publicly available mugshots using common facial recognition software. The software identified 26 state legislators ― more than one in five ― as criminals. [HuffPost]THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SHAKES The efforts of the Catholic Church and others in cahoots with Republicans who until last year controlled the New York State Senate were thwarted Wednesday, when the law which cut off a child victim’s chance for justice when they hit 23 was replaced by the Child Victims Act. [The Daily Beast]CALI COUNTIES SUE OVER NEW GREEN CARD RULE San Francisco and Santa Clara counties filed the first lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s new rules to deny green cards to migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance. [AP]‘JUUL-ALIKES’ FILL SHELVES WITH TEEN-FRIENDLY FLAVORS After Juul Labs, under pressure from the Food and Drug Administration, stopped selling most of its hugely popular flavored nicotine pods in stores last fall, upstart competitors swooped in to grab the shelf space for their own fruity and candy-flavored pods. [New York Times]STACEY ABRAMS' BIG QUESTION Stacey Abrams shared some of her considerations as she contemplated a bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Noting the “solid field” of 20 existing candidates, she said: “For me, the calculus is, ‘Am I the right person, and is this the necessary time?’” [HuffPost]
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