| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, August 7TUCKER CARLSON: WHITE SUPREMACY IS A ‘HOAX’ Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday claimed there is no white supremacy problem in the United States and that the very notion of one is a hoax created by the media and the left. He has routinely given airtime to white nationalist conspiracy theories and talking points, yet claimed “the whole thing is a lie.” [HuffPost]CONGRESS CALLS ON 8CHAN OWNER TO TESTIFY Lawmakers have called on Jim Watkins, who owns 8chan, an online forum that amplifies the voices of violent extremists, to testify before Congress after the shooter in one of the weekend’s two massacres was believed to have posted on the website. [HuffPost]BACKGROUND CHECKS AREN’T ENOUGH “Background checks work to prevent violence in many cases, but research indicates that they need to be accompanied by a more comprehensive set of reforms if we want them to significantly reduce gun fatalities,” said Rose Kagawa, a gun control researcher at the University of California, Davis. [HuffPost]THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST The trailblazing author Toni Morrison, who was the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, died Monday night at the age of 88. Morrison was best known for her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved,” later adapted into a 1998 film starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. [HuffPost]CALI GOV: MAKE GENDER PART OF GUN VIOLENCE CONVERSATION California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday urged leaders to discuss the role of misogyny and toxic masculinity in gun violence, pointing out that mass shooters “overwhelmingly, almost exclusively, are males, boys, men.” [HuffPost]NEBRASKA GOP SLAMS SENATOR FOR CONDEMNING WHITE SUPREMACY The Nebraska Republican Party called on state Sen. John McCollister to quit the party after he accused his fellow Republicans of “enabling white supremacy” by staying silent on President Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric. [HuffPost]  DAYTON MAYOR WILL TELL TRUMP HOW ‘UNHELPFUL’ HE’S BEEN Nan Whaley, the mayor of Dayton, Ohio, dismissed President Trump’s response to the shooting in her city that left nine people dead. Speaking to reporters, Whaley said she intended to tell the president “how unhelpful he’s been on this” when he visits Wednesday. [HuffPost]JUDGE: RELEASE KHASHOGGI RECORDS Federal agencies must produce thousands of pages monthly of records pertaining to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi because learning about his disappearance as quickly as possible is of “paramount importance,” a judge said Tuesday. [AP]TRUMP IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON VENEZUELAN ASSETS President Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States on Monday, sharply escalating an economic and diplomatic pressure campaign aimed at removing socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power. [Reuters]THOUSANDS PROTEST HONDORAN PRESIDENT LINK TO DRUG GANGS Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Hondoran capital on Tuesday to urge President Juan Orlando Hernandez to step down, just days after he was forced to deny taking money from drug gangs to secure his election in 2013. [Reuters]TWITTER MAY HAVE SHARED USER DATA WITH AD PARTNERS Twitter has announced that users may have had certain data — such as their country code and their engagement with ads on the site — shared with third-party measurement and advertising partners even if they hadn’t given consent to Twitter to share such information. [HuffPost]JUDGE BLOCKS 3 ABORTION RESTRICTIONS U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker temporarily blocked three Arkansas abortion restrictions from going into effect on Tuesday, including one that would ban most abortion at 18 weeks of pregnancy. She said: “Women seeking abortions in Arkansas face an imminent threat to their constitutional rights.” [HuffPost]. 
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