| No Images? Click here   By Holly ThomasEditor's note: We're currently updating our email newsletter system. Over the next few weeks you might run into some problems receiving our newsletters. Check your spam or junk mail folders, or email us at dailybrief@huffpost.com if your newsletters are missing. Thanks, and we apologize for any inconvenience. Thursday, October 10TRUMP: THE KURDS DIDN’T HELP US IN WWII President Donald Trump defended his controversial decision to yank support for U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters by noting that the Kurds didn’t help the U.S. during World War II and the invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day. [HuffPost]APPLE GIVES IN TO CHINA Apple removed an app that protestors in Hong Kong have used to track police movements, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police and to victimize residents in areas with no law enforcement. [Reuters]POLITICIANS BLAST NBA FOR CAVING TO CHINA A bipartisan group of lawmakers said they were deeply concerned that the NBA had kowtowed to China after the organization apologized for an executive’s comments supporting protestors in Hong Kong. [HuffPost]TURKEY PRESSES OFFENSIVE IN SYRIA Turkish ground troops advanced against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria in the second day of an assault on forces long allied with the U.S. Turkey launched airstrikes, fired artillery and began a ground offensive after Trump ordered U.S. troops pulled back from the area. [AP]2 DEAD AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE NEAR SYNAGOGUE A shooting near a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle killed at least two people and wounded several others on Yom Kippur in what authorities said appeared to be an anti-Semitic attack. [HuffPost]LAWYERS DEFEND TRUMP OVER WHISTLEBLOWER RANT Attorneys for the whistleblower who first filed the complaint about Trump’s July phone call with the leader of Ukraine defended their client in a statement Wednesday night amid ongoing efforts by the White House to undermine the person’s reputation. [HuffPost] A global HuffPost project on everything you ever wanted to know about therapy, whether you've been once or 100 times. CALIFORNIA POWER OUTAGES EXPOSE SYSTEMIC FAILURE Forced power outages across the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond this week have recast a harsh light on the utility company whose aging infrastructure has been responsible for the region’s worst fires in recent years. [HuffPost]RUBIO PUSHES FOR REVIEW OF TIKTOK DEALS Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) asked a U.S. national security panel to review TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co.’s acquisition of Musical.ly, arguing TikTok is used by the Chinese government to censor politically sensitive content. [Reuters]WOMAN ACCUSES TRUMP OF FORCIBLY GRABBING HER A woman has accused Trump of grabbing her vagina without her consent and forcibly kissing her at his Mar-a-Lago resort in the early 2000s, according to a newly published book excerpt. [HuffPost]TRUMP DEFENDS WIFE OF U.S. DIPLOMAT Trump addressed the transatlantic controversy over a U.S. diplomat’s wife who police say was driving on the wrong side of the road when she hit a teenage British motorcyclist, who was killed. The woman subsequently fled the U.K. [HuffPost]‘WOMEN FOR TRUMP’ TRIES TO SPIN AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD “The president has empowered women like no other,” said Karen Pence, wife of the vice president, explaining that she understood a lot of women might be “on the fence” about voting for Trump next year. “He cares about meeting them where it counts: in their pocketbooks …. Look at the job rate for women. You have to vote for Donald Trump.” [HuffPost]TRUMP WARNS MCCONNELL ABOUT DISLOYAL REPUBLICANS In private, Trump is increasingly leaning on the Republican Senate leader. In a return to the president's panicked behavior during the height of the Mueller investigation, Trump is calling McConnell as often as three times a day, according to a person familiar with the conversations. [CNN]
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