#UPDATE Two Reuters journalists – Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo – accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets while reporting on a massacre of Rohingya are jailed for seven years pic.twitter.com/7QlOkfNHNb
— AFP news agency (@AFP) September 3, 2018
BREAKING: Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in a Myanmar prison. Watch reactions live: https://t.co/i4o56TvUwt pic.twitter.com/78Nc1YXAPM
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 3, 2018
Myanmar Journalists Convicted and Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison https://t.co/vHtMaBQse4
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 3, 2018
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TRUMPWORLD
This is not normal. Presidents do not build secret coalitions in Congress to support ousting their own Attorneys General.
The cloud of scandal around this White House, and their hatching of plots which would only make it worse, are unprecedented.https://t.co/QFQoDamYcy
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) September 2, 2018
The Washington Post reported this week that President Trump has started talking to his lawyers about possible impeachment proceedings. https://t.co/IBuxhESu6y
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 2, 2018
Jeanine Pirro: Trump was "framed" https://t.co/4PJifZvxaj pic.twitter.com/zGpwg2hWzw
— The Hill (@thehill) September 3, 2018
David Hogg has helped to raise close to $10,000 through GoFundMe to pin a 2016 tweet from Trump attacking Ted Cruz on a billboard in Texas. https://t.co/bPeKCTi2tO
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 3, 2018
Donald Trump's environmental policies will actually make us stupider https://t.co/H6xqtbz1xQ pic.twitter.com/fbYbvsjOIm
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) September 3, 2018
'The fever will break eventually,' Senator Flake told me outside the Cathedral. 'It has to.' https://t.co/ijhPNi1iem
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) September 1, 2018
Does it?
I recognize historical cycles of populism, nationalism, etc. But there’s no precedent for healing such deep societal fractures—rooted in class, culture, identity, ideology—when they’re reinforced 24/7 by polarized information diets and hyperconnected grievance crusades. https://t.co/mKv44SipAR
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) September 3, 2018
Fox & Friends slams John McCain's daughter Meghan and Barack Obama over their eulogies: We won't be 'shamed' into turning against Trump https://t.co/eAYhfzu66q
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 3, 2018
Plans for protests at Donald Trump's Irish visit grow https://t.co/uKZLR0vMRs pic.twitter.com/qftgA7EKBC
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) September 3, 2018
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BREXIT BRITAIN
Brexit could sway Scottish voters toward independence from UK: poll https://t.co/tKMvQccXkl pic.twitter.com/lN3um8K3XZ
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 3, 2018
German business fully backs EU negotiating position on #Brexit: here is the clear economic case for the integrity of the #SingleMarket and the indivisibility of the 4 freedoms.
https://t.co/CYNV5bjJp9— Sabine Weyand (@WeyandSabine) September 2, 2018
So here's the situation; I suggest that Michael Gove and hard core Brexiteers don't read on because I'm speaking from the perspective of a bit of an expert here. I spent a decade living and working in over
— Jason J Hunter (@JasonJHunter) September 2, 2018
He’s going for it. #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/LW58EW3Qx9
— Carl Dinnen (@carldinnen) September 2, 2018
New poll shows 52% of Northern Irish voters want a United Ireland, with only 39% wishing to remain in the UK, if Brexit goes ahead. History may record that the union was destroyed by Paisley’s DUP rather than the IRA, Sinn Fein, Dublin, London betrayal etc. that’d be some irony pic.twitter.com/yiBe8tAKxj
— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) September 2, 2018
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WORLD
Irreplaceable. 20 million artifacts destroyed in massive fire at Brazil’s National Museum. https://t.co/2Nda8kq4lh
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) September 3, 2018
Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum has been consumed by fire, and much of its archive of 20m items is believed to have been destroyed, in a devastating loss to Brazilian science, history and culture https://t.co/KF6DecH8ZH pic.twitter.com/AA6y2vMWb3
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 3, 2018
Google said last week it deleted Iranian accounts spreading false news but the move was not a game-changer. @Reuters investigated and found dozens more today. @CyberStatecraft's Christopher Porter explains why it keeps happening.https://t.co/EZecF8BQg7
— Atlantic Council (@AtlanticCouncil) August 29, 2018
Seoul to check public toilets to tackle 'spy-cam porn' crisis… https://t.co/73TqX8bXYh
— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) September 3, 2018
This just in: this motherfucker’s delicious. https://t.co/DpAD76IsMM
— Kevin Christy (@kevingchristy) September 2, 2018
The Overnight Note 