| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Four Iranian military vessels intercepted a U.S. warship near the Strait of Hormuz in an "unsafe and unprofessional" way, according to a Pentagon official. Two of the vessels came within 300 yards of the U.S.S. Nitze. We don't know if Iran's move was carried out by rogue Revolutionary Guard commanders or sanctioned by senior officials in Tehran. We do know that if the United States thought things were going to change dramatically after the nuclear deal, well, they were wrong. Quote of the day: "For four decades the Revolutionary Guard have been told that America is the greatest threat to the Islamic Revolution. This institutional culture hasn’t changed after the nuclear deal." – Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
WikiLeaks plans to release a new batch of information linked to Hillary Clinton's campaign before the Nov. 8 election, the organization's founder, Julian Assange, said. "It’s a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining," he told Fox News. The last WikiLeaks dump occurred on the eve of the Democratic convention and cost the head of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schwartz, her job.
Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bank and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices have all cut deals with departing employees to muzzle them in ways that could violate whistleblower protection laws, according to lawyers who represent whistleblowers.
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Congolese soldiers arrest a civilian protesting against the government's failure to stop the killings and inter-ethnic tensions in the town of Butembo, in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe
Digits of the day: 247 That's the death toll from the earthquake in central Italy, as rescue teams worked through the night to find survivors under the rubble of flattened towns. The sun rose Thursday on many people who had slept in cars or tents, the earth continuing to tremble under them. - More Turkish tanks entered Syria as part of an operation aimed at driving Islamic State out of the border area around the northern border town of Jarablus. It's Turkey first major incursion into Syria and is backed by U.S. forces. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Islamic State had been driven out of Jarablus and the Syrian rebels now control it. He said the operation was targeting both Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG militia.
- Twelve people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on the American University in Kabul by two gunmen who were ultimately shot dead by Afghan forces. Officials said the attackers set off a car bomb and then shot their way into the complex. We don't know who did it.
Around the country - Donald Trump campaigned in Jackson, Mississippi, with Nigel Farage, one of the poster boys (literally) behind the withdrawal of Britain from the European Community. Farage stoked immigration fears to achieve his goal, as Trump has been accused of doing in his campaign.
- At a campaign stop in Nevada today, Clinton is expected to accuse Trump of embracing the so called "alternative right", referring to the conservative movement with connections to white nationalism. Yesterday, Trump called her "a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future."
- If the presidential election were held today, Clinton would win the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. It also says that Clinton has a 95 percent chance of beating Trump. That's out in front of most probability indicators. (Predictwise: 79 percent. FiveThirtyEight: 84.4 percent (It's their "Now-cast." Check out their site for their methodology. It's kind of cool.) New York Times: 89 percent). Reuters methodology is explained here. We'll be taking a closer look at how some of these state-by-state margins compared to other polls a little later today in Reuters Election 2016 live blog, which you should all bookmark and read regularly.
Around Wall Street - Janet Yellen and her Federal Reserve colleagues have an unusually explicit message for lawmakers: The U.S. economy needs more public spending to shift into a higher gear. There's only so much that central bankers can do, they say. And that the keys to growth lie with the government's fiscal policy, including infrastructure spending and other efforts to counter weak growth.
- Mylan plans to reduce the out-of-pocket cost of its severe allergy treatment EpiPen, a day after Clinton joined other lawmakers in criticizing the high price of the drug.
- The first driverless taxi began work today in a limited public trial on the streets of Singapore. Developer nuTonomy invited a select group of people to download its app and ride for free in its "robo-taxi" in a western Singapore hi-tech business district.
Today's reason to live: Alejandro Escovedo – Castanets |
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