| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Remember all that talk two weeks ago about whether or not Donald Trump could unite the Republican Party behind him? He told us all along that it wasn't part of the plan. We should have known it two weeks ago, when he said in his nomination acceptance speech, "Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it." We should have known it as far back as the primaries, in which he ran hard against and vanquished the Republican establishment. And yesterday, Trump told the Washington Post, (the newspaper his campaign blacklisted?) that he would not endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senator John McCain in their primary campaigns, which the newspaper described as "an extraordinary breach of political decorum that underscores the party's deep divisions." Trump's reaction is essentially, "So what?" He is betting that the anger of suffering blue collar workers in the Rust Belt is so acute that they will reject both the Republican and Democratic establishments. So the question isn't, "Can Trump unite the Republican Party?" The question increasingly seems to be, "Can he win without it?" And there's much more election coverage from Reuters: 
Around the country - The FBI suspected as far back as last fall that the Russian government was hacking Democratic Party computers and never told the party, sources told Reuters. And in months of follow-up conversations about the Democratic National Committee's network security, the FBI did not warn party officials that the attack was being investigated as Russian espionage. The FBI told the DNC to look for signs of unusual activity on the group’s computer network, but didn’t tell them what to look for. The lack of full disclosure by the FBI prevented DNC staffers from taking steps that could have reduced the number of confidential emails and documents stolen, one of the sources said.
- Florida is planning to conduct an aerial insecticide spraying campaign this morning in an effort to kill mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus, officials in Miami-Dade County said. The campaign will cover a 10-mile area that includes the one square mile just north of downtown Miami that health officials have identified as the hub of Zika transmission in the state.
- Drought conditions in California could worsen wildfires as the season enters its peak, AccuWeather said. Several blazes have already killed at least six people and charred thousands of acres so far this year. The warning came as 5,500 firefighters battled a wildfire near the Big Sur coast. Dubbed the Soberanes Fire, it has burned down 44,000 acres and dozens of homes in the area
Around Wall Street - Some $72 million worth of bitcoin was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, making it the second-biggest security breach ever of such an exchange. Bitfinex is one of the largest exchanges for bitcoin, and is known in the digital currency community for having a platform that has deep liquidity in the U.S. dollar/bitcoin exchange market.
- Delta Air Lines is flooding the New York market with jet fuel from its refinery, sacrificing refining profits in order to lower the carrier’s fuel costs, according to a company memo.
- Taiwan regulators are set to boot Uber from the domestic market, saying the ride-hailing service misrepresented its business as an internet-based information technology platform rather than a transportation service. Taiwan's decision adds to a string of official complaints aimed at the fast-growing U.S. start-up. It has faced similar legal scrutiny in markets across Asia, including both in Hong Kong and China.
Fighting ISIS in Libya 
A fighter in the Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government fires a shell from a Soviet made T-55 tank at Islamic State fighters in Sirte, Libya, August 2, 2016. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Around the world - North Korea launched a ballistic missile that landed in or near Japanese-controlled waters for the first time, the latest in a series of launches by the isolated country in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions. The United States, Japan and South Korea all condemned the launch. The United States will begin large-scale annual drills with South Korea later this month. It calls the exercises defensive in nature and not provocative. North Korea disagrees.
Digits of the day: 60,000 Turkish police raided the offices of the national science research council, NTV reported, widening an investigation into followers of the U.S.-based cleric Turkey suspects masterminded last month's coup attempt. More than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and involved in education have been detained, suspended or placed under investigation following the July 15 coup attempt. - South African's ruling African National Congress could lose control of Johannesburg and other cities in local elections for the first time since the end of apartheid. Many lining up in the winter cold said they were particularly worried about President Jacob Zuma's performance and the state of Africa's most industrialized economy, which is not expected to grow this year and where one in four people is unemployed.
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