Your Presidential Daily Brief: Bannon Leaves White House | Police Hunt Barcelona Terror Driver

[The Presidential Daily Brief](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/8bc41468/2d8dbdbc9ccacba3681e5d03827e044b//) [The Presidential Daily Brief](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/8bc41468/2d8dbdbc9ccacba3681e5d03827e044b//) 59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/15aa59b0/0ebabca42eef8023656643e110c96f3b// 59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/15aa59b0/0ebabca42eef8023656643e110c96f3b//  IMPORTANT August 19, 2017  59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/4fc3ac7c/4649f2a5690b202d03de765e28b849f8// [Mourners place flowers and candles Friday at the site of Thursday's Barcelona terror attack. Source: Getty](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/994f74cb/a6c6d6eeef5a07ddc5e3cfaf9a77e046//) [Bannon Leaves White House Vowing 'War' on Enemies](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e5fc7973/05560af2692d86298e5ba758c87d4766//) He’s locked and unloaded. Stephen Bannon, the controversial [architect](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/389b52bf/13a3e5dcaca196eedbb1de5ea244cf6b//) of President Donald Trump’s election victory, was fired from his post as chief presidential strategist Friday. Widely excoriated as an ally of white nationalists, he’s the latest of a string of fallen administration heavyweights, and he’s reportedly vowing to go “thermonuclear” on his White House “globalist” enemies. Bannon said he’d fight for the original agenda of Trump’s presidency, which he lamented was effectively “over.” Set to resume running his influential Breitbart News, he warned, “I’ve got my hands back on my weapons.” Sources: [The Weekly Standard](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/35cc88a2/2bac7d44351bc44c059dab0b10c03d50//),[Newsweek](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/ded41e23/31e9bfc08f247ea256ac612feb4b30b3//),[CNN](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/ff102fba/17273bbd6f1f96dd1e593a1d666b6dfb//),[BBC](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/18c3cf7a/dd2b3dd8ed54d03294ae17bac424aaf7//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/cf8e108e/4f8e26186e1e5c583e597c16627bb918//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/6ccf0589/dcb3ab4e7adacadb2341836d972f27fd//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/a4aada68/17d8da47262778fdccb0de74ad9f85a2//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/812d80a3/74c36618bf23d2856a70b9847e3444ff//) [Spanish Hunt for Killer Driver; Finns Also Call Knifings 'Terror'](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/3522bf64/89ddec0b0ab9cec72e7ced7741c00820//) He’s not dead. They’d thought he was among five suspected jihadists they’d killed in coastal Cambrils, but Spanish authorities now say they’re still seeking the driver in Thursday’s ISIS-claimed van attack on [Barcelona](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/bf4e1828/a99167fc4d59b0ea307a8544cf6ffb24//) landmark boulevard La Rambla. Californian Jared Tucker, 43, who had been celebrating his first wedding anniversary, was among 13 people killed. Meanwhile, authorities said this morning that they believe Friday’s stabbings in Turku in western Finland, which killed two people and wounded eight, were also terrorism, while Spain began three days of mourning. Sources: [The Independent](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/babeda72/a2f79c3e999aad7aae12ba7f2f314b66//),[CBS](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/9ae0d4e4/62a1b7c231d764ebca5e3d3a78be4a43//),[BBC](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/f22001a9/52d4b44e740cbb7e12f11ff75e060b98//),[AP](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/bc914b8d/1beb3bd0939d2462f46ef3624e0b38ca//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/688a2beb/b0a863a0d6f777fc040c7997fc64537d//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/67ed0b8d/2c93774070a5d1d7e7ae913ad95430f5//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/4d021464/d04a0c1d1960acbd9924d7d4d916ad36//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/64859b07/a4b55022ab0dd3122bcfb0fb49553387//) [As a Shocked Nation Looks on, Trump Stands His Ground](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/d211e69e/5bdfefd74aa265da921a61c397df8d66//) “We cannot allow this old evil to be resurrected.” Sen. Marco Rubio’s comment echoed the reactions of many across the political spectrum to last week’s tragic events. Most joined in [condemning](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/1f9454e3/515e0f3158e786b2f596d073de93de05//) President Donald Trump’s insistence that “both sides” were to blame for deadly violence triggered by white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia. From basketball stars to Republican stalwarts like 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who posted on Facebook Friday that the president should apologize after causing “racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn.” Sources: [NYT](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/1730a541/3bbd7ea62ffe4176bbb3f3b8307d1a12//),[NBC](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e4ab8955/ab6dc2f2f0b31d8cec1d8a4a722e62a1//),[CNN](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/0fb7d4f9/3e7e94359bd6b7d26e8ed2308ecc257a//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/9b3714aa/9b2fe5e5f9245af37d5f10ed66eca808//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/a647eacf/94ad2309a2df895a9895e0c92453e03a//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/ab3769f5/e5aacff0cf584247b44807b9b2f5b323//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/6a5e64da/3b820be27e46ea216785842bd2e381fb//) [Glasses to Donuts, the Total Eclipse Is Nigh](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/93e3b385/00b495f063e8d99579916a4d0df48ffe//) They’re moving toward the dark. On Monday, Americans will experience their first coast-to-coast solar [eclipse](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/61d48dad/0bc7f207527682276589e89cded6a9a3//) since 1918, with the moon blotting out the sun from from Oregon to South Carolina. Anyone not on the “path of totality” will see a partial eclipse, or hopefully a shadow of it if not equipped with regulator-approved, ultra-dark sunglasses. Businesses are stepping up, selling everything from Eclipse Ale and “moon puppies” cannabis to Krispy Kreme’s first chocolate glazed donut, while electric utilities plan to record what happens when solar supplies are suddenly disrupted. Sources: [NASA](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/68501f7e/d8d7e301e180fa6445cdd05332f92d29//),[Kansas City Star](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/122a3049/f128e6fa26e1377151bd5864748faffa//),[CNN](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/905708ed/19324c9a831fae1be56adcd4482f4fd4//),[Bloomberg](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/f438063e/b34325eb986306715d36b504e0770ff0//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/0f99d8f6/286e61ef3e1926a76e79307cb46b1b4a//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/a46cb7bb/e8617627f49f120add6140c77488fa59//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/a918abd1/58d6af8b99e5857b52a6301a0497a9a0//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/926d0dc2/6392afc6f74753735d8e55d2321ad1f5//) Briefly The Week Ahead: U.S. and South Korean forces will begin a [military exercise](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e8c3a48e/aa203db375f9d9588237cac56e47bcdb//) on Monday that North Korea is calling a provocation. On the same day, Defense Secretary James Mattis is to begin a [four-day trip](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e6acbd14/c9005f160d436c79b0a85184069ae442//) to Jordan, Turkey and Ukraine to reaffirm America’s “strategic partnerships,” including helping Ankara subdue Kurdish separatists — a sensitive issue as American forces [support Kurds](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/b925532c/123d6dca4aa703dca0d5b809501581e4//) fighting ISIS across Turkey’s southern borders. And on Friday, former [Volkswagen](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/813e756a/66c704afaf17d4abed6df39aaf73f4a8//) engineer James Liang will be sentenced in Detroit for his role in misleading emissions regulators. Know This: [Six police officers](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/0618c62b/e1fa77f3f6ec06c2effa5ad2fecc820d//) in Florida and Pennsylvania were shot, one fatally, on Friday. The [Lebanese Army](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/b3ede5d4/8e962702957d8b2ef92d50c4eccf2e65//) says it is trying to dislodge ISIS from its border with Syria. And Warren Buffet has a [third rival](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/4bc14b58/5c3199db007cc1e6f305f45f1ea448f3//) in his $9 billion effort to take over Texas power company Oncor after a mystery bidder offered $9.3 billion. Join us LIVE: OZY and WGBH are bringing you a terrific new TV show, Third Rail With OZY — premiering Friday, Sept. 8 at 8:30 p.m. on PBS and we want YOU to be part of our live studio audience! [Sign up here](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/70efc950/5526c09e3dae32c42f6bf6647d7ee27e//) to attend a taping of this hot new primetime show. You won’t want to miss it. 59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/443af85a/bb93e2f9a84b324bd42eb65dbce05c2a// 59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/9f57a3a5/56cf4bf5124dd2b6df68559cdc1d820e//  INTRIGUING  [Will the Resomator Liquefy Your Corpse?](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/aaae0b77/ab16114b83f74674861ae2f5bfca1f85//) We are but dust and shadow. Poetic, but Horace didn’t consider the sugar, salt, peptides and amino acids that make up our [bodies](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/44f5b012/12518a9504ce3abc2e97ecb80f47c495//) — and make them murder to recycle. Enter the pioneers of alkaline hydrolysis, which dissolves the body into liquid and brittle bone, predicting that the process will supplant common cremation and embalming, which pollute and disturb grieving relatives. While the aesthetics get debated, hydrolysis machines like the Resomator are starting to impress even traditional mortuary partisans, and with approval from 14 U.S. states, you just might end up circling the drain. Sources: [Wired](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/657befa5/99f7043d190808971a73d19fccbcdaa2//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/ce2a430e/cc892a4b1fc00686e91ae66bfb2de37b//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/c6358a51/d38525343c703d9dd0c852d7c7fb32d9//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/1b392717/f57b9584f10c3e944cec5e2aa99d2381//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/39e03a4c/ca9e93545c5dad0dab1cf8e19a9c873a//) [The Man Who Tended Bannon's Breitbart Bonfire](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/3f5c9a4a/469f6cd7cd985479b8f0e36c419c4181//) He traded firebrands for tiki torches. Demanding a return to a mythical self-reliant America, Breitbart News exploded onto the alternative media scene in recent years to dominate the right-wing narrative, helping elect Donald Trump. Yet after its ideologues left to join the government, the site’s unassuming and fairly mainstream conservative editor, Alexander Marlow, slowly guided the outlet back from the [extremes](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/fcd32df3/a174e0dec73a0a64fc2f9d5b9e62f746//). This year, Breitbart backed away from the far-right’s most incendiary rhetoric, but now, with spurned Trump adviser Stephen Bannon back in charge, that fire promises to rage like never before. Sources: [The Independent](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/042acc23/a24e0c91aaf2414898b07e659966eebf//),[NYT Magazine](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/a856b811/28031275ad5bb90e19946a8781101b94//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/373979ff/d18548a197e24dc96dc3f871d1c45ce2//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/f4a7fa25/933df142b3516c4cf9884a057804f296//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/bbd06986/14445ec5454357015d2f3bf47b664a89//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/384e8da7/d8ba181d22e335857f9b771bf39c0fc8//) [Eastern Europe's Newest Tech Hub Is Where?](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/c4802546/ab9aba5299d1b1c04041a8b8f524f529//) It’s a startup nation, so why not? Despite hardships like corruption and a separatist war, Ukraine’s growing into a bustling IT hub. The country of 45 million is a leading exporter of custom tech services, thanks to solid schooling that’s helped nurture some 100,000 experts in the field. Its growing startup scene has also produced serious companies such as Petcube and Grammarly. But if the tech boom is to fully mature, entrepreneurs will need to innovate their way past infrastructure and regulatory obstacles that make Ukraine Europe’s second hardest place to do business. Sources: [OZY](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/c15c1c3c/50732c21a5c2e4999abdfcb0ab132e11//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/7c53946a/0014fd3ea14b905bb60260a296c6d492//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/e5dd348d/ab8624c807f4c377764ba2852c16895d//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/6bd05aa3/616de8c8d8ae45cfe688b4730f402751//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/116f405e/1856c6ad84748bef4573efc0e8669122//) [How NPR Got Its Groove Hack](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/30401f0a/343a18a5fd4a95948233a0832dbab0e1//) It was crazy enough. In a noisy bar in 2008, [NPR](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/ab23a882/835f6fb2ff798436e36afe82989f7f8d//) Music host Bob Boilen thought the folksinger he struggled to hear would sound better playing in his office — and the Tiny Desk Concerts series was born. After 650 performances, it’s become the web’s music mecca, an incubator for promising talent and a destination for big names like Adele and T-Pain, who delivered a soulful, Auto-Tune-free 2014 performance for some 10 million viewers. Now unlikely venue gigs are proliferating, with young content mavens looking to the wizened network for inspiration. Sources: [The Ringer](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/7f52dcf9/ac3f4c2bd78c4f7cfcfaff19dc2e673c//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/595c01cd/b9bdeb84f8d618ea560b0bd9d0b373a8//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/2e9f0d0e/1c0ec9d01afce69b87742b594075aef2//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/a257963a/7b755b68e15d7075654937c26b77222f//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/4750f498/797dc6a8e6de7dc57e6c13a23035e886//) [Equestrian Hordes Return to Kazakhstan's Steppes](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/f3898509/f433144a1f291e8674e57ca74e5fdceb//) It’s not quite cricket: Two teams on [horseback](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/4a0ba9d9/a091d732215e72c9039cb2a7748f0b47//) thunder over the length of two football fields, battling for a headless, freshly killed goat. It’s called kokpar, or “goat-grabbing,” and Kazakhstan is hoping the ancient competition can help reinforce the country’s national identity. Kazakhs are promoting the rough-and-tumble pastime, which arrived in the 13th century with marauding Mongol invaders, to help cobble together an ethno-historical narrative after decades of culture-extinguishing Soviet rule. Even as its oil revenue buys a modicum of modernization, the country’s recapturing its nomadic, blood-soaked past. Sources: [The Guardian](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/909d457c/fea8efbd0d61f559742c3cb643f62b63//) Share: [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/16629d02/0e2f05483a372357425339a40f20c067//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/0a2c73a2/a9a4911df9692dcded3d56aab7e774d1//) [Facebook](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/f6b42866/3d14907632d4be3a0f8eb2a364c779b9//) [Twitter](59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/647a764f/6472a0c45b23484473581e7eebfe2e8e//) 59981c77e32c29d775572f2b:ot:591df7fbac0c811781aa5dbc:1/7369078e/c1f08fba5076996115bc5e5a3dc16241// 25M people love reading OZY every month. Be part of the revolution. 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