- Trump decided to end the CIA program of arming Syrian rebel groups after watching a disturbing video. The video shows a CIA supported rebel group beheading a child. [Link]
- Christoper Wray has been confirmed as FBI Director. [Link]
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson disagrees with Trump on the nuclear deal. Trump would like to accuse Iran of violating the deal and back out of it. [Link]
- A video has been released showing Tennessee police officers torturing a 19-year-old suspected of marijuana and weapons possession. The officers restrained the young man in a chair and tased him 40 times. [Link]
- There were 74 murders in Chicago in July. There have been 402 murders in Chicago in 2017. [Link]
- Senator Cory Booker introduced a bill to legalize marijuana on a federal level. [Link]
- The Pentagon and State Department are looking to send weapons to Ukraine. [Link]
- Germany demands the EU retaliate against the US because of the new sanctions the US placed on Russia. [Link]
- Senator Lindsey Graham said Donald Trump ensured him that Trump is prepared to strike North Korea. [Link] Tillerson says the US is only willing to have talks with North Korea after North Korea gives up his nuclear weapons and missile programs. [Link]
- Scott Horton interviews West Virgina State Representative Pat McGeehee on his push to keep West Virgina’s National Gaurd out of foreign wars. [Link]
- 486 Turks are on trial for the coup last July. Some of those on trial are generals and other military personnel. If convicted, they face life in prison. [Link]
- Shahid Kahqan Abbasi is the new Prime Minister of Pakistan. [Link]
- Two terrorists killed at least 30 people at a mosque in Afghanistan. [Link]
- The US is unable to measure the success of a program to train Afghani intelligence due to a lack of oversite. The program has cost nearly $500 million since 2010. [Link]
- The Red Cross estimates that 1 in 45 Yemeni people will contract cholera. [Link]
- The government has arrested two Opposition leaders in Venezuela. [Link]
