WORLD STORIES - 08/08/2018

AMA: I'm Emma Best, covering FOIA releases and declassified documents. I occasionally leak things, including the 11,000 messages from one of WikiLeaks' private chat - Ask Me Anything!.

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Saudi Arabia has canceled the scholarships of 16,000 of its students studying in Canada, also ordering them to leave the country and find academic programs elsewhere.

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White House national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday said North Korea has not taken the necessary steps to denuclearize despite an agreement between Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in June..

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I’m Judd Legum, founder and former editor-in-chief of ThinkProgress. I just quit to start a political newsletter. Yeah, a newsletter. AMA!.

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Feinstein 'alarmed' by National Archives denying documents request on Trump's Supreme Court pick.

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The Trump Campaign Was Just Referenced for First Time at Paul Manafort Trial, and It Wasn’t Good.

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Approximately 40 percent of men have experienced inexplicable feelings of tearfulness, sadness, or irritability after mutually consensual sex and 3-4 percent experience it regularly, according to a survey published in peer-reviewed journal..

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Highest rates of depression seen in individuals with autism who have above average intelligence. The study, which involved a systematic review of nearly 8,000 research articles, now reveals evidence that depression is highly prevalent in both children and adults with autism..

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Angry people, who have a quick temper, are more likely to overestimate their intelligence, suggest new research (N=528)..

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DATE: 08/08/2018