The Washington Post
FORESTFIRES - With seven Western states battling devastating wildfires, the National Interagency Fire Center is mobilizing active duty soldiers to aid thousands of firefighters in their suppression efforts. 490 words, by Wilborn P. Nobles III (Post).
TRUMP-POLICY — Donald Trump's policy positions often seem a little like the weather in New England: if you don't like them, just wait a few minutes; 20 times Donald Trump has changed his mind since June. 1,340 words, by David A. Fahrenthold (Post). One photo. Moved Monday.
RANGERS-1STLD_ WASHINGTON — Two female soldiers will graduate from the Army's grueling Ranger School, becoming the first women to ever complete what is considered one of the U.S. military's most difficult and premier courses to develop elite fighters and leaders, a senior Army official says. 650 words, by Dan Lamothe (Post). Two photos.Moved Monday.
DRUGS-TOWN — Gloucester Mass. police chief Leonard Campanella was upset about the heroin overdoses in his coastal town, so he created a program to help addicts that is becoming a national model. 1,065 words, by Terence McCoy (Post). Moved Monday
HOUSING _A new report criticizes HUD for allowing over-income families to remain as tenants in subsidized housing programs, but HUD defends the practice. 905 words, by Lisa Rein (Post).
PERFORMANCE — Lately a small but growing number of major U.S. companies, including Accenture, Adobe and Gap, have been saying goodbye to an annual rite of corporate life that employees and managers both love to hate: the traditional performance review. 1,330 words, by Jena McGregor (Post). Moved Monday.
IMMIG — WASHINGTON — There is only one formal plank in Donald Trump's campaign platform: an unprecedented crackdown on illegal immigrants — deporting the undocumented en masse, seizing the money they try to send home, and denying citizenship to their U.S.-born children. 1,575 words, by David A. Fahrenthold, Jenna Johnson and Max Ehrenfreund (Post). One photo. Moved Monday.
AMAZON — Reaction to the New York Times piece depicting harsh working conditions at Amazon has been mixed. 775 words, by Todd C. Frankel (Post). Moved Monday
FAIRFAX-POLICE — A former Fairfax police officer is indicted in the murder of unarmed Virginia man, the first criminal prosecution of a county officer in connection with an on-duty shooting. 600 words, by Justin Jouvenal and Tom Jackman (Post). Moved Monday
JOURNALS - Major publisher retracts 64 papers in fake peer review outbreak. 1,040 words, by Sarah Kaplan (Post).
BEAR - Former Marine, 66, survives bloody hand-to-claw combat with black bear. 1,080 words, by Lindsey Bever (Post).
BULLFIGHTING - A bloody summer for bullfighting could put Spain's brutal sport out to pasture. 990 words, by Michael E. Miller (Post).
ACTOR - Actor Emile Hirsch jailed for assault on female studio exec. 510 words, by Justin Wm. Moyer (Post).
CATVIDEO-FESTIVAL — ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Internet wasn't enough — now cat videos are taking over real-life events. In Minnesota, 13,000 turned out for the Internet Cat Video Festival, devoted to those hooked on a feline. 1,870 words, by Karen Heller (Post). Seven photos and one video. Moved Monday.
THAILAND-ANALYSIS — The Bangkok blast and the shadow of terror in Thailand. 700 words, by Ishaan Tharoor (Post). Moved Monday
SYRIA-UN — The top United Nations humanitarian official says in Damascus that he is "absolutely horrified" at conditions in Syria and "by the total disregard for civilian life by all parties." 700 words, by Karen DeYoung (Post). Moved Monday
AFGHAN-JOBLESS — KABUL — The plight of jobless Afghans forced to return from abroad and the crowds at the passport office seeking to leave reflect the country's postwar stagnancy and chaos. 1,600 words, by Pamela Constable (Post). Four photos. Moved Monday.
IVORY - A Nat Geo journalist's remarkable and ingenious quest to track down ivory smugglers. 1,170 words, by Michael E. Miller (Post). Moved Monday
MICROSOFT — Installing Windows 10 convinced me that Microsoft is back. 840 words, by Vivek Wadhwa (Post special). Moved Monday
CAMP-MOMMY — Summer camps close, school has yet to open and parents try caring for their kids while working. 900 words, by Petula Dvorak (Post). Moved Monday
CLINTON-WOMEN — Independent groups allied with Hillary Clinton launching effort to mobilize female voters. 440 words, by Matea Gold (Post). Moved Monday
WAGE — WASHINGTON — It's Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama versus liberals on the minimum wage. 540 words, by Jim Tankersley and Ylan Q. Mui (Post). Moved Monday.
Bloomberg
CHINA-STOCKS — SHANGHAI — Chinese stocks tumble the most in three weeks as traders reduced stimulus bets and speculated the government will pare back efforts to prop up equities. Developing (Bloomberg).
SRILANKA — COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Maithripala Sirisena's allies are poised to win the most seats in a parliamentary election, consolidating his power seven months after he ended the 10-year rule of former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa. Developing, by Anusha Ondaatjie (Bloomberg).
MERKEL — BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning a charm offensive to win over dissenting lawmakers ahead of a vote by the lower house of parliament on a third Greek bailout. Developing, by Rainer Buergin (Bloomberg).
TOSHIBA — TOKYO — Toshiba names Masashi Muromachi as president to lead the maker of memory chips and nuclear power plants as it emerges from an accounting scandal that may cost at least $1.2 billion in writedowns. Developing, by Pavel Alpeyev and Grace Huang (Bloomberg). One photo.
ZIMBABWE _Millions in Zimbabwe's rural areas are enduring the worst drought in more than a decade that's left the country with a 700,000 metric ton-corn deficit, about half of annual consumption. 630 words, by Brian Latham (Bloomberg).
CHINA-ECON — BEIJING — China's economy is growing more slowly than official data suggests and below potential, a Bloomberg survey indicates, helping explain why policymakers have stepped up stimulus and the move to boost exports with a weaker yuan. 720 words (Bloomberg).
CHINA-ECON-ASSESS — Forget the "fragile five." These days, analysts are eying the "troubled 10" - nations whose economies and currencies are threatened by the devalued Chinese yuan. 680 words, by Anchalee Worrachate and Ye Xie (Bloomberg).
GITMO — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering military prisons in Kansas or South Carolina to hold suspected terrorists so it can close the one at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a Pentagon spokesman says. 605 words, by David Lerman (Bloomberg).
IMMIG-COMMENT — Three facts that can refocus U.S. immigration debate. 850 words, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg).
BRAZIL-DIG-COMMENT — Brazil's Olympic dig unearths surprising finds, 580 words, by Mac Margolis (Bloomberg).
RUSSIA-COMMENT — Vandals test the limits of Putin's ideology. 800 words, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg).
CHINA-COMMENT — Chinese agents' real mission? Stopping bad press. 1000 words, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg).
TRUMP-IMMIG-COMMENT — Trump's immigration policy: a farce in six pages. 985 words, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg).
JAPAN-ECON — TOKYO — Japan's economy contracted last quarter as consumers and businesses cut spending and exports tumbled, putting pressure on the prime minister to return his focus to Abenomics. 685 words, by Toru Fujioka (Bloomberg). One photo.
CHINA-PORT-BG — BEIJING — The death toll from blasts at a chemical storage site in China's port city of Tianjin climbs after Premier Li Keqiang visits the site and vows to find out what caused the explosions. 390 words (Bloomberg).
FLIGHT-DELAYS-ASSESS — WASHINGTON — If there was good news from the air-traffic computer system failure that forced thousands of flights in the eastern U.S. to be scrubbed or delayed Saturday, it's that it never threatened to become a catastrophe. 575 words, by Alan Levin (Bloomberg).
INDONESIA — JAKARTA, Indonesia — Authorities say the wreckage of a Trigana Air Service PT flight with 54 people on board has been found on Bintang mountain in Indonesia's Papua region, and a land search team is going to the area to check for survivors. 670 words, by Fitri Wulandari and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg).
COAL — Coal's longest slump in at least seven years shows no sign of ending as producers from Australia to Russia aren't making cuts to their output. 515 words, by Alessandro Vitelli (Bloomberg).
WALKER-IOWA — When Republican Scott Walker arrives Monday at Iowa's state fair, he'll land in an unfamiliar position: he won't be the front-runner in the state that holds the first presidential nominating contest. 980 words, by John McCormick (Bloomberg).
The Japan News
TRAVEL-JAPAN — Stroll through history: Touring the Sarushima battery, built by the Imperial Japanese Army as one of many fortresses to protect the Tokyo Bay area. 1,235 words, by Yutaka Mitsuo (Japan News/Yomiuri). Three photos.
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