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A day after Donald Trump threatened North Korea with "fire and fury", US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to dial back the idiocy by saying he saw no reason to believe that war was imminent and that diplomacy would provide the solution.  "I think Americans should sleep well at night, have no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days," Tillerson said at a refueling stop in Guam on his way home from the ASEAN Summit in the Philippines.  "Nothing I have seen and nothing I know of would indicate that the situation has dramatically changed in the last 24 hours," he added.  Tensions got worse when it was reported that North Korea figured out how to fit a miniaturized nuclear warhead onto an ICBM; Trump responded with his comment, Pyongyang responded to that by threatening to attack Guam. 

But after Tillerson spoke, US Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis escalated the situation:  He said North Korea risks the "end of its regime and the destruction of its people" in a conflict with the US, and that Pyongyang would be "grossly overmatched" in a war against the US and its allies.  Nyaah!  Nyaah!  Mine's bigger!  So, just when things were calming down, Mad Dog screws it up again.

Donald Trump's "fire and fury" threat to North Korea was improvised on the spot, according to the White House - although it sure looked like he was glancing down at crib notes.  National security and defense experts condemned his loose talk:  "I take exception to the President's comments because you've got to be sure that you can do what you say you're going to do," said Sen. John McCain, "The great leaders I've seen don't threaten unless they're ready to act and I'm not sure President Trump is ready to act."  China has also called for a cooling of rhetoric.  Everyone needs to STFU.

The Washington Post and New York Times reported that FBI agents late last month conducted a pre-dawn raid on  the Virginia home of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.  People "familiar" with the investigation into Russian influence over Trump's campaign told the post that the agents were seeking "documents and other materials", while the Times reported the agents were looking for "tax documents and foreign banking records".  Interestingly, this happened early on 26 July - later that day, Donald Trump went on a twitter tantrum announcing "that the United States government will not accept or allow (t)ransgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military".  After that, he attacked his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions on with factually inaccurate barbs on twitter. 

It seems when the Russian investigation gets too close, Trump lashes out.

The Pentagon didn't act when Trump sent his anti-trans tweet, and there's no indication it has or will.  Some officials even vowed to support transgender service members.  Now, five transgender members of the US military - including Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans - filed a lawsuit to challenge Trump's plans to ban transgender from people serving in the armed forces.  The GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders and the National Center for Lesbian Rights says all five plaintiffs came out to their commanding officers after the Pentagon said in 2016 it would allow transgender people to serve openly.  The American Civil Liberties Union is also preparing a lawsuit.  

Canada is building a refugee camp on the border in Quebec across from Plattsburgh, New York.  More than 3,300 asylum seekers - mostly Haitians - have crossed over since the beginning of the year.  The camp - equipped with heated tents with flooring and electricity - would hold up to 500 asylum seekers in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle as they wait for their claims to be processed.  Last week, Canada turned the former Olympic Stadium in Montreal into a shelter for refugees who fled the US after Trump announced the end of the program that extended temporary protection to Haitian citizens after the devastating 2010 earthquake.

In northern England, 17 men and one woman were convicted of plying underage girls and vulnerable women with drugs and booze to get them into a child sex network in Newcastle.  In four interlinked trials over the past few years, 26 people have been convicted and three are already serving prison terms.  In addition to the horror of abusing at least 100 girls and young women, the trial has caused great strife in the Newcastle region because all but one of the defendants were from South Asian ethnicities, mostly British-born. 

French police shot, wounded, and arrested a man after he allegedly drove a BMW sedan into six troops near their base in Levallois-Perret outside Paris.  Three of the soldiers were seriously hurt, although none is in a life-threatening condition.