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A.M. Links: Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 38%, White House Reaches Out to Democrats on Tax Reform, China Backs New Sanctions on North Korea

Damon Root | 8.8.2017 9:00 AM


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    President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to 38 percent in a new poll.

  • The Trump administration is "quietly courting a few dozen House Democrats on tax reform."
  • "The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration."
  • The remains of a 9/11 victim in New York City have been identified almost 16 years after the attack on the World Trade Center.
  • Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says his country will support the new sanctions imposed on North Korea by the U.N. Security Council.
  • If North Korea attacks South Korea, "a majority of Americans favor deploying U.S. troops."

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.