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3:55 PM ET, August 17, 2015

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Washington Post:
Route 29 Batman is killed after his Batmobile breaks down along a Md. highway  —  The Route 29 Batman, whose roadside encounter with Montgomery County police three years ago made him a viral sensation around the world, has died.  —  Lenny B. Robinson, the 51-year-old Maryland man who drove …
Thomas Lake / CNN:
‘I am Batman,’ Trump tells boy on helicopter ride  —  Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)A helicopter landed here just after noon on Saturday, causing a short but violent windstorm.  Large trees shivered; small ones bent nearly sideways.  Dust swirled up from the parking lot, stinging the eyes of the onlookers.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Scott Walker struggles for the Iowa prize  —  The Wisconsin governor is suddenly in trouble after leading in the polls here for months.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — When Scott Walker returns Monday to campaign at the Iowa State Fair, he'll be in an uncomfortable position, watching competitors …
Melinda Henneberger / Bloomberg Business:
How Trump Is Winning Over Conservatives Without the Bona Fides
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Liberaland
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The World According To Trump
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Ana Marie Cox / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Has Heard About That Hashtag  —  What is your elevator pitch for socialism?  My elevator pitch is that the United States has a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality where the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Bernie Sanders takes Black Lives Matter activist up on offer to talk racial justice
Discussion: The Week
Mason Levinson / Bloomberg Business:
Northwestern Football Players Cannot Form Union, NLRB Rules  —  Northwestern football players get ready for practice on Aug. 17.  —  Photographer: Jeffrey Phelps/AP Photo  —  Unionizing only one school would upset competition, board says  —  NLRB doesn't address whether players are school employees
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NLRB:
Board Unanimously Decides to Decline Jurisdiction in Northwestern Case  —  Washington, D.C. - - In a unanimous decision, the National Labor Relations Board declined to assert jurisdiction in the case involving Northwestern University football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans Against Retirement  —  Something strange is happening in the Republican primary — something strange, that is, besides the Trump phenomenon.  For some reason, just about all the leading candidates other than The Donald have taken a deeply unpopular position, a known political loser, on a major domestic policy issue.
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
Boxing out Biden  —  At fundraiser, Clinton and Obama supporters revel in unity and hope the vice president will take a pass.  —  Getty  —  EDGARTOWN, Mass. - As Joe Biden considers a possible run for president, the donors he'd need to be viable appear to be ruling him out.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Here's Audio And Video Of Carly Fiorina's Forceful Praise Of Hillary Clinton In 2008
New York Daily News:
Lupica: Time for Joe Biden to enter the race for President
Discussion: SaintPetersBlog
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Tea Party could lose Senate for GOP  —  The bad news for the few moderate Republicans still in Congress is that they face long odds in the fast-approaching 2016 elections.  —  The good news for Republican moderates in Congress is that a difficult 2016 cycle of Senate races now looks likely …
Christopher Hope / Telegraph:
Lord Mandelson's failed ‘mass resignation’ bid to attempt to stop Jeremy Corbyn winning Labour leadership  —  It also emerged that Liz Kendall urged Yvette Cooper to stand down because Andy Burnham is the only candidate who can win - but Miss Cooper refused.
Discussion: Guardian, LabourList and Spectator
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David Miliband / Guardian:
Corbyn offers only angry defiance. What we need is Kendall's clarity and courage
Discussion: Telegraph and LabourList
Oliver Wright / The Independent:
Labour leadership contest: Party aids fear ‘purge’ if Jeremy Corbyn is elected
Discussion: Guardian and Eschaton
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
New Clinton email count: 305 documents with potentially classified information  —  More than 300 of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails — or 5.1 percent of those processed so far — have been flagged for potential secret information, the State Department reported to a federal court Monday.
Rebecca Perring / Daily Express:
Best-selling children's book that will have YOUR child asleep in minutes  —  FOR every parent blighted with the daily struggle of trying to coax their young child into going to sleep, anything to send them to the land of nod would be a miracle.  —  IG GETTY  —  The Rabbit who wants to fall asleep promises parents a quiet nights kip
Discussion: Slantpoint, fox8.com and KFOR-TV
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President  —  The birther movement has come home to roost as the Republican presidential primary heats up.  —  In a column published last week on the conspiracy theory website WND, author Jack Cashill noted that questions had been raised …
Discussion: WND
BBC:
Bangkok bomb: Deadly blast rocks Thailand capital  —  A bomb has exploded close to a shrine in the centre of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more.  —  A second bomb has been found in the area and made safe, officials say.
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Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Explosion in Bangkok Kills at Least 12
Discussion: The Atlantic
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Court's Free-Speech Expansion Has Far-Reaching Consequences  —  WASHINGTON — It is not too early to identify the sleeper case of the last Supreme Court term.  In an otherwise minor decision about a municipal sign ordinance, the court in June transformed the First Amendment.
John Cook / GeekWire:
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads … The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a report this weekend on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos.
New York Times:
With High-Profile Help, Obama Plots Life After Presidency  —  WASHINGTON — The dinner in the private upstairs dining room of the White House went so late that Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire, finally suggested around midnight that President Obama might like to go to bed.
 
 
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Kasich revises history on Iraq war
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Political Wire
JAMA Pediatrics / archpedi.jamanetwork.com:
Substance Abuse and Other Adverse Outcomes for Military-Connected Youth in California
Discussion: Guardian
New York Times:
Facing Money Gap, Hillary Clinton Slowly Warms to ‘Super PAC’ Gifts
Discussion: Political Wire
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans' Support for Labor Unions Continues to Recover
Discussion: The Daily Caller and PoliticusUSA
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
HHS to Congress: No violations of fetal tissue laws
Discussion: LifeNews.com and RedState
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Mocks Warren's Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Seeks to Connect With Iowans, but Celebrity Gets in Way
Discussion: Power Line and Althouse
Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
Price for TSA's failed body scanners: $160 million
Discussion: The Week
Christie Obama / New Jersey Online:
Chris Christie's presidential run: Time to call it a day, Guv | Mulshine
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Obama, the Left downsizing the American Dream
Danny Vinik / Politico:
Should Hillary Clinton fear the $15 minimum wage?
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
In heroin fight, White House will push treatment
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours

 
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