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10:40 PM ET, August 17, 2015

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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Scott Walker tries to make hay out of heckling incident  —  Scott Walker turned a heckling incident at the Iowa State Fair on Monday into an opportunity to hawk his book and slogan — that he's a man, “unintimidated.”  —  “I am not intimidated by you, sir, or anyone else out there,” Walker said.
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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Theodoric Meyer / Politico:
Group targets Democrats on Iran deal — Mowrer to run in IA-03 — Redistricting updates  —  The following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score.  For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Scott Walker Says The U.S. Needs A Border Fence Like Israel's
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Jeb Bush, seemingly perfect on paper, just hasn't caught on with GOP voters
Thomas Lake / CNN:
‘I am Batman,’ Trump tells boy on helicopter ride
Washington Post:
Route 29 Batman is killed after his Batmobile breaks down in Maryland … The Batmobile pulled into a gas station Sunday night and, as usual, the children who spotted it gawked.  —  Lenny B. Robinson was used to that.  The Maryland man, better known as the Route 29 Batman …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Here's Audio And Video Of Carly Fiorina's Forceful Praise Of Hillary Clinton In 2008  —  Fiorina on Clinton in 2008: “She was a great candidate.  She has helped millions of women all over this country.  Women of any political party owe a debt of gratitude to Hillary Clinton and I will bet that every woman up here agrees with me.”
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New York Daily News:
Lupica: Time for Joe Biden to enter the race for President
Discussion: SaintPetersBlog
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
State Department Finds Thousands of Philippe Reines Emails It Claimed Did Not Exist  —  Earlier this year, Gawker Media sued the State Department over its response to a Freedom of Information Act request we filed in 2013, in which we sought emails exchanged between reporters at 33 news outlets …
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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.
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
Peter Dukes / Customer:
Big News for the Beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte  —  We have been trying to keep a lid on some big news for the beloved Pumpkin Spice Latte, but with recipes and ingredients starting to ship to our stores, the buzz is building.  —  What's the big deal?  —  After hearing from customers …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Republican Party doesn't want to believe its voters agree with Trump.  But they do.  —  Does Donald Trump's appeal have anything to do with his policy positions?  Republican political consultant Matthew Dowd says it doesn't — Trump's rise, he argues, is all personality, no policy:
Kitty Bennett / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Megadonor Identified as Cellphone Executive  —  Senator Ted Cruz of Texas posed at the Americans for Prosperity's Road to Reform event last week in Las Vegas.  —  A New York cellphone executive has emerged as a mystery megadonor behind the presidential campaign of Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog and Boing Boing
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
HHS to Congress: No violations of fetal tissue laws  —  The Obama administration says there are no known violations of the country's fetal tissue laws among government researchers or the companies that supply the tissue.  —  “Currently, we know of no violation of these laws in connection …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Lawmakers ask DOJ for enforcement info on fetal tissue
Discussion: Daily Kos
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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Family Studies:
Red Families vs. Blue Families: Which Are Happier?  —  Blue families are stronger and more stable than red families.  Until recently, this was the conventional wisdom in the media and the academy.  But this belief has been challenged by new reports in Family Studies and the New York Times.
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.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Real Argument  —  With all the commentary about the Iran, it is worth noting that there is an argument against the deal.  It's just one that most opponents do feel able or comfortable making publicly.  It goes something like this.  —  The ideal of course is that Iran permanently …
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.
 
 
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Ashifa Kassam / Guardian:
Four more gored to death across Spain as surge in bull-run casualties continues
Discussion: Mashable and The Week
Brian Flood / TVNewser:
HuffPost on Trump: 'We're Still Not Taking The Bait'
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Carson: ‘Stop Listening to These People Who Tell Us That We Cannot Talk About God’
Ildefonso Ortiz / BREITBART.COM:
Previously Deported Child Rapist Caught Sneaking into Texas
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Race and the Storm  —  In April, 1927, after spring thaws …
Sig Christenson / MySanAntonio.com:
America's oldest known veteran, Emma Didlake, dies at 110
Discussion: ABC News and Mashable
 Earlier Items: 
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Tea Party could lose Senate for GOP
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
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Mocks Warren's Native American Heritage Claim, But Falsely Claimed His Family Was Swedish
John Cook / GeekWire:
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Birthers Say These 4 GOP Candidates May Be Ineligible To Be President
Discussion: WND, Hullabaloo and Liberaland
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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