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5:25 PM ET, August 22, 2015

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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
3 American friends tackle and hogtie gunman aboard European train  —  BRUSSELS - A gunman opened fire on a packed high-speed train running from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday before being tackled and tied up by three Americans, according to family members and French officials, who said their quick work had foiled a major tragedy.
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Isabelle Fraser / Telegraph:
Barack Obama telephones the three American heroes in France  —  Attacker armed with Kalashnikov shouted “give me back my gun” as he was foiled by three Americans, including two off-duty servicemen - follow live updates … • British witness Chris Norman: the attacker knifed hero US serviceman as we were tying him up
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
American Describes Taking Down Gunman on Train to France  —  PARIS — The two American service members who tackled a gunman on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace  —  The South rises for Trump, but only 20,000 of them.  —  MOBILE, Ala. — It was immigration, not segregation, that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted — out for Donald Trump on Friday night, but the ghost of George Wallace loomed large.
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CNN:
30,000 turn out for Trump's Alabama pep rally  —  Mobile, Alabama (CNN)Donald Trump brought 30,000 supporters from deep red Alabama to a Friday night pep rally in a football stadium, the latest sign that the Republican front-runner has broad, nationwide strength.
Washington Post:
Trump's audacious Southern spectacle is part of his strategy  —  MOBILE, Ala. — It was the most audacious Donald Trump spectacle yet in a summer full of them, as the Republican presidential front-runner, in his Boeing 757, thundered over a football stadium here Friday night and gave …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump tells Alabama crowd he can't wait for the election
Discussion: WPTV
CNN:
First on CNN: Biden meets with Warren in Washington  — The meeting between Biden and Warren is the biggest indication yet that he is feeling out influential Democrats about a possible 2016 run  — Biden is the leading figure Democrats believe they could turn to if they needed to find an alternative to Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Mail
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
The War That Congress Won't Declare  —  “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell wrote in 1946.  Here's a corollary: The real scandal in any given system is usually the thing there's no argument about.  —  We hear a lot of discussion about executive power and the military these days.
John C. Goodman / Townhall.com:
Why Conservatives Should Care About Ferguson  —  Last Saturday I made a first-ever visit to the down town Dallas Police Department to fill out a report.  I had never been to a police department before.  My only image of one was the police station I had seen on the television series Hill Street Blues.
Des Moines Register:
Animal rights activists interrupt Chris Christie speech  —  Animal rights activists jumped on stage at the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox, interrupting New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.  He took it all in stride, even jokingly thanking the activists for making Iowa feel like New Jersey.
Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief's call to arms  —  Rick Ector, an NRA-certified firearms instructor and the blogger behind “LegallyArmedinDetroit.com,” says business is booming.  (Courtesy of Rick Ector)  —  Detroit resident Darrell Standberry doesn't navigate streets …
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Google ordered to remove UK search results  —  U.K. data watchdog orders Google to remove links in right to be forgotten case.  —  Google must remove nine search results to news stories that contain irrelevant information about a criminal conviction, the U.K. data protection watchdog ruled …
Discussion: Hot Air
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Glenn Beck: Trump is not conservative  —  Conservative media personality Glenn Beck on Saturday said GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is a false conservative.  —  Beck added that Trump's rhetoric shows that the outspoken billionaire often deviates from conservativism's traditional principles.
Discussion: NPR and Booman Tribune
 
 
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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
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