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Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run — Vice President Joe Biden is increasingly leaning toward entering the 2016 race, if it is still possible he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date, people familiar with the matter said.
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Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting — A private meeting Saturday in Washington between Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a hero of the Democratic Party's progressive wing, quickly became the talk of the town this weekend.
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Elizabeth Warren refuses to commit to 2018 Senate run
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First Read: How a Biden Run Could Actually Help Hillary Clinton
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Potential Biden run divides Obama orbit
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Can the Republican Party Survive Trump? — What is happening to the Republican Party? I put that question to Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina and basement-dwelling presidential candidate, who was getting ready to hold a campaign event in Hooksett, New Hampshire.
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RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
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Donald Trump Puts ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ on Notice
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Dow futures plummet 400 points as Wall Street preps for steep selloff — U.S. stock futures pointed to a sharply lower open Monday after a selloff on Friday that dragged major indexes to four-year lows. — U.S. stock index futures screamed lower on Monday, with Dow futures tumbling as much as 400 points …
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Global sell-off turns to rally in rocky day for financial markets
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Black Monday? Dow Futures Plummet Ahead of Opening Bell
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Boston Police Foil Potential Massacre at Pokemon World Championship — Two men drove from Iowa to Massachusetts with a trunk full of ammo and guns, boasting about ‘killing the competition’ on Facebook. — BOSTON — Police said Sunday they thwarted what could have been a massacre …
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Debut edition! MOULTON holds out for Biden — WARREN mum on second term — TOM BRADY's new ad — Welcome to the inaugural edition of POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook, where we round up what you need to know about politics and policy in the Bay State and deliver it straight to your inbox every morning.
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Talking Points Memo, BostonGlobe.com, The Daily Caller, Blue Mass Group and New York Times

Martin Luther King III ‘perplexed’ by Huckabee comments — Martin Luther King III, the son of the late civil rights leader, said he was “perplexed” by GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's comments last week suggesting that his father would be “appalled” by the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Louisiana trooper dies after being shot, taunted — A Louisiana state trooper died Monday after authorities say he was shot in the head and then taunted when he stopped to provide aid to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch. — Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the State Police …
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LSP: Trooper shot in head after responding to traffic incident, suspect in custody
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Raw Story and The Daily Caller


Why salad is so overrated — As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic. Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture.
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Guardian, New York Magazine, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Althouse

A Moveable Glut — What caused Friday's stock plunge? What does it mean for the future? Nobody knows, and not much. — Attempts to explain daily stock movements are usually foolish: a real-time survey of the 1987 stock crash found no evidence for any of the rationalizations economists …
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Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice


Tracy Morgan Marries Megan Wollover - See the Beautiful Couple! — Tracy Morgan is a married man! — Fourteen months after a horrific highway crash left him fighting for his life, the comedian wed his long-time fiancée Megan Wollover in an intimate and moving ceremony Sunday night, Morgan's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
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TARANTINO … THIS INTERVIEW was condensed and edited from two conversations, the first conducted July 29 and the second August 7. — We've got a little bit more than an hour finished right now. I just got back from seeing an hour of the movie cut together. — Are you happy with it?
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Restaurant customer receives offensive message on receipt — DENVER — A woman arrives hungry at a Denver restaurant Friday and leaves with an inappropriate message that feeds her anger. — We've seen this happen before across the country: restaurant staff write ugly words on customer receipts.
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Moore says Walker ‘tightening the noose’ on black people — Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore says that Republican Gov. Scott Walker's policies are “tightening the noose, literally, around African Americans.” — Moore made the comment during a conference call Monday to discuss Walker's campaigning for president in South Carolina.
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite


Banners hung at home near ODU prompt response from University President: “I am outraged about the offensive message...” — Norfolk, Va. - Old Dominion University officials took time from their weekend to respond to some banners hung up at an off-campus home that are upsetting many.
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Stop Chiseling the Adjuncts — In early June, California labor regulators ruled that a driver for Uber, the app-based car service, was, in fact, an employee, not an independent contractor, and deserved back pay. The decision made national news, with experts predicting a coming flood of lawsuits.