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2:55 PM ET, August 24, 2015

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Wall Street Journal:
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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John Fund / National Review:
Democrats Look at Plan B: Biden as a One-Term President, with Warren as His VP  —  Joe Biden had good reasons to huddle privately with Elizabeth Warren on Saturday at his official residence.  The Massachusetts senator may have chosen not to run next year, but her populist rhetoric and agenda dominate the 2016 Democratic contest.
Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren refuses to commit to 2018 Senate run
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and OnPolitics
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Potential Biden run divides Obama orbit
Discussion: Fox News and BostonGlobe.com
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Joe Biden to skip DNC meeting amid 2016 buzz
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting
Discussion: Common Dreams
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
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.
Discussion: Fox News and Booman Tribune
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David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Puts ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ on Notice
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Donald Trump seizes on stock-market plunge  —  As stock markets around the world plummeted Monday morning, Donald Trump saw an opportunity, batting out a series of social media posts making his case as the man to fix the global economy.  —  “As I have long stated, we are so tied in with China …
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Jenny Cosgrave / Reuters:
Dow futures plummet 400 points as Wall Street preps for steep selloff
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Global sell-off turns to rally in rocky day for financial markets
Erik Larsen / Asbury Park Press:
Belmar diners leave waitress taunting note and no tip  —  BELMAR — A 20-year-old Rutgers University student who is waiting tables at D'Jais Bar & Grill this summer to help put herself through school, got an unwelcome lesson in the humanities this past week.
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
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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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump Calls Martin O'Malley A ‘Disgusting Little Weak Pathetic Baby’ For Recognizing Black Lives Matter
Discussion: Addicting Info and New York Times
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:   Peggy Hubbard's Attack on Black Lives Matter
Tammy Vigil / FOX31 Denver:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Mail and KFOR-TV
Tamar Haspel / Washington Post:
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.
Lane Brown / Vulture:
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?
Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
Black women ‘humiliated’ after getting kicked off Napa Valley Wine Train  —  What started as a joyous ride through wine county Saturday afternoon turned into a “humiliating” experience for 11 African American women, who said they were booted off the Napa Valley Wine Train for laughing and talking too loud.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
John Bacon / USA Today:
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Elizabeth Leonard / People.com:
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.
Discussion: Fox 59, New York's PIX11 and Daily Mail
Caroline Fredrickson / Washington Monthly:
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.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The single most important piece of advice during a stock market crash: don't sell  —  Most people on most days don't pay too much attention to the stock market or spend much time thinking about it.  One big exception is on days when the market crashes dramatically.
Susan Zalkind / The Daily Beast:
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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Joshua Friemel / Dallas Mavericks Blog:
Mark Cuban on how Donald Trump ‘fashioned himself a Killer of political correctness;’ how to understand the politician
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Carson: Don't use drones to kill at border
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
WLUK:
Moore says Walker ‘tightening the noose’ on black people
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Edward Frame / New York Times:
Dinner and Deception  —  Serving elaborate meals to the super-rich left me feeling empty.
MarketWatch:
BULLETIN  —  Apple confirms iPhone 6 Plus camera glitch
Discussion: 6
Derek Gilliam / Florida Times Union:
Man killed in officer-involved shooting on Westside
Discussion: Associated Press
Lars Christensen / The Market Monetarist:
The ‘dollar bloc’ was never an optimal currency area and now it is falling apart
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Flip-Flops on Flat Tax in Literally Less than One Minute
Discussion: Liberaland and The Week
Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Tech oligarchs tightening their grip on Democrats
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Fiorina supporters slam ‘ludicrous’ CNN debate methodology
Discussion: Instapundit
Roger Kimball / City Journal:
Crazy Like a Visionary  —  Elon Musk's remarkable career reminds us …
 

 
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed “LLM Siri”, with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16

 
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