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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.
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Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run
Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting
Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting
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Politico, ABC News and Common Dreams
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.
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WTKR-TV:
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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Wall Street Journal:
Dow Pares Losses After 1,089-Point Plunge But Still Down Sharply in Global Rout — U.S. stocks pared some of Monday's steep losses after a rocky morning during which the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly plummeted more than 1,000 points.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Donald Trump seizes on stock-market plunge
Donald Trump seizes on stock-market plunge
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Daily Kos, New York Times and OnPolitics
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Pat Robertson: Market swoon is God's punishment
Pat Robertson: Market swoon is God's punishment
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Political Wire
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Stocks about 2% lower, tech stocks give back slight gains
Stocks about 2% lower, tech stocks give back slight gains
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NBC News and Washington Free Beacon
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.
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Hillary Clinton in 2011: ‘Hackers Break Into ... Personal Email Accounts’ — Since news broke of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, Mrs. Clinton and her campaign have sought to downplay the significance of using non-government equipment …
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Steve Coll / New Yorker:
Keeping Secrets — Hillary Clinton, in her memoir “Living History …
Keeping Secrets — Hillary Clinton, in her memoir “Living History …
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Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
DHS has no record of State Dept. giving info for Clinton server audit, despite rules
DHS has no record of State Dept. giving info for Clinton server audit, despite rules
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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.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
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LeftOfCenter / Crooks and Liars:
Fox's Gentry: Black Lives Matter Need To Clean Up Their Community — Yep, it's time for another installment of self-loathing. This time, we get a double dose with Fox ‘News’ resident Uncle Ruckus, Charles Payne and returning champion, Minister Jonathan Gentry who are both appalled at the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Martin Luther King III ‘perplexed’ by Huckabee comments
Martin Luther King III ‘perplexed’ by Huckabee comments
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Victoria's Secret lingerie model Adriana Lima sparks outrage after she is duped into terror group video salute — A Victoria's Secret lingerie model has sparked outrage after she was filmed seemingly endorsing a terrorist group which plotted to murder Pope John Paul II.
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The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
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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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 …
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Johnathan Manning / KPLC-TV:
Daigle has lengthy criminal history, including previous charge of battery of a police officer
Daigle has lengthy criminal history, including previous charge of battery of a police officer
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NBC News, KLFY-TV, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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?
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Ben Carson / USA Today:
BlackLivesMatter misfire — Our righteous anger misdirected at politically convenient targets, not real culprits. — The idea that disrupting and protesting Bernie Sanders speeches will change what is wrong in America is lunacy. The “BlackLivesMatter” movement is focused on the wrong targets …
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WJBK-TV:
Controversial flier causes outrage in Southfield — A single piece of paper with a powerful message of hate. — Tamiko Denson grew up in Southfield and her mom still lives in the city but recently the place she's called home for many years has seemed a little less inviting.
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Talking Points Memo, WXYZ-TV and Raw Story
Jamie Holmes / New York Times:
The Case for Teaching Ignorance — IN the mid-1980s, a University of Arizona surgery professor, Marlys H. Witte, proposed teaching a class entitled “Introduction to Medical and Other Ignorance.” Her idea was not well received; at one foundation, an official told her he would rather resign than support a class on ignorance.
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.
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Chris Baraniuk / BBC:
Ashley Madison: ‘Suicides’ over website hack — Two individuals associated with the leak of Ashley Madison customer details are reported to have taken their lives, according to police in Canada. — The police in Toronto gave no further information about the deaths.
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The Intercept, Hullabaloo, The Verge, Graham Cluley and New York Magazine
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 …
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Washington Post, Campaign for America's Future, Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Joshua Friemel / Dallas Mavericks Blog:
Mark Cuban on how Donald Trump ‘fashioned himself a Killer of political correctness;’ how to understand the politician — Dallas owner Mark Cuban pumps his fist as Dallas pulls away in overtime of their 111-101 win during the Portland Trail Blazers vs. the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball game …
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Howard Stern predicts Trump will win GOP nod: ‘People dig him’ — Howard Stern is predicting that Donald Trump will be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee. — “I'll tell you why I think he's going to be the nominee: He's proven that no matter what he says, people dig him,” the SiriusXM radio host told listeners on Monday.
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Walker Calls On Obama To Cancel Chinese President's Trip Amid Market Woes — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called on President Obama to cancel Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the U.S. next month after a tough day for global markets. — In a statement released late Monday …
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