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8:30 AM ET, August 27, 2015

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ABC News:
After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ???  Suicide Notes???  —  A man claiming to be Bryce Williams called ABC News over the last few weeks, saying he wanted to pitch a story, and wanted to fax information.  He never told ABC News what the story was.
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Katie Zavadski / The Daily Beast:
Vester Flanagan Threatened Colleagues, Played the Race Card for Years  —  The cold-blooded Roanoke killer kept getting fired, kept threatening co-workers, and kept claiming he was the real victim.  —  Vester Lee Flanagan claimed in a suicide note Wednesday that June's massacre of black parishioners …
Daily Mail:
Virginia TV shooter Bryce William's reprimand for wearing Barack Obama badge
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
After Shooting, Alleged Gunman Details Grievances in ‘Suicide Notes’
Guardian:
Virginia gunman was told by TV station to seek medical attention, memos say
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
TV Shooter Sued Previous Station Alleging He'd Been Called A ‘Monkey’
Discussion: Mediaite and WDAM-TV
CNN:
Biden unsure if he has the ‘emotional fuel’ for 2016 run  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden revealed to members of the Democratic National Committee Wednesday that he is assessing whether he has “the emotional fuel” to run for the White House.  —  “We're dealing at home with …
Discussion: Guardian and nepr.net
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Joey Francilus / Politico:   DNC chair: Biden ‘would be welcomed’ to presidential race
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Behind the Biden hype
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Possible Biden run puts Obama fundraising network on high alert
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton on Biden: I just want him to reach the right decision for him
Discussion: ABC News and Daily Kos
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Alex Weprin / Politico:
MSNBC moves Al Sharpton to Sunday mornings  —  Al Sharpton is leaving MSNBC's weekday dayside lineup, and moving to Sunday mornings.  —  Sharpton's last weekday “PoliticsNation” will be Sept. 4.  He moves to Sundays a month later on Oct. 4, according to a memo sent to MSNBC staff …
Discussion: Mediaite
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New York Daily News:
Rev. Al Sharpton moves MSNBC show to Sunday mornings
Discussion: TVNewser
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
South Carolina GOP chafes under Graham  —  Party leaders don't think their senator can win but don't feel free to endorse someone else.  —  South Carolina's Republican power brokers are facing a Lindsey Graham dilemma.  —  Wide-open nominating contests don't happen every day …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Republican Conception of Conception
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes ‘Responsibility’ for Email Use, Saying It 'Wasn't the Best Choice'  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton waited to be introduced Wednesday at the Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, Iowa.  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she understood why people had questions …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Tom Harkin Cautions Joe Biden Against Running for President
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Annalee Newitz / Gizmodo:
Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site  —  When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women's profiles were fake.  Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” …
Discussion: Business Insider and Vox Popoli
Jennifer Robison / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
EARLY CONCERNS  —  Obamacare included member-run, locally based nonprofit insurers to increase competition for existing carriers.  The idea initially worked: Nevada Health CO-OP had more than a third of the market in the 2013 enrollment period, beating out big, publicly traded competitors UnitedHealth Group …
Jessi Hempel / Wired:
Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana  —  Today, a few hundred Bay Area Facebook users will open their Messenger apps to discover M, a new virtual assistant.  Facebook will prompt them to test it with examples of what M can do: Make restaurant reservations.  Find a birthday gift for your spouse.
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Bush on Jorge Ramos: Reporters Deserve ‘A Little More Respect’  —  Jeb Bush says that Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who was escorted out of a press conference held by Donald Trump on Tuesday night, should have been “treated with a little more respect.”  —  “I think people with the press ought …
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Matt Dixon / Politico:   Bush: Press deserves ‘respect and dignity’
Michael Brown / Politico:
Stop blaming me for Hurricane Katrina  —  Ten years later, the name ‘Brownie’ is still identified with the government's failures.  Here's what really happened.  —  Getty.  —  SHARES  —  Had I left the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the spring of 2005, my life would be very different today.
David Meyer / Politico:
Industry issues plea over data reform  —  Companies torn between foreign laws for Europeans' personal data.  —  A broad industry coalition is lobbying the European Union to strike out part of an impending privacy law that could force companies to deny requests for personal data from non-member countries.
Peter Berlin / Politico:
Dope and glory  —  Only Usain Bolt keeps the murkiness of world athletics in check.  —  When Usain Bolt battled to victory in the 100-meter final on the second day of the Track and Field World Championships in Beijing, he struck a blow not only for his competitive reputation but also for the image of his besieged sport.
Nick Gass / Politico:
White House hits back at Charles Koch  —  The White House fired back Wednesday at Charles Koch after a POLITICO article quoted him as saying he was “flabbergasted” by a recent attack on him and his brother by President Barack Obama during an energy speech in Las Vegas earlier this week.
 
 
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Donald Trump's appeal — an Obama for the right
Discussion: Hot Air and FiveThirtyEight
Jen Yamato / The Daily Beast:
Morrissey on How Obama ‘Has Meant Nothing’ and Trump 'Can't Be Allowed to Represent America'
Discussion: Guardian
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Mormon Church Will Keep Ties With Boy Scouts Despite Objecting to Gay Leaders
Mary Pols / The Portland Press Herald:
LePage again talks of challenging Angus King for Senate seat in '18
Discussion: Daily Kos, Moe Lane and WBUR
Stacey Barchenger / Tennessean.com:
Judge: TN lethal injection protocol constitutional
Discussion: BuzzFeed and nepr.net
Adam Beam / Associated Press:
Fed Court Upholds Ruling Ordering Clerk To Issue Marriage Licenses To Gay Couples
Discussion: Mediaite
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Jeff Manning / Oregonian:
Klamath County sheriff under investigation, seven deputies put on leave
Discussion: nepr.net and Raw Story
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Trump Telling GOP Brass He Will Forgo A Third-Party Run: Sources
Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
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Why Fox News' Defense Of Megyn Kelly Is Going To Backfire
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