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3:30 AM ET, August 30, 2015

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Iowa Poll: Clinton leads, but Sanders draws near … Liberal revolutionary Bernie Sanders, riding an updraft of insurgent passion in Iowa, has closed to within 7 points of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential race. — She's the first choice of 37 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers …

Discussion: The American Mirror, Scared Monkeys, PoliticusUSA, Liberal Values, Wall Street Journal, The Moderate Voice, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller and Weekly Standard

John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:

Ben Carson Edging Close to Front-Runner Trump in Latest Iowa Poll — Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has emerged as a leading Republican presidential candidate in Iowa and is closing in on frontrunner Donald Trump in the state that hosts the first 2016 nomination balloting contest.

Discussion: Power Line

Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:

Sanders Within Striking Distance of Clinton in Iowa — Hillary Clinton's once-prohibitive advantage in Iowa has slipped enough to jeopardize her front-runner status and Bernie Sanders has moved to within striking distance, revealing a Democratic presidential field in unexpected flux …

Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers

Jackie Kucinich / The Daily Beast:

Hillary Clinton Really Is Coming For Your Guns — Some politicians talk about gun control once in a while. Clinton has been pushing to curb firearms for decades. No wonder the NRA has vowed to bring her down. — “Something is deeply wrong,” Hillary Clinton told the audience at the Democratic National Committee on Friday.

Discussion: BREITBART.COM, PoliticusUSA, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Moe Lane

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Clinton resets campaign strategy

Discussion: RedState, The PJ Tatler, America Rising and Washington Post

Houston Chronicle:

Capital murder charges files in deputy's death — A 30-year-old Cypress man has been charged with capital murder in the Friday killing of a 47-year-old Harris County Sheriff's deputy who had stopped at a gas station he frequented in northwest Harris County.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review and NOLA River

BREITBART.COM:

Texas Deputy Executed Days After Black Radical Group Calls for Killing Cops — HOUSTON, Texas — A Harris County Sheriff's Deputy was shot execution style at a gas station while reportedly in full uniform. The deputy was filling up his patrol car. Witnesses told Breitbart Texas …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers

New York Times: Texas Deputy Killed ‘Because He Wore a Uniform,’ Sheriff Says

Fox News:
Man suspected of killing Texas county sheriff's deputy reportedly arrested

Discussion: The Daily Caller, KHOU-TV, ABC News, The PJ Tatler, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications and American Power

Faith Karimi / CNN:
Man held in killing of Texas sheriff's deputy

Discussion: Click2Houston.com, KTLA, Scared Monkeys, Raw Story, FOX2now.com, Talking Points Memo, NBC News, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit

Faith Karimi / CNN:
Texas deputy killed ‘execution-style’ while fueling patrol car, authorities say

Discussion: New York Times and TheBlaze.com

Marc Caputo / Politico:

Top Jeb fundraisers leave campaign amid troubling signs — Three top Jeb Bush fundraisers abruptly parted ways with his presidential campaign on Friday, amid internal personality conflicts and questions about the strength of his candidacy, POLITICO has learned.There are different versions of what transpired.

Discussion: New York Times, Vox, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, American Spectator, Business Insider, Hullabaloo, Weekly Standard and The Daily Beast

Ben Schreckinger / Politico:

Donald Trump: ‘This is a movement’ — Donald Trump says it's not all about him. No, seriously. Campaigning in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump on Saturday paid homage to his supporters — claiming they are a part of “a movement” and using colorful language to beg for their support. <p …

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'm winning because Americans are ‘tired of being the patsies’

Discussion: Liberaland

Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:

Wasserman Schultz blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting: report — Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz blocked consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting that would have praised President Obama and backed the his nuclear deal with Iran …

Discussion: Moe Lane

Washington Post:

Dems say party chair blocked Iran resolution at DNC meeting — MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz prevented consideration of a resolution at the party's summer meeting here that praised President Obama and offered backing for the nuclear agreement with Iran, according to knowledgeable Democrats.

Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:

‘Django’ actress gets community service after judge calls apology to LAPD ‘insincere’ — When an actress and her boyfriend pleaded no contest to charges stemming from an arrest last fall, there was a catch: They had to apologize to the Los Angeles police officers they accused of mistreating the actress because of her race.

Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and CBS Sacramento

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:

Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer — At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming — U.S. Inflation Developments — I am delighted to be here in Jackson Hole in the company of such distinguished panelists and such a distinguished group of participants.

Discussion: Economist's View, New York Times, Marginal REVOLUTION and Washington Post

Associated Press:

Turkey carries out first air strikes as part of anti-Isis US coalition — Attacks on targets in northern Syria follow agreement on the ‘procedures and technical details’ of cooperation between the two nations — Turkish fighter jets have carried out their first air strikes as part …

Discussion: NPR