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10:30 PM ET, August 11, 2013

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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Vice President Joe Biden will be in Iowa for Harkin steak fry  —  Vice President Joe Biden has accepted U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's invitation to attend his steak fry this year, White House officials told The Des Moines Register this evening.  —  “It has been a long-standing commitment …
Discussion: Politico
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Jonathan Martin / The Caucus:
Biden, Hinting at 2016, to Speak at Iowa Event  —  DES MOINES - Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be the keynote speaker at Senator Tom Harkin's annual steak fry fund-raiser next month, a signature event on the Iowa political calendar that often showcases aspiring presidents as featured speakers.
Discussion: Post Politics
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Biden to speak at Iowa Dem fundraiser
Discussion: CNN
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Trump spars with ABC reporter over Obama's birth certificate  —  Donald Trump, in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa this weekend for an event featuring many potential 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls, defended his questioning of President Barack Obama's place of birth in an interview aired Sunday on ABC's “This Week.”
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New York Post:
Newark Mayor Cory Booker pocketed ‘confidential’ annual payouts from law firm while in office  —  Cory Booker pocketed “confidential” annual payouts from his former law firm while serving as Newark mayor.  —  Booker, the front-runner in New Jersey's Senate race, received five checks …
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home  —  When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated.  —  Bo, the US First Family's waterdog, gets off the Marine helicopter at Martha's Vineyard  —  Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents …
KC Downey / WMUR:
Man shoots and kills son, himself at Manchester YWCA  —  Muni Savyon fatally shoots 9-year-old son  —  A man shot and killed his son before taking his own life at the YWCA in Manchester on Sunday morning, police said.  —  According to the attorney general's office, Muni Savyon, 54 …
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
GOP Strategist Confronts Congressman For Bigoted Comments On Immigrants: You ‘Should Get Some Therapy’  —  Rep. Steve King (R-IA) recently dove into hot water by saying that undocumented immigrants were “drug mules” with “cantaloupe-sized calves.”  Sunday morning, King doubled down …
ABC News:
Snowden's Father Gets Visa to Visit Son in Russia  —  National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden's father has secured documents to visit his son in Russia and plans to discuss how he could fight espionage charges, Lon Snowden and his attorney said Sunday.
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Radley Balko / The Huffington Post:
We Need A Whistleblower Prize
Discussion: Samizdata
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Obama cannot ‘have a blank check’ on NSA surveillance, Clyburn says
Discussion: Politico
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Help Thy Neighbor and Go Straight to Prison  —  IF you want to understand all that is wrong with America's criminal justice system, take a look at the nightmare experienced by Edward Young.  —  Young, now 43, was convicted of several burglaries as a young man but then resolved that he would turn his life around.
WBIR-TV:
Tennessee Judge orders baby's name be changed from ‘Messiah’  —  Jaleesa Martin and the father of Messiah could not agree on a last name, which is how they ended up at a child support hearing in Cocke County Chancery Court on Thursday.  —  That is when the first name came into question.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Raw Story
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Madam President  —  WASHINGTON — PRESIDENT OBAMA proved himself a great segue artist Friday, as he smoothly glided from his previously unassailable position on the matter of surveillance to his new unassailable position on the matter of surveillance.  —  There is no moral high ground that he does not seek to occupy.
Associated Press:
Family leaves US on sailboat over religious concerns to start new life, becomes lost at sea  —  Las Ultimas Noticias/Associated Press - Hannah Gastonguay, holding her baby Rahab, is followed by her husband Sean and the couple's 3-year-old daughter Ardith, as they disembark in the port city of San Antonio, Chile, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013.
Discussion: The Raw Story and The Dish
myFOXphoenix.com:
Loophole: People are being told to use “key words” to cross border  —  SAN DIEGO -  —  A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mexico border in to the United States.  —  Immigrants are being taught to use “key words and phrases” to be allowed to enter and stay in the country.
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and The PJ Tatler
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Lee Stranahan / BREITBART.COM:   SUDDEN FLOOD OF ASYLUM REQUESTS AT U.S./MEXICO BORDER
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King: 'I'm serious' about possible 2016 White House bid  —  Rep. Peter King says he's dead serious about exploring a bid for the White House, even as GOP strategists and consultants offer steep and potentially insurmountable odds for the New York Republican.
 
 
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
In his second term, Obama becomes bolder on the environment
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Los Angeles Times:
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Mystery From the Grave Beside Oswald's, Solved
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New York Times:
The Fed, Lawrence Summers, and Money
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For Freshmen in the House, Seats of Plenty
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
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John Grisham / New York Times:
After Guantánamo, Another Injustice
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How the Post Was Lost  —  MANY American newspapers were doomed …
 

 
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