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3:05 PM ET, August 23, 2013

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Dylan Wohlenhaus / KHQ-TV:
BREAKING UPDATE: One Suspect In Custody After WWII Veteran Beaten To Death  —  BREAKING NEWS: Major crimes investigators have just confirmed that one teenager has been arrested in the beating death of WWII veteran Delbert Belton.  One suspect remains on the loose.  Charges of 1st degree murder and 1st degree robbery pending.
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Rob Kauder / KXLY-TV:
WWII vet, beaten by teens outside Eagles Lodge, dies  —  Author: Ian Cull, KXLY4 Multimedia Journalist, ianc@kxly.com  —  WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane on Wednesday evening.
CNN:
WWII vet Delbert Benton, 88, beaten to death by teens in Spokane, Washington  —  (CNN) — An 88-year-old World War II veteran was brutally beaten and left for dead by two teens outside a lounge in Spokane, Washington, where he loved to go play pool.  —  The motive?  Police don't have one.
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself  —  The NSA whistleblower says: ‘I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent’  —  (Updated below)  —  The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from …
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies  —  • Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship  —  • Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA  —  • Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
NSA Analysts Intentionally Abused Spying Powers Multiple Times  —  Some National Security Agency analysts deliberately ignored restrictions on their authority to spy on Americans multiple times in the past decade, contradicting Obama administration officials' and lawmakers' statements that no willful violations occurred.
CNN:
Transcript of President Obama's interview on “New Day”  —  (CNN) — OBAMA: All right.  We're ready?  OK.  —  CUOMO: All right.  Let's begin with why you're here in Syracuse, why you're doing this particular bus tour what do you believe you can do to help lower the cost of college …
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Alan Silverleib / CNN:
Obama tells CNN key decisions nearing on Syria, Egypt  —  (CNN) — The time is nearing for a potentially definitive U.S. response to alleged Syrian government atrocities and an increasingly violent military crackdown in Egypt, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview broadcast Friday on CNN's “New Day.”
USA Today:
Nidal Hasan found guilty in Fort Hood killings  —  The panel voted unanimously to convict the Army psychiatrist for the rampage that left 13 dead and 31 injured.  —  CONNECT  —  Maj. Nidal Hasan, the radicalized Army psychiatrist who turned his gun on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood four years ago …
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Simon McCormack / Associated Press:   Nidal Hasan Guilty: Soldier Convicted Of Murder In Fort Hood Shooting
TMZ.com:
George Zimmerman Shops For Tactical Shotgun  —  SHOPS FOR TACTICAL SHOTGUN  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  George Zimmerman was on the hunt today — for a shotgun ... TMZ has learned.  —  Zimmerman went to Kel-Tec in Cocoa, Florida ... a gun manufacturing company.  We're told he was asking questions …
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Economy — We've Fallen And Can't Get Up  —  Economy: Household incomes are still down 4.4% since the recession ended four years ago.  Meanwhile, the unemployment picture may be even worse than we think.  The Obama “recovery” continues to impress.  —  According to a report released …
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Richard Vedder / Bloomberg:
College Costs Will Keep Rising Under Obama Plan  —  Colleges' exploitation of young Americans through rapidly rising and increasingly exorbitant fees is a national scandal that can no longer be ignored.  In his college tour this week, President Barack Obama is speaking at length about what he intends …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Obama's higher ed plan — a power grab, not a shake-up
Christian Adams / Election Law Center:
Maddow's Dishonest Scare Parade on NC Voting  —  Last night the great David Webb filled in for Sean Hannity on Fox News.  Webb put on Allen West and Juan Williams to talk about urban malaise.  The visuals at Fox must have been too much for Rachel Maddow because she put up an hour long show designed to scare people about voting rights.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A New Strategy to Take on ObamaCare  —  A coalition of conservatives believes that ‘delay’ is more likely to succeed than ‘defund.’  —  The Republicans determined to defund ObamaCare are getting a little competition in the ideas department.  Maybe there's hope for progress against the president's health-care law after all.
Adam Housley / Fox News:
Team involved in tracking Benghazi suspects pulling out, sources say  —  Two weeks after the Obama administration announced charges against suspects in the Benghazi attack, a large portion of the U.S. team that hunted the suspects and trained Libyans to help capture or kill them is leaving Libya permanently.
Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Hotline's Inaugural 2014 Senate Rankings  —  Republicans have the majority in their sights, but they haven't expanded the playing field.  —  The battle for the Senate is primed to go down to the wire.  Democrats can lose up to five seats while retaining the majority …
James Andrew Miller / New York Times:
N.F.L. Pressure Said to Lead ESPN to Quit Film Project  —  Pressure from the National Football League led to ESPN's decision on Thursday to pull out of an investigative project with “Frontline” regarding head injuries in the N.F.L., according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Rand Paul, heading to South Carolina, talks Lindsey Graham, Egypt  —  On the eve of a fresh trip to the early presidential state of South Carolina, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said in an interview he is “unlikely” to get involved in the brewing Senate primary there between GOP incumbent Lindsey Graham …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Justin Kroll / Variety:
Ben Affleck Is the New Batman  —  VIEW GALLERY … Ben Affleck is Batman.  —  The actor will replace Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in the upcoming untitled Batman-Superman feature for Warner Bros., the studio announced Thursday.  —  Affleck becomes the eighth actor to play the Caped Crusader …
Felix Salmon:
Data crashes: inevitable and mostly harmless  —  When you look up the price of a stock on the Nasdaq stock exchange, you're not really looking up the price at which it's trading on that exchange.  All of the Nasdaq stocks trade on dozens of exchanges, all of which have the right to trade in those stocks.
Julie Pace / ABC News:
Obama Says Law School Should Be 2 Years, Not 3  —  President Barack Obama says law schools in the U.S. should cut down to two years instead of three to cut costs for students.  —  Obama says students do most of their classroom learning in the first two years of law school.
Discussion: CNN
Barnini Chakraborty / Fox News:
DHS employee spends spare time promoting race war against ‘whites’  —  Shown here is an image from the War on the Horizon website.  —  A Department of Homeland Security manager in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for the government is, on the side, running an inflammatory website …
Hoover Institution:
The Shame of Syria  —  by Fouad Ajami (Herbert and Jane Dwight Senior Fellow and cochair, Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)  —  The country's refugees bear the cost of Obama's moral and political evasions.  —  In early June, I traveled to Iraqi Kurdistan and to Istanbul.
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Wire
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
This Age of Bubbles  —  So, another BRIC hits the wall.  Actually, I've never much liked the whole “BRIC” — Brazil, Russia, India, and China — concept: Russia, which is basically a petro-economy, doesn't belong there at all, and there are large differences among the other three.
Pew Research Center:
Younger Republicans think more diverse nominees would help GOP win  —  Here's some advice from younger Republicans for improving the party's fortunes in national elections: Nominate more minority and female candidates.  —  A recent survey of Republican and Republican-leaning adults …
Discussion: The Fix
 
 
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Alec Macgillis / The New Republic:
Raising the Minimum Wage Could Be a Winning Issue for Democrats. Here's Why.
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Putin bans protests during Olympics
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The choice in Egypt  —  Egypt today is a zero-sum game.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
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Discussion: Politico
Peggy Fikac / Texas on the Potomac:
Ted Cruz: ‘I am secretly a citizen of Ethiopia’
Discussion: The Hill, The Raw Story and Politico
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Dems watch as Christie rolls
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