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8:20 PM ET, August 21, 2015

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ABC News:
Ellen Page Confronts Ted Cruz on Gay Rights at Iowa State Fair  —  While Sen. Ted Cruz was grilling pork chops at the Iowa State Fair today, actress Ellen Page, wearing a hat and sunglasses, snuck her way up to the grill and asked the GOP presidential candidate about “the persecution of gays in the workplace and LGBT rights.”
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ellen Page confronts Ted Cruz on LGBT issues
ABC News:
Watch: Ellen Page Grills Ted Cruz at Iowa State Fair
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz: Jeb is ‘confused’ about my citizenship
Discussion: SOOPERMEXICAN and ABC News
Daily Mail:
Hero US marine who prevented Moroccan terrorist's train massacre in France is ‘in critical condition’ after being shot in the neck - as he and his colleague are praised for ‘extreme bravery’  — A suspected Moroccan terrorist opened fire with a Kalashnikov on board a high speed train in northern France
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James Rothwell / Telegraph:
Gunman injures three after firing Kalashnikov on Amsterdam-Paris train: latest  —  Unarmed US marines foil attack by Moroccan gunman with Kalashnikov and handgun on train - follow live updates  —  21.13  —  Bernard Cazeneuve, the French interior minister, paid tribute to the Marines as he arrived at the scene, and said
CNN:
Official: 2 U.S. Marines stop Islamist attacker on train in France
Discussion: UPROXX and KFOR-TV
Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
Maybe This Time Really Is Different  —  Historical context is a great asset.  But is history always an accurate guide?  Does past performance always give us the best predictor of future outcomes?  —  This election season provides a fascinating frame to see if the polarization in politics …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Ornstein's Warning  —  Us old folks remember a time when AEI's Norman Ornstein was the very voice of The Conventional Wisdom.  So his new column at The Atlantic ought to come as a particularly significant warning about this election cycle and the particular level of conservative freakout we are dealing with:
Washington Post:
Inside the GOP field's new strategies to ride out the Trump tornado
John Harwood / CNBC:
Scott Walker talks birthright citizenship  —  Walker: ‘no position’ on birthright citizenship  —  Gov. Scott Walker ducks on Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship  —  MANCHESTER, N.H.—Days after seeming to echo Donald Trump's call for ending birthright citizenship …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Scott Walker: I don't have time for Black Lives Matter — let's talk about ‘things that matter’
Discussion: Addicting Info
Daily Mail:
Scott Walker says ‘Black Lives Matter’ doesn't matter! …
Discussion: Liberaland, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump calls O'Malley a ‘disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’
Discussion: Business Insider
Katie Glueck / Politico:
GOP insiders to Trump: Enough already
Discussion: Jay Bookman and Daily Kos
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Pennsylvania becomes fifth state to find no Planned Parenthood wrongdoing  —  Pennsylvania has found no wrongdoing by Planned Parenthood in the state after a review, according to a letter from the state health department.  —  That decision makes it the fifth state to announce that they have found …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood: Videos illegal
Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
Exclusive: Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest  —  For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
A View From the Clinton Scandal Nonsense Mill
Christine Byers / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Man killed by St. Louis police died from gunshot in the back  —  ST. LOUIS  • An autopsy on Mansur Ball-Bey, whose death from police gunfire this week stirred protests, showed that he died from a single wound in the back, police officials said.  —  Chief Sam Dotson said the wound's …
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Dr. Dre Apologizes to the 'Women I've Hurt'  —  For Dr. Dre, the self-proclaimed “first billionaire in hip-hop,” the movie “Straight Outta Compton” and its quasi-soundtrack, “Compton,” his first album in 16 years, were meant to be a victory lap.  That biopic, about his hip-hop group, N.W.A. …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Goes Off At ABC Reporter Over Questions On Term ‘Anchor Babies’  —  Donald Trump lashed out at ABC reporter Tom Llamas on Thursday after the network aired segments critical of the presidential candidate's use of the term “anchor babies” to describe the children of undocumented immigrants.
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David Roberts / Vox:
Carly Fiorina did a 4-minute riff on climate change.  Everything she said was wrong.  —  Katie Couric recently interviewed Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, and the subject of climate change came up.  They discussed it for over four minutes, likely marking the longest …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas Democratic Party chair resigns … Larry Meeker has resigned as chair of the Kansas Democratic Party following uproar over comments he made this week about moving the party in a more conservative direction.  —  Meeker's resignation was confirmed by the party's executive director …
Kyle Daly / Pacific Daily News:
Kmart pulls wipes  —  Guam's Kmart is removing refill packs of Huggies baby wipes from its shelves after receiving complaints that shards of glass were found in the product.  —  Daisy Lee, the local Kmart's HR coordinator, said the store has contacted the manufacturer about the complaints.
Discussion: WNEP-TV, KFOR-TV and Washington Times
Joshuakarpf / Spotify Blog:
SORRY.  —  We are in the middle of rolling out new terms and conditions and privacy policy and they've caused a lot of confusion about what kind of information we access and what we do with it.  We apologize for that.  We should have done a better job in communicating what these policies mean …
 
 
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Maria Panaritis / Philly.com:
Philly cop on video soliciting for fund-raiser at traffic stop
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Sasha Petraske, Bar Owner Who Changed Cocktail Culture, Dies at 42
Discussion: Daily Mail and Gothamist
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Marvel's ‘Luke Cage’: Alfre Woodard Cast In Key Role On Netflix Series
Discussion: UPROXX, Blastr News and Comicbook.com
Politico:
5 reasons Bush isn't freaking out about Trump
Discussion: The Hill and ThinkProgress
Joshua Green / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Thinks Alabama Is Key to Winning the GOP Nomination
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Stocks plunge as global growth concerns weigh; Apple falls nearly 4%
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 Earlier Items: 
Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
Bakers Who Were Fined $135,000 for Gay Wedding Cake Refusal Deliver a Major Surprise …
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Are Republicans For Freedom Or White Identity Politics?
Discussion: Hit & Run, Boston Magazine and Fox News
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Debt Is Good  —  Rand Paul said something funny the other day.
 

 
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