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5:05 PM ET, August 22, 2015

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Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
3 American friends tackle and hogtie gunman aboard European train  —  BRUSSELS - A gunman opened fire on a packed high-speed train running from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday before being tackled and tied up by three Americans, according to family members and French officials, who said their quick work had foiled a major tragedy.
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Isabelle Fraser / Telegraph:
Barack Obama telephones the three American heroes in France  —  Attacker armed with Kalashnikov shouted “give me back my gun” as he was foiled by three Americans, including two off-duty servicemen - follow live updates … • British witness Chris Norman: the attacker knifed hero US serviceman as we were tying him up
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
American Describes Taking Down Gunman on Train to France  —  PARIS — The two American service members who tackled a gunman on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat him over the head …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump, Alabama and the ghost of George Wallace  —  The South rises for Trump, but only 20,000 of them.  —  MOBILE, Ala. — It was immigration, not segregation, that brought some 20,000 southerners — far fewer than predicted — out for Donald Trump on Friday night, but the ghost of George Wallace loomed large.
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CNN:
30,000 turn out for Trump's Alabama pep rally  —  Mobile, Alabama (CNN)Donald Trump brought 30,000 supporters from deep red Alabama to a Friday night pep rally in a football stadium, the latest sign that the Republican front-runner has broad, nationwide strength.
Washington Post:
Trump's audacious Southern spectacle is part of his strategy  —  MOBILE, Ala. — It was the most audacious Donald Trump spectacle yet in a summer full of them, as the Republican presidential front-runner, in his Boeing 757, thundered over a football stadium here Friday night and gave …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump tells Alabama crowd he can't wait for the election
Discussion: WPTV
CNN:
First on CNN: Biden meets with Warren in Washington  — The meeting between Biden and Warren is the biggest indication yet that he is feeling out influential Democrats about a possible 2016 run  — Biden is the leading figure Democrats believe they could turn to if they needed to find an alternative to Hillary Clinton
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Mail
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
The War That Congress Won't Declare  —  “To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell wrote in 1946.  Here's a corollary: The real scandal in any given system is usually the thing there's no argument about.  —  We hear a lot of discussion about executive power and the military these days.
Des Moines Register:
Animal rights activists interrupt Chris Christie speech  —  Animal rights activists jumped on stage at the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox, interrupting New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.  He took it all in stride, even jokingly thanking the activists for making Iowa feel like New Jersey.
John C. Goodman / Townhall.com:
Why Conservatives Should Care About Ferguson  —  Last Saturday I made a first-ever visit to the down town Dallas Police Department to fill out a report.  I had never been to a police department before.  My only image of one was the police station I had seen on the television series Hill Street Blues.
Zoya Sheftalovich / Politico:
Google ordered to remove UK search results  —  U.K. data watchdog orders Google to remove links in right to be forgotten case.  —  Google must remove nine search results to news stories that contain irrelevant information about a criminal conviction, the U.K. data protection watchdog ruled …
Discussion: Hot Air
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Glenn Beck: Trump is not conservative  —  Conservative media personality Glenn Beck on Saturday said GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is a false conservative.  —  Beck added that Trump's rhetoric shows that the outspoken billionaire often deviates from conservativism's traditional principles.
Discussion: NPR and Booman Tribune
Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Packing heat in Detroit: Motown residents answer police chief's call to arms  —  Rick Ector, an NRA-certified firearms instructor and the blogger behind “LegallyArmedinDetroit.com,” says business is booming.  (Courtesy of Rick Ector)  —  Detroit resident Darrell Standberry doesn't navigate streets …
 
 
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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Israel Came Close to Attacking Iran, Ex-Defense Minister Says
Lindsey Adler / BuzzFeed:
MLB Adopts New Policy For Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, And Child Abuse
Discussion: The Week
Fox News:
California judge orders immigrant families released from detention
Leslie A. Rubin / WCHS-TV:
Sign Supporting Terrorism Discovered At Local War Memorial
Zack McDonald / Panama City News-Herald:
Police: Woman lied about kidnapping to skip work
Discussion: Fox News Insider
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Washington Post:
Mr. Trump's immigrant-bashing rhetoric breeds violence
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
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CNN:
Woman says she secretly recorded Jared Fogle's conversations
Discussion: New York Post, Slantpoint and Mediaite
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush Super PAC Sends Mailer To 86,000 Iowans With Jeb's Head On A Black Body
 

 
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The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish steps down; Brian Robbins, Chris McCarthy, and George Cheeks will run Paramount on an interim basis as an “Office of the CEO”

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Shari Redstone agreed to take less than $2B for her Paramount stake as part of Skydance's “best and final” offer, lower than what was initially offered

 
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