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12:55 PM ET, August 24, 2015

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Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Is Leaning Toward a 2016 Run  —  Vice President Joe Biden is increasingly leaning toward entering the 2016 race, if it is still possible he can knit together a competitive campaign at this late date, people familiar with the matter said.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Potential Biden run divides Obama orbit
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Joe Biden: Will He or Won't He?
Discussion: The Hill and Wall Street Journal
Jenny Cosgrave / Reuters:
Dow futures plummet 400 points as Wall Street preps for steep selloff  —  U.S. stock futures pointed to a sharply lower open Monday after a selloff on Friday that dragged major indexes to four-year lows.  —  U.S. stock index futures screamed lower on Monday, with Dow futures tumbling as much as 400 points …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Global sell-off turns to rally in rocky day for financial markets
MarketWatch:
BULLETIN  —  Apple confirms iPhone 6 Plus camera glitch
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Can the Republican Party Survive Trump?  —  What is happening to the Republican Party?  I put that question to Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina and basement-dwelling presidential candidate, who was getting ready to hold a campaign event in Hooksett, New Hampshire.
Discussion: Fox News and Booman Tribune
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
RNC Chairman: Trump “A Positive For Our Party”
Discussion: The Week
David Knowles / Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Puts ‘Hedge Fund Guys’ on Notice
Susan Zalkind / The Daily Beast:
Boston Police Foil Potential Massacre at Pokemon World Championship  —  Two men drove from Iowa to Massachusetts with a trunk full of ammo and guns, boasting about ‘killing the competition’ on Facebook.  —  BOSTON — Police said Sunday they thwarted what could have been a massacre …
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Lauren Dezenski / Politico:
Debut edition!  MOULTON holds out for Biden — WARREN mum on second term — TOM BRADY's new ad  —  Welcome to the inaugural edition of POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook, where we round up what you need to know about politics and policy in the Bay State and deliver it straight to your inbox every morning.
Daily Mail:
Police foil plot to carry out ‘mass shooting’ …
Brianna Ehley / Politico:
Martin Luther King III ‘perplexed’ by Huckabee comments  —  Martin Luther King III, the son of the late civil rights leader, said he was “perplexed” by GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's comments last week suggesting that his father would be “appalled” by the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump Calls Martin O'Malley A ‘Disgusting Little Weak Pathetic Baby’ For Recognizing Black Lives Matter
Discussion: Addicting Info and New York Times
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:   Peggy Hubbard's Attack on Black Lives Matter
John Bacon / USA Today:
Louisiana trooper dies after being shot, taunted  —  A Louisiana state trooper died Monday after authorities say he was shot in the head and then taunted when he stopped to provide aid to a man whose truck was stuck in a ditch.  —  Col. Mike Edmonson, head of the State Police …
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Colonel Michael D. Edmonson / KPLC-TV:
LSP: Trooper shot in head after responding to traffic incident, suspect in custody
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
The Fed looks set to make a dangerous mistake  —  Raising rates this year will threaten all of the central bank's major objectives  —  Will the Federal Reserve's September meeting see US interest rates go up for the first time since 2006?  Officials have held out the prospect that it might …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:   Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition
Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:   No time for an interest rate hike
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Moveable Glut  —  What caused Friday's stock plunge?  What does it mean for the future?  Nobody knows, and not much.  —  Attempts to explain daily stock movements are usually foolish: a real-time survey of the 1987 stock crash found no evidence for any of the rationalizations economists …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Tamar Haspel / Washington Post:
Why salad is so overrated  —  As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic.  Almonds, for their water use.  Corn, for the monoculture.
Elizabeth Leonard / People.com:
Tracy Morgan Marries Megan Wollover - See the Beautiful Couple!  —  Tracy Morgan is a married man!  —  Fourteen months after a horrific highway crash left him fighting for his life, the comedian wed his long-time fiancée Megan Wollover in an intimate and moving ceremony Sunday night, Morgan's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The single most important piece of advice during a stock market crash: don't sell  —  Most people on most days don't pay too much attention to the stock market or spend much time thinking about it.  One big exception is on days when the market crashes dramatically.
Lane Brown / Vulture:
TARANTINO … THIS INTERVIEW was condensed and edited from two conversations, the first conducted July 29 and the second August 7.  —  We've got a little bit more than an hour finished right now.  I just got back from seeing an hour of the movie cut together.  —  Are you happy with it?
Derek Gilliam / Florida Times Union:
Man killed in officer-involved shooting on Westside  —  MORE PUBLIC SAFETY COVERAGE  —  A screaming woman ran into a church on Sunday morning on Jacksonville's Westside before police shot and killed her husband during an exchange of gunfire.  —  “He's going to kill me,” she said, crying …
Discussion: Associated Press
Lars Christensen / The Market Monetarist:
The ‘dollar bloc’ was never an optimal currency area and now it is falling apart  —  Global stock markets are in a 2008ish kind of crash today and I really don't much time to write this, but I just want to share my take on it.  —  To me this is fundamentally about the in-optimal currency union between the US and China.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
 
 
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Next Publisher  —  The issue of succession is a difficult matter …
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Flip-Flops on Flat Tax in Literally Less than One Minute
Discussion: Liberaland and The Week
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Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Tech oligarchs tightening their grip on Democrats
BBC:
Palmyra's Baalshamin temple ‘blown up by IS’
Discussion: Al Jazeera English and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren refuses to commit to 2018 Senate run
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and OnPolitics
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Fiorina supporters slam ‘ludicrous’ CNN debate methodology
Discussion: Instapundit
Roger Kimball / City Journal:
Crazy Like a Visionary  —  Elon Musk's remarkable career reminds us …