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1:55 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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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden 2016 Speculation Heats Up Following Elizabeth Warren Meeting
Discussion: Common Dreams
Nick Gass / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren refuses to commit to 2018 Senate run
Discussion: OnPolitics and Taylor Marsh
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Potential Biden run divides Obama orbit
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com and Althouse
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: Talking Points Memo and 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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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
Discussion: 6
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 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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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
Erik Larsen / Asbury Park Press:
Belmar diners leave waitress taunting note and no tip  —  BELMAR — A 20-year-old Rutgers University student who is waiting tables at D'Jais Bar & Grill this summer to help put herself through school, got an unwelcome lesson in the humanities this past week.
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.
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
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?
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Carson: Don't use drones to kill at border  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Sunday that he did not advocate using drone strikes to kill people along the U.S.-Mexico border.  —  Carson instead said on CNN's “State of the Union” that he thought drones would offer increased surveillance …
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Caroline Fredrickson / Washington Monthly:
Stop Chiseling the Adjuncts  —  In early June, California labor regulators ruled that a driver for Uber, the app-based car service, was, in fact, an employee, not an independent contractor, and deserved back pay.  The decision made national news, with experts predicting a coming flood of lawsuits.
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.
Discussion: Fox 59, New York's PIX11 and Daily Mail
Tammy Vigil / FOX31 Denver:
Restaurant customer receives offensive message on receipt  —  DENVER — A woman arrives hungry at a Denver restaurant Friday and leaves with an inappropriate message that feeds her anger.  —  We've seen this happen before across the country: restaurant staff write ugly words on customer receipts.
Discussion: Raw Story, KFOR-TV and Daily Mail
WLUK:
Moore says Walker ‘tightening the noose’ on black people  —  Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore says that Republican Gov. Scott Walker's policies are “tightening the noose, literally, around African Americans.”  —  Moore made the comment during a conference call Monday to discuss Walker's campaigning for president in South Carolina.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
 
 
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Edward Frame / New York Times:
Dinner and Deception  —  Serving elaborate meals to the super-rich left me feeling empty.
Derek Gilliam / Florida Times Union:
Man killed in officer-involved shooting on Westside
Discussion: Associated Press
Lars Christensen / The Market Monetarist:
The ‘dollar bloc’ was never an optimal currency area and now it is falling apart
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
 Earlier Items: 
NBC News:
Meet the Press Transcript - August 23, 2015
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Flip-Flops on Flat Tax in Literally Less than One Minute
Discussion: Liberaland and The Week
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
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 …