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2:55 PM ET, August 25, 2015

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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Roger Ailes: Donald Trump should apologize to Megyn Kelly  —  Donald Trump may have finally crossed the line with Fox News.  —  On Tuesday, Fox News Chief Roger Ailes said in a statement Donald Trump should apologize for a tirade of tweets aimed at Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
David Duke On Trump: He's “Certainly The Best Of The Lot” Running For President  —  “I think he understands the real sentiment of America.”  —  David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and self-described “racial realist,” says Donald Trump is the best Republican candidate …
Sam Frizell / TIME:
Pollster's Legs Wobble After Fawning Donald Trump Focus Group  —  “My legs are shaking,” the pollster Frank Luntz says of the results  —  A flock of two dozen mad-as-hell supporters of Donald Trump agreed to assemble on Monday night in a political consultant's office to explain their passion for the Republican frontrunner.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
State GOP leaders plot to tie Donald Trump's hands  —  Amid mounting concerns about Donald Trump's candidacy from the GOP establishment, Republican leaders in at least two states have found a way to make life a lot harder for him.  —  The Virginia and North Carolina parties are in discussions …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Jeb Bush Takes a Cue From Donald Trump's Playbook: Punch Back  —  The schoolyard taunts from Donald J. Trump arrive on a daily basis, raining down on Jeb Bush's sober, careful and policy-minded campaign with growing acerbity.  —  Mr. Trump has called Mr. Bush's immigration plans “baby stuff” and his education policy “pathetic.”
Patrick Howley / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's Son: Ashley Madison Account Was Created In My Name By America's Enemies  —  Someone using the name of Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden had a profile on the Ashley Madison dating website for extramarital affairs, Breitbart News has learned.
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Hillary vs. Biden Would Get Ugly Fast  —  You thought Clinton-Obama 2008 was bad?  A Clinton-Biden race could be much worse: White guy steps in woman's path, attacks her integrity!  —  You've got to admit it was kind of a stroke of genius for Joe Biden to have that “secret” meeting with Elizabeth Warren over the weekend.
ABC News:
Hunter Biden Denies Ashley Madison Account Using His Email Address Belongs to Him
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Bloomberg Business
CNN:
Vice President Joe Biden is said to be seriously mulling a 2016 bid
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump up big in NH; Sanders leads Clinton  —  PPP's new New Hampshire poll finds Donald Trump in the strongest position of any poll we've done anywhere since he entered the race.  Trump laps the Republican field with 35% to 11% for John Kasich, 10% for Carly Fiorina, 7% each for Jeb Bush and Scott Walker …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Hispanics Frown on Trump, but Not Rest of GOP Field
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Oliver Holmes / Guardian:
Boy trips in museum and punches hole through painting  —  Taiwanese 12-year-old holding a drink stumbles and tears through 17th-century oil on canvas artwork  —  A 12-year-old trips and puts his hand through a painting at an art exhibition in Taiwan  —  A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy lived …
Discussion: Fusion, Fox News Insider and The Week
Politico:
House GOP leaders desperate to avoid shutdown  —  With the clock ticking, Republicans have yet to settle on a strategy to resolve a showdown over Planned Parenthood funding.  —  Getty  —  An explosive confrontation brewing between the House Republican leadership and conservatives …
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Washington Post
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
IRS finds yet another Lois Lerner email account  —  Lois Lerner had yet another personal email account used to conduct some IRS business, the tax agency confirmed in a new court filing late Monday that further complicates the administration's efforts to be transparent about Ms. Lerner's actions during the tea party targeting scandal.
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Fox News:
IRS reveals existence of another Lois Lerner email account
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Aarti Shahani / NPR:
Why Phone Fraud Starts With A Silent Call  —  Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET.  —  Here's an experience some of us have had.  The phone rings.  You pick it up and say “Hello.  Hello.  Helloooo.”  But nobody answers.
Discussion: WREG-TV
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Barack Obama calls opponents of Iran deal ‘the crazies’  —  LAS VEGAS — There are the people on his side on the Iran deal, President Barack Obama said Monday evening.  Then there are “the crazies.”  —  Back from a notably uneventful and restful two-week vacation in Martha's Vineyard …
USA Today:
From obesity to duplicity: Jared's fall to Earth  —  Jared Fogle's lawyer says the former Subway spokesman will accept a plea deal for having sex with underage girls and possessing child pornography.  Jeremy Margolis says his client is seeking treatment and amends.
Allum Bokhari / BREITBART.COM:
Rise of the Cultural Libertarians  —  A new force is emerging in the culture wars.  Authoritarians of all stripes, from religious reactionaries to left-wing “social justice warriors,” are coming under fire from a new wave of thinkers, commentators, and new media stars who reject virtually all of their political values.
Doug Moore / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Tension escalates in a St. Charles County subdivision after a new neighbor moves in  —  ST. CHARLES COUNTY  • The house on Glen Brook Court has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, great curb appeal and sits in the Wentzville School District.  —  As the real estate listing says, it is “the perfect home in a wonderful neighborhood.”
Steven J. Harper / New York Times:
Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs  —  WILMETTE, Ill. — Ten months after graduation, only 60 percent of the law school class of 2014 had found full-time long-term jobs that required them to pass the bar exam.  —  Even that improvement over the class of 2013 (a 57 percent employment rate) …
WBUR:
'Juror 83′ Is First Tsarnaev Juror To Speak About Trial Experience, Death Penalty Decision  —  The judge in the Boston Marathon bombing trial has rejected a motion brought by The Boston Globe and joined by WBUR to publicly release the names of the trial jurors.  —  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Trial
Discussion: Guardian
 
 
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Oscar winners Julianne Moore, Bruce Cohen work to strip school's Confederate name
Nick Gass / Politico:
John Kasich's approval rating soars in Ohio
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