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8:35 PM ET, September 4, 2015

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Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Disband the Benghazi Committee  —  Washington — NOT long after it was formed last year, members of the Select Committee on Benghazi gathered to meet privately with family members of the four Americans killed on that dreadful night in Libya in 2012.  The meetings were emotional …
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Gallup:
Hillary Clinton's Favorable Rating One of Her Worst  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dogged by continued scrutiny of her email practices as secretary of state, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's favorability with the American public has sunk to one of its lowest levels in Gallup's 23-year trend.
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton Tells NBC News She Is ‘Sorry’ for Email Confusion  —  In an exclusive interview with NBC News/MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Friday, Hillary Clinton said she's “sorry” there's been so much controversy over her private email server, but declined to apologize for the decision to use it.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton: I'm ‘sorry’ the email scandal is confusing to people
Discussion: ABC News
Heidi Przybyla / USA Today:
Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Shannen W. Coffin / National Review:
What Will the Public Make of Hillary's Former IT Staffer's Decision to Take the Fifth?
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump blasts Hugh Hewitt as ‘a third-rate radio announcer’  —  Donald Trump is blasting Hugh Hewitt after stumbling over foreign policy questions in an interview with the conservative radio host.  —  “[He is] a third-rate radio announcer,” Trump told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Friday morning.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump rips into Hugh Hewitt after terror gaffe  —  <p>Donald Trump tore into radio host Hugh Hewitt as a "third-rate radio announcer" on Friday after the Republican presidential candidate struggled to answer a question about the leaders of major terrorist groups the <a href="http …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Scott Walker the biggest loser of the summer  —  <p>It's been a cruel summer for Scott Walker and Martin O'Malley.</p><p> That's the assessment of this week's POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump Stumbles and Bristles During Foreign Policy Interview
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Trump has a better answer on Iran than his GOP rivals do.  Seriously.  —  On Morning Joe today, Donald Trump staked out another position that could — or at least should — force a real debate among Republicans that previously might have remained mostly walled off from discussion by GOP orthodoxy.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump's Image Up Sharply Among Republicans  —  Story Highlights  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Donald Trump's net favorable rating among Republicans increased significantly over the past two weeks, putting him among the top six Republicans overall on this measure.
Nick Gass / Politico:   Trump warns Carson
Courier-Journal:
Kim Davis' husband: 'She won't resign' … CONNECT  —  MOREHEAD, Ky. The husband of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis said early Friday that Kim remains in good spirits and is prepared to remain in jail for months.  —  Joe Davis appeared outside the Rowan County Courthouse …
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Renée Graham / BostonGlobe.com:
Kim Davis follows the footsteps of George Wallace
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Cheves / Lexington Herald-Leader:
First gay couples obtain marriage licenses in Rowan County
Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Fusion and Joe.My.God.
Geoffrey Sant / Slate:
Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit.  —  In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China's Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head.  As the girl's grandmother shouted, “Stop!  You've hit a child!” …
Ben Cardin / Washington Post:
Sen. Ben Cardin: I will vote against the Iran deal  —  The writer represents Maryland in the U.S. Senate, where he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  —  Throughout the process of evaluating the Iran nuclear agreement, I continuously returned to two fundamental questions …
Weekly Standard:
The Next Justices  —  A guide for GOP candidates on how to fill Court vacancies  —  When Chief Justice John Roberts administers the oath of office to the next president, he will be flanked by three, and almost four, octogenarians: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (83), Antonin Scalia (80), Anthony Kennedy (80), and Stephen Breyer (77).
Peter Moore / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Build a fence with Mexico, not Canada  —  Most Americans support building a fence with Mexico but not one with Canada  —  Donald Trump has made forcing the Mexican government to build a fence along the entire length of their border with the United States a major plank of his presidential campaign.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:   YouGov poll: 64% want a border fence with Mexico — including pluralities of Dems, blacks, and Hispanics
Steven W Thrasher / Guardian:
Burning Man founder: 'Black folks don't like to camp as much as white folks'  —  Larry Harvey discusses lack of racial diversity and the allegation that Silicon Valley bosses in luxury camps are destroying the festival's egalitarian ethos  —  urning Man founder Larry Harvey has countered criticism …
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
John Tierney / KGW-TV:
Marion County judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages  —  Oregon Judge refuses to do same-sex marriages  —  PORTLAND, Ore. - A Marion County judge has refused to perform same-sex marriages and has asked his clerks to refer couples seeking same-sex marriages to other county judges.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Other People's Dollars, and Their Place in Global Economics  —  Sydney, Australia — Soon after arriving here, I stopped at an A.T.M.; I needed some dollars, and all I had were dollars.  —  O.K., weak joke.  What I needed were Australian dollars — Aussies — not U.S. greenbacks.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The horrific results of Obama's failure in Syria  —  One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy.  More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million displaced from their homes are statistics.
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Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. job growth slows, unemployment rate falls to 5.1 percent  —  U.S. job growth rose less than expected in August, which could dim prospects of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike later this month, even as the unemployment rate dropped to a near 7-1/2- year low of 5.1 percent and wages accelerated.
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New York Times:
Jobs Report Gives Ammunition to Both Sides of Fed Rate Debate
 
 
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Australia's Brutal Treatment of Migrants
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