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4:15 AM ET, September 5, 2015

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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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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.
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 …
Josh Robin / NY1 News:
Scuffle Between Trump Staffers, Protesters Dims Anticipated Campaign Announcement  —  After hedging on the issue for weeks, Donald Trump is pledging he won't run as an independent candidate should he lose the Republican nomination for President.  The announcement may have been overshadowed by what happened outside, however.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump Stumbles and Bristles During Foreign Policy Interview
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.
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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.
Heidi Przybyla / USA Today:
Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton: I'm ‘sorry’ the email scandal is confusing to people
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
YouGov poll: 64% want a border fence with Mexico — including pluralities of Dems, blacks, and Hispanics  —  Build it high, build it far, build it fast.  But build it.  —  You know who agrees with me on that?  Everyone.  Yes, even Hispanics.  —  Democrats split 44/43 in favor, the closest any group comes to outright opposition.
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Peter Moore / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Build a fence with Mexico, not Canada
Kerry Eleveld / Daily Kos:
Same-sex marriage still confounding the Republican field  —  Remember when a Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage was really going to settle the issue for Republicans so they could focus on other things?  Yeah, not so much, reports Trip Gabriel.
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Courier-Journal:
Kim Davis' husband: 'She won't resign'
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.
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.
Discussion: Washington Post and Guardian
New Yorker:
Cover Story: Kanye's 2020 Vision  —  “Kanye West's announcement of his intention to seek the Presidency reminds us that it's not too early to start thinking about the 2020 campaign.  (2016's already old hat by now, anyway),” Barry Blitt says about “2020 Vision,” his cover for next week's issue.
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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New York Times:
Migrants Cross Austria Border From Hungary
Discussion: NPR, Mashable and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Utah Law School Celebrates Opening Of New Building With Audacious Goal: 100% Bar Passage, 100% Professional Employment
New York Times:
Australia's Brutal Treatment of Migrants
Discussion: Mashable and Guardian
Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Perfect Timing: Obama Administration Gives $1 Million In Grants To Planned Parenthood
Gromer Jeffers Jr / Trail Blazers Blog:
Donald Trump to stage huge September 14 campaign rally at AAC in Dallas
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
Inside the wild ride that landed The Washington Post on K Street
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Poynter.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Other People's Dollars, and Their Place in Global Economics
 Earlier Items: 
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. job growth slows, unemployment rate falls to 5.1 percent
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Post
Kate Bennett / Politico:
Four Seasons rolls out the red carpet for King Salman
Discussion: Reuters, The Daily Caller and Fox News