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11:30 AM ET, September 5, 2015

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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Poll: Trump beats Hillary head-to-head  —  Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton head-to-head, according to a new poll released Friday.  —  The poll by SurveyUSA finds that matched up directly, Trump garners 45 percent to Clinton's 40 percent.
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New York Times:
The Minimum Wage: Getting to $15  —  The debate over the federal minimum wage in the nascent presidential campaign is really two debates: one among Democrats and one among Republicans.  —  Democrats are divided on how much to raise the minimum, currently $7.25 an hour.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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.
Washington Post:
Clintons personally paid State Department staffer to maintain server  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid a State Department staffer to maintain the private e-mail server she used while heading the agency, according to an official from Clinton's presidential campaign.
Dave Philipps / New York Times:
At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized  —  For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.
Discussion: Fusion, Associated Press and Mashable
Elisha Anderson / Detroit Free Press:
White Boy Rick to be resentenced; prosecutors appeal  —  Richard Wershe Jr., who gained notoriety in the 1980s as a drug dealer in Detroit, won his bid for resentencing.  Known as “White Boy Rick”, Wershe was sentenced to life in prison in 1988 when he was 18.  —  CONNECT
Discussion: Raw Story and Guardian
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Out with ‘Redskins’ — and everything else!  —  Autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, also is the time for The Post and other sensitivity auditors to get back on — if they will pardon the expression — the warpath against the name of the Washington Redskins.
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Relying on Southern Primaries to Fend Off Rivals  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is methodically building a political firewall across the South in hopes of effectively locking up the Democratic nomination in March regardless of any early setbacks in the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.
Discussion: Political Wire
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!” …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Refugees Who Could Be Us  —  WATCHING the horrific images of Syrian refugees struggling toward safety — or in the case of Aylan Kurdi, 3, drowning on that journey — I think of other refugees.  Albert Einstein.  Madeleine Albright.  The Dalai Lama.  —  And my dad.
Discussion: Mashable and Hullabaloo
Heidi Przybyla / USA Today:
Hillary Clinton to take women's issues out of silo  —  Hillary Clinton plans to launch a new initiative this weekend as she seeks to weave women's issues into every facet of her campaign instead of using them in a separate silo as she did in her unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Politico
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Eugene Volokh / Washington Post:
When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?  —  This Thursday, Aug. 3, 2015 photo made available by the Carter County Detention Center shows Kim Davis.  The Rowan County, Ky. clerk went to jail Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples …
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 …
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: Guardian and msnbc.com
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Ariel Bogle / Mashable:
Robots will be fighting against pesky starfish on the Great Barrier Reef
Discussion: Gizmodo
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
Discussion: Above the Law
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
YouGov poll: 64% want a border fence with Mexico — including pluralities of Dems, blacks, and Hispanics
New York Times:
Australia's Brutal Treatment of Migrants
Discussion: Mashable and Guardian
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Matt Vespa / Townhall.com:
Perfect Timing: Obama Administration Gives $1 Million In Grants To Planned Parenthood
John Tierney / KGW-TV:
Marion County judge refuses to perform same-sex marriages
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Other People's Dollars, and Their Place in Global Economics