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5:25 PM ET, August 18, 2016

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J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
Gawker.com to End Operations Next Week  —  After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week.  The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media's six other websites, and four months after the Silicon …
Simon Romero / New York Times:
Police Say Security Guard, Not Robber, Pointed Gun at Ryan Lochte  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — A security guard brandished a gun after American swimmers vandalized a gas station bathroom, Brazilian police officials said Thursday, illuminating many aspects of an incident that has spiraled …
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Matt Gutman / ABC News:
Reuters:
Brazil police consider charging US swimmers with vandalism, false testimony  —  Brazilian police are considering charging a group of U.S. Olympic swimmers with vandalism and giving false testimony, Rio's police chief said on Thursday, accusing them of lying about an incident that has marred South America's first Games.
CBS New York:
Brazilian Police: Ryan Lochte, US Swimmers Were Not Robbed
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons  —  The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.
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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Steve Bannon's Plan to Free Donald Trump and Save His Campaign  —  Along with campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, Bannon will encourage Trump to cast aside political niceties and aggressively go with his gut.  —  JoshuaGreen  —  “I am who I am,” Donald Trump declared …
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The Twitter Blog:
An update on our efforts to combat violent extremism  —  Earlier this year, we announced we had suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for violating our longtime prohibition on violent threats and the promotion of terrorism and shared the steps we are taking as a company to combat this content.
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism
The Advocate:
Our Views: Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, President Obama … Homes are surrounded by water in the Manchac Harbor subdivision off LA-42.  Aerials of severe weather flooding in Ascension Parish on Monday August 15, 2016.  —  President Barack Obama speaks during the third …
Elle Hunt / Guardian:
Boy in the ambulance: shocking image emerges of Syrian child pulled from Aleppo rubble  —  Boy shown covered head to toe with dust was injured in airstrike on rebel-held district on Wednesday  —  Warning: this article contains images that readers may find distressing
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Peter Holley / Washington Post:
These protesters wanted to humiliate ‘Emperor’ Trump.  So they took off his clothes.  —  For much of the past year, Donald Trump proved uniquely untouchable, a political force of such mind-boggling invulnerability that he even bragged about attracting voters after hypothetically shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
Bloomberg:
Uber's First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month  —  Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world's experts in autonomous vehicles.  The city is home to Carnegie Mellon University's …
Erin Kelly / USA Today:
House panel to probe FBI about whether Clinton perjured herself to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — A House panel will probe FBI officials next month over whether Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton perjured herself in testimony to Congress last year about her use of private email servers while she was secretary of state.
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Sarah Westwood / Washington Examiner:
House to hold Clinton perjury hearing
Discussion: RedState and The PolitiStick
Dana Hertneky / Oklahoma's Own:
Oklahoma Native American Says He Was Attacked Over Redskins Shirt  —  OKLAHOMA CITY -  —  An Oklahoma college student visiting Washington D.C. on a school trip, says he was beat up for wearing a Redskins Jersey.  And the person he got into a fight with was a White House official in charge of American Indian education.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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James Wilkinson / Daily Mail:
Obama policy adviser 'called autistic Native American man a “weetard” …
Discussion: Daily Wire, The Federalist and KFOR-TV
Emil Leong / The Twitter Blog:
New Ways to Control Your Experience on Twitter  —  We're introducing some new features that will give you more control over what you see and who you interact with on Twitter, rolling out to everyone in the coming days.  Here's what's new: … Notifications Settings  —  Don't want to see notifications from everyone?
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Koch network cancels Rubio ads  —  The powerful donor network helmed by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is canceling more than half a million dollars in Florida advertising designed to help Republican Marco Rubio  —  in his Senate race, according to Koch network spokesman James Davis.
Clinton / Pew Research Center:
1. Voters' general election preferences  —  Currently, 41% of registered voters say they would vote for Hillary Clinton if the general election were held today, while 37% say they would vote for Donald Trump, 10% say they would vote for Gary Johnson and 4% say they would vote for Jill Stein.
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Clinton / Pew Research Center:
3. Views of the country and feelings about growing diversity
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
NC Republican Party seeks ‘party line changes’ to limit early voting hours  —  RALEIGH  —  The N.C. Republican Party encouraged GOP appointees to county elections boards to “make party line changes to early voting” by limiting the number of hours and keeping polling sites closed on Sundays.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Have North Carolina Republicans Found a Way to Reinstate Discriminatory Voting Rules?
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Sessions: Central Park Five Ad Shows Trump Has Always Believed In Law And Order  —  Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, a prominent surrogate for Republican nominee Donald Trump, says Trump's 1989 newspaper ads advocating the death penalty for five men of color accused of raping a jogger …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump adviser accused of making anti-Semitic remarks  —  WASHINGTON  —  Allegations of anti-Semitism have surfaced against one of Donald Trump's foreign policy advisers, raising further questions about the guidance the Republican presidential nominee is receiving.
Discussion: Daily Wire and Mediaite
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Crucial Pillar of Support, White Men, Shows Weakness  —  Donald J. Trump's support among white men, the linchpin of his presidential campaign, is showing surprising signs of weakness that could foreclose his only remaining path to victory in November.
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Clinton Rises to 348 Electoral Votes, Trump Drops to 190  —  Clinton now above 270 Safe or Likely Democratic electoral votes for the first time  —  New Hampshire may just have four electoral votes, but it's important.  If you doubt it, just ask any Granite State citizens, and they'll tell you about their first-in-the-nation primary.
NBC News:
First Read: The One Way Trump's Shake-Up Makes Sense  —  Donald Trump's new campaign manager: There's still time to turn polls around 1:00  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
Discussion: Politico
Scott Dadich / Wired:
WIRED Endorses Optimism  —  BEEN NEUTRAL.  —  For nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow.  If it's true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kevin Cole / Omaha World-Herald:
Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat  —  An Omaha dad who mistakenly ate some marijuana brownies didn't enjoy the experience.  —  Omaha police officers were called to a house near 90th and Maple Streets about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday to investigate an accidental overdose.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Court: Hobby Lobby ruling OKs some employment discrimination  —  A Supreme Court decision allowing some companies to opt out of portions of Obamacare for religious reasons also guarantees the right of firms to engage in religiously motivated discrimination against their employees on the basis of gender …
 
 
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
US SAYS $400M PAYMENT WAS CONTINGENT ON RELEASE OF PRISONERS
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
The Wild Beliefs of Ajamu Baraka, Jill Stein's Green Party Running Mate
Wall Street Journal:
‘Mystery Shoppers’ for Home Loans: CFPB Uses Undercover Techniques on Bank
Discussion: New York Times
Alexis Levinson / National Review:
Is Richard Burr Sailing into the Perfect Storm?
Discussion: Daily Wire
Tom Arnold / Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Arnold Pens Passionate Essay Arguing for Gun Control After Losing Nephew to Suicide
Discussion: Raw Story and AOL
Guardian:
Fake human sacrifice filmed at Cern, with pranking scientists suspected
Discussion: Infowars, Mashable and Motherboard
 Earlier Items: 
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Feingold says campaign infiltrated
Ryan Lovelace / Washington Examiner:
Trump on the Clinton Foundation: 'Let's give them the benefit of the doubt'
Discussion: RedState and Daily Wire
Dave Levinthal / NBC News:
How Bernie Sanders Avoided Disclosing His Personal Finances
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Van Jones on the staggering political challenges Hillary Clinton would face as president
Discussion: CNN and The Moderate Voice
Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
How Will the Media Handle the “Trump-light Zone”?
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Why Blacks Loathe Trump
Discussion: Althouse
 

 
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New York Times:
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