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3:10 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 …
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Peter Sterne / Politico:
Gawker.com to shut down next week
Discussion: RedState and Gawker
Simon Romero / New York Times:
The Police Say Ryan Lochte Lied About Gunpoint Assault  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — The American swimmers who claimed they were assaulted at gunpoint over the weekend by assailants posing as police officers fabricated their account of the episode, according to Brazilian investigators.
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Matt Gutman / ABC News:
Daily Mail:
What robbery? …
CBS New York:
Police: Lochte Made Up Robbery Story, Video Shows Swimmers Confronted By Security Guards
Discussion: LawNewz
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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U.S. Department of Justice:
Phasing Out Our Use of Private Prisons  —  Courtesy of Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates  —  When most people think of the Justice Department, they are likely to imagine the most visible parts of our job - the law enforcement agents who investigate crimes or the lawyers who prosecute them.
Discussion: The Atlantic, NPR and Politicus USA
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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Ken Stern / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Stephen Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan  —  Can the man behind Breitbart—a Harvard M.B.A. who worked at Goldman Sachs and made a killing off of Seinfeld—save Trump?  And at what cost?  —  Even for a campaign creating regular media tremors …
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 …
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 and Hullabaloo
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg:
Early Voting Dictates a New Clinton Campaign Structure
Ryan Lovelace / Washington Examiner:
Trump on the Clinton Foundation: 'Let's give them the benefit of the doubt'  —  Donald Trump urged the American people to give Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation “the benefit of the doubt” when it comes to questions surrounding the money they have received from foreign countries.
Discussion: RedState and Daily Wire
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Chris Bergin / National Review:   Where's the Letter from Democratic Security Officials Opposing Hillary?
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump campaign on polls: ‘I think it helps us to be a little bit behind’  —  Donald Trump's new campaign manager Kellyanne Conway put a positive spin Thursday on the Republican nominee's recent swoon in national and state polls.  —  “I think it helps us to be a little bit behind, and we are.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Why Blacks Loathe Trump  —  So now Donald Trump is campaigning for the black vote.  (Long, awkward pause.)  —  Like so much of what Trump has said and done, this new outreach forces writers like me to conduct scatological studies, framing Trump's actions in their historical and intellectual absurdity.
Discussion: Althouse and Business Insider
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Donald Trump aide on awkward exchange with CNN anchor: ‘I think I unraveled her’  —  An interview between a CNN anchor and a top aide to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump devolved into a palpably uncomfortable debate over polls on Wednesday evening.
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts that promoted terrorism over the last six months, as part of a continuing effort to keep people from using the social network for extremist causes, the company said Thursday.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter  —  Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly yanked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields out of the way after his press conference in Florida on Tuesday night.  —  Fields was attempting to ask Trump a question as he exited the press conference.
Discussion: Washington Post
Dave Levinthal / NBC News:
How Bernie Sanders Avoided Disclosing His Personal Finances  —  Hillary Clinton Thanks Bernie Sanders 1:37  —  This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
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.
Discussion: Washington Post, Politicus USA and CNN
 
 
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Benny Avni / New York Post:
Putin is gobbling up whatever he can - while Obama does nothing
Discussion: Sputnik International
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
In both parties, men and women differ over whether women still face obstacles to progress
Discussion: Slate and The Week
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
July was ‘absolutely’ Earth's hottest month ever recorded
Ken Moritsugu / Associated Press:
BIDEN'S REMARK ON JAPAN CONSTITUTION RAISES EYEBROWS
Discussion: Hot Air
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Feingold says campaign infiltrated
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
No record that Clinton, aides took required ethics training
 Earlier Items: 
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Leaked Faculty Letters and Race at Smith
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Courts Begin to Call Out Lawmakers
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
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Why Clinton Doesn't Have This Race Locked Up
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Jared Kushner's Second Act