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3:40 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? …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heidi Beirich / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Neo-Nazi Lawyer Represents Baltimore in Suit Over Wrongful Arrest and 19-Year Imprisonment of Black Man  —  Baltimore is at the epicenter of the national debate over police violence, particularly after last week's release of a Justice Department report documenting deep racial disparities in policing in the city.
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 …
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.
Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
How Will the Media Handle the “Trump-light Zone”?  —  Robert Schlesinger writes that we have now entered the “Trump-light Zone.” … What struck me is that we have reached an interesting point in this 2016 presidential race.  Trump's hiring of Bannon and Conway isn't just a signal to Republicans …
Discussion: Associated Press and Politico
 
 
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Tom Arnold / Hollywood Reporter:
Tom Arnold Pens Passionate Essay Arguing for Gun Control After Losing Nephew to Suicide
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Guardian:
Fake human sacrifice filmed at Cern, with pranking scientists suspected
Discussion: Infowars, Mashable and Motherboard
Benny Avni / New York Post:
Putin is gobbling up whatever he can - while Obama does nothing
Discussion: Sputnik International
Ken Moritsugu / Associated Press:
BIDEN'S REMARK ON JAPAN CONSTITUTION RAISES EYEBROWS
Discussion: Hot Air
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Twitter Suspends 235,000 More Accounts Over Extremism
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Feingold says campaign infiltrated
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter
Discussion: Washington Post
 Earlier Items: 
Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
No record that Clinton, aides took required ethics training
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
Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Jared Kushner's Second Act
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

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