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4:20 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:
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:
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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Wall Street Journal:
‘Mystery Shoppers’ for Home Loans: CFPB Uses Undercover Techniques on Bank
Discussion: New York Times
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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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 …
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 …
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 and The Week
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James Wilkinson / Daily Mail:
Obama policy adviser 'called autistic Native American man a “weetard” …
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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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.
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?
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.
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?
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
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.
Clinton / Pew Research Center:
3. Views of the country and feelings about growing diversity  —  Overall, voters remain divided over whether life for people like them in the country today is better or worse compared with 50 years ago: 36% say that life today is better for people like them, 47% say it is worse and 13% say it is about the same.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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.
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
Alexis Levinson / National Review:
Is Richard Burr Sailing into the Perfect Storm?  —  The N.C. senator was supposed to cruise to reelection.  Now, no one's quite so sure.  —  Republicans are increasingly nervous about the Senate race in North Carolina, where Senator Richard Burr finds himself at sea in a year …
Discussion: Daily Wire
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
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.
 
 
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Leaked Board Documents: Soros Organization Tried To Buy Supreme Court Ruling On Illegal Immigration
Discussion: The Point
Erin Kelly / USA Today:
House panel to probe FBI about whether Clinton perjured herself to Congress
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
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
 Earlier Items: 
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Feingold says campaign infiltrated
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump campaign manager gets rough with Breitbart reporter
Discussion: Washington Post
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
Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Jared Kushner's Second Act