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3:00 PM ET, August 15, 2019

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Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Poll: Elizabeth Warren Jumps Out To Big Lead In The Iowa Caucus  —  Elizabeth Warren's early investment in Iowa is paying off.  —  A new Iowa Starting Line-Change Research poll shows the senator opening up a commanding lead in the Iowa Caucus.  Warren was the top pick of 28% …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Many Democrats Love Elizabeth Warren.  They Also Worry About Her.  —  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Senator Elizabeth Warren has built the most formidable campaign organization of any Democratic presidential candidate in the first nominating states, raised an impressive $25 million without holding …
Discussion: Washington Post and Splinter
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden allies float scaling back events to limit gaffes  —  Allies to Joe Biden have been floating the idea of altering the former vice president's schedule in an effort to reduce the gaffes he has made in recent days.  —  The allies, growing increasingly nervous about Biden's verbal flubs …
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:   Arguing the World  —  Over the past four decades …
Li Zhou / Vox:
5 reasons asking women candidates about “electability” is misguided
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Netanyahu considers blocking Omar, Tlaib from entering Israel ahead of a planned weekend visit  —  Democrats in Congress are quietly bracing for a new public fight with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his government informed congressional leaders on Wednesday that it would formally announce …
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Isabel Kershner / New York Times:
Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib After Trump's Call to Block Them  —  JERUSALEM — Israel on Thursday barred the entry of two American Democratic congresswomen who had planned to visit the West Bank, hours after President Trump had urged the country to block them.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Israel's ban of Omar and Tlaib is a grave misstep  —  The Post reports, “Caught between the opposing views of President Trump and Democratic leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed himself on Thursday and decided to prohibit Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib …
Discussion: twitchy.com and Axios
Amir Tibon / Haaretz:
‘They Hate Israel and All Jews’: Trump Says Israel Would Be Weak to Let in Omar, Tlaib
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Trump Has Enabled Israel's Antidemocratic Tendencies at Every Turn
Discussion: CNN, Breitbart and Mediaite
Michael Bachner / Associated Press:
Israel will bar US lawmakers Omar, Tlaib from entering, deputy FM confirms
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Final decision? Latest report indicates Israel will bar Tlaib and Omar
John Hickenlooper / YouTube:
Thank You YOUTUBE  —  This morning, I'm announcing that I'm no longer running for President.  While this campaign didn't have the outcome we were hoping for, every moment has been worthwhile & I'm thankful to our entire team.  While I don't yet know what's next for me, I'll be sure to let you know.
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Karen Pinchin / FRONTLINE:
In Private Meeting, Trump Calls El Paso Mayor a “RINO”  —  The mayor of the grieving city of El Paso told President Donald Trump in a private meeting that he's presenting “misinformation” about crime in his city, and pushed back when the president used a derogatory term to suggest he wasn't a real Republican.
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M.L. Nestel / New York Magazine:
Jeffrey Epstein's Bodyguard on His Former Boss's Lifestyle, Cruelty, Suicide  —  When Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008 and served a 13-month sentence under the cushiest of conditions, it was his bodyguard and driver, former UFC fighter Igor Zinoviev …
Washington Post:
Autopsy finds broken bones in Jeffrey Epstein's neck, deepening questions around his death  —  An autopsy found that financier Jeffrey Epstein sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, according to two people familiar with the findings, deepening the mystery about the circumstances around his death.
Hunter Woodall / Associated Press:
Trump's New Hampshire struggle: Voters feeling ‘Trumpgret’  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — When Chad Johansen voted for Donald Trump in 2016, he hoped he was picking someone who could help small-business owners compete with bigger companies.  But that hasn't happened, and now the 26-year-old owner …
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
“You're the Man”: Fox News Emails With Trump Treasury Department Reveal Coziness  —  “The first two blocks are on the tax plan.  You'll like it,” Fox Business host David Asman told a Treasury aide.  —  A trove of Treasury Department emails released to the non-profit organization Democracy Forward …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Administration Asks Congress to Reauthorize N.S.A.'s Deactivated Call Records Program  —  The White House is seeking reauthorization of a law that lets the N.S.A. gain access to logs of Americans' phone and text records — while acknowledging that the program has been indefinitely halted.
CNN:
House panel subpoenas Lewandowski and former White House official as impeachment push ramps up  —  (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday issued subpoenas to former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and a former White House official as it ramps up its investigation to determine whether to impeach President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and Daily Kos
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Kendall Taggart / BuzzFeed News:
Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers  —  When police showed up at Harry Schmidt's home on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, he thought they were there to help.  He was still mourning the disappearance of the beloved forest green Ford F-15 pickup that he'd customized …
Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Flying Assassins Are Called In to Combat Aggressive Gulls  —  A Jersey Shore town has come up with a creative but costly way to tame its marauding gulls.  —  OCEAN CITY, N.J. — They are deft predators of the French fried potato, able to pluck a fresh wedge in the milliseconds it takes …
Discussion: CityLab
Wall Street Journal:
The Navarro Recession, II  —  Evidence of a tariff-inspired slowdown spooks the markets.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  After we warned last week that U.S. trade policy was courting recession, White House aide Peter Navarro took to Fox Business to denounce us for sounding like The People's Daily …
Discussion: Fox News
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Heather Long / Washington Post:
9 key countries are on the verge of recession, driving fears the U.S. could follow
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Why this Never Trump ex-Republican will vote for almost any 2020 Democratic nominee  —  I'm good with anyone who is mentally stable and in no way sympathetic or beholden to a hostile foreign power.  That's it.  Policy just doesn't matter.  —  CONNECT  —  I don't care if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a mendacious Massachusetts liberal.
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
A truck drove into ICE protesters outside a private prison.  They say a guard was at the wheel.  —  The protesters were sitting on the pavement to block staff from parking at a Rhode Island prison that works with Immigration and Customs Enforcement when a black pickup truck swerved toward them.
Tanya Somanader / Crooked Media:
PollerCoaster 2020: What's Happening in Wisconsin  —  Wisconsin plays a crucial role in the Democrats' strategy to take back the White House in 2020.  That's why the latest poll in our PollerCoaster 2020 series with Change Research is designed to survey Wisconsin voters in a way that a campaign …
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Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:   PollerCoaster 2020: How to Win Wisconsin
CNN:
Marianne Williamson promoted anti-vaxxer theories on her radio show in 2012 episode  —  Washington (CNN)Democratic presidential candidate and author Marianne Williamson once gave a platform to the unfounded theory that vaccines are linked to autism and called on her audience to “be awake” …
Discussion: Political Wire
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Five Democratic senators just declared all-out war on the Supreme Court  —  A tone of ritualized obsequiousness pervades most briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States.  Judges are powerful and at the Supreme Court level, unaccountable.  They wield enormous …
Inquirer.com:
In N. Philly gun standoff, alleged cop shooter Maurice Hill has a long criminal history  —  Police sources identified the gunman in a standoff at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36, a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions …
 
 
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Nick Schager / The Daily Beast:
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Advertisers Blacklist Hard News, Including Trump, Fearing Backlash
Ken Ward Jr / ProPublica:
Welcome to the Greenbrier, the Governor-Owned Luxury Resort Filled With Conflicts of Interest
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
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Issues & Insights:
Why Isn't AOC Taking Blame For Violent Attacks On ICE?
 Earlier Items: 
CREW:
Trump's 2,000 Conflicts of Interest (and Counting)
Anti-Defamation League:
Despite YouTube Policy Update, Anti-Semitic, White Supremacist Channels Remain
Discussion: Right Wing Watch
James West / Mother Jones:
National Enquirer Investigated by FBI Over Possible Saudi Influence Peddling
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Allies worry Trump is “running out of tools” to boost the economy
Discussion: Raw Story and Splinter
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Brief History of Election Meddling
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
Stacey Abrams: The Grift That Keeps On Grifting
Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.
Discussion: National Review
The Writer in Black:
“How do you propose to end mass shootings then?”