The Washington Post
MIGRANTS - BICSKE, Hungary — Hundreds of asylum-seekers packed onto a train just outside Hungary's capital continued a standoff with authorities on Friday, as the nation's leader warned that an influx of Muslim refugees meant that Europeans could become "a minority in our own continent." 1,200 words, by Griff Witte and Michael Birnbaum (Post).
MIGRANTS-BRITAIN - LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday that Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees amid growing calls for the government to show greater moral leadership in the refugee crisis engulfing Europe. 510 words, by Karla Adam (Post).
MIGRANTS-SMUGGLERS — BRUSSELS — Amid the biggest wave of migration to Europe in decades, fast-growing smuggling networks are spiriting Syrians and others to the continent, law enforcement officials say. 1,150 words, by Michael Birnbaum (Post). With MIGRANTS-BOY (1STLD)
MARRIAGE - MOREHEAD, Ky. - With defiant clerk in jail, gay marriage licenses finally issued in Kentucky county. 340 words, by James Higdon, J. Freedom du Lac and Sandhya Somashekhar (Post).
EGYPT - Four American and two international peacekeepers were wounded Thursday in two bomb blasts on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, and required medical evacuation, U.S. defense officials said. 340 words, by Dan Lamothe (Post).
BALTIMORE — BALTIMORE — Freddie Gray and police officer William Porter: Two sons of Baltimore whose lives collided. 3,200 words, by Michael A. Fletcher (Post). Five photos.
POLICE (1STLD) — FOX LAKE, Ill. — Although the overall number of on-duty deaths is down from last year, the rash of killings is fueling a new debate over the risks of being a police officer in the post-Ferguson era of anti-police protests. 1,200 words, by Kari Lydersen (Post special).
ALASKA — The president's entourage invades the tiny town of Kotzebue, Alaska; this Arctic community of 3,200 is now a required stop on the anti-climate change movement, a living example of the threat of global warming. 1,485 words, by Juliet Eilperin (Post). Five photos.
CHINA-MILITARY - BEIJING — At a military parade Thursday to mark the end of World War II, President Xi Jinping announced that China will cut some 300,000 soldiers from the country's 2-million-strong armed forces, a move that would accelerate his campaign to modernize the military, shifting resources from land to sea and air. 1,210 words, by Emily Rauhala (Post). Also: CHINA-NAVY.
ISRAEL — JERUSALEM — No political leader fought longer or harder against the Iran nuclear deal than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who appears to have suffered the worst foreign policy defeat of his career. 1,100 words, by William Booth (Post).
GUATEMALA - Guatemalan president resigns after judge orders him to face corruption charges. 560 words, by Michael E. Miller (Post).
IRAN-REPORTER — The speaker of Iran's parliament suggested Thursday that Americans imprisoned in Iran, including a Washington Post reporter, could be swapped for Iranians in U.S. jails. 300 words, by Carol Morello (Post).
HOUSE-DEMS — WASHINGTON — Two high-ranking House Democrats are calling on their Republican counterparts to end their congressional investigations of Planned Parenthood -- or at least expand them to encompass alleged misdeed by antiabortion activists. 600 words, by Mike DeBonis (Post).
VETERANS - WASHINGTON — Despite promises for widespread reform, nearly 900,000 military veterans have pending applications to access health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department's inspector general said this week in a scathing report which recommended a total overhaul of their record-keeping system that could take years. 600 words, by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux (Post).
VETERANS-JOBS — The number of veterans getting federal jobs is at a five-year high. 640 words, by Lisa Rein (Post).
INMATE-DEATH — Three correctional officers in California were arrested and charged with murder after an inmate died in custody last week, officials said Thursday. 500 words, by Mark Berman (Post).
LABOR-COMMENT - On this Labor Day, American workers may be beginning to reclaim what by right should be theirs. 780 words, by Harold Meyerson (Post special).
MCDONNELL-COMMENT — When public officials break the law, they must be punished. But when prosecutors stretch laws to criminalize everyday contact between the people and their elected officials, those prosecutors must be stopped. 1,050 words, by C. Boyden Gray (Post special)
POLICE-COMMENT — When crime rates plummet, space opens up for a more nuanced discussion of crime-control policy. 800 words, by Charles Lane (Post).
TRUMP-GOP-COMMENT - Donald Trump snookers the GOP again. 510 words, by Greg Sargent (Post).
Bloomberg
JOBS-BG — WASHINGTON — Employers add 173,000 workers in August and the jobless rate drops to 5.1 percent, a level that the Federal Reserve considers to be full employment. 725 words, by Michelle Jamrisko (Bloomberg).
SAUDI-POLICY-ASSESS — WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama welcomes Saudi King Salman to the White House Friday he'll have more leverage than ever in a long-standing, and often fraught, strategic alliance. 725 words, by Angela Greiling Keane and Nicolee Gauoette (Bloomberg).
CHINA-G2O — ANKARA, Turkey — China is seeking to ease concerns that its slowing economy could drag down global growth and signals it won't get dragged into tit-for-tat currency valuations. 725 words, by Olga Tanas and Ryan Chilcote (Bloomberg).
JAPAN-WAGES — TOKYO — Japan's regular wages increase in July by the most in nearly 10 years, aiding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to reflate the world's third-biggest economy. 395 words, by Masaaki Iwamoto and Isaac Aquino (Bloomberg).
DEMS — Vice President Biden would be "a commanding presence" if he chooses to run for president though his entry into the race wouldn't change Hillary Clinton's approach to the race for the Democratic nomination, her campaign manager says. 640 words, by Jennifer Epstein (Bloomberg).
DRUGS-PATENTS — WASHINGTON — Hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass claims the Patent office is denying his challenges to drug patents because it finds him "too disruptive." So he is filing more cases challenging what he says are questionable patents that protect overpriced drugs from competition. 725 words, by Susan Decker (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
FED-COMMENT — Fed policymakers fear radical unknown. 850 words, by Fed policymakers fear radical unknown: Noah Smith (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
DECLASSIFIED — The U.S. and Malaysia have been secretly discussing expanded use of Malaysian territory for hosting U.S. spy planes to patrol the South China Sea, in response to increased Chinese activity there. 1040 words, by Josh Rogin (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
FED-JOBS-COMMENT — The growing divergence between the relatively healthy U.S. economy and the turbulence elsewhere is complicating Fed deliberations on a rate hike; Friday's U.S. jobs report could be the clincher. 670 words, by Mohamed El-Erian (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
INDIA-COMMENT — With reforms stalled, Modi needs to change tack. 800 words, by Dhiraj Nayyar (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
MIGRANTS-COMMENT — Europe doesn't realize it, but it doesn't have nearly enough immigrants. 890 words, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
MARRIAGE-DAVIS-COMMENT — What the oath of office means to clerk Kim Davis. 980 words, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
IMMIG-COMMENT_ Will the death of a San Francisco women force a fix to the nation's fragmented immigration system? 790 words, by Francis Wilkinson (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
FREELANCE-COMMENT — A free-agent nation isn't taking over the world. 915 words, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg). Moved Thursday.
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