| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Rob Portman is hoping that if he ignores Donald Trump, The Donald will go away. The strategy seems to be working for the Republican senator in his re-election bid in Ohio. Kind of a neat trick, considering he endorsed Trump in May.
President Obama will visit Louisiana today to assess flood damage. He took some heat for not cutting short his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to view the devastation where 2-1/2 feet of rain got dumped on parts of the state, killing at least 13 people. You should expect to see many more comparisons between Obama's response to the flooding and Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in the coming days. Case in point. CBS News has a nice timeline of what Bush did at the time. Obama himself was pretty critical of Bush on Katrina in 2007.
Islamic State calls them "Cubs of the Caliphate." They're the children recruited, trained and indoctrinated by the militants. And their impact was on display in Turkey and Iran over the weekend. Quote of the day: "Children are taking a much more active role... receiving training on the use of heavy weapons, manning checkpoints on the front lines, being used as snipers and in extreme cases being used as suicide bombers." – Juliette Touma, UNICEF regional spokeswoman
Around the country - A judge wants the State Department to speed up the release of nearly 15,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails that the FBI found when investigating her use of a private server while she was secretary of state. The State Department currently plans to release the emails in weekly batches beginning October 14, the Guardian reported. But federal judge James Boasberg wants the emails released sooner than that. In either case, it ensures the issue will be front and center in the six weeks leading up to the election.
- If you're a University of Texas student, you may have the right to bring your licensed gun to class. A federal judge put the kibosh on a gun ban that three professors tried to impose. Republican lawmakers said campus carry laws could help prevent a mass shooting. Frat parties should be more interesting.
- U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte lost all four of his major sponsors, including Speedo and Ralph Lauren. Lochte said last week he was robbed at gunpoint. It turned it out that wasn't true. "I wasn't lying to a certain extent," he said in an interview on Brazilian television. "I over-exaggerated what was happening to me." On the upside, Lochte, may have a career in politics…
For the record, they weren't fleeing Trump or Clinton 
A Canadian Coast Guard ship tows floatation devices used by U.S. partiers to the Canadian side of the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario on August 21, 2016. Photo courtesy of Canadian Coast Guard
Around the world Digits of the day 36 More than 1,900 people, or about 36 per day, have been killed in a violent campaign against drugs in the Philippines since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office seven weeks ago, the country's national police chief said. - Nigeria's air force said it killed some senior Boko Haram militants during a weekend raid on the Islamists' northern heartland.
- The Olympic circus has most definitely left town in Rio, leaving behind a country suffering under a deep recession, a presidential impeachment and a corruption scandal. "There is nothing left to disguise the hard reality that we now face," said Roberto Romano, a philosopher, author and commentator on Brazilian society.
Around Wall Street - Hillary Clinton plans to float a standard tax deduction for small businesses that has previously only been available to individuals. A standard tax deduction would allow small business owners to easily obtain tax relief without filing additional forms that document equipment and transportation costs, Clinton's campaign said. We're waiting to hear how much it will cost and how she plans to pay for it.
- Volkswagen and two of its parts suppliers resolved a contract dispute that had curtailed production at more than half of the carmaker's German plants and threatened to undermine its recovery from a diesel emissions scandal.
- Amazon is working on a music subscription service that would cost about $5 a month and would only work on its Echo hardware, tech news website Recode reported. The retailer wants to launch the services in September, but has not completed deals with major music labels and publishers.
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