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Protests In St. Louis After Police Shoot Man

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Mansur Ball-Bey, who police said had a handgun, was shot as officers raided a home in a violence-plagued part of north St. Louis. Within an hour of Wednesday's shooting, more than 100 people converged on the scene, taunting officers and decrying the use of deadly force.
A vacant building and at least one car were torched, police said. Officers responded with tear gas and arrested at least nine people on charges of impeding traffic and resisting arrest.
The scene unfolded less than two weeks after violence marred the anniversary of the day Michael Brown was fatally wounded by a white officer in nearby Ferguson. His death launched the national Black Lives Matter movement.
St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said the crowd-control tactics were justified because officers were being hit with bottles and bricks and protesters refused to clear out of the roadway.
"I'd certainly much rather our officers focused in the neighborhoods, interceding violence before it happens," Dotson said Thursday, noting that some in the neighborhood implored police to leave them alone.
"It's kind of ironic that we're in that neighborhood where police services are most needed, and people are telling us not to do our jobs."
Activists vowed to continue their efforts.
"We have a right to live in freedom and specifically free from fear," said Montague Simmons, executive director of the Organization for Black Struggle. "This can't go unchecked. We're going to stay in the street. No matter what (police) put forward, we are not going to stop."
The latest shooting happened while officers were serving a search warrant. They encountered Ball-Bey and another suspect running from the home, police said.
Ball-Bey turned and pointed a handgun at the officers, who shot him, authorities said. He died at the scene.
The handgun found in the dead man's possession had one round in the chamber and 13 in the magazine, Dotson said.
Some protesters questioned the police claim that the suspect was armed. Distrust of police accounts has been common since Brown's death.
On the night of the Brown anniversary, 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr. was wounded by plainclothes officers in Ferguson after he allegedly first fired at them. His father called that account "a bunch of lies" and insisted his son was unarmed.

Later, police released surveillance video that appeared to show the younger Harris pulling a handgun from his waistband and running in the direction of the officers.

"I understand people's skepticism," Dotson said Thursday. "But don't let social media and innuendo drive what you believe to be true. You have to let the facts speak."
Mayor Francis Slay pledged an "independent and transparent" investigation of the shooting but stood behind police.
"The police were in this neighborhood doing their job," Slay said at a meeting with the St. Louis Clergy Coalition, a group of black ministers. The meeting was at a church about a block from the shooting site.
The police chief and mayor said protesters should have their voices heard, but they differentiated between those who gather to protest and others who create mischief.

"We have to be mindful of the fact that there are criminals who were at the protest as cover for their activity," Slay said.

Joe Steiger, president of the St. Louis Police Officers' Association, the city's police union, said the chief's decision to pull manpower away from other crime-prone areas to monitor protests risks stretching the city's already thin police force.
The protests, he added, "seem like they're never going to end."
Activists said the police response was unnecessarily "militaristic" and an affront to free-speech rights.
Steiger bristled at the notion that police are the villains and said trouble-makers during protesters are criminals.
"Police don't start riots. Rioters start riots," he said.
The scene of Wednesday's shooting — known as the Fountain Park neighborhood — is a historically high-crime area that has seen an uptick in violence, with 127 confirmed homicides this year. There were 159 homicides in all of 2014 and 120 the year before that.
A 30-year-old man was shot and killed there Monday. Last month, a man was charged with felony child endangerment after his 3-year-old nephew accidentally shot himself in the head after finding a loaded gun under a pillow in a bedroom. A market next to Wednesday's shooting was riddled with bullets this week and ransacked hours after Ball-Bey's death. Thieves made off with cellphones, cigarettes, food and medicine.

Fountain Park is also the area near where a 93-year-old veteran who was part of the famous all-black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II was the victim of two crimes within a few minutes Sunday — being robbed and then having his car stolen. The veteran was unhurt, and his car was found Tuesday blocks from where it was taken.

"Right now, you see a police officer and your first instinct is to run," said Fred Price, 33, who lives near the shooting scene. "They don't want to get shot by the police

Divine Chambliss, 31, was napping when his son found his gun and accidentally killed him, reported police. (Photo: Facebook)

A young father was found shot to death in an apartment outside Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 18 — and if that weren’t terrible enough, it appeared that his 2-year-old son pulled the trigger.

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Divine Vaniah Chambliss, 31, was watching his son while the boy’s mother was at work, according to AL.com. At about 3 p.m., the mom arrived at the apartment where she lives with her son and the couple’s daughter, who was at school. She found Chambliss unresponsive.

“I hurt my dad,” the little boy told his mom after she discovered his father and called police, reported AL.com.

First responders, who made it to the apartment 10 minutes later, found the man in bed with a single gunshot wound to the head and pronounced him dead.

The coroner’s office hasn’t yet issued an official ruling confirming that the toddler accidentally murdered his dad. But according to a police statement, that appears to be what happened.

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“Detectives have considered every possible scenario in an attempt to determine who shot the victim,” said the statement, which was posted on Facebook on Aug. 19.

“There is still no indication that an intruder or any third person was involved in this incident. Physical evidence has also helped us determine that the victim could not have shot himself,” continued the statement. “All indications at this point still lead us to believe the child found the loaded handgun and accidentally shot his father.”

Chambliss carried a gun in a holster at all times, his family told AL.com, because he worked as a security guard at his church. He always kept the safety on, they maintained.

When he lay down for a nap while watching his son, he apparently put the semiautomatic gun under a pillow — and they believe that the boy found it and began playing with it.

The incident is a heartbreaking reminder that a gun in the home is 22 percent more likely to be used in a homicide, suicide, or accidental shooting than in self-defense, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

And though no national statistics are kept on the number of kids who accidentally fire a gun and injure or kill another child or adult, sadly, this kind of horrific tragedy has happened before.

Just last week, a Georgia woman was mortally wounded when her 4-year-old son shot her in the head. Mother and son were sitting in her parked car when the boy found the gun, thought it was a toy, and fired.

And in December 2014, a 29-year-old Idaho mom shopping at Walmart with her 2-year-old son and three nieces was shot in the head when the toddler unzipped her handgun from a compartment in her purse and fired it.

Creating a television show that takes on weighty issues like race, class, and gender politics isn’t an easy proposition, so writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) approached American Crime like it was an “insane experiment” that probably wouldn’t last.

Except it did. Not only did ABC renew the drama for a second season, but American Crime racked up 10 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series. That kind of acclaim can be heady stuff, but Ridley isn’t taking any of it for granted. And he’s very grateful for the support of one superfan in particular: Stephen King. “For someone who’s the very definition of a storyteller to choose to support our show and what we do, the provocative nature of the way we tell stories, just means the world to all of us on American Crime,” says Ridley of King. “Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottoms of our hearts and the depth of my soul.”

King, who calls American Crime “amazingly good,” gave Yahoo TV a few questions to ask Ridley about putting together his intense drama, and what to expect in Season 2, which debuts midseason.

Congrats on all those Emmy nominations!
It feels really nice, especially nice for the cast and crew. I really appreciate that people recognize all the work that they put into it. I was very surprised, pleasantly surprised — you can’t take any of it for granted.

So, we have some questions for you from Stephen King. The first one is, “How much pushback did you guys get from the network?” Please note that King wants the answer to come “with a minimum of bulls–t, please.”
I will respond with a minimum of bulls–t! In terms of the subject matter, we got no pushback. This was an area that ABC very much wanted to explore and excavate. They came to me with the subject area, wanting to do a show that dealt with perspectives and race and ethnicity, and do it in a way that is not done — certainly not on broadcast, but I don’t even think on cable.

So, there was never a moment where they said, “Hey, you know, could you change the subject matter, soften it a little bit.” In terms of presentation — the language of cinema that we use — there were a few occasions when they started a conversation. But ultimately, they were amazingly supportive.

Mr. King also wants to know: "How much [pushback] are you getting in regards to Season 2?“
You know, nobody’s done a show quite like this before, nobody’s done a show with these kinds of perspectives on the screen, and also behind the screen — in terms of representation, we have with female directors, directors of color, and our editorial staff. So, everybody was like, "Hey, maybe this is an insane experiment, and in one way, shape or form, it’s not going to work and we don’t have to worry about it next year.”

There was a film called The Candidate with Robert Redford, and he runs for office, and the point of it is: You’re not going to win, so say what you want and say it the way you want to say it. I think there was a little bit of a feeling of that. Now you get that second season, and it’s like, Oh, we actually did it. I think we’re all hyper-cognizant of wanting to both replicate the things that we did well, but not overstay our welcome or try to hard to do what we did last season. Is there a way to be potent and to be urgent without looking over our shoulders or tripping ourselves up? I think that’s our concern going into this year, not that ABC is coming down and saying, “Hey could you do this or don’t do that?”

Moms and dads with four or more kids — as well as gay and lesbian parents — were among the most satisfied with life overall, an Australian researcher has found. (Photo: Marcel Weber/Cultura/Getty Images)

An Australian researcher has completed a five-year study of various types of families and which are the most content — and the results might catch you off-guard.

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“What surprised me the most, I think, was that parents who identify as LGBT — as well as mothers of large families — were the most satisfied with life,” Bronwyn Harman, a psychology and social science lecturer at the Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, tells Yahoo Parenting.

“I thought mothers of large families [with four or more children] would be less satisfied because of the financial stress — in addition to the workload, ferrying kids around, noise factor, and so on,” she continued. But while they did acknowledge these issues, as well as point out that they must deal with frequent nosy comments (“Are they all yours?” “Do they have the same father?”), there was lots of happiness at home. “They said that they had planned a large family, it was a joyful experience for them, the house was often full of laughter, and there were many reasons to celebrate,” she says.

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Regarding gay, lesbian, or transgender-identified parents, Harman says, “I thought their well-being would be lower, because of discrimination and lack of acceptance of diversity. However, they said that this was not the case. In fact, they are finding that society is becoming more accepting of diversity, and this is reflected in our current political climate in Australia, where there is a groundswell of support to legalize gay marriage.”

For the study, which has not yet been published, Harman spent five years interviewing nearly 950 parents from different backgrounds to ascertain their level of happiness. Parents with four or more children were the most wholly satisfied, followed closely by LGBT parents. “These children are not accidents — the parents have to go to a lot of trouble and expense and forethought — so the child is very much desired,” Harman told ABC Australia, regarding the need for same-sex couples to use IVF, surrogacy, or adoption to become parents. “They see the child as an absolute blessing and something they may not have considered as being possible for them.”

Regarding the larger families, she told the publication, “Parents accept that there is chaos in their lives, but it does not negate the happiness they get from their families.” In addition, she said, “With large families, we think they have social support within the family. The kids are never bored, they have someone to play with, and they get independence quite early on.”

So which type of parent was the least satisfied with their lives? Single dads. “There is this perception that mothers are the real parents and fathers just sort of help,” Harman told theSydney Morning Herald. “There is still no understanding in 2015 that fathers are co-parents that have just as much responsibility for kids.”

Single fathers, the researcher found, feel like they’re seen as the lesser parent — especially since they can be kept from seeing their kids, not communicated with regarding their children’s school and medical issues, left out of family celebrations, and often seen, wrongly, as the cause of family breakups.

In general, notes family therapist Lois Braverman, president and CEO of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City, parental happiness often comes down to how much social support surrounds a family. “Parenting in isolation is the most difficult way to parent, whether you’re a straight or gay couple or a single parent,” Braverman tells Yahoo Parenting. She says it’s important for all moms and dads to feel supported in their decisions “either by their extended family or their family of choice within a community.”

It’s why parents in large families — as well as the kids themselves — may do so well. “One of the things you learn when you’re one of many is to be very flexible and how different people’s temperaments are,” she says. “You grow up in a little community of many different personalities.”

Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich (Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)

Do you hear wedding bells in the air? Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich are bucking the Hollywood trend of breaking up and, instead, they got engaged.

Julianne Hough and Brooks Laich are engaged (Instagram)

Both shared a photo of Hough, 27, in Laich's arms on Instagram Tuesday. Hough wrote, "We are overwhelmed with joy and excitement to share with you our recent engagement!" In the photo, Hough is staring at the ring, which is not clearly visible in the photo. A red ring box sits on a railing in the background. The couple is currently on vacation with her family. Just a couple of days ago, Hough shared another photo and wrote, "Niece and Nephew time on the lake! Couldn't be happier!!" Hough, who grew up Mormon, has four older siblings, including Derek Hough.
Laich, 32, was born and raised in Canada. He's currently a centre for the Washington Capitals.
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Hough and Laich began dating in December of 2013. Hough was reportedly engaged in 2007 to fellow dancer Zach Wilson before dating country singer Chuck Wicks from August 2008 to November 2009 and then, more famously, Ryan Seacrest from April 2010 to March 2013.
By December of 2014, it was quite clear how Hough felt about her man. "A little nature walk with the loves of my life!" she wrote on Instagram alongside a snap of Laich and her two dogs.
While Hough and Laich have clearly taken some time to relax together over the summer, a wedding is probably going to have to wait. Hockey season starts back up in October and Hough will soon start preparing for Fox's Grease: Live, in which she will play Sandy opposite Aaron Tveit as Danny Zuko and Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo.

Roman Polanski Extradition Case Moving Forward in Poland

Roman Polanski in February (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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A Polish court set to rule on a U.S. request to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski over his 1977 child sex conviction has received the legal documents from U.S. authorities to move forward on the case.

The court on Tuesday said it had received the U.S. legal documents it had requested and now had enough information to proceed.

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“The court is now looking into the documents and only after some time will it be able to assess whether it has received answers for all the queries addressed to the U.S. side,” a court spokeswoman told Reuters.

The extradition case was adjourned in May when the court said it needed more information from U.S. authorities relating to the original case, when Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl during a photo shoot in Los Angeles.

The documents relate to Polanski’s interrogation and the questioning of the prosecutor who conducted the original investigation.

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If the court rules in favor of the extradition, the case will be passed to the Polish justice minister for a final decision.

Polanski, who has joint French and Polish citizenship, lives in France, a country that does not extradite its citizens. But the Oscar-winning director has been preparing to shoot his next movie in Poland. If the extradition request were to be granted, that shoot would be jeopardized. The film is about the Dreyfus Affair, a notorious case of miscarriage of justice from early 20th Century France. The Polish film board has said it will co-finance the movie.

Polanski, 82, served 42 days in jail in Los Angeles, as part of a 90-day plea bargain but he fled the U.S. before serving out his sentence, believing the judge hearing his case could overrule his deal and put him in jail for years.

After interrupting a Bernie Sanders campaign event in Seattle, Black Lives Matter activists met privately with Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, confronting the Democratic frontrunner about her response to the movement and mass incarceration legislation passed during her husband’s administration.

The five activists had hoped to disrupt last week’s event in Keene, N.H., but were stopped by the Secret Service — and agreed to meet with Clinton after her speech.

Video of the exchange shows the former secretary of state defending her record on racial issues.

“I’ve spent most of my adult life focused on kids,” Clinton said, “to try to give kids — particularly poor kids, particularly, you know, black kids and Hispanic kids — the same chance to live up to their own God-given potential as any other kid.”

Clinton was pressed about how she plans to address on the campaign trail the tensions between white police officers and black communities.

“Once you say that this country has still not recovered from its original sin, which is true, the next question by people who are on the sidelines, which is the vast majority of Americans, is ‘So, what do you want me to do about it?’” she said. “I’m trying to put together in a way that I can explain it and I can sell it, because in politics if you can’t explain it and you can’t sell it, it stays on the shelf.”

Clinton added: “You can get lip service from as many white people you can pack into Yankee Stadium and a million more like it who are going to say, 'We get it, we get it. We are going to be nicer.’ That’s not enough, at least in my book.”

The former first lady was also pressed about what she would do to change American “hearts and minds” about black lives.

“I don’t believe you change hearts,” she said. “I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You’re not going to change every heart. You’re not. But at the end of the day, we can do a whole lot to change some hearts and change some systems and create more opportunities for people who deserve to have them.”

In an interview with with Yahoo News Tuesday, two of the activists, Daunasia Yancey and Julius Jones, said they were grateful for the opportunity to meet with Clinton but were disappointed with some of her answers.

“We were looking to hear a personal reflection from her on her involvement in policies that have targeted black communities in negative ways,” Yancey told Yahoo News. “Unfortunately that’s not what we heard.

"The piece we wanted was a personal reflection on her responsibility in order for us to believe she could take us in a different direction,” Yancey continued. “Hillary Clinton’s feeling about mass incarceration and anti-blackness and white supremacy are hugely important.”

She added: "Every presidential candidate should expect to hear from us and should expect to be held to accountable to their views on Black Lives Matter.”

Jones said Clinton’s assertion that “you can’t change hearts” is an “admission that she doesn’t want to challenge the heart of bigotry — this idea that hardcore bigots are just unmovable.”

In June, Clinton was criticized by some for saying “all lives matter” during a speech in Florissant, Mo., less than 5 miles from Ferguson.

Last month, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley apologized for using the same phrase after Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted his appearance at a Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix.

“That was a mistake on my part, and I meant no disrespect,” O’Malley said in an online interview after the event. “I did not mean to be insensitive in any way or communicate that I did not understand the tremendous passion, commitment and feeling and depth of feeling that all of us should be attaching to this issue.”

Last week’s private meeting with Clinton came two days after Black Lives Matter activists disrupted Sanders’ speech in Seattle.

Hours later, the Sanders campaign introduced Symone Sanders, a black criminal justice advocate, as its new national press secretary.

“Black Lives Matter is a very, very serious issue,” Sanders said in a recent interview with the New York Times Magazine. “And clearly, as a nation, we have to move away from a situation where black women are dragged out of their cars, thrown to the ground, assaulted and then die in jail three days later for the crime of not signaling a lane change.

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(The White House/AP) Official White House photo taken November 17, 1995, from page 3179 of lawyer Kenneth Starr's report on President Bill Clinton, showing Clinton and Monica Lewinsky at the White House.
Eighteen years ago today, US President Bill Clinton admitted to having a "physical relationship" with America's most infamous intern.

This photo was taken nearly 20 years ago, after Monica Lewinsky walked into the White House to begin her political career for Leon Panetta, then Clinton's chief of staff, and the leader of the free world.

Less than four months later, in November 1995, 21-year-old Lewinsky entered into a consensual sexual relationship with Clinton. Amid the affair, President Clinton posed for a photo with Lewinsky outside of the Oval Office.

The scandalous affair continues to literally shadow America's 42nd president and his wife's potential 2016 White House bid. In March, the scandal made new headlines when an artist said a reference to Lewinsky was included in a portrait of Clinton.

Lewinsky has also been putting herself back into the spotlight and remaking herself as an anti-bullying activist. She began her new life late last year by giving an emotional speech at the Forbes Under 30 Summit and writing for Vanity Fair.

Dr. Dre’s Compton debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week, second only to Luke Bryan’s Kill the Lights, but the battle could have been even closer.

For nearly two years now, Billboard has figuring in streaming play to the Billboard 200. Bryan clearly out sold Dre in physical sales and downloads, 320,000 to Dre’s 276,000, and when streaming is factored in, Bryan came in with a total of 345,000 equivalent album sales, while Dre had the equivalent of 295,000 in sales.

But here’s where it gets interesting: While Bryan’s album is available from multiple retailers as both a physical release and download and for streaming on multiple streaming services, for its first two weeks of release Compton is only available as an exclusive for download through iTunes and steaming on Apple Music – the service built on the framework of Beats Music, which Apple acquired when it purchased Beats Audio hardware and the streaming service for a reported $3 billion in May 2014.

Since its launch on June 30, Apple Music reportedly has already signed on 11 million users – thanks largely to a promotion offering the first three months of service for free – but it still only represents a piece of the streaming business. Spotify has more than 20 million and then there are other services, including Tidal, Pandora, Rhapsody, Rdio, Deezer, and others, all fighting for their piece of the pie.

With 1,500 streams the equivalent of one album sale, it’s hard to say that Dre would have completely closed that gap if Compton was available on every streaming service and physical and digital retailers, but the race would have undoubtedly been more competitive.

“Whenever you’re limiting the reach of your product, it’s going to have some kind of impact,” says Emily White, Billboard’s associate director of charts, social, and streaming.

This is just part of the new world of the music business. In the past, exclusives for consumers usually meant the purchase price of one album, ranging from $9.99 to $20. Still, indie retailers cried foul when a superstar artist released an exclusive through big-box retailers like Wal-Mart or Best Buy, often as a loss-leader to drive in-store traffic, back in the days when physical sales dominated the music businesses. But now, in the age of streaming, the stakes are higher with services hoping an exclusive will prompt consumers to sign on for yearly premium subscriptions, running in the range of $120 a year – at the lowest tier – to up to double that for additional users or premium sound quality offered by Tidal.

With the competition so fierce, streaming services are trying to separate themselves from their rivals by offering exclusives, which might help them gain some new subscribers, but could also backfire on the artists and alienate fans, who may sign on to one service, only to be annoyed when they find a rival has an exclusive from another one of their favorites.

In a sense, the music industry is following a model created by pay TV and video streaming services. “I think the music industry has seen how that kind of catalog fragmentation works for TV and movies and how distributors are able to play services off each other to get better upfront deals, and I think the music industry probably sees this and think we can play all these different streaming services against each other to try to leverage the best deals,” Billboard’s White says.

Yet, record labels and artists may be up for a rude awakening if they try to go this route. “The problem with that, there are very few artists wield the power to alter consumer habits,” White adds. “There are very few artists because their catalog is only on this streaming service that will actually move the needle for subscribers to change their habits and join a particular service. What we’re seeing is most artists don’t have that power. Consumers might be willing to have a Netflix account and Hulu and cable provider as well, they’re willing to split their TV and movie habits between different places to get Orange Is the New Black or all of Seinfeld, I don’t think that most consumers feel that way about music. I think they mostly feel entitled to access whatever they want to, and that’s the biggest danger to catalog fragmentation in music.

Frank Gifford, Legendary Monday Night Football Sportscaster and Husband of Kathie Lee Gifford, Dead at 84

“I want to thank everybody for your love and your texts and your tweets,” Gifford told viewers at the top of the fourth hour. “Just the outpouring has been extraordinary,” she said. “It’s a heck of a way to find out how loved you are. Believe me, my family and I got great strength and comfort from it.”

Gifford went on to explain how her late husband — who spent 12 seasons with the New York Giants, ultimately winning the MVP award in 1956 — grew up in poverty during the Great Depression and never took his eventual success for granted.

“I’m grateful that the Lord took him [instantly], because the only thing that Frank has ever been afraid of his entire life was being a burden to those he loved,” she concluded. “He never wanted to be hooked up to machines. He never wanted to lose his dignifity. I thank the Lord for that, for his grace to us as a family, and I pray his grace to all of you as well.

Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida at the Iowa State Fair.
found the anti-establishment candidates surging in the 2016 presidential race. Unsurprisingly, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump continues to lead the Republican side, with 25% support among registered voters.
But other unorthodox candidates are also rising to the top, possibly because of their strong performances in the first Republican primary debate on August 6.
Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and political neophyte, placed second in the Fox News survey. Carson received 12% of the vote compared with 7% when the pollster last surveyed the race at the start of August.
Running third in the poll was Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas with 10%, a four-point rise from the previous survey. Cruz, a conservative firebrand who entered the Senate in 2013, has used his short time in the chamber to infuriate the Republican establishment.
It's not until the No. 4 position that a conventional candidate with sizable establishment support appears in the survey: former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida. Bush scored 9% in the poll, a 6-point decline since the previous survey.
After him was former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, whose 6% held steady over the previous weeks, and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who like Bush has seen his support decline; Walker was at 9% but is now tied with Huckabee at 6%. Also like Bush, Walker had often been labeled as one of the clear front-runners in the contest.

(Getty ) Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
Of course, it's still early and many veteran operatives urge the public to view these sorts of polls skeptically until much closer to the start of next year, when the first primary states weigh in.
"The enthusiasm right now is clearly on the side of the insurgents," Matt Strawn, a former chair of the Iowa Republican Party, told Politico about recent polls in the Hawkeye State.
"But the race is just beginning in earnest. It's one thing to poll high in August, but whether those candidates can withstand the long campaign is still an open question."
Strawn suggested that some voters may be having a "summer fling" with candidates they would not ultimately support.
"It's an open issue whether Donald Trump can take the energy and enthusiasm and turn those political voyeurs that are showing up at his events into people who will actually caucus," he said.
"It's one thing to have a summer fling with a candidate; it's another to find someone you’re willing to stand up [for] in your schoolhouse in front of your friends and neighbors in February and say, 'This is the person I think should be leader of the free world.'"

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