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Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
McDonald's May Drop Health Plan — McDonald's Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul. — The move is one of the clearest indications …
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WSJ bombshell: McDonald's mulls dropping coverage - Schwarzenegger runs up against deadline for health exchange law - Health reform workforce board picked today - The SGR fight returns — DRIVING YOUR DAY: WILL SCHWARZENEGGER TERMINATE REFORM? The California governor must decide today whether …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate blocks recess appointments with deal between Dems, GOP — Senate Democrats struck a deal Wednesday night with Republicans to keep President Obama from making recess appointments while Congress is out of town campaigning for the midterm elections. — Democratic leaders have agreed …
NY Daily News:
New Yorkers outraged as bureaucrats order city to change lettering on every single street sign — The city will change the lettering on every single street sign - at an estimated cost of about $27.5 million - because the feds don't like the font. — Street names will change from all capital letters …
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Jeremy Olshan / New York Post:
$27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps — Tweet — The Capital of the World is going lower-case. — Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century …
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Jennifer Fermino / New York Post:
Paladino and Post reporter square off — Tweet — Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and Post State Editor Fredric U. Dicker last night got into an angry confrontation — during which Paladino threatened, “I'll take you out.” — It started when Dicker asked Paladino …
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Carl Paladino alleges Andrew Cuomo affair
Carl Paladino alleges Andrew Cuomo affair
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Mike Whittemore / Capital Tonight:
Fight!!! — CapTon's Kaitlyn Ross just sent this explosive video shot …
Fight!!! — CapTon's Kaitlyn Ross just sent this explosive video shot …
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Fhardingj / CNN:
TRENDING: NY governor candidate to reporter: 'I'll take you out'
TRENDING: NY governor candidate to reporter: 'I'll take you out'
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Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Private Moment Made Public, Then a Fatal Jump — It started with a Twitter message on Sept. 19: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay.” — That night, the authorities say …
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Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
Victim of Secret Dorm Sex Tape Posts Facebook Goodbye, Jumps to His Death
Victim of Secret Dorm Sex Tape Posts Facebook Goodbye, Jumps to His Death
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Kelly Heyboer / New Jersey Online:
Rutgers freshman is presumed dead in suicide after roommate …
Rutgers freshman is presumed dead in suicide after roommate …
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Quinnipiac University:
Angry Voters Push Rubio To Top In Florida Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Republican Most Shares Their Values — Republican Marco Rubio holds a solid 46 - 33 percent likely voter lead over Gov. Charlie Crist, running as an independent in the race for Florida's U.S. Senate seat …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to meet Dem leaders before they leave to campaign — President Obama will meet with Democratic leaders one last time on Thursday before a midterm election that could decimate their numbers on Capitol Hill. — Obama is expected to talk about a variety of issues along with what the party …
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Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Obama gives Stewart's rally a boost
Obama gives Stewart's rally a boost
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Spokesman: Obama may get chance to add more ‘fresh legs’ at White House
Spokesman: Obama may get chance to add more ‘fresh legs’ at White House
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Barton Gellman / Time:
Locked and Loaded: The Secret World of Extreme Militias — Camouflaged and silent, the assault team inched toward a walled stone compound for more than five hours, belly-crawling the last 200 yards. The target was an old state prison in eastern Ohio, and every handpicked member of Red Team 2 knew …
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Michael Steele Tacitly Endorses Government Shutdown: ‘Anything Can Happen’ — Earlier this month, right-wing congressman Steve King (R-IA) publicly demanded a “blood oath” from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to repeal the Affordable Care Act if the GOP takes back the House, even if it means shutting down the government.
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Boehner pledges to reform House rules
Boehner pledges to reform House rules
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
SARAH PALIN TO HEADLINE 2 RNC RALLIES — …
SARAH PALIN TO HEADLINE 2 RNC RALLIES — …
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New York Times:
Democrats Find Many Big Donors Cutting Support — Many wealthy Democratic patrons, who in the past have played major roles financing outside groups to help elect the party's candidates, are largely sitting out these crucial midterm elections. — Democratic donors like George Soros …
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New York Times:
In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue — Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran's race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them.
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Sen. Murkowski targets Tea Party Express in new ad — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Wednesday released two new TV ads her campaign says will counter the Tea Party Express. — Earlier this week, the group unveiled its own TV ad targeting Murkowski, which spokesman Levi Russell said he hopes …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Lisa Murkowski surges in Alaska (or does she?)
Lisa Murkowski surges in Alaska (or does she?)
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney, Palin at Front of GOP Presidential Field — Preferences for leaders similar among conservative, moderate/liberal Republicans — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin lead other potential candidates in Republicans' preferences for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.
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David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
In Tax Cut Plan, Debate Over the Definition of Rich — Much of the debate about whether to extend the Bush tax cuts has focused on big economic issues: how the decision might affect the fragile economy, the widening federal deficit and hiring by small businesses.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Times Wages Class War
Dave Kehr / New York Times:
Tony Curtis, Hollywood Leading Man, Dies at 85 — Tony Curtis, a classically handsome movie star who earned an Oscar nomination as an escaped convict in Stanley Kramer's 1958 movie “The Defiant Ones,” but whose public preferred him in comic roles in films like “Some Like It Hot” (1959) and …
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Wall Street Journal:
Grading the Governors — A new Cato Institute report on the fiscal best and worst. — It's been a rough couple of years to be a Governor, but some have adjusted to austere times better than others. The Cato Institute today releases its 10th biennial survey of the best and worst Governors …
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Hugo Lindgren Named New York Times Magazine Editor — In a stunning move, The New York Times is expected to announce that Hugo Lindgren will be the next editor of The New York Times Magazine, according to three people familiar with the deal. — Mr. Lindgren spent the last seven months …
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The Politico:
Congress cools on Colbert — Members of Congress have been fooled time after time after time by Stephen Colbert, and after last week's mockery, they have a message for the satirist who makes a living lampooning them: Colbert, you're dead to us. — Colbert's act had steadily been losing cachet …
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Eliot A. Cohen / Washington Post:
'Obama's Wars': The gang that couldn't shoot straight — or shut up — Senior Washington officials, in this administration or its predecessors, talk to Bob Woodward for all kinds of reasons — to fluff up their vanity, to avenge slights, to neutralize rivals, to gratify egos or, most laughably, to shape the historical record.
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James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter:
Anderson Cooper launching daytime talk show — UPDATED: Exclu: CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is launching a syndicated daytime talk show. — The “Anderson Cooper 360” host has made a deal with Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for a program …
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Hotline On Call:
Democrats Aren't Staging A Comeback — Democratic strategists have recently started experiencing a new feeling of optimism. There are indications, they say, that the party is showing the smallest signs of a turnaround, and that rumors of their electoral demise have been premature.
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