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4:15 PM ET, October 1, 2011

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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
New Fast and Furious docs released by White House  —  WASHINGTON - Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal.  —  The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent …
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
White House sends Hill Fast & Furious docs, but withholds some  —  The White House sent another installment of documents to Congress on Friday detailing White House staffers' knowledge about the controversial “Operation Fast & Furious” gunrunning probe run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives.
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama to Congress: Get your act together and pass jobs bill  —  President Obama used his weekly radio address to urge Congress “to get its act together” and pass his jobs bill.  —  “It's been almost three weeks since I sent the American Jobs Act to Congress - three weeks since I sent …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Barack Obama wants jobs bill back
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Hill
The Politico:
Bill Clinton wants more credit  —  Among friends and longtime supporters, the 65-year-old looked at ease and spoke lovingly about the aides and Arkansans who helped him get to the White House two decades ago.  —  “We were looking at total meltdown about a week before New Hampshire,” …
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Bill Clinton wants more credit  —  Bill Clinton thinks he deserves more credit for reforming welfare and balancing the budget.  —  “I go crazy every time I read the conventional wisdom,” he said Friday night at his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. “So part of the Republican narrative …
NY Daily News:
Occupy Wall Street protest, swelled by Radiohead hoax, marches on NYPD HQ, but gets lost  —  Radiohead didn't rock out with the Occupy Wall Street mass yesterday, but the crowds sure did as the protest marched into its third weekend - but had a little trouble finding NYPD headquarters.
Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
How North Dakota Became Saudi Arabia  —  Harold Hamm, discoverer of the Bakken fields of the northern Great Plains, on America's oil future and why OPEC's days are numbered.  —  Harold Hamm, the Oklahoma-based founder and CEO of Continental Resources, the 14th-largest oil company in America, is a man who thinks big.
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Secret U.S. memo sanctioned killing of Aulaqi  —  The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials.
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Donna Leinwand Leger / ABCNEWS:
Target killing of al-Awlaki raises legal questions
Discussion: The Politico
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Temperature Rising: With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Crucial Climate Protectors  —  WISE RIVER, Mont. — The trees spanning many of the mountainsides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of autumn.  —  But these trees are not supposed to turn red.
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
‘Soft’ America: What Obama really meant  —  There's been a lot of speculation about what President Obama meant when he told an Orlando television interviewer that the United States is “a great, great country that had gotten a little soft” over the last two decades.
Dan Merica / CNN:
Iranian pastor faces death for rape, not apostasy - report  —  Washington (CNN) — Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will be put to death for several charges of rape and extortion, charges that differ greatly from his original sentence of apostasy, Iran's semi-official Fars News agency reported Friday.
WCVB-TV:
24 Arrested As Protesters Pack Financial District  —  Foreclosed Families, Supporters March To Bank Of America  —  BOSTON — A group called Occupy Boston took over Dewey Square in Boston Friday night holding a 60s-style sit in.  —  “It doesn't look like the politicians are serving the people any more …
Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Supreme Court term could influence 2012 election  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opens a potentially epic term Monday that could roil debate in the 2012 presidential election campaign.  —  The justices have taken a raft of cases that would affect people in their daily lives …
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Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
The Top 10 Supreme Court Previews
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Energy Department approves $4.7 billion in solar loan guarantees
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama 3Q haul: $55M or more?
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Associated Press:
AP Investigation: NC plant deal may enrich donors
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