memeorandum: Suspect in co-worker's beheading was recently released from probation (Christine Mai-Duc/Los Angeles Times)

10:40 AM ET, September 28, 2014

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Caleb Howe / Truth Revolt:

BREAKING: Beheading Suspect Fired After Argument Over Stoning Women — Hometown paper reveals details about suspect in the Oklahoma murder.

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Fox News:

Critics blast authorities for treating beheading as case of workplace violence — Authorities are treating Thursday's beheading at an Oklahoma food distribution center as an incident of workplace violence but that is prompting raised eyebrows among some terrorism experts.

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Christine Mai-Duc / Los Angeles Times:
Suspect in co-worker's beheading was recently released from probation

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Jordan Schachtel / BREITBART.COM:
OKLAHOMA BEHEADER LINKED TO AL QAEDA LEADER AWLAKI, BOSTON BOMBER'S MOSQUE

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Vindicator:

TRAFICANT VIDEO, PRINT TRIBUTE | Funeral details to come Monday — YOUNGSTOWN - A spokeswoman for the family of James A. Traficant Jr. confirmed that the former congressman died today at St. Elizabeth Health Center. — Heidi Hanni, the family spokeswoman, said no details about Traficant's death …

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Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:

James Traficant, 1941-2014 — If I sported a hairpiece, I'd be wearing it at half-mast right about now, upon hearing that the world just grew a little less interesting. For the most colorful man who ever inhabited Congress, former Ohio Democratic Rep. James A . Traficant Jr., expired today at the age of 73.

Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:

Secret Service fumbled response after gunman hit White House residence in 2011 — The gunman parked his black Honda directly south of the White House, in the dark of a November night, in a closed lane of Constitution Avenue. He pointed his long, semiautomatic rifle out of the passenger window …

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KMOV-TV:

Ferguson police officer shot in arm after interrupting alleged attempted burglary — (KMOV.com) - Authorities responded to a call for an officer shot in north St. Louis County late Saturday night. — St. Louis County Police reported a male police officer from Ferguson …

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Reuters:

Justice Department tells Ferguson police to stop wearing bracelets — (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department on Friday to order its officers not to wear bracelets in support of the white policeman who shot to death an unarmed black teenager last month, sparking protests.

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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist — We're being had. Again. — For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality. First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees.

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Cruz clinches straw poll gold again — Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz won the Value Voters Summit presidential straw poll on Saturday. — The crowd burst onto applause on Saturday, as Family Research Council President Tony Perkins announced that Cruz won 25 percent of votes at the annual Washington conference.

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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:

Iowa Poll: Joni Ernst now leads Bruce Braley for Senate — The ground under Bruce Braley has shifted. The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate is 6 points behind his GOP rival, Joni Ernst, according to The Des Moines Register's new Iowa Poll of likely voters. The Register — CONNECT

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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

3rd-Party Names May Tip Scale as 2 Parties Battle for Control — WASHINGTON — In an election year shaped by voter anger toward the political establishment, the outcome of an unusually large number of close Senate and governor's races could be determined by the outsize role of third-party candidates.

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:

Court urged to let Ohioans vote early — Arguing that early voting is necessary to continue to deal with the “unprecedented disaster” at the polls in Ohio in 2004, several civil rights advocacy groups urged the Supreme Court on Saturday to permit Ohioans to start casting their ballots next Tuesday for this year's general election.