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Ashley Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: In North Carolina Senate race, Libertarian could be spoiler — (CNN) — In one of the most closely-watched Senate races of the year, incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina holds a narrow three-point advantage over her Republican challenger, according to a new CNN/ORC International survey.
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Talking Points Memo and OpenSecrets.org
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Tight Louisiana Senate race sets stage for runoff — Washington (CNN) — As Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu defends her U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana, a new CNN/ORC International poll indicates the third-term incumbent carries a slim advantage over her closest GOP rival in the general election this November.
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
Umberto Bacchi / International Business Times:
Vatican Paedophilia Scandal: Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski Stored Over 100,000 Child Porn Videos — A former Vatican archbishop accused of paedophilia stored tens of thousands of child porn videos and photos on a computer in his office at the Holy See diplomatic compound in the Dominican Republic, it has emerged.
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Liberaland, The PJ Tatler and Raw Story
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Who Had It Easier, Reagan or Obama? — OVER the past few weeks I've been reading Ken Adelman's fascinating history “Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War.” Adelman, who led Reagan's arms control agency, was an adviser at Reagan's 1986 Iceland summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Power Line
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Cult Deficit — LIKE most children of the Reagan era, I grew up with a steady diet of media warnings about the perils of religious cults — the gurus who lurked in wait for the unwary and confused, offering absolute certainty with the aftertaste of poisoned Kool-Aid.
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Raw Story
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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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Fox News, PoliticusUSA, New York Times, Business Insider and Balloon Juice
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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Hot Air, The Last Refuge, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, ThinkProgress and Reuters
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Michael Brown / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Ferguson officer wounded after confronting burglars; suspects remain at large
Ferguson officer wounded after confronting burglars; suspects remain at large
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CNN, ThinkProgress, The Last Refuge, Scared Monkeys and Mediaite
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.
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys and Washington Monthly
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: House Speaker John Boehner — Below is the rush transcript of “This Week” on September 28th, 2014. It may contain errors. — STEPHANOPOULOS: It's an aggressive swing through deep blue territory— BOEHNER: We've got 41 more days and we're going to get it finished.
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Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Politico and Daily Signal
CBS News:
Obama: U.S. underestimated rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria — The U.S. had expected the Iraqi army to do more against extremists, president says in acknowledgment of intelligence shortcomings — President Obama acknowledged that the U.S. underestimated the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria …
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New York Times and Talking Points Memo
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
From Pen and Phone to Bombs and Drones — WASHINGTON — THE president was at the United Nations on Wednesday urging young people across the Muslim world to reject benighted values, even as America clambers into bed with a bunch of Middle East potentates who espouse benighted values.
Discussion:
Liberaland and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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Talking Points Memo, Yahoo! News, Hot Air and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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
Suspect in co-worker's beheading was recently released from probation