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Kyle Trygstad / Roll Call:
DSCC Goes Dark in Kentucky — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has gone dark in Kentucky, where the party is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. — After a significant investment in support of Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes …
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Does Calling Kentucky's Obamacare ‘Fine’ Disqualify McConnell? — Undebatable: Grimes and McConnell in Kentucky, Warner in Virginia, and Cotton in Arkansas offer wince-worthy moments. — What's more disqualifying? A Democrat who refuses to say whether she voted for President Obama …
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Weekly Standard, Washington Post, Politico, OnPolitics and The Daily Caller
James Hohmann / Politico:
Scoop: Democrats pour $1M more into Georgia
Scoop: Democrats pour $1M more into Georgia
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and Wall Street Journal
The Huffington Post:
Mitch McConnell Wants Kentucky To Believe Its Obamacare Exchange Is Just A Website
Mitch McConnell Wants Kentucky To Believe Its Obamacare Exchange Is Just A Website
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The New Republic, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Washington Post
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell says Ky. healthcare exchange can stay but not ObamaCare
McConnell says Ky. healthcare exchange can stay but not ObamaCare
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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Taylor Marsh and Booman Tribune
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Chamber Of Commerce Has Spent $15 Million On Races Where GOP Opposes Them On Immigration
Chamber Of Commerce Has Spent $15 Million On Races Where GOP Opposes Them On Immigration
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Immigration Reform, Vox and Hit & Run
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Ann Romney launches new center to study neurological diseases — Let some in the political world obsess over whether Mitt Romney plans to run for president for a third time — Ann Romney has a bigger project in mind. — On Tuesday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston …
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New York Times:
W.H.O. Forecast for Ebola Worsens as Mortality Rate Rises — The World Health Organization reported sobering new figures Tuesday about the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa, saying the mortality rate had risen to 70 percent and that the number of new cases could reach 10,000 per week by December.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Americans want flight restrictions from Ebola countries. And it's not close. — Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the United States, and about the same amount say they want flight restrictions from the countries in West Africa where the disease has quickly spread.
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The Hill:
Feds rethinking Ebola strategy
Feds rethinking Ebola strategy
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Cracks Herself Up Over Pot Joke — Hillary Clinton got laughs when she took a “pot” shot at Colorado's marijuana laws during a campaign stop at a coffee shop. — During the former secretary of state's visit to Denver Monday, a barista at the Pigtrain Coffee shop made Clinton …
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Bill Michlowski / WNEP-TV:
10-Year-Old Boy Charged with Homicide of 90-Year-Old Woman … DAMASCUS TOWNSHIP — State police charged a 10-year-old boy with criminal homicide on Monday. — Troopers told Newswatch 16 the child's mother is the one who told police about what her son had done.
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The Huffington Post:
Jimmy John's Makes Low-Wage Workers Sign ‘Oppressive’ Noncompete Agreements — If you're considering working at a Jimmy John's sandwich shop, you may want to read the fine print on your job application. — A Jimmy John's employment agreement provided to The Huffington Post includes a …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, susiemadrak.com, New York Times and Raw Story
Reuters:
Mideast violence spreads as Turkey bombs Kurdish militants — (Reuters) - War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened to spill into Turkey on Tuesday, where reports emerged that the air force had bombed Kurdish fighters furious at Ankara's refusal to help protect their kin in Syria.
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Our failing war against the Islamic State
Our failing war against the Islamic State
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Guardian, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, Hot Air and Twitchy
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Texas Attorney General: ‘It Does Not Matter’ If Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Children — CREDIT: AP Photo/The McAllen Monitor, Joel Martinez — The marriage equality fight is still playing out in many states, and on Friday, Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott (R) …
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Talking Points Memo and Off the Kuff
KCCI-TV:
Wife confirms man killed in plane crash is Senate candidate — The wife of Doug Butzier confirmed Tuesday morning to KCRG-TV that it was Butzier who was killed in a plane crash Monday. — View video — Butzier is running for U.S. Senate as the Libertarian candidate against Republican Joni Ernst and Democrat Bruce Braley.
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Howard W. French / The Atlantic Online:
China's Dangerous Game — The country's intensifying efforts to redraw maritime borders have its neighbors, and the U.S., fearing war. But does the aggression reflect a government growing in power—or one facing a crisis of legitimacy? — In the tranquil harbors that dot the coastline of Palawan …
Danielle Friedman / NBC News:
Silicon Valley Giants Now Pay for Women to Freeze Eggs — While techniques and success rates are improving, there's no guarantee the procedure will lead to a baby down the road. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine doesn't keep comprehensive stats on babies born from frozen eggs …
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook:
Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. — The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect 1 million people …
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John Frank / Denver Post:
COLORADO SENATE: IN CLOSE RACE, MOMENTUM FAVORS GARDNER OVER UDALL, POLL FINDS — Watch Molly Hughes and Chuck Plunkett discuss polling results — A new Denver Post poll shows Colorado's marquee U.S. Senate race is shifting toward Republican Cory Gardner, as President Barack Obama's sagging …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Election Rule #34: Process Gaffes Matter. Policy Gaffes Don't.
Election Rule #34: Process Gaffes Matter. Policy Gaffes Don't.
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Washington Monthly, The Dish and Bloomberg View
Cliff Asness / RealClearMarkets:
The Inflation Imputation — In 2010, I co-signed an open letter warning that the Fed's experiment with an unprecedented level of loose monetary policy - in amount, and in unorthodox method - created a risk of serious inflation. Sporadically journalists and others have noted that this risk …
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Forensic evidence shows teen shot at St. Louis officer, police say — • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8087 and Robert Patrick rpatrick@post-dispatch.com 314-321-5154 — ST. LOUIS • Gunshot residue tests and ballistics evidence indicate …
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Guardian and Hinterland Gazette
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
Republicans Need to Call Off the Voting Wars—for Their Own Good — We are now three weeks to Election Day, which means we are deep into another round of the voting wars—the ceaseless legislative, legal and regulatory battle over which Americans can vote, and when and where and with what paperwork they must do so.