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6:35 PM ET, October 14, 2014

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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 …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Scoop: Democrats pour $1M more into Georgia
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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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Klayman: Obama Must Be ‘Taken Alive’ For Bringing Ebola To America To Afflict White People
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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Washington Post:
Can't quit Mitt: Friends say Romney feels nudge to consider a 2016 presidential run
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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Pew Research Center:
Media coverage of the 2016 presidential race heats up
Matt Finn / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton touts affordable higher education in $225G Las Vegas speech
Discussion: protein wisdom and National Review
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.
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
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 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Does Liberalism Have an Answer to Campus Rape?  —  You're either for us or you're for the rapists.  —  Shares  —  Americans tend to cherish liberal values, at least until we face frightening and morally outrageous threats, at which point they often give way.
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) …
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 …
Discussion: Guardian and Hinterland Gazette
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.
The Hill:
Feds rethinking Ebola strategy  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday said it is starting to “rethink” its Ebola strategy after the first-ever US transmission of the virus put a “relatively large” number of healthcare workers at risk.
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Denise Grady / New York Times:
Questions Rise on Preparations at Hospitals to Deal With Ebola
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette
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 …
Danielle Friedman / NBC News:
Facebook and Apple 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 …
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.
 
 
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
GOP Congressman: Obama Wants Ebola To Spread So He Can ‘Take Control’ Of Everything
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Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Todd Akin turns left
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Jefferson County official says she meant ‘no ill intent’ to Obama in Facebook post
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Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Christie's popularity at lowest recorded levels, governor in negative territory for first time since 2011
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
New dimensions in racial tensions
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