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2:55 AM ET, October 15, 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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CNN:
Democrats pull TV ads in Kentucky Senate race
Discussion: FOX News Radio
James Hohmann / Politico:
Scoop: Democrats pour $1M more into Georgia
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Klayman: Obama Must Be ‘Taken Alive’ For Bringing Ebola To America To Afflict White People  —  Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit against President Obama for “providing material support and aid to international terrorism and facilitating terrorism” …
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Saeed Ahmed / CNN:
Ebola outbreak: Get up to speed with the latest developments  —  (CNN) — NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman apologizes for violating quarantine.  The husband of the Ebola-stricken Spanish nurse lashes out.  And a United Nations worker being treated for the disease in Germany dies.
Discussion: Daily Signal
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Amid Broad Worries of an Ebola Outbreak, Two-Thirds Say Government Should Do More
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Hullabaloo and ABC News
Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
New Ebola Cases May Soon Reach 10,000 a Week, Health Officials Predict
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Americans want flight restrictions from Ebola countries. And it's not close.
Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
This Independent Candidate Is Proof of How Far to the Right Republicans Have Swung  —  On Monday afternoon, the four candidates for the open U.S. Senate seat in South Dakota participated in a forum in Sioux Falls.  The event itself was unremarkable, with each candidate offering his views …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: What A Republican Win On Election Night Would Look Like  —  FiveThirtyEight's latest Senate forecast gives Democrats a 40 percent chance of maintaining control of the Senate.  Still, you've probably heard that control might not be known until December (when Louisiana would hold …
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Houston, we have a problem  —  Angry over voter lawsuit, city demands to pick through sermons, other communications from pastors who aren't involved  —  HOUSTON - Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys have filed a motion in a Texas court to stop an attempt by the city of Houston to subpoena sermons …
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:   City of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Turkish Airstrike Hits Kurds, Complicating Fight Against Islamic State  —  ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets struck Kurdish insurgent positions in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, shaking the country's fragile peace process with the Kurds and demonstrating the complexities surrounding …
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Our failing war against the Islamic State
Peter Hamby / CNN:
‘White boy’ Biden calls tea party ‘crazy’  —  Washington (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden, in a closed-door meeting with black clergy in South Carolina Tuesday, referred to himself as “the only white boy on the east side of Wilmington” as he recalled his days as a Delaware public defender …
C.J. Chivers / New York Times:
The Secret U.S. Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons  —  A controlled detonation of recovered mustard shells near Taji, Iraq, on Aug. 17, 2008.  —  The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.  —  It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq.
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.
Discussion: FOX31 Denver and WREG-TV
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justices Stop Parts of Texas Abortion Law  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked key parts of a 2013 law in Texas that had closed all but eight facilities providing abortions in America's second most-populous state.  —  In an unsigned order, the justices sided with abortion rights advocates …
Standard-Examiner:
Terror threat against feminist Anita Sarkeesian at USU  —  LOGAN — Utah State University plans to move forward with an event featuring a prominent Canadian-American author, blogger and feminist, despite threats of terror, a spokesman said Tuesday evening.  —  The decision came …
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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Matt Finn / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton touts affordable higher education in $225G Las Vegas speech
Kyle Wagner / Deadspin:
The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate  —  Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her.  She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved video game fans associated with Gamergate …
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.
Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Todd Akin turns left  —  2014 ELECTIONS ABORTION CAMPAIGNS WENDY DAVIS GREG ABBOTT HOUSE OF CARDS CORY GARDNER MARK UDALL  —  For two years, Republicans have been haunted by Todd Akin syndrome, in which a spectacular gaffe in an abortion-themed context becomes a costly embarrassment to a candidate's party.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
 
 
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
GOP Congressman: Obama Wants Ebola To Spread So He Can ‘Take Control’ Of Everything
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Forensic evidence shows teen shot at St. Louis officer, police say
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Texas Attorney General: ‘It Does Not Matter’ If Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Children
Claude Brodesser-Akner / New Jersey Online:
Christie's popularity at lowest recorded levels, governor in negative territory for first time since 2011
Discussion: Daily Kos
Howard W. French / The Atlantic Online:
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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