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Guy Norris / Aviation Week:
Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details — Lockheed Martin aims to develop compact reactor prototype in five years, production unit in 10 — Hidden away in the secret depths of the Skunk Works, a Lockheed Martin research team has been working quietly on a nuclear energy concept …
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Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project — (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.
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Lockheed Martin, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and RT
Andrea Shalal / Scientific American Content:
Lockheed Claims Breakthrough on Fusion Energy — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready in a decade.
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Dianna Hunt / Dallas Morning News:
Presbyterian workers wore no hazmat suits for two days while treating Ebola patient — Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn't wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola …
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Washington Post:
Dallas hospital learned its Ebola protocols while struggling to save mortally ill patient
Dallas hospital learned its Ebola protocols while struggling to save mortally ill patient
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BREITBART.COM, ABC News, Gawker, The Verge, Jezebel, Deadspin, Daily Kos, Hot Air, New York Times, Washington Monthly and New York Magazine
Ascrouch / CBS Dallas:
CDC: Ebola Patient Traveled By Air With “Low-Grade” Fever — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The CDC has announced that the second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola — now identified as Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas — traveled by air Oct. 13, with a low-grade fever, a day before she showed up at the hospital reporting symptoms.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats push back on travel ban — House Democrats are pushing back hard against proposals to institute a travel ban in the fight against the Ebola virus. — A growing number of lawmakers — mostly Republicans — are urging the Obama administration to bar travel to the United States …
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YouGov US Opinion Center News, CNSNews, Hot Air and National Review
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama, Ebola and optics
Obama, Ebola and optics
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Washington Post, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
Ruth Padawer / New York Times:
When Women Become Men at Wellesley — Hundreds of young women streamed into Wellesley College on the last Monday of August, many of them trailed by parents lugging suitcases and bins filled with folded towels, decorative pillows and Costco-size jugs of laundry detergent.
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David McCabe / The Hill:
Bush: 'What's the Paycheck Fairness Act?' — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) appeared completely unfamiliar with a major bill aimed at eliminating the wage gap between men and women when he was asked about the measure this week. — The potential 2016 presidential candidate was asked …
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Mother Jones and FOX News Radio
Mars Hill Church:
Pastor Mark Driscoll's Resignation — On Tuesday, October 14, Pastor Mark Driscoll submitted his resignation as an elder and lead pastor of Mars Hill Church. The Board of Overseers has accepted that resignation and is moving forward with planning for pastoral transition …
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Religion News Service, Guardian, New York Times and KOMO News
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Religion News Service:
Exclusive: Mark Driscoll's resignation letter to Mars Hill Church
Exclusive: Mark Driscoll's resignation letter to Mars Hill Church
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Friendly Atheist and Raw Story
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
The Absolute Weirdest Thing Ever To Happen At A Political Debate — The Florida gubernatorial debate got off to a rocky start Wednesday night when Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) refused to come out because his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Charlie Crist, asked for and received a fan under his podium.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
My Conspiracy Theories Are Being Suppressed! — Reacting to his corporate colleague Phil Mattingly's Wow! profile of Dr. Ben Carson, Bloomberg View's Francis Wilkinson is decidedly less jazzed by this year's right-wing “outsider.” Indeed, he thinks the guy is performing a very familiar role or roles:
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Laura Segall / Bloomberg:
Ben Carson's Longshot Presidential Bid Suddenly Looks a Lot More Realistic
Ben Carson's Longshot Presidential Bid Suddenly Looks a Lot More Realistic
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Washington Post, Bloomberg View and Washington Monthly
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Doc: Obama Won't Keep Ebola From U.S. Because ‘His Affinities’ Are With Africa (AUDIO) — Dr. Keith Ablow, a member of the Fox News Medical A-Team, on Tuesday said that Obama won't protect Americans from Ebola because “his affinities” are with Africa, not the U.S. “He's their leader.”
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PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Dave McKenna / Deadspin:
Is A Colorado Senate Candidate Lying About His Football Career? — UPDATE: Gardner campaign spokesman Alex Siciliano sent the following, presented in its entirety, via email: “Cory Gardner played football from Junior High through Sophomore year in high school.”
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RedState, FOX31 Denver, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, The Week, Yahoo! News, The Spot and National Review
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Sen. Merkley: ‘Call Me A Progressive’ — During Tuesday night's debate with Monica Wehby, Senator Jeff Merkley proudly stood for the good that the word ‘progressive’ means. — Sit back and watch as Senator Merkley proudly wears the label of progressive. — Even more delicious?
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Houston Mayor Says City's Sermon Subpoenas Came as a Surprise — An unusual First Amendment fight has erupted in Houston where lawyers for the city have raised alarm bells among conservative religious leaders after subpoenaing sermons delivered by several local pastors.
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Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, National Review and Josh Blackman's Blog
Charles Schmitz / Politico:
Who Lost Yemen? — Obama calls it a “model” for fighting terror. So why didn't anyone notice last month's coup? — Nobody saw it coming. On Sept. 20, Yemen's Huthi movement executed a political coup so stealthy that the world hardly noticed, and so momentous that local commentators …
Andrew DeMillo / Associated Press:
Arkansas High Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law — Arkansas' highest court on Wednesday struck down a state law that requires voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot, ruling the requirement unconstitutional just days before early voting begins for the Nov. 4 election.
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Los Angeles Times:
Mother faces criminal charges after son allegedly takes gun to school — Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer on Wednesday announced that he filed criminal charges against a woman whose 17-year-old son allegedly took a loaded semiautomatic handgun to school. — Feuer said the action is …
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FOX News Radio
Andrew Johnson / National Review:
Michelle Nunn Won't Say If She Voted for Obama — Another Democratic Senate candidate has refused to say whether she voted for President Obama: This time it was Michelle Nunn in Georgia. — The same question has tripped up other red-state Democrats on the campaign trail.
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Power Line and FOX News Radio
David Dekok / Reuters:
Lawmaker in shootout with would-be robber near Pennsylvania Capitol — (Reuters) - Four Pennsylvania teenagers were arrested on Wednesday and charged with trying to mug a state legislator who exchanged gunfire with one of them in the late-night incident, police said.
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite