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Biden's Son Hunter Discharged From Navy Reserve After Failing Cocaine Test — Lawyer Pursued Military Service Relatively Late as a Public-Affairs Officer — WASHINGTON—Vice President Joe Biden 's son Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine …
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Biden's son discharged from Navy after testing positive for cocaine — Washington (CNN) — The Navy Reserve discharged Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter this year after he tested positive for cocaine, U.S. officials confirmed. — The discharge of Biden, a 44-year-old lawyer …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
“It's An Object of Gallows Humor for the Staff” — TPM Reader JM on Rick Scott, hospital preparedness and the “Ebola cart” ...
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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY:
Dallas nurse Briana Aguirre: ‘We never talked about Ebola’ before Thomas Eric Duncan arrived — Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse Briana Aguirre, who cared for her friend and co-worker Nina Pham after she tested positive for the Ebola virus, says she can no longer defend her hospital …
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Charlie Crist's Fan: A Love Story — Charlie Crist's fan was loyal. It stood by him through thick and thin. — When Crist was a young Florida Republican rising star, the fan was there. When Crist became governor, the fan came with him. When Crist was cast out of politics and his party …
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Tommy Craggs / Deadspin:
How Deadspin F**ked Up The Cory Gardner Story — On Wednesday, Deadspin published a story questioning the football bona fides of U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican who's running for the Colorado Senate seat currently occupied by Democrat Mark Udall. We f**ked up.
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Lynn Bartels / Denver Post:
EBOLA NEW ISSUE AS UDALL, GARDNER TANGLE IN FINAL SENATE DEBATE
EBOLA NEW ISSUE AS UDALL, GARDNER TANGLE IN FINAL SENATE DEBATE
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Most Conservative And Liberal Names In America — There's... a pattern. — Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed — The most conservative and liberal names in America are Doyle and Natasha. — Crowdpac, a nonpartisan group, focuses on how money and policy work in politics.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joni Ernst's hog-castrating ideology, revealed! — Democrats have unearthed new audio of Joni Ernst in 2013, in which she details rather stark views about the relationship of Americans with their government. It doesn't rise to the level of a Mitt Romney “47 percent” moment …
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses
Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses
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David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Iowa Cops Blow Out Tires, Hold Pregnant Woman In Labor At Gunpoint For Speeding To Hospital — Police in Iowa used spike strips to stop a pregnant woman in labor who was rushing to the hospital, and then held her at gunpoint. — Police in Iowa used spike strips to stop a pregnant woman …
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FOX News Radio
John Pitts / John Grisham:
A Statement from John Grisham: — Anyone who harms a child for profit or pleasure, or who in any way participates in child pornography—online or otherwise—should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. — My comments made two days ago during an interview with the British newspaper …
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Peter Foster / Telegraph:
John Grisham: men who watch child porn are not all paedophiles
John Grisham: men who watch child porn are not all paedophiles
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Everyone In What Looks Like A Group Photo On GOP Governor's Website Is Photoshopped — On Gov. Tom Corbett's campaign website. Update (6:58 p.m.): The Corbett campaign says the “whole website footer graphic” is Photoshopped, including a stock image of a black woman.
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Guardian:
Revealed: how Whisper app tracks anonymous users — Company shares some information with US Department of Defense — User data collated and indefinitely stored in searchable database — Whisper app rewrites terms of service and privacy policy — How the ‘safest place on the internet’ tracks its users
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Daily Mail:
'Who's the idiot with the clipboard?' Disbelief and panic as mystery man WITHOUT a hazmat suit helps second Ebola nurse board her plane to Atlanta, disposes waste and then climbs aboard — He carried a clipboard and walked alongside Ms Vinson and healthcare workers who were ALL dressed in hazmat suits
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NBC News:
Obama May Send National Guard to Liberia: Sources — Sources said that eight engineers and logistical specialists from the Guard would probably be included in the first deployment.
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Hillary Clinton subtly swipes at Mitt Romney over auto bailout — Washington (CNN) — Hillary Clinton cribbed a page from President Barack Obama's playbook on Thursday by taking a swipe at Mitt Romney's 2008 oped, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” — At an event outside Detroit …
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Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project:
Latino Voters and the 2014 Midterm Elections — Geography, Close Races and Views of Social Issues — A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2014 midterm elections, making up, for the first time, 11% of all eligible voters nationwide. But despite a growing national presence …
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The Scoop Blog, OnPolitics, Wall Street Journal, Naked Politics and Washington Monthly
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Witness adds new perspective to Ferguson shooting — • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8087 — CLAYTON • A stream of eyewitnesses has been testifying in secret before a grand jury considering whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Meghan McCain: My dad hates Rand Paul — Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) daughter said on Wednesday that her father and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) “hate each other.” — Meghan McCain appeared on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show to promote her “TakePart Live” talk show on Pivot TV.
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Cord-Cutters Rejoice: CBS Joins Web Stream — A new era of à la carte television arrived in earnest this week — seemingly all at once and more quickly than many industry executives and television fans had expected. And with it, the virtual monopoly that cable …
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