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10:25 PM ET, October 16, 2014

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Wall Street Journal:
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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Eric Bradner / CNN:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Ebola outrage fires up Congress
Justin Sink / The Hill:
President Obama's Ebola problem
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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Tampa Bay Times:
Fangate overshadows sharp debate between Gov. Rick Scott and Charlie Crist
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Rick Scott Spouts Gibberish While Explaining Fan Delay In Debate
Discussion: Mediaite
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nationalnursesunited.org:
Statement by RN's at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital as provided to National Nurses United
Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and CNN
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
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses  —  Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst said she would support a federal bill that gives legal personhood rights to fetuses from the moment of fertilization, effectively wiping out legal abortion in the United States.
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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.
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Telegraph, The Daily Caller and Jezebel
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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.
Discussion: Philly.com
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
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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 …
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 …
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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Joshua Holland / BillMoyers.com:
Does Rising Inequality Make a Democracy More Warlike?
Discussion: Firedoglake
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Turkey Bombs the Kurds
Discussion: The Dish, TIME and The Daily Beast
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The God That Failed  —  Alison Lundergan Grimes is the Todd Akin of 2014.
Discussion: Guardian and Ed Driscoll
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman: CDC Director “Is The New Commander Of The Democrats' War On Woman Nurses”
Discussion: Mediaite
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI chief: No concern about terrorists using Ebola
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Talking Points Memo
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
‘Bulletproof Vest For Boys’: Florida Billboards Put A Twist On Police Brutality
Discussion: Mediaite
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Jobless Claims Drop to Lowest Level Since 2000
 Earlier Items: 
Gina Barton / JSOnline:
Milwaukee officer in fatal Red Arrow Park shooting fired
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Meghan McCain: My dad hates Rand Paul
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 

 
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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

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”

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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