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7:45 AM ET, October 17, 2014

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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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Reuters, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hit & Run, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Fox News, Business Insider, Gawker and 6abc.com

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

Steve Mason / ABC News:

Hospital Worker Who Handled Ebola Samples Is on Cruise Ship — A Dallas health care worker who handled clinical specimens from an Ebola-infected patient is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, with the worker self-quarantined and being monitored for signs of infection, the State Department said in a statement.

Discussion: Business Insider, Truth Revolt and 6abc.com

Greg Botelho / CNN:

Nurse may have had symptoms of Ebola longer than first thought — Are you on the front lines of Ebola? We'd like to hear your story. — (CNN) — A nurse with Ebola may have shown symptoms of the virus as many as four days before authorities once indicated, meaning that she might …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit

Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY:
Dallas nurse Briana Aguirre: ‘We never talked about Ebola’ before Thomas Eric Duncan arrived

Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Guardian, NBC News, Corrente, The PJ Tatler, Wall Street Journal, Outside the Beltway and Scientific American Content

Ford Vox / CNN:
Why CDC chief must go

Discussion: Fox News, Business Insider, The Scoop Blog and Dallas Morning News

Politico:

As Dems sweat Iowa, Sen. Tom Harkin sits on millions — Cernojevich said that Harkin has headlined more than 20 fundraisers for Braley and attended more than 30 events to raise money for the Senate hopeful and other Iowa Democrats on the ticket. In addition to a $10,000 donation …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Endorses Federal Personhood Bill For Fetuses

Discussion: Firedoglake, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Roll Call, PoliticusUSA and Washington Free Beacon

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Joni Ernst's hog-castrating ideology, revealed!

Discussion: New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo and Liberaland

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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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Blitzer Grills Rick Scott: Why Was Crist's Fan an Issue in the First Place?

Discussion: Washington Post

Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Charlie Crist's Fan: A Love Story

Discussion: Salon, The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, National Review, Mashable, The Reality-Based Community, Politico and Jezebel

The Hill:

Ebola, Wall Street stock slide deepen '14 gloom for Dems — The Democrats' midterm prospects took a beating this week as concerns over the Ebola virus and a jittery economy churned up countless grim headlines and darkened an already-dissatisfied national mood.

Politico:

Obama's Ebola challenge — The White House playbook for handling natural disasters is clear cut: Get the president in front of the cameras early, pledge every federal resource for the recovery, make a sympathetic visit to the devastated area and never pass up an opportunity to show who's in charge.

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 and FOX News Radio

New York Post:

Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from Nigeria to JFK — Demonstrators demand a travel ban outside the White House on Oct. 16 to stop the spread of the Ebola virus. — A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times and Vox Popoli

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

Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:

Bill Maher: Yes, I Can Generalize About Muslims — The outspoken Real Time host dishes on a variety of topics, including his “Flip A District” campaign, the controversy in the wake of his throw down with Ben Affleck over Islam, and more. — Bill Maher has been making some pretty big headlines of late.

Discussion: Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Mediaite

Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Teen mother gives tot to heroin user, then claims son was kidnapped, St. Charles police say — • By Susan Weich sweich@post-dispatch.com 636-493-9674 — ST. CHARLES • A teen mother who told police someone had kidnapped her toddler really gave her son away to a heroin user, police said.

Discussion: Liberaland, NY Daily News and FOX2now.com

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.

Discussion: Townhall.com, OnPolitics, The Spot, National Review, Washington Post, Mediaite, Weekly Standard, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and FOX31 Denver

Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:

Insiders Blame Rove for Covering Up Iraq's Real WMD — There's one man, some Republicans say, who kept the public from learning about the chemical shells littered around Iraq. He was Bush's most important political adviser. — Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration …

Discussion: American Spectator, American Thinker, Balloon Juice and The Dish

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Delta CEO: 'You Really Can't Catch Ebola on an Airplane' — The entire nation is very concerned about Ebola potentially spreading on airplanes, after one of the nurses with Ebola flew just a day before developing symptoms. Delta CEO Richard Anderson said today, however, that “you can't really catch Ebola on an airplane.”

Discussion: FOX News Radio

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: NY Daily News and FOX News Radio

Yuval Levin / National Review:

Lessons of the Ebola Crisis — In the growing public debate about Ebola, both sides are basically right. The administration is right that we are not witnessing an outbreak of Ebola and that such an outbreak is unlikely in our highly developed public-health system.

Discussion: Power Line and Yahoo! News