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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Scott Walker to Chris Christie: Thanks for nothing — MAYVILLE, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he needs more help from the national GOP in his reelection fight — and an upcoming visit from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to cut it. — Speaking with reporters …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Rush Limbaugh: The GOP Ought To Quarantine Chris Christie — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh isn't impressed by the way New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) handled the involuntary quarantine of a nurse who arrived Friday in Newark after working in Sierra Leone.
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New York Times:
Nurse in Newark to Be Allowed to Finish Ebola Quarantine at Home, Christie Says — A nurse who recently returned from West Africa and was quarantined for the past three days in a tent behind a New Jersey hospital despite having no symptoms associated with Ebola will be allowed to return home …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Corrects Fumbled “Jobs” Line — “I short-handed this point the other day.” — Mark Makela / Reuters — SOMERS, N.Y. — When Hillary Clinton fumbled a line at a rally last Friday — “Don't let anybody tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs” …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton clarifies jobs comment — Hillary Clinton on Monday mopped up her botched statement from a rally in Massachusetts last week, making it clear she'd misspoken and hadn't intended to deliver a fresh economic policy message. — Clinton's cleanup came as she campaigned …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Priebus: Clinton ‘not really good at politics’
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN poll: Voters are angry — Washington (CNN) — Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows.
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James Monteleone / Albuquerque Journal:
Journal Poll: U.S. Senate race tightens
Journal Poll: U.S. Senate race tightens
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: The Republican Advantage Is Consistent But Not Decisive
Senate Update: The Republican Advantage Is Consistent But Not Decisive
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Politics:
The Persuadables — How strategists see the 2014 Senate battlefield …
The Persuadables — How strategists see the 2014 Senate battlefield …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Republican games pose health risk
Republican games pose health risk
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Jian Ghomeshi / Facebook:
Dear everyone, — I am writing today because I want you to be the first to know some news. — This has been the hardest time of my life. I am reeling from the loss of my father. I am in deep personal pain and worried about my mom. And now my world has been rocked by so much more.
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters — Yahoo News 2 hrs ago — The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called second leaker who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government's terrorist watch list …
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New York Post:
Ex-CBS reporter: Government agency bugged my computer — A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a “government-related entity” that planted classified documents on her computer.
The Boston Globe:
Charlie Baker for governor — To move Mass. forward, state government must work better
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Carl Gibson / ThinkProgress:
Kansas Governor Is Forcing Disabled People Off Medicaid — Carl Gibson is a contributing editor for Reader Supported News and Occupy.com, and author of the book “How to Oust a Congressman.” Follow him on Twitter at @uncutCG. — CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Exclusive: Kevin McCarthy vows change on Hill to save GOP — HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy landed here from Los Angeles with a bang: he bluntly warned that Republicans will blow the presidency in 2016 if they don't make some radical changes - and quick.
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Paul Singer / Associated Press:
Poll: GOP poised for December runoff win in Louisiana — Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy appears to be in a strong position to unseat Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, but he is likely going to have to wait until December to do it. — A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll shows …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court, With Terse Orders, Has Judges and Lawyers Reading Tea Leaves — WASHINGTON — People used to complain that Supreme Court decisions were too long and tangled. Those were the days. — In recent weeks, the court has addressed cases on the great issues of the day without favoring …
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Argus Leader:
Weiland accuses own party of sabotaging his campaign … Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland accused his own political party of trying to undermine his campaign in a striking news conference Monday. — Weiland said the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's ads attacking …
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New York Post:
Black Panther hails ax attack on cops — Queens chapter leader of the New Black Panther Party, Frank Sha Francois says that Zale Thomspon was “a crusader seeking justice.” — The Muslim extremist who attacked rookie cops with a hatchet last week was “a crusader seeking justice” …
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New York Times:
Is the Affordable Care Act Working? — After a year fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama's main promises, an analysis by a team of reporters and data researchers shows. But it has also fallen short in some ways and given rise to a powerful conservative backlash.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis — WASHINGTON — In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government's ties to some still living in America …
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