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New York Times:
Judge in Maine Eases Restrictions on Nurse — FORT KENT, Me. — In a victory for a nurse who treated Ebola patients in West Africa, a judge in Maine on Friday rejected arguments by the state that her movements should be firmly restricted, praising her “compassion” even as he acknowledged the public's fears about the virus.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson releases video of apparent computer hack — Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Benghazi Reporter Releases Video Of Her Computer Being ‘Hacked’ (VIDEO) — In a promotional video earlier this month for a book that details alleged government intrusions with her computer, television and phone, former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson recalled a mysterious incident …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: With 4 Days Left, Here's The State Of The Races — The GOP's chances of winning the Senate are 68.5 percent, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast, its highest figure of the year. — Among the 20 new polls released Thursday — it looks like there will be no Great Poll Shortage …
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
If You Like Personhood, You'll Love The GOP Senate
If You Like Personhood, You'll Love The GOP Senate
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell Mailers Imply Ky. Voters Are Involved In ‘Election Violation’ (PHOTOS) — In a move that Democrats are lambasting as a voter suppression tactic, Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign and its GOP allies are distributing a mailer to Kentucky voters with the title “ELECTION VIOLATION NOTICE.”
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Grimes Sues McConnell Over ‘Despicable’ Voter Mailers — The campaign of Kentucky Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes has filed a lawsuit to stop Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign from distributing a mailer that it says amounts to illegal voter intimidation tactics.
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Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Mitch McConnell widens lead over Alison Lundergan Grimes in final Bluegrass Poll
Mitch McConnell widens lead over Alison Lundergan Grimes in final Bluegrass Poll
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Hot Air and American Spectator
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why a GOP Senate could be short-lived — Senate Democrats have long awaited the 2010 tea party wave to splash back on Republicans during the 2016 election cycle. — That moment is almost here. — After two years of obsessive focus on the teetering reelection prospects of red-state Democrats …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Dreamers heckle Hillary Clinton in Maryland
Dreamers heckle Hillary Clinton in Maryland
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Sandra Dibble / U-T San Diego stories:
Veteran to be released from Mexican jail — TIJUANA — A Mexican federal district judge in Tijuana on Friday ordered the immediate release of a U.S. Marine veteran behind bars in Baja California on federal weapons charges. — Andrew Tahmooressi was on trial for crossing the border …
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Sophie Curtis / Telegraph:
Google fined over Street View image of woman's cleavage — Google must pay a woman in Canada £1,250 after it published a photo showing her cleavage on its Street View mapping service — Google has been ordered to pay a Canadian woman $2,250 (£1,250) for an image on Street View that exposed her cleavage.
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Anti-Gay Marriage Group Endorses Incumbent Dem Because GOP Candidate Is Gay — Some conservative organizations loathe the concept of same-sex marriage so much they are willing to endorse a liberal Democrat in order to prevent a gay Republican from ever taking office.
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Justin Snow / Metro Weekly:
Democrat Seth Moulton rejects support from same-sex marriage opponents
Democrat Seth Moulton rejects support from same-sex marriage opponents
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
A Lesson From My Great-Aunt — Is Sacrificing a bit of comfort for public health such a great indignity? — On a bookshelf in my home in a glass-and-brass frame I keep my great-aunt's Ellis Island health card. It's cardboard, about as big as your hand. She wore it on her coat during her nine-day journey from Ireland.
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New York Post:
Democrats: Vote or we'll kick your ass — Democrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else. — The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.
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Washington Post:
Federal civil rights charges unlikely against police officer in Ferguson shooting — Justice Department investigators have all but concluded they do not have a strong enough case to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager …
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Talking Points Memo and Business Insider
KFOR-TV:
Graphic: New details released in near-beheading murder of Stillwater teen, one in custody … STILLWATER, Okla. - A 21-year-old Stillwater man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of an area college student who, according to police, was nearly decapitated.
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and Modified / Daily Oklahoman:
Stillwater man killed in near-beheading; murder charge filed
Stillwater man killed in near-beheading; murder charge filed
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Josh Hicks / Washington Post:
These scientific studies show that airport Ebola screenings are largely ineffective — The debate over whether the Obama administration should ban flights from Ebola-stricken nations has been raging for weeks, fueled by fears of an outbreak in the United States and a lot of election-inspired finger pointing.
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Norm Ornstein / National Journal:
A Republican Senate Victory Could Splinter the Party — The tension between setting out a positive agenda for governing and the pressure to continue to block and obstruct will be very, very high. — As polls show a movement toward Republicans—the new ABC News/Washington Post survey shows …
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Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during Calif. test flight — Reuters 1 hr ago By Alex Dobuzinskis — This image from video by KABC-TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded …
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Rick Wiles: Halloween Leads To Demonic Possession — Yesterday on “Trunews,” Rick Wiles chatted with “End Time watchman Steve Quayle” about “America's obsession with Halloween,” which ended with Wiles delivering a stern warning and rebuke to anyone partaking in this year's Halloween festivities.