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8:35 AM ET, November 8, 2014

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Carol Felsenthal / Politico:
Fire Valerie Jarrett  —  If Obama really wants to shake things up, his closest adviser should be the first to go.  —  Almost since the start of Barack Obama's presidency, people who have actual, real duties in the West Wing of the White House—the working, executive part of the government …
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Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Obama authorizes 1,500 additional U.S. troops for deployment to Iraq  —  1 OF 2.  U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel listens before the start of a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, November 7, 2014.
New York Times:
Obama to Send 1,500 More Troops to Assist Iraq  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama has authorized the deployment of an additional 1,500 American troops to Iraq in the coming months, doubling the number of Americans meant to train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Obama sends 1,500 troops to Iraq  —  Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama is sending up 1,500 more soldiers to Iraq to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces to fight ISIS, bringing the total number of American troops there to 2,900.  —  The White House said in a statement that it will also ask Congress …
Reuters:
Obama to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq as campaign expands
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and NBC News
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to rule on health care subsidies  —  The Supreme Court, moving back into the abiding controversy over the Affordable Care Act, agreed early Friday afternoon to decide how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices to Hear New Challenge to Health Law
Discussion: Power Line
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Supreme Court To Hear Case Seeking To Gut Obamacare
Yahoo! News:
Sen. Rob Portman's upstream paddle toward a 2016 White House bid  —  Jonathan Karl, Richard Coolidge and Jordyn Phelps  —  When Sen. Rob Portman found himself in the middle of a river in Chile, unable to swim following a kayaking accident that dislocated his shoulder, he had one thought: Mel Gibson.
Discussion: Bloomberg Politics and ABC News
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rob Portman looks at presidential run
Discussion: Washington Post
Ashley Parker / New York Times:   Chastened Republicans Beat Democrats at Their Own Ground Game
Shaun King / Daily Kos:
pointergate may be the most racist news story of 2014  —  What you are about to read and watch is stranger than fiction.  It's so racist and so outrageous, that people are questioning whether or not it's satire from The Onion.  It's real though, and that's what is so shocking and heartbreaking about the whole ordeal.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Addicting Info
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Alex Rogers / TIME:
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: People Just Don't Believe Obama Cares  —  West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told TIME Thursday that President Barack Obama has lost his emotional connection with the American people.  —  “There's an old saying my grandmother would say …
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Emails Show Holder's Anger During ‘Fast and Furious’ Probe  —  WASHINGTON - Newly revealed emails show Attorney General Eric Holder trying and failing to contain his temper over the botched Fast and Furious probe, at one point saying “some people can kiss my a—” if they think he was too hard …
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David Garrick / U-T San Diego stories:
Peters widens lead over DeMaio  —  Registrar updates tally; number of uncounted ballots quickly dwindling  —  SAN DIEGO — Democratic Rep. Scott Peters widened his lead over Republican Carl DeMaio on Friday afternoon from 861 votes to a seemingly insurmountable 4,491 votes …
Brookings Institute:
How Much Did Your Vote Cost?  Spending Per Voter in the 2014 Senate Races  —  Totaling more than $111,000,000.00, the 2014 North Carolina Senate contest between Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis is the most expensive Senate election in the nation's history (not adjusted for inflation).
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
State seeks emergency OK of license rules for immigrants in U.S. illegally  —  Facing a deadline of Jan. 2 to begin issuing driver's licenses to Californians in the country illegally, state officials said Friday they will pursue emergency approval of regulations that spell out which documents must …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Chronicle of Higher Education:
Harvard Researchers Used Secret Cameras to Study Attendance.  Was That Unethical?  —  A high-tech effort to study classroom attendance at Harvard University that used secret photo surveillance is raising questions about research ethics among the institution's faculty members.
Discussion: Althouse
James B. Comey / New York Times:
To Catch a Crook: The F.B.I.'s Use of Deception  —  In “Deceptions of the F.B.I.” (editorial, Nov. 1), you use a 2007 Seattle bomb threat investigation and a 2014 defense lawyer's characterization of an unrelated Las Vegas illegal gambling investigation to express concern about the prospect …
Politico:
Ed Gillespie: No plan to run for Virginia governor  —  SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Ed Gillespie, who nearly pulled off an upset in Virginia's Senate race, conceded the battle Friday to Democratic incumbent Mark Warner.  —  The former Republican National Committee head also told POLITICO this week …
Discussion: ABC News and Bloomberg Politics
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Ed Gillespie concedes Virginia Senate race
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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