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6:00 PM ET, September 10, 2015

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CNN:
Poll: Donald Trump surges to 32% support  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has become the first Republican presidential candidate to top 30% support in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, which finds the businessman pulling well away from the rest of the GOP field.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump: I wasn't talking about Carly Fiorina's face  —  Trump insists he wasn't talking about Fiorina's looks  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump said Thursday that when he suggested Carly Fiorina's face would make her unelectable, he wasn't talking about her looks.  —  “I'm not talking about looks.
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Ben Carson: I don't want to get into a ‘gladiator fight’ with Donald Trump
Discussion: CNN, Hot Air, NBC News and Sky Dancing
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump slams Ben Carson
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump fires back at Carson: ‘Who is he to question my faith?’
Paul Solotaroff / Rolling Stone:
Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: Dred Scott Decision “Remains To This Day The Law Of The Land”  —  The Dred Scott decision was overturned by the 14th Amendment.  —  While defending Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis's refusal to issue marriage licenses out of her religious opposition to same-sex marriage …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Raw Story
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee: Dred Scott Decision ‘Remains To This Day The Law Of The Land’ (AUDIO)  —  Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday that the Supreme Court decision that upheld slavery “remains to this day the law of the land.”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
NY Times Launches Its Jew-Tracker  —  The New York Times today offers up a table examining the Democratic (but not Republican) Senators and House members opposed to Obama's Iran agreement, noting whether they are Jewish and the proportion of Jewish constituents in their state or district.  Like this:
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Alicia Parlapiano Updated / New York Times:
Lawmakers Against the Iran Nuclear Deal
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
New York Times Launches Congress ‘Jew Tracker’
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Oath Keepers Send Armed Guards To Protect Kim Davis From US Marshals  —  The Oath Keepers, the anti-government “Patriot” group that mounted an armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management at the Bundy Ranch, stationed armed guards outside of military recruitment centers after the Chattanooga shooting …
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Jason Van Tatenhove / oathkeepers.org/oktester:
Oath Keepers Offers Kim Davis Protection From Further Imprisonment by Judge
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
David Brock: The New York Times has ‘a special place in hell’  —  The pro-Clinton crusader accuses former D.C. bureau chief Carolyn Ryan of helping to turn the paper into a ‘megaphone for conservative propaganda.’  —  David Brock's war against the New York Times just went nuclear — and the paper is responding with equal fury.
Politico:
Bernie Sanders overtakes Hillary Clinton in Iowa  —  People close to Clinton's camp have recently been warning that the Vermont senator could win Iowa and New Hampshire.  —  Hillary Clinton's Iowa edge is gone.  —  Bernie Sanders leads the former secretary of state for the first time among …
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP scores early win in ObamaCare lawsuit  —  A federal district judge on Wednesday delivered a blow to the Obama administration, ruling that the House Republican lawsuit against ObamaCare can move forward.  —  “The Court concludes that the House has standing to pursue those constitutional claims …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Jindal calls Trump practically every name in the book  —  Bobby Jindal pulled no punches against Donald Trump on Thursday, raining down a deluge of criticisms on the current Republican leader in the polls, calling him “a narcissist,” “an egomaniac,” “non-serious,” “substance-free,” “insecure …
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked  —  It's being called a “revolt” by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk.  —  More than 50 intelligence analysts working …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz's second shutdown play rankles fellow Republicans  —  GOP senators say they've seen this movie already and enough's enough.  —  Ted Cruz says his hard-line strategy to defund Planned Parenthood and risk a government shutdown is about doing the “right thing” and following through on Republicans' vows to conservative voters.
Discussion: Trail Blazers Blog and Daily Kos
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Rand Paul Tries to Reclaim the Spotlight
Discussion: RedState
Jon Street / TheBlaze.com:
Officer Asked Speeding Driver Where She Was Headed — After She Told Him, the Cop Grabbed Her Hand and Did the Unexpected  —  Maxine Morgan admits she “wasn't really paying attention” as she sped down a Louisiana highway with her husband, Jimmy Morgan.  But Bossier Parish deputy Jackie Loveless was paying attention.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems filibuster Iran vote  —  Senate Democrats held rank Thursday and blocked a resolution disapproving of the Iran nuclear deal, handing President Obama a major political victory.  —  Only a few months earlier, some Senate opponents of the deal predicted they would be able to muster 67 votes to override a presidential veto.
Genny McLaren / FOX40:
Mystery Ice Falls from Sky, Crashes Through Roof of Modesto Home  —  It wasn't a bird, and it wasn't a plane.  It was a chunk of ice — and a big one — that fell through the roof of a Modesto home Wednesday morning.  —  It would almost be something to laugh at — like the story of …
Discussion: KTLA and Daily Mail
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
DNC chair closes door on more debates  —  Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is closing the door on adding more Democratic presidential debates, and said a controversial clause penalizing candidates for participating in unsanctioned debates would stand.
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Directs Administration to Accept 10,000 Syrian Refugees  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama, under increasing pressure to demonstrate that the United States is joining European nations in the effort to resettle Syrian refugees, has told his administration to take in at least 10,000 displaced Syrians over the next year.
Emily Smith / Page Six:
ABC's David Muir nicknamed ‘Anchor Monster’  —  “ABC World News Tonight” anchor David Muir is being nicknamed “Anchor Monster” by network staffers after repeatedly losing his temper with his crew over being beaten in the ratings by his rival, NBC's Lester Holt.
Discussion: Erick on the Radio and Jezebel
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Family Protests White Poet's Use of Chinese Pen Name  —  Controversy erupted in the poetry world earlier this week when it was discovered that a poem included in the annual “Best American Poetry” anthology was written by a white poet, Michael Derrick Hudson, who had submitted it to a journal under the Chinese pseudonym Yi-Fen Chou.
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Stephen Colbert Falsely States The NRA Is Opposed to Mental Health Checks  —  Last night comedian and late night talk show host Stephen Colbert falsely stated that the NRA is “opposed to mental health checks,” during an interview and discussion with GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
 
 
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Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. / BREITBART.COM:
7th Graders in Tennessee Made to Recite ‘Allah Is the Only God’ in Public School
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Fusion:
Even Joe Arpaio thinks Donald Trump has gone too far
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Scott Walker Would Ban Political Union Paycheck Deductions for Federal Workers
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Michael Beckel / The Center for Public …:
Did this shady pro-Bernie Sanders super PAC just dupe James Bond?
Discussion: New York Times
John DiStaso / WMUR:
New Hampshire Primary Source: Kasich backers say he filmed super PAC ads before becoming a candidate
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
NYPD's Bratton offers apology to James Blake, says race played no role in arrest
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Lydia Depillis / Washington Post:
Larry Summers has become one of organized labor's biggest advocates
Baltimore Sun:
Officers charged in Freddie Gray case to be tried in Baltimore
Discussion: Slantpoint and The Last Refuge
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Saudi Arabia Offers to Build 200 Mosques for Syrians in Germany
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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Ellen Clegg / What Works:
After The Minnesota Star Tribune decided last summer not to endorse anyone for president, 15 former opinion staffers posted their own endorsement online

 
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