memeorandum: Clinton Campaign Accounts For Previously Undisclosed Petraeus Emails (Ruby Cramer/BuzzFeed)

12:15 PM ET, September 28, 2015

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Nick Gass / Politico:

Poll: 69 percent oppose shutdown over Planned Parenthood — Nearly seven in 10 Americans — 69 percent — oppose shutting down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood, according to the results of a new national <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/ images/polling/us/us09282015_um96cvr.pd f" …

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Carly Fiorina Both Repels and Enthralls Liberal Feminists — When the novelist Jennifer Weiner watched the second Republican presidential debate with her two daughters on Sept. 16, she felt a sense of pride at seeing the lone woman on stage, Carly Fiorina, hold her own against Donald J. Trump.

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Katie Glueck / Politico:

Ted Cruz's big moment — If Ted Cruz is ever going to break through in the Republican presidential primary, the time is now. Cruz has been the workmanlike conservative of the GOP field: a strong fundraiser but no Jeb Bush, well-liked by the activist right yet unable, so far …

Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Shutdown clash to return in force by December

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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Nancy Pelosi: Probe anti-abortion group over Planned Parenthood videos

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Richard L. Hasen / Talking Points Memo:

Why The Most Urgent Civil Rights Cause Of Our Time Is The Supreme Court Itself — The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change.

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business: Bloomberg Poll: Americans Want Supreme Court to Turn Off Political Spending Spigot

Adam Liptak / New York Times: Chief Justice John Roberts Amasses Conservative Record, and the Right's Ire

Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: With next term looming, U.S. top court's justices mull new cases

Philip Pullella / Reuters:

Govt. workers have right to refuse gay marriage licenses: pope — Pope Francis said on Monday government officials have a “human right” to refuse to discharge a duty, such as issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, if they feel it violates their conscience.

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The Huffington Post:

PRIESTLY BETRAYAL — In the hour-long, freewheeling talk that has become a trademark of his papacy, the pope returned to the problem of priestly abuse. On Sunday, he met five victims of sexual abuse and issued his most comprehensive condemnation of the crime.

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Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Pope Appears to Back Kim Davis in Gay-Marriage Battle

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Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:

Trump to Release Plan Calling for Higher Taxes on the Wealthy — The candidate would also rein in companies that pay less tax by moving headquarters overseas — Donald Trump is set to release a tax plan Monday that calls for major reductions in levies on middle-income and poor payers …

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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Donald Is In The Details

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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo:
Bill Clinton believes Donald Trump could win GOP nomination

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Juan Williams / The Hill: Democrats should embrace Obama economy

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Obama swipes at Putin, Cheney and Trump in U.N. address — UNITED NATIONS - President Barack Obama took repeated swipes at Vladimir Putin, Dick Cheney and even Donald Trump, without mentioning them by name, in an address to the United Nations on Monday, holding them up as examples …

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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Russia Surprises U.S. With Accord on Battling ISIS

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Julian Hattem / The Hill: Iran's president suggests openness to prisoner swap

Charlie Rose / CBS News:
All eyes on Putin — At a time of icy relations with the U.S. …

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Scott Pelley / CBS News:

Trump gets down to business on 60 Minutes — Scott Pelley interviews Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who lays out key policy details and reveals a major part of his tax proposal — The following script is from “Trump” which aired on September 27, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent.

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Ken Cuccinelli / New York Post:

Yes, Hillary Clinton broke the law — Since there has been much evasion and obfuscation about Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mail use, it seems appropriate to step back and simply review what we know in light of the law. It's also instructive to compare Clinton's situation to arguably …

Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Campaign Accounts For Previously Undisclosed Petraeus Emails

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Mark Preston / CNN:

CNN debate criteria would allow Joe Biden to participate — (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden will be invited to participate in the first Democratic presidential primary debate if he declares his intention to seek his party's nomination as late as the day of the debate, eligibility criteria released Monday by CNN shows.

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Elizabeth Warren:

Senator Warren's Remarks at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate — BOSTON, MA - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered remarks today at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, as part of the Institute's “Getting to the Point” speaker series.

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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for

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Matt Helms / Detroit Free Press:

‘None of your business’ Facebook post goes viral — Ann Arbor woman's plea: Stop asking the young and childless about their plans for procreation. It's insensitive. — An Ann Arbor woman's Facebook post lamenting rude questions about 20- and 30-somethings' plans to have children went viral …

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Mark Banham / International Business Times:

‘Murdered’ German woman Petra Pazsitka reappears after vanishing 31 years ago — A German woman who vanished 31 years ago and had been registered as dead after a man confessed to her murder, has been found alive and well and living in Düsseldorf. In 1984, Petra Pazsitka, then 24 …

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Numbers / Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project:

Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065 — Views of Immigration's Impact on U.S. Society Mixed — Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States …

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John Hinderaker / Power Line:

Almost All US Temperature Data Used In Global Warming Models Is Estimated or Altered — We have written many times about the fact that the temperature data used in the alarmists' global warming models are not original data as measured by thermometers. Rather, they are “adjusted” numbers …

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