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Nick Gass / Politico:
Poll: 69 percent oppose shutdown over Planned Parenthood — <p>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 — <p>If Ted Cruz is ever going to break through in the Republican presidential primary, the time is now. </p><p>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 …
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Arnie Seipel / NPR:
Sen. Marco Rubio: President Obama Has 'Strengthened Putin's Hand'
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Shutdown clash to return in force by December
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Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Top GOP official seeks McConnell ouster as Senate leader
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Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
How GOP Radicals Made the Speakership Unappealing
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
Nancy Pelosi: Probe anti-abortion group over Planned Parenthood videos
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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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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama swipes at Putin, Cheney and Trump in U.N. address — <p>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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Charlie Rose / CBS News:
All eyes on Putin — At a time of icy relations with the U.S. …
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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 …
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Alastair Jamieson / NBC News:
Pope Appears to Back Kim Davis in Gay-Marriage Battle
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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.
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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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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo:
Bill Clinton believes Donald Trump could win GOP nomination
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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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Allison Croghan / fox13now.com:
‘None of your business’ Facebook post goes viral
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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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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 …
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Clinton Campaign Accounts For Previously Undisclosed Petraeus Emails
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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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Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for — In a Sunday speech on racial inequality, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called for broad policing reform — including de-escalation training and body cameras for all police officers …
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
NASA Says Signs of Liquid Water Flowing on Mars — Despite its reputation as a forebodingly dusty, desolate and lifeless place, Mars seems to be a little bit wet even today. — Scientists reported on Monday definitive signs of liquid water on the surface of present-day Mars …
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Michael Pearson / CNN:
Wondering about NASA's Mars mystery? We may have found the answer
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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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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
Carly Fiorina defends Bush-era torture and spying, calls for more transparency — Positioning herself as a steely advocate of aggressive counterterrorism programs, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina offered a vigorous defense of CIA waterboarding as a tactic that helped “keep our nation safe” in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
No, 100,000 People Did Not Gather In Peru To Support Kim Davis. Here's Proof. — Embattled Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was no doubt the guest of honor at this year's Values Voter Summit, with the hosting Family Research Council awarding her a “Cost of Discipleship Award.”
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