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1:35 PM ET, October 5, 2015

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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached  —  ATLANTA — The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations on Monday agreed to the largest regional trade accord in history, a potentially precedent-setting model for global commerce and worker standards that would tie together 40 percent …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Bernie Sanders bashes trade agreement as ‘disastrous’
Discussion: Shakesville and ABC News
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: How Hillary Clinton Would Tackle Gun Control
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news and Fusion
Bloomberg Business:
TPP Trade Deal Strengthens Obama's Hand in Asia Strategy
Discussion: Politico
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Biden eyes weekend decision  —  He's finally close.  Confidants of Vice President Joe Biden expect him to make a decision next weekend, or shortly thereafter, on whether to launch an epic battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Biden's Running!  Unless He's Not Running!  —  It figures that the penultimate Biden's Running! story comes from Mike “Win the Morning” Allen of Politico, who begins with the trumpet blare of a scoop: … Ah, but then Allen starts hedging, and before you know it, the confident trumpets become …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Proposes New Gun Measures, Staking Claim Vs. Sanders  —  The front-runner is calling for repeal of a law that gives legal protection to gun manufacturers and dealers whose guns are used for criminal activity.  —  jeneps  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday …
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Monica Alba / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton to Unveil Plan for Major New Gun Restrictions
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Stakes are high in GOP leadership fight  —  If Las Vegas posted odds on what Washington politics will look like after November 2016, the betting line would be ike this:  —  1-3 a Democrat wins the White House — simply because Democrats have won 5 of the last 6 popular votes for the White House …
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Scalise says he has votes to win  —  House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said Sunday he has secured the votes to be elected majority leader, the No. 2 job in GOP leadership.  —  The Louisiana Republican held a conference call with backers Sunday evening during which he indicated he's locked …
Discussion: Roll Call, CNN, Daily Kos and Politico
Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
Carly Fiorina's first political campaign had a surprising problem: Money … Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010, surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina.
Tom Miller / KQCA-TV:
4 students arrested in Tuolumne County school shooting plot  —  Investigators say plan was in early stages; no students, faculty hurt  —  An investigation into a planned shooting at a Tuolumne County school led to the arrests of four male students, deputies said Saturday.
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Los Angeles Times:
High school shooting plot foiled in Northern California, authorities say
Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Carly Fiorina's Mystery Foundation  —  The Fiorina Foundation is run by an organization that has distributed funds to Planned Parenthood.  Oh, and the Fiorina Foundation doesn't appear to exist.  —  Carly Fiorina is so opposed to Planned Parenthood, which she believes is …
FOX CT:
West Hartford Dunkin Donuts worker tells police officer 'we don't serve cops' … WEST HARTFORD - An officer entered the Dunkin Donuts located at 1234 Farmington Avenue in West Hartford to purchase a cup of coffee.  —  The store was busy with a number of customers inside.
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Jordan OteroContact / Hartford Courant:
Police, Community React To Dunkin' Donuts Worker's Refusal To Serve West Hartford Cop
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
House Democrats Push to Release Benghazi Investigation Transcripts  —  They have released portions of a private interview with Cheryl Mills, who served as Clinton's chief of staff at the State Department.  —  michaelcbender  —  Democrats in the U.S. House are calling on the Republican majority …
Discussion: The Hill
Scott Glover / CNN:
First on CNN: L.A. set to pay $3M to family of victim who died in police custody  —  Los Angeles (CNN)The city of Los Angeles is poised to pay nearly $3 million to the family of a 56-year-old grandfather who died in police custody after a Los Angeles Police Department jail guard placed him in a chokehold, according to court records.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Fusion
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The conservative evasion on guns  —  President Obama spoke some of the most important words of his tenure last week in response to the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. “This is something we should politicize,” the president said.  “It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic.”
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Enemies of the Sun  —  Does anyone remember the Cheney energy task force?  Early in the George W. Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney released a report that was widely derided as a document written by and for Big Energy — because it was.  The administration fought tooth and nail …
Giles Hattersley / The Sunday Times:
To be blunt  —  She was the waspish PA in The Devil Wears Prada who recently made headlines after disparaging remarks about her new US citizenship.  Next up, she's the boozy Brit in The Girl on the Train.  Meet Emily Blunt  —  For many reasons, Emily Blunt has been top on my list of fantasy friends for years.
Yanan Wang / Washington Post:
‘Workers’ or slaves?  Textbook maker backtracks after mother's online complaint  —  Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn't about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.  —  It was about history.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Ben Bernanke: More execs should have gone to jail for causing Great Recession  —  WASHINGTON — This season, Ben Bernanke was able to sit through an entire Nationals game.  —  During the financial meltdown in 2008, the then-chairman of the Federal Reserve would buy a lemonade and head …
Discussion: Telegraph and Vox Popoli
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Carly Fiorina Says Medieval History Degree Will Help Her Defeat ISIS  —  For over three decades, Carly Fiorina's bachelor's degree from Stanford University in medieval history and philosophy has had little real-world application.  —  But as she mounts a presidential bid …
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump Sees a ‘Collapse’ in a G.O.P. Campaign Without Him  —  Donald J. Trump predicts a “major collapse” in the Republican campaign and a “depression” for the television industry should he prematurely exit the presidential race.  —  In a recent interview, Mr. Trump offered …
 
 
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Ilya Somin / USA Today:
Column: Trump exploits rational political ignorance
Discussion: Althouse
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Hassan Will Run for Senate in New Hampshire
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Sanders Outperforms Clinton in General Election Matchups in IA, NH
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Hillary: I'm the Most Transparent Person in American History
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters: Don't trust us to winnow GOP field
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Political Wire
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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
Charter schools suspend kids, public schools don't — which does better?
Discussion: Chalkbeat New York
Kay Hymowitz / The Atlantic:
The Breakdown of the Black Family
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hillary has long history of beating up Bill behind closed doors: book
Sean Naylor / New York Post:
Delta Force secretly killed Iranian agents in Iraq — with IEDs
Discussion: Daily Mail
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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