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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Boehner sets Oct. 29 floor speaker vote, delays other leadership elections — Outgoing House Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that lawmakers will elect his replacement on Oct. 29, one day before he is set to leave Congress, and that elections for other members of the House Republican leadership …
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Washington Monthly
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Boehner: House to Vote for Speaker Oct. 29, Other Jobs After — With House Republicans in disarray over their leadership, Speaker John Boehner on Monday scheduled the House election to replace him for Oct. 29 and delayed votes for lower-level posts until after that.
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 …
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Bloomberg Business, Politico and Daily Kos
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Scalise says he has votes to win
Scalise says he has votes to win
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CNN, Political Insider blog, Roll Call, Daily Kos and Politico
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Boehner postpones votes for House majority leader, whip positions
Boehner postpones votes for House majority leader, whip positions
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Independent Journal, The Week, Washington Post and Townhall.com
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Dems release closed-door Benghazi testimony — Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Monday revealed portions of the transcript of previously secret testimony from a closed-door briefing with a former top aide to Hillary Clinton in an escalation of the partisan bickering on the panel.
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Talking Points Memo
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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Visibly angry Hillary Clinton talks Benghazi on TODAY: Committee is ‘not appropriate’ … Hillary Clinton: GOP made Benghazi ‘a partisan political issue’ — “The real issue here is what happened to four brave Americans,” the White House hopeful said from New Hampshire …
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Townhall.com, Washington Post, Mediaite, Fox News Insider and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
House Democrats Push to Release Benghazi Investigation Transcripts
House Democrats Push to Release Benghazi Investigation Transcripts
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The Hill
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’
Bernie Sanders bashes trade agreement as ‘disastrous’
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Bloomberg Business, ABC News and Shakesville
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
To Curb Gun Violence, Hillary Clinton Has a Plan for Possible Executive Action — On the heels of the nation's latest mass shooting, Hillary Rodham Clinton will issue proposals on Monday to curb gun violence, including holding out the potential of using executive actions.
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Washington Free Beacon, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Fusion, SaintPetersBlog and Mediaite
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
On Guns, Fear Is Winning
On Guns, Fear Is Winning
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Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Proposes New Gun Measures, Staking Claim Vs. Sanders
Clinton Proposes New Gun Measures, Staking Claim Vs. Sanders
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NBC News, Politico, Taylor Marsh, Pirate's Cove, Shakesville, CNN and The Week
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.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC to Undergo More Changes, NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Says — Senior TV Editor @bristei — NBCUniversal isn't finished tinkering with MSNBC. — While the cable-news network's daytime schedule has largely been reworked since February, there are likely more changes to come …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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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Talking Points Memo, Liberaland, OnPolitics, Washington Post, Hot Air, Mediaite and National Review
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Donald Trump and Jeb Bush Find Common Ground on Washington's Football Team — After months of name-calling, Jeb Bush and Donald J. Trump have finally found a name that they can agree on: the Washington Redskins.
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Jordan OteroContact / Hartford Courant:
Police, Community React To Dunkin' Donuts Worker's Refusal To Serve West Hartford Cop … WEST HARTFORD — The day after a West Hartford police officer was refused service at a Dunkin' Donuts, people from Connecticut and across the country reacted on social media.
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BizPac Review and The Gateway Pundit
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Lee Stranahan / BREITBART.COM:
Obama Not Welcome In Roseburg, Says Local Newspaper Publisher — David Jaques, the publisher of the conservative newspaper the Roseburg Beacon, says he believes that President Obama would not be welcome to the town after making remarks politicizing the shooting that left nine dead and nine injured …
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The Gateway Pundit, Pamela Geller and The PJ Tatler
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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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Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg Business
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Biden's Running! Unless He's Not Running!
Biden's Running! Unless He's Not Running!
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Hit & Run and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.
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Guardian, NBC News, Independent Journal, Jezebel and Slantpoint
Patrick McGreevyContact / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Brown signs controversial assisted-suicide bill — Caught between conflicting moral arguments, Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminary student, on Monday signed a measure allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who want to hasten their deaths.
Mathieu Rosemain / Bloomberg Business:
Air France Workers Rip Shirts From Top Managers in Jobs Protest — HR, long-haul executives escape over fence as meeting stormed — Air France executives were forced to flee with their clothes in tatters after workers stormed a meeting at Charles de Gaulle airport in protest at 2,900 planned job cuts.
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Power Line
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 …
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Fox News, addictinginfo.org, Liberaland and The Week
Lara Seligman / Defense News:
F-35 Fatal Ejection Fear Riles Congress — WASHINGTON — Concern is mounting on Capitol Hill after recent tests revealed a lightweight F-35 pilot's neck could snap when ejecting at certain speeds. — The fears focus on the Martin-Baker US16E ejection seat.
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Business Insider and Daily Mail
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 …