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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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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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ABC News:
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
Stakes are high in GOP leadership fight
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ABC News, Bloomberg Business, Politico and Daily Kos
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Boehner sets Oct. 29 floor speaker vote, delays other leadership elections
Boehner sets Oct. 29 floor speaker vote, delays other leadership elections
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Washington Monthly and Hot Air
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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Instapundit, Independent Journal, Washington Post, The Week and Townhall.com
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’ — <p>It didn't take long for Sen. Bernie Sanders to bash the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal the United States reached on Monday alongside 11 other countries in the Pacific Rim.</p><p>"I am disappointed but not surprised by the decision …
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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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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
On Guns, Fear Is Winning
On Guns, Fear Is Winning
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Shakesville, Washington Post and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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CNN, Talking Points Memo, OnPolitics, Washington Post, Liberaland, Hot Air, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and National Review
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
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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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
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Mike Huckabee: Mass shootings are ‘not so much a gun problem... we have a problem with sin’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asserted on Monday that gun safety laws could not curb mass shootings because the real problem was “sin and evil.”
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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
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.
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Pew Research Center, Hit & Run and The Week
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, Jezebel, Independent Journal and Slantpoint
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Welcome, Leon — The post title is somewhat facetious. Leon has been here for a number of years now. I remember when people on the front page started agitating for him to be on the front page. There was no way on earth I was going to allow him on the front page with a user name like “LeonMachoNacho”.
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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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FOX CT, BizPac Review, Scared Monkeys and The Gateway Pundit
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Gun control and magical thinking — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — No television appearance elicits more angry comments from viewers than one in which the simple point is made that the “common sense gun control measures” (advocated petulantly by a president without …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
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 …