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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Some Clinton allies see lost cause in New Hampshire  —  <p>MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton is losing in New Hampshire, and at least one small contingent of family allies thinks it's nearly time to cut bait.</p><p>The group — veterans of the family's old campaigns and people close …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Obama's trade deal faces stiff headwinds  —  The White House's announcement Monday of an international trade deal covering 40 percent of the world's economy sets the stage for a bruising, months-long congressional battle that is already spilling into the 2016 presidential race.
New York Times:
Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Sports  —  A major scandal is erupting in the multibillion-dollar industry of fantasy sports, the online and unregulated business in which players assemble their fantasy teams with real athletes.  On Monday, the two major fantasy companies …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Fiorina: 'I'm distinctly horrifying to liberals'  —  <p>Carly Fiorina says she thinks she is "distinctly horrifying to liberals" because of the prospect that she could beat Hillary Clinton in a general election, hours after a poll was released showing her besting the Democratic front-runner …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton ad highlights McCarthy statement on Benghazi  —  <p>Hillary Clinton's campaign is making sure the name Kevin McCarthy stays in the 2016 headlines for as long as possible.</p><p> The Democrat's campaign is going up Tuesday with a new five-figure ad buy on national cable that will feature …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Dems release closed-door Benghazi testimony
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Exclusive: Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish  —  <p>Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.</p><p>Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point …
Discussion: RedState
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Marco Rubio's Chances Are Rising  —  A lot has changed since April, when Marco Rubio announced his presidential bid.  Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was the top candidate of mainstream conservative activists and donors.  Jeb Bush seemed like a fund-raising juggernaut with natural appeal …
Discussion: The Week and National Review
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Discussion: Raw Story, WKBN-TV and FOX2now.com
New York Times:
Oregon Killer's Mother Wrote of Troubled Son and Gun Rights  —  ROSEBURG, Ore. — When a downstairs neighbor of Laurel Harper learned there was a gunman on the loose at Umpqua Community College here, he ran up to tell her, knowing that her son, Christopher Harper-Mercer, was a student there.
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama to visit Roseburg Friday  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to Roseburg, Ore. on Friday to meet with the families of victims of the mass shooting at a community college there last week, White House officials said.  —  The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity …
Discussion: BizPac Review and The Week
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Andrew Harnik / BREITBART.COM:
Obama to Visit UCC Shooting Victims' Families in Roseburg, Oregon
WBIR-TV:
Sheriff: 5th grade boy kills 8-year-old neighbor with shotgun  —  (WBIR - WHITE PINE) The Jefferson County sheriff said that an 11-year-old boy shot and killed an 8-year-old girl who lived next door.  —  Authorities were called to Robin Road in White Pine around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of a shooting.
Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
Five Questions About the Bombing of a Hospital in Kunduz  —  On Saturday, at 2:08 A.M. local time, an American AC-130 began to bomb a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), in Kunduz, Afghanistan.  According to accounts from doctors and nurses …
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:   Top U.S. general: Afghan forces requested airstrike that hit hospital in Kunduz
Liber-T / John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
PissForEquality: Feminists Fall for Hoax Campaign, PEE on Themselves  —  Feminists have fallen for a hoax campaign that encourages them to pee on themselves in the name of equality.  They are using the hashtag #PissForEquality.  —  The troll hoax was created by 4chan.
Noah Gray / CNN:
First on CNN: Trump sent prank care package to Rubio  —  Atlanta (CNN)Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on Sen. Marco Rubio with a special delivery for his rival: “Trump Ice Natural Spring Water.”  —  Trump has previously trained his fire on Rubio, claiming he has the worst voting attendance record …
Adam Entous / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Sees Russian Drive Against CIA-Backed Rebels in Syria  —  White House noncommittal about coming to aid of its allies  —  Tension builds as Russia targets CIA-backed rebels in Syria and violates Turkish airspace, drawing a rebuke from the U.S. State Department.  Mark Kelly reports.  —  By
Discussion: Telegraph and The Week
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Police in California Killed More Than 610 People Over 6 Years … The ACLU of Southern California has been working to understand how many people have been killed by law enforcement in America's most populous state.  What they found is alarming.  Over a six-year period that ended in 2014 …
Lisa Camooso Miller / Washington Examiner:
Foreign governments ready cash grab on U.S. earnings  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Opposition to foreign taxes on American investment and hard work has been coded into our national DNA for almost 240 years.  Yet almost two and a half centuries after resolving …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
La-Keya Stinchcomb / WGCL-TV:
Road rage suspect points gun at car, police let him go free  —  A motorcycle driver who was caught on camera pulling out a gun and pointing it at another driver Sunday was allowed to go free, and a witness wants to know why.  —  It happened on State Highway 54 in Coweta County near the Fayette County line.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Mail
CBS News:
Is Donald Trump right to call NAFTA a “disaster”?  —  Recently, Donald Trump made a strong claim about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in an interview on CBS 60 Minutes:  —  “It's a disaster. ...  We will either renegotiate it, or we will break it.  Because, you know, every agreement has an end. ...
Discussion: ABC, Bloomberg Business and EconLog
Charlie Spiering / BREITBART.COM:
White House: Obama Preparing More Executive Actions on Gun Control  —  The White House confirmed that President Obama was preparing a series of executive actions on gun control to match his recent passion on the issue after the latest mass shooting in Oregon.
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Publisher Promises Revisions After Textbook Refers to African Slaves as ‘Workers’  —  Last week Coby Burren, a Houston teenager, was reading a textbook in his high school geography class when he came upon a map of the United States that caught his attention.
Jeff Halverson / Washington Post:
The meteorology behind South Carolina's catastrophic, 1,000-year rainfall event  —  The rains are tapering off in South Carolina after a disastrous weekend that brought over two feet of rain and catastrophic flooding.  Dams have been breached, rivers are at record flood stage …
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JR Ridley / The College Fix:
Students warned: Bulging biceps, big guns advance unhealthy masculinity  —  ‘Being emotional is manly in my opinion’  —  The size of G.I. Joe's biceps and Arnold Schwarzenegger's guns in the Terminator movies is proof that the dominant form of masculinity is out of control.
Oliver Gettell / EW.com:
OWNERS OF THE CONJURING HOUSE SUE WARNER BROS. OVER TRESPASSING FANS  —  The horror hit The Conjuring has summoned up unwanted attention for the Rhode Island couple who own the farmhouse that inspired the movie, according to a lawsuit blaming Warner Bros. for inciting a parade of overzealous fans to their home.
Discussion: Guardian and The Week
 
 
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David Eggert / Associated Press:
Ted Cruz: Allowing Syrian refugees into US is ‘crazy’
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Ohio court upholds school suspension of 12-year-old black boy accused of staring at a white girl
Daniel Acker / National Review:
Trump Wrongs the Right
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
This Is What Voter ID Laws Looks Like When They Hit Real People
Discussion: RedState
Beena Raghavendran / Star Tribune:
Two Edina elementary schools hire recess consultant
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings
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Heather Clark / Christian News Network:
‘We Are Apes:’ Abortionist Blasts Atheist Recording to Drown Out Christians' Pro-Life Pleas
Discussion: Raw Story and Pharyngula
Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Kasich's War on Ohio Minorities
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Gun control and magical thinking
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC to Undergo More Changes, NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Says
Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
ABC News:
Boehner: House to Vote for Speaker Oct. 29, Other Jobs After
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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

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

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

 
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