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Jeff Schogol / Air Force Times:
Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone stabbed in chest — Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who helped take down a gunman on a train in Belgium, was stabbed four times in the chest in Sacramento early Thursday morning, Air Force Times has learned. — “A1C Spencer Stone has been transported to a local hospital …
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Matthew Grimson / NBC News:
Spencer Stone, French Train Attack Hero, Stabbed in Sacramento — Spencer Stone, one of three Americans who helped foil a terror attack on a French train in August, was stabbed in Sacramento on Wednesday night, the U.S. Air Force confirmed to NBC News. — Airman First Class Stone …
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Sarah Heise / KQCA-TV:
France train hero Spencer Stone stabbed multiple times in Sacramento — Police: Stone taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries — France train hero Spencer Stone was stabbed multiple times early Thursday morning near several popular bars in midtown Sacramento, KCRA has confirmed with the U.S. Air Force.
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ABC10:
Man stabbed in Sacramento identified as Spencer Stone — Spencer Stone, one of three Sacramento men who stopped an alleged terrorist on a French train this summer, was stabbed Wednesday night multiple times. Sources identified the stabbing victim to ABC10.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Carson: I faced a gunman — GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, under fire for advice about what to do when facing a gunman, late Wednesday recounted the time when a gun was pointed at him. — “I have had a gun held on me when I was in a Popeye's,” Carson told host Karen Hunter on Sirius XM Radio …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: I've Had A Gun Held On Me And I Told The Guy To Attack Someone Else (AUDIO) — Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Wednesday that when he had a gun pointed at him, he told the attacker to approach someone else, as The Hill flagged.
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Kendall Breitman / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics Focus Groups: What's Powering the Ben Carson Boom
Bloomberg Politics Focus Groups: What's Powering the Ben Carson Boom
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The Hill:
Right flexes muscle ahead of Speaker vote — The conservative House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday endorsed little-known Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) for Speaker — a bold move that raises serious doubts about whether Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy can cobble together the 218 votes on the House floor he needs to be promoted.
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Politico:
Rep. Webster won't commit to backing eventual speaker nominee — Florida Rep. Daniel Webster — a long-shot candidate for speaker backed by hard-line conservatives — said he would not commit to supporting the party's nominee for the House's top post, according to sources in a closed GOP meeting Thursday morning.
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Dick Cheney to endorse Kevin McCarthy
Dick Cheney to endorse Kevin McCarthy
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Aleister / Progressives Today:
Watch Hillary Clinton Supporters Endorse A SPECIAL TAX ON WHITE PEOPLE (VIDEO) — Democrats sure are great at uniting America, aren't they? Especially if you think our country will be united by pitting people of different races against each other. — Here's how Hillary Clinton supporters responded …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Inside Bernie Sanders' unorthodox debate prep … Hillary Clinton has had aides lined up to run her debate prep for months. A Washington super lawyer is mimicking Sanders and her top policy staffer is acting as Martin O'Malley. — Bernie Sanders started studying for next Tuesday's event not even a full week ago.
George Zornick / The Nation:
Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult
Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult
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Pete Souza / New York Magazine:
Did Barack Obama do enough for his own community? — There is a photo by Pete Souza, the White House's canny and peripatetic photographer, that surfaces from time to time online. The setting is Marine One, and it features a modest cast of five. Valerie Jarrett, dressed in a suit of blazing pink, is staring at her cell phone.
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Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Rupert Murdoch: Carson could be ‘a real black president’
Rupert Murdoch: Carson could be ‘a real black president’
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Samantha Ketterer / Daily Texan:
Citing concerns with campus carry, professor emeritus to withdraw from University — Economics professor emeritus Daniel Hamermesh will withdraw from his position next fall, citing concerns with campus carry legislation. — The law will allow the concealed carry of guns in campus buildings beginning Aug. 1, 2016.
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Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
Russia's Syria intervention may force choice on Obama: Act or yield — Russia's military moves in Syria are fundamentally changing the face of the country's civil war, putting President Bashar al-Assad back on his feet, and may complicate the Obama administration's plans to expand its air operations against the Islamic State.
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Ivan Krastev / New York Times:
Is Vladimir Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria?
Is Vladimir Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria?
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www.wftv.com:
Video shows judge berating, sentencing domestic violence victim to jail — SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Channel 9 has obtained video from a Seminole County courtroom where an emotional domestic violence victim was sentenced to three days in jail for failing to show up for her abuser's trial.
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Kaily Cunningham / fox8.com:
Hear it for yourself: 911 call released from Ohio man ‘too high’ on pot … AUSTINTOWN, OH - The 911 call has been released after an Austintown man called 911 last week because he was “too high on weed.” — When officers arrived, they were directed to an upstairs bedroom by the caller's grandfather.
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Dennis Ross / Politico:
How Obama Got to ‘Yes’ on Iran: The Inside Story — What Netanyahu really thought of Obama, how Susan Rice stymied Israel and other bombshell revelations from Obama's disillusioned peace negotiator. — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked me to come by his residence after sundown for an informal chat.
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New York Times
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Stores Must Keep Doors Closed if Air-Conditioning Is On — Starting next summer, nearly all shops and restaurants in New York City will be required to keep front doors and windows shut while their air-conditioners and cooling systems are running. — The requirement, which became law on Wednesday …
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Associated Press
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Three Counts of Hacking — On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California, found Matthew Keys, former social media editor at Reuters and an ex-employee of KTXL Fox 40, guilty of computer hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.
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Devin Henry / The Hill:
White House threatens veto on crude oil exports bill — The Obama administration has formally threatened a veto on a House bill that would lift the federal ban on crude oil exports. — In a statement of administration policy, the Office of Management and Budget said that …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson stumbles on debt limit question — Ben Carson appeared to have some difficulty in explaining exactly whether he would support raising the debt limit in a recent interview. — “Let me put it this way: if I were the president, I would not sign an increased budget. Absolutely would not do it.
Wall Street Journal:
Accused Oregon Shooter Discharged From Army After Suicide Attempt — Christopher Harper-Mercer left basic training after just one month in 2008 — The gunman who allegedly killed nine people and wounded nine others at a rural community college in Oregon last Thursday had been discharged …
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Wall Street Journal:
Dell Is in Talks With EMC Over Possible Merger — Data-storage giant has been considering several options — Dell Inc. and private-equity firm Silver Lake are in advanced talks to buy EMC Corp. , according to people familiar with the matter, a deal that would rank as the biggest technology …
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