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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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Raw Story, addictinginfo.org and Slantpoint
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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Bloomberg Politics Focus Groups: What's Powering the Ben Carson Boom — Despite never holding elected office, or perhaps because of that fact, the retired neurosurgeon has managed to impress many Republican voters. — What explains the appeal Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who …
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Washington Monthly, Starpulse and Business Insider
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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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Daily Signal
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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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Talking Points Memo
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Dick Cheney to endorse Kevin McCarthy
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Jamie Dupree, Hot Air, Washington Times and The Week
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Paul Ryan to give nominating speech for McCarthy
Paul Ryan to give nominating speech for McCarthy
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Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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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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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, NBC News and National Review
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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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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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KQCA-TV, ABC10, CBS News, Talking Points Memo, The Moderate Voice, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and KFOR-TV
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.
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Hillary Clinton Just Made Passage of the TPP Much More Difficult
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Politico, Vox, Hullabaloo and BillMoyers.com
John Dickerson / Slate:
Joe Biden's Big Question
Joe Biden's Big Question
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Althouse, Talking Points Memo, NPR and Mediaite
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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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USA Today, Fox News Insider, Reuters, Hot Air, New York Times, Just Security, Pirate's Cove, Press Association and Fox News
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Ivan Krastev / New York Times:
Is Vladimir Putin Trying to Teach the West a Lesson in Syria? — SOFIA, Bulgaria — Last week, after Russian planes bombed antigovernment forces near the Syrian town of Homs, a senior American official complained to me: “What Russia is doing in Syria is not an effort to fight the Islamic State; it is not old-fashioned realpolitik.
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Belmont Club, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Reuters and Foreign Policy
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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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Scared Monkeys, Fox News Insider and Mediaite
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GOP faces debt-limit divide — With less than a month to go until the Nov. 5 deadline, congressional Republicans are divided on what strategy to adopt in the fight over the debt ceiling. — Conservatives see the looming debt hike as leverage that could be used to extract concessions from the Obama administration.
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Washington Post
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
House creates panel to investigate Planned Parenthood
House creates panel to investigate Planned Parenthood
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Daily Kos
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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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Talking Points Memo and Althouse
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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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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.
Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
Why Donald Trump Will Always Be a “Short-Fingered Vulgarian” — In his November editor's letter, Graydon Carter reveals the presidential candidate's thin-skinned response to a favorite 25-year-old epithet. — The myriad vulgarities of Donald Trump—examples of which are retailed daily …
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Business Insider and The Week
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Impeach the IRS director — “Look,” wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, “my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets.” Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune …
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
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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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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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RedState and The Hayride
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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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The PJ Tatler, Daily Mail, Telegraph and The Daily Signal
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Navy will challenge Chinese territorial claims in South China Sea — The Navy is preparing to send a surface ship inside the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit China claims for its man-made island chain, an action that could take place within days but awaits final approval from the Obama administration …
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Daily Mail and Algemeiner.com