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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump threatens to pull out of next GOP debate — <p>A Republican National Committee conference call to discuss plans for the Oct. 28 GOP debate with top advisers to the presidential campaigns spiraled into chaos Thursday afternoon as Donald Trump threatened to pull out of the debate …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Campaign Raises Specter of Boycotting Next Debate — An aide to Donald J. Trump has raised the possibility of the candidate not attending the next Republican presidential debate unless the criteria set by CNBC are changed, according to two people briefed on a conference call where the matter was discussed on Thursday.
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Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Donald Trump, Ben Carson Threaten to Boycott The Next GOP Debate — Donald Trump and Ben Carson are both threatening to boycott the next Republican presidential debate if CNBC, who is hosting the event, and the Republican National Committee do not change the stated format of the event.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Manager: Americans Wouldn't Flee As Refugees Like Syrians Have
Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNBC says it's open to changing debate format
CNBC says it's open to changing debate format
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Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
So Long Bobby Jindal? — Thursday could mark the beginning of the end for Bobby Jindal's increasingly slim presidential hopes. — The Louisiana governor's campaign reported having just $260,000 to spend at the end of September after raising a little over half a million dollars …
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David Nather / BostonGlobe.com:
Bernie Sanders rejects CEO Martin Shkreli's campaign donation — WASHINGTON — The man who has become the public face of rising drug prices says he has donatedto presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — who has been bashing Big Pharma on the campaign trail — to try to get a meeting so the two can talk it out.
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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Sanders Catching Up to Clinton With Torrent of Small Donations
Sanders Catching Up to Clinton With Torrent of Small Donations
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Walker's Campaign Spent Heavily Before its Collapse
Walker's Campaign Spent Heavily Before its Collapse
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noaanews.noaa.gov:
Strong El Niño sets the stage for 2015-2016 winter weather — Forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center issued the U.S. Winter Outlook today favoring cooler and wetter weather in Southern Tier states with above-average temperatures most likely in the West and across the Northern Tier.
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Gdrosenblum / CBS San Francisco:
X-Rated Audio Shocks Customers At San Jose Target Store — SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) — Shoppers at a Target store in San Jose stopped in their tracks Wednesday morning when a sexually explicit recording began blaring over the store's public address system. — Chris Minor, who was shopping …
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The Intercept:
THE DRONE PAPERS … DRONES ARE A TOOL, not a policy. The policy is assassination. While every president since Gerald Ford has upheld an executive order banning assassinations by U.S. personnel, Congress has avoided legislating the issue or even defining the word “assassination.”
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Ken Dilanian / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: US analysts knew Afghan site was hospital — 3 photos — WASHINGTON (AP) — American special operations analysts were gathering intelligence on an Afghan hospital days before it was destroyed by a U.S. military attack because they believed it was being used by a Pakistani operative …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Top Party Official Accuses Democratic National Chairwoman of Lying and Questions Her Leadership — R. T. Rybak, the former mayor of Minneapolis and a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, on Thursday accused the party's leader, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Why Talk of “Tyranny” Is Dangerous — So here was Ted Cruz' calm and reflective observations about the first Democratic presidential debate, as conveyed to an Iowa audience (per the Dallas Morning News' Todd Gillman): … I'm guessing a lot of observers hear this sort of thing and just shrug …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Keeping His Distance from the RINOizer
Keeping His Distance from the RINOizer
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Carson puts public campaign events on hold — GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson is stepping away from the campaign trail to promote his new book, “A More Perfect Union,” according to ABC News. — The network reported late Wednesday that Carson is scheduled for over 20 private fundraisers during …
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz to report $13.5 million cash on hand — at or near the top of the GOP field
Ted Cruz to report $13.5 million cash on hand — at or near the top of the GOP field
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Graham: Dem debate ‘made me sick’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said late Wednesday that the first Democratic presidential debate was nausea-inducing. — “It made me sick,” he told host and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on the organization's “Washington Watch” radio broadcast.
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Source: FBI probe of Clinton email focused on ‘gross negligence’ provision — Three months after Hillary Clinton's use of a private email address and server while secretary of state was referred to the FBI, an intelligence source familiar with the investigation tells Fox News that the team …
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Mike Pearl / VICE:
Why You Actually Should Care About Hillary Clinton's Damn Emails
Why You Actually Should Care About Hillary Clinton's Damn Emails
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Huckabee Suggests Poor People Should Be Sold Into Slavery For Stealing — The United States criminal justice system could be improved if we sell poor people convicted of crimes into slavery, according to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. — The former Arkansas governor weighed …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Wayne Simmons, recurring Fox News guest, charged with lying about CIA ties — Wayne Simmons, a recurring guest on Fox News who claimed to have 27 years of experience with the CIA, was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he lied about his service.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
New York Times staffer tweets, deletes ‘F— you’ to Bush — <p>A New York Times news assistant tweeted and then deleted a “F— you Jeb Bush” message Wednesday night after the Republican candidate delivered public remarks about dealing with poverty.</p><p>Bush spoke at a New Hampshire town hall …
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Dennis Hastert Reaches Plea Deal in Bank Withdrawals Case — CHICAGO — J. Dennis Hastert, the small-town wrestling coach who rose to political power as the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House, intends to plead guilty as part of an agreement in a case where he is accused …
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Jason MeisnerContact / Chicago Tribune:
Lawyers for Dennis Hastert could reveal Thursday if plea deal reached
Lawyers for Dennis Hastert could reveal Thursday if plea deal reached
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The State Department Clown Car Makes Things Worse In the Middle East — Palestinians have launched at least 28 attacks on Israeli Jews over the past week, leaving seven dead and more than 70 wounded. These attacks, mostly using knives while a few involved guns or motor vehicles …
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Asma Khalid / NPR:
South Korea? Trump's ‘Where Are You From’ Moment — This week, a seemingly benign Q&A turned into an awkward cultural moment on the presidential campaign trail. — Joseph Choe, a Harvard student, stood up to ask Donald Trump a question about South Korea at the No Labels Problem Solver Convention in New Hampshire on Monday.
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Daria Grastara / Jeb 2016:
Jeb's Medical Records — Alberto A. Mitrani, M.D. — Internal Medicine — Health Status Summary — John Ellis (Jeb) Bush — Date of Birth: 02.11.1953 — This health statement is provided at the request of John E. Bush and it summarizes his medical history.
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Heba Amin:
“Arabian Street Artists” Bomb Homeland: Why We Hacked an Award-Winning Series — What's wrong with Homeland's political message? The very first season of “Homeland” explained to the American public that Al Qaida is actually an Iranian venture. According to the storyline …