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11:55 PM ET, October 19, 2015

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Eli Stokols / Politico:
George W. Bush unleashes on Ted Cruz  —  <p>Inside a sleek Denver condominium, George W. Bush let a hundred donors to his brother's campaign in on a secret.  Of all the rival Republican candidates, there is one who gets under the former president's skin, whom he views as perhaps Jeb Bush's …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Over A Year Before 9/11, Trump Wrote Of Terror Threat With Remarkable Clarity  —  “I really am convinced we're in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers.”  —  Al Bello / Getty Images
ABC News:
Transcript for ‘The View’ Co-Hosts Discuss Donald Trump's Controversial Comments About 9/11
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   Donald Trump Now Claiming “We've Got 100 Million People” Unemployed In America
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: Trump Hits Highest Mark Yet, But Carson Is Close Behind  —  Real estate mogul Donald Trump remains the frontrunner in the Republican presidential field, while former neurosurgeon Ben Carson holds a close second place, a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll shows.
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump and Ben Carson Gain Strength in Poll of Republicans  —  Jeb Bush continues to lose ground and Marco Rubio emerges as leading contender from GOP establishment wing  —  Donald Trump and Ben Carson continue to broaden their appeal among Republican primary voters and have widened …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Democrats are in denial.  Their party is actually in deep trouble.  —  The Democratic Party is in much greater peril than its leaders or supporters recognize, and it has no plan to save itself.  —  Yes, Barack Obama is taking a victory lap in his seventh year in office.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Obama Regains Majority Job Approval; Most See GOP Infighting as Dysfunction (POLL)  —  More than half of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll approve of Barack Obama's job performance, a first in nearly two and a half years.  That compares with 71 percent disapproval of the Republicans …
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
How the Republican speaker debacle is hurting the party
Discussion: Political Wire
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Boehner faces treacherous path to the exits
Laura Ingraham / CBS News:
Paul Ryan open to running for speaker
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Gowdy appears to accidentally release CIA source's name  —  <p>House Benghazi Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy appears to have accidentally released the name of a CIA source in the midst of a back-and-forth with Democrats about how sensitive the information was and whether its presence …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Jim Webb to consider running as an independent  —  Jim Webb, the longshot Democratic presidential candidate, may run as an independent, his campaign said in an email to reporters on Monday evening.  —  The former Virginia senator, who complained last week about not having enough talking …
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CNN:
CNN/ORC poll: Hillary Clinton wins debate, but Bernie Sanders rises
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Jim Webb considering independent run
Art Swift / Gallup:
Americans' Desire for Stricter Gun Laws Up Sharply  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fifty-five percent of Americans say they want laws covering the sale of firearms to be stricter than they are now, a distinct rise of eight percentage points from 2014.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Gallup finds jump in support for gun control
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
WNYW-TV:
VP Joe Biden to enter presidential race, reports FOX News  —  NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Sources tell FOX News Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry that Vice President Joe Biden will enter the presidential race. … There has been heavy speculation that Biden would run for the Democratic nomination.
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Joe Biden: Speculation About 2016 Bid Reaches Fever Pitch
Discussion: Politico and abc7news.com
MSNBC:
Sources: Biden could announce decision within 48 hours
Jay Carney / Medium:
What The New York Times Didn't Tell You  —  “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”  —  If you read the recent New York Times article about Amazon's culture, you remember that quote.  Attributed to Bo Olson, the image of countless employees crying at their desks set …
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NYTCo Communications / Medium:
Dean Baquet Responds To Jay Carney's Medium Post
Moriba Cummings / bet.com:
Anthony Mackie Endorses Donald Trump: He Worked His Way Up From Nothing  —  The Our Brand Is Crisis actor said he is “drinking the Kool-Aid.” … Looks like we might see Anthony Mackie on the campaign trail with Donald Trump.  During a sit-down chat with BET.com during the promotional trail …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Right About 9/11  —  Donald Trump utters plenty of ugly untruths: that undocumented Mexican immigrants are “rapists,” that Syrian refugees are committing “all sorts of attacks” in Germany and represent a “Trojan Horse” for ISIS.  But he tells ugly truths too: that “when you give …
New York Post:
Stoner high school student says he hacked the CIA  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mail scandal didn't stop the head of the CIA from using his own personal AOL account to stash work-related documents, according to a stoner high-school student who claims to have hacked into them.
Roll Call:
Memo to GOP: Curb Immigration or Quit |  Commentary  —  America is about to break every known immigration record.  And yet you are unlikely to hear a word about it.  —  The Census Bureau projects that the foreign-born share of the U.S. population will soon eclipse the highest levels ever documented …
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks: Hillary Clinton will be first president ‘subject to impeachment’ on her first day  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton hasn't even clinched the nomination, but Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is already floating impeachment for the former secretary of state.
Lauren Zakalik / WFAA-TV:
Dramatic motorcycle crash caught on video; DPS investigating  —  GRANBURY - The road rash and deep cuts all over Eric Sanders' body only begin to tell the story.  —  “I've got a gouge in my elbow that is bone-deep,” Sanders said.  —  The video tells the rest.
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Sears Says It Will Stop Selling Arabic ‘INFIDEL’ Hats  —  No need to patronize sketchy anti-Islamic sites to get “infidel” hats to wear to your next armed mosque protest - Sears has you covered.  —  As activist Imraan Siddiqi flagged on Twitter Monday, the big box retailer sells …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller
Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police ‘disappeared’ 7,000 people  —  Exclusive: Guardian lawsuit exposes fullest scale yet of detentions at off-the-books interrogation warehouse, while attorneys describe find-your-client chase across Chicago as ‘something from a Bond movie’
 
 
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The Hill:
We need thoughtful, not expedient, criminal justice reform
Discussion: Power Line
Liberty Street Economics:
Reframing the Debate about Payday Lending
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Brings Back Debt Ceiling Cop-Out Bill For A Floor Vote This Week
Discussion: Daily Kos and Bloomberg View
Karin Sun / Opposing Views:
‘I Will Take Something Good Out Of This’: Bride-To-Be's Family Turns Cancelled Wedding Into Banquet For Homeless
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Texas cancels contracts with Planned Parenthood
Scott Wise / WTVR-TV:
'Yo dog, that's me' Man sees picture on WTVR app, surrenders to police
Discussion: KFOR-TV
 Earlier Items: 
The Atlantic:
America's Unfinished Second Founding
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The GOP's Problems Go Way Deeper Than the Speaker Mess
Liz Goodwin / Yahoo:
Is a callous immigration system tearing siblings apart?
Discussion: neo-neocon
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
What are Bill and Melinda Gates talking about?
Discussion: Diane Ravitch's blog
 

 
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Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
CNN hires Choire Sicha as SVP of features editorial; Sicha joins from Vox Media where he served as editor at large for New York Magazine

 
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