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7:20 AM ET, October 22, 2015

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‘Supermajority’ of House Freedom Caucus to back Paul Ryan's speaker bid — Hard-line conservatives cleared a path late Wednesday for Rep. Paul Ryan to become House speaker, heralding a possible end to weeks of Republican leadership turmoil. — The decision to support Ryan …

Discussion: Mother Jones, The Last Tradition, Algemeiner.com, BREITBART.COM, Weekly Standard, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hit & Run, Power Line, The Slot, Associated Press and Hot Air

Lauren French / Politico:

Ryan to proceed with speaker bid — Rep. Paul Ryan will proceed with plans to run for House speaker despite not securing the formal endorsement of the House Freedom Caucus.Ryan's decision, which came after a high-stakes meeting with the group of hard-line conservatives earlier in the day …

Discussion: RedState, Erick on the Radio and Talking Points Memo

Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:

Hardline Republicans To Paul Ryan: Family Time Isn't In The Job Description For Speaker — WASHINGTON — Hardline conservatives were skeptical of Rep. Paul Ryan's potential bid for speaker almost immediately after he announced it, but it's not just differences in policy or process they are wary of.

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Kos, Liberaland, Taylor Marsh and The Federalist

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

10 Freedom Caucus Members Publicly Reject Paul Ryan, Enough To Doom His Candidacy For Speaker — Paul Ryan has a big obstacle standing the way of becoming House Speaker: Math. — As a condition of him accepting the position of House Speaker, Ryan laid out a list of demands.

Discussion: The Slot

The Hill:

GOP to elect Speaker next week; conservatives skeptical of Ryan — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is getting a cool reception from House conservatives, whom he said must endorse him before he'll agree to run for Speaker. — Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus and their conservative allies …

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan refines pitch to conservatives

Discussion: Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications

Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Wants To Preserve His Work/Family Balance While Making It Harder For Poor Parents

Discussion: The Slot, New Republic, Raw Story, addictinginfo.org, Slantpoint, PolicyShop, Daily Kos, The Huffington Post and Associated Press

Nick Gass / Politico: Conservative media mocks ‘Emperor Ryan’

Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Ryan: No Immigration Reform While Obama Is President

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air and Independent Journal

Annie Karni / Politico:

How Clinton boxed out Biden — Scratch Joe Biden off Brooklyn's list of worries. The announcement Wednesday afternoon that Biden would not enter the presidential race removed another hurdle for Hillary Clinton, whose string of good fortune was kicked off by a strong Oct. 13 debate performance …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Salon and Washington Free Beacon

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Joe Biden Ran in the Invisible Primary, and Lost to Hillary Clinton — For all her struggles with poll numbers and the email investigation this year, Hillary Rodham Clinton has done one thing really well: dissuade mainstream opponents by dominating the invisible primary …

Discussion: Washington Post, Presidential Power, Vox, US News, Bloomberg View and Associated Press

New York Times:
Joe Biden Will Not Run for President in 2016

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, The American Conservative, Guardian, Liberal Values, Mother Jones, NPR, Outside the Beltway, Politico, Defense One, CANNONFIRE, The Moderate Voice, Ben Swann's Truth In Media and The Hill

New York Times:
Transcript of Joe Biden's Remarks on Not Running for President

Discussion: US News and CNN

Fred Bever / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Clinton Rises Again In New Hampshire

Discussion: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, WPRI-TV, Fox News and Bloomberg Business

Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:

Proof That The Benghazi Investigation Is Totally Unlike Any Other, In Two Charts — On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will testify in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where Republicans will try to prove that the former secretary of state mishandled …

Discussion: USA Today and Hullabaloo

Lanny Davis / The Hill:

Three questions Benghazi Republicans should ask — and why they probably won't — South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy's Special Committee on Benghazi has been now thoroughly outed — not by Democrats but by his fellow Republicans. — First House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …

Discussion: Politico

Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Democrats Demand RNC Pay for Benghazi Probe

Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo

Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:

Netanyahu Draws Broad Criticism After Saying a Palestinian Inspired Holocaust — Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Zionist Congress on Tuesday night that “Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,” according to a transcript provided by his office.

Discussion: Pamela Geller, Jihad Watch, Daily Wire, American Spectator, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mondoweiss, Mother Jones, Political Wire, Washington Post, Guardian, Haaretz, The Jawa Report and ThinkProgress

i24news:
Germany in response to Netanyahu: We are responsible for Holocaust

Discussion: NPR, The Free Thought Project and Liberaland

Haaretz:
Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews

Discussion: Guardian, Algemeiner.com, addictinginfo.org, Ynetnews, NBC News, France 24, The Week and Talking Points Memo

WikiLeaks:

CIA Director John Brennan emails — Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects.

Discussion: NBC News, Engadget, Slantpoint, Politico, Shadowproof, Independent Journal, Mother Jones, The Verge, Common Dreams, Hit & Run, The Week and Mediaite

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Trump maintains lead in GOP presidential race; Carson second — Businessman Donald Trump continues to maintain his hold atop the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson keeping a clear grip on second place and the rest of the large field scrambling …

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, Power Line, Hot Air, PoliticusUSA, FiveThirtyEight, RedState and NBC News

Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Still Loved by Republicans Who Call Him Divisive and Sometimes ‘an Idiot’

Discussion: Politico, The Last Refuge and Talking Points Memo

The Hill:
Koch network spreads the wealth

Discussion: Daily Kos

Julia Marsh / New York Post:

Subordinate seduced me — then got me fired: executive — A lawsuit claims that Tila Azeem (main) set Citi's Head of Global Prime Finance, David James Murphy (inset) by telling her bosses that he sexually harassed her. — A former Citigroup executive says a young female underling set …

Discussion: Daily Mail

TMZ.com:

Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom Call Off Divorce ... We're Giving Marriage a Second Chance — Khloe and Lamar have jointly gone to court to dismiss their divorce case, because they want to stay husband and wife ... TMZ has learned. — Khloe's lawyer Laura Wasser went before a judge Wednesday morning …

Discussion: Daily Mail and Hollywood Life

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Majority Say More Concealed Weapons Would Make U.S. Safer — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — PRINCETON, N.J. — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that if more Americans carried concealed weapons after passing a criminal background check and training course, the country would be safer.

Discussion: Townhall.com, CNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon

James Hibberd / EW.com:

MYTHBUSTERS TO END WITH FINAL SEASON — Exclusive: Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman react to Discovery's longest-running series concluding in separate interviews — There's no debunking this one: The next season of Discovery's Mythbusters will be its last, EW has learned exclusively.