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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.
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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.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘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 …
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Lauren French / Politico:
Ryan to proceed with speaker bid — <p>Rep. Paul Ryan will proceed with plans to run for House speaker despite not securing the formal endorsement of the House Freedom Caucus.</p><p>Ryan's decision, which came after a high-stakes meeting with the group of hard-line conservatives earlier in the day …
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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 …
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Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Wants To Preserve His Work/Family Balance While Making It Harder For Poor Parents
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan refines pitch to conservatives
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Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications
Annie Karni / Politico:
How Clinton boxed out Biden — <p>Scratch Joe Biden off Brooklyn's list of worries. </p><p>The announcement Wednesday afternoon that Biden will 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 …
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New York Times:
Joe Biden Will Not Run for President in 2016 — WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Wednesday that he would not be a candidate in the 2016 presidential campaign, bringing to a close a three-month exploration that began shortly after the death of his eldest child and threatened to fracture the Democratic Party.
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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 …
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Washington Post, Vox, Associated Press, Bloomberg View and US News
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Hillary's claim that Republicans are her ‘enemies’ is really about
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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.
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Germany in response to Netanyahu: We are responsible for Holocaust
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Haaretz:
Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews
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Ynetnews:
Historians, politicians slam PM's ‘distortion of history’
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Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Anger at Netanyahu claim Palestinian grand mufti inspired Holocaust
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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 …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump criticizes Trey Gowdy
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Democrats Demand RNC Pay for Benghazi Probe
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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 …
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Still Loved by Republicans Who Call Him Divisive and Sometimes ‘an Idiot’
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NBC News:
First Read: 'We Don't Like Our Candidates Very Much'
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Will conservative attacks on Trump miss mark?
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Washington Post, Betsy's Page and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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.
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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 …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 58% Back Legal Marijuana Use — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — PRINCETON, N.J. — A majority of Americans continue to say marijuana use should be legal in the United States, with 58% holding that view, tying the high point in Gallup's 46-year trend. — Americans' support for legal marijuana has steadily grown over time.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Majority Say More Concealed Weapons Would Make U.S. Safer
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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.
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Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump — Yes, today, October 21st, 2015, is the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in Back to the Future Part II. The film's architect, Bob Gale, opens up about his prescient film. — There's a very specific analog between Biff Tannen …
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Ray Rivera / WCSC-TV:
Cops: Teen who lost tongue in sexual assault charged as an adult — By Lisa Weismann — Police say the 16-year-old who got his tongue bitten off while sexually assaulting a woman during a home invasion is being charged as an adult. — Antoine Miller has been charged …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Meet The People Who Gave Money To Lincoln Chafee's Campaign — What motivates someone to give money to a foundering, long-shot campaign? — Just 10 people have given to Lincoln Chafee's presidential campaign. By contrast, more than 650,000 people have donated to Bernie Sanders.
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