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11:20 AM ET, October 21, 2015

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Julie Phelan / ABC News:
Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)  —  Donald Trump leads the Republican presidential field in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, not only in vote preferences but in expectations as well — a remarkable feat for the non-politician who's surprised …
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Bob McManus / New York Post:
Donald Trump is doing America a service  —  City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the as-always-irrepressible Donald Trump make for an odd couple (in the fullest sense of the term).  —  They have sharply differing worldviews, yet they're joined at the hip on one critical point …
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
Discussion: abc7news.com, National Review and Salon
Elianayjohnson / National Review:
Speaker Ryan's Conditions  —  It looks like Paul Ryan will do the job, but he'll do it on his own terms.  —  He laid them out at a Republican-conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, telling his colleagues he wants the bickering to end.  That means, Republicans said as they exited the meeting …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan will run for House speaker, under certain conditions
Discussion: TIME, Outside the Beltway and RedState
Roll Call:
Paul Ryan Sets Conditions for Speaker Bid
Discussion: RedState and Jay Bookman
CNN:   Ryan willing to serve as speaker, but with conditions
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg.com news:
Mike Murphy: Rubio's Campaign is ‘Cynical,’ Kasich's Plays Close to the Line  —  This is the second part of Bloomberg Politics's interview with Mike Murphy.  Read the first part, published Oct. 20, here: Why Mike Murphy Says Jeb Bush Is Still the One to Beat
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Julie Phelan / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)
Bloomberg Business:
Ad Blitz Fails to Lift Jeb Bush's Numbers in New Hampshire: Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm Poll
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
PressTV:
Continued sanctions breach of JCPOA: Leader  —  Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei  —  Loading ...  Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says, in a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, that any remarks which suggest sanctions against Iran …
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Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Iran's Khamenei conditionally approves nuclear deal with powers  —  Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the Iranian government's nuclear deal with world powers but said Tehran should yield core elements of its nuclear program until allegations of past military dimensions had been settled.
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and NPR
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar … Less than 24 hours after Ahmed Mohamed met President Obama, his family decided it's time to leave America for good.  —  The 14-year-old Texas boy who was arrested for bringing to school a homemade clock that authorities said resembled a bomb will soon be living in Qatar.
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Emily Smith / Opposing Views:
Man Sends Video Of Ex-Girlfriend Masturbating To Her Little Brother In Act Of Revenge Porn  —  A jealous ex-boyfriend sent a sex video of his former girlfriend to the woman's 10-year-old brother in a tasteless revenge porn attack.  —  U.K. man Gary Whicker, 22, split with his girlfriend …
WPLG-TV:
Dog shot by Florida City police officer  —  Animal rescue volunteer says dog shot 3 times in head  —  Author: Amanda Batchelor, Senior Digital Editor, abatchelor@local10.com  —  Neki Mohan, Reporter, Anchor, nmohan@Local10.com  —  FLORIDA CITY, Fla. -  —  A woman from Florida City …
John Nichols / The Nation:
Justin Trudeau Just Showed American Democrats How to Win the Next Election  —  Promises to tax the rich and to make infrastructure investment a priority—along with an embrace of diversity—beat the right in Canada.  —  By  —  Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau gives his victory speech …
Laura Koran / CNN:
Joe Biden changes story on Osama bin Laden raid  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden offered an account Tuesday of the decision to launch the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that differed from some of his previous retellings — and from Hillary Clinton's.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:   Holy cow does it sound like Joe Biden is running for president
Kathleen Elkins / Business Insider:
A 23-year-old Google employee lives in a truck in the company's parking lot and saves 90% of his income  —  When 23-year-old Brandon headed from Massachusetts to the Bay Area in mid-May to start work as a software engineer at Google, he opted out of settling into an overpriced San Francisco apartment.
Chelo Rivera / KRQE-TV:
Road rage shooter sought for killing 4-year-old girl  —  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Police say a 4-year-old girl was shot and killed during a road rage incident on I-40 on Tuesday afternoon.  —  I-40 westbound was shut down at Coors for nearly six hours.  I-40 westbound has since been reopened.
Discussion: KOAT, CNN, NOLA River and Daily Mail
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.
New York Times:
Are We Losing Afghanistan Again?  —  “ALLAH has promised us victory and America has promised us defeat,” Mullah Muhammad Omar, the first head of the Taliban, once said, “so we shall see which of the two promises will be fulfilled.”  When his colleagues admitted this summer that Mullah Omar had died …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio blasts slacker government workers — after missing his seventh of seven votes this month  —  Speaking from the Senate floor on Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) attacked government employees who didn't do their jobs.  —  “All we're saying in this bill is,” Rubio said …
 
 
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Timothy Williams / New York Times:
Police Leaders Join Call to Cut Prison Rosters
Discussion: Hit & Run and VICE
Joseph Ax / Raw Story:
NY suburb founded by Nazi sympathizers sued for requiring homeowners have German ancestry
Discussion: Liberaland and addictinginfo.org
Mark Fahey / CNBC:
More CEOs donate to Clinton than to any GOP candidate
Discussion: Instapundit
Dan Solomon / Texas Monthly:
Y'all, Norwegians Use The Word “Texas” As Slang To Mean “Crazy”
Reason:
The Bogus Concerns Behind Hillary Clinton's TPP Switcheroo
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Near Deal to Sell Majority of Highbridge Private Equity Business
Jeanna Smialek / Bloomberg Business:
Fed's Williams Sees Reasons to Increase Rates Soon and Slowly
Discussion: Townhall.com
Chris McDaniel / BuzzFeed:
This Is The Man In India Who Is Selling States Illegally Imported Execution Drugs
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
New York Police Officer Dies After Being Shot in East Harlem
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Anti-Abortion Activist: Having Multiple Sex Partners ‘Is Almost Like Rape’
Discussion: Shakesville, Liberaland and Raw Story
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Panicked establishment gets ready for war against Trump
 

 
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