memeorandum: Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Closing Down Some US Mosques (Miles E. Johnson/Mother Jones)

4:40 PM ET, October 21, 2015

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

Biden swipes at Hillary: ‘Naive’ to think GOP is the enemy — Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday took a swipe at Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying it's “naive” to think the country can be governed without working with Republicans.

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Nick Gass / Politico:

Biden not running for president — <p>Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday ended months of breathless will-he-or-won't-he speculation about a potential presidential run, saying he's concluded that he's simply "out of time" to mount a real and winnable campaign.</p><p> The announcement …

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NBC News:

First Read: 'We Don't Like Our Candidates Very Much' — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter. — Voters in the NBC/WSJ poll: “We don't like our candidates very much”

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

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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: The Joe Biden, Paul Ryan Split Screen

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

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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Vice President Joe Biden is not running for president in 2016 …

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CBS News:
Joe Biden opts out of presidential race

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Washington Post:
Full text: Biden's announcement that he won't run for president

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Haaretz:

Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked public uproar when on Wednesday he claimed that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was the one who planted the idea of the extermination of European Jewry in Adolf Hitler's mind.

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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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Ynetnews:
Historians, politicians slam PM's ‘distortion of history’

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William Booth / Washington Post:
Netanyahu says Palestinian gave Hitler idea for the Holocaust

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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:

Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Donald Trump Following ‘Live’ Appearance Cancellation — Donald Trump will no longer be stopping by “Jimmel Kimmel Live” tonight, as the presidential hopeful cancelled his appearance just hours before he was set for the late-night show. — Kimmel announced the news Tuesday morning on Howard Stern's radio show.

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Miles E. Johnson / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Says He Would Consider Closing Down Some US Mosques

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Bob McManus / New York Post: Donald Trump is doing America a service

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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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Hardline Republicans To Paul Ryan: Family Time Isn't In The Job Description For Speaker

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

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Matt Fuller / Roll Call:
House Freedom Caucus Skeptical of Ryan's Terms

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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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Julie Phelan / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)

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Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says Jeb Bush 'Embarrassed by What's Happening'

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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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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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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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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 …

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Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:

CNN Hires Bob Beckel Months After Fox Kicked Him to the Curb — He was the token angry liberal on Fox News for many years—until they fired him over ‘personal issues.’ Months later, he's resurfaced at CNN, looking for redemption. — Welcome back, Bob. — Four months after being …

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CNN:

The real story behind those Planned Parenthood videos — Costa Mesa, California (CNN)David Daleiden wanted to show exactly what a 19-week-old aborted fetus, being held in the hands of a medical technician, looked like. The problem was he didn't have that picture.

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New York Post:

NBAer in 1Oak club brawl suing cops and city for $50M — Thabo Sefolosha is seen wearing a right ankle wrap as he is walked out of the 10th Precinct following a melee at 1Oak nightclub on April 8, 2015. At right, Thabo Sefolosha leaves court on crutches in June.

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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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