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Benghazi Panel Engages Clinton in Tense Session — WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers spent more than eight hours aggressively questioning Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday, seeking to build a case that the former secretary of state had been derelict in her duty to secure the American diplomatic mission …
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Rep. Jim Jordan vs. Hillary Clinton: Why Did You Tell Egyptians Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack But Not The American People? — At a House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan introduced e-mails that show then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling the attack …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Benghazi bust — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — There's a reason Benghazi Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy offered Hillary Clinton the chance to testify in a private, closed hearing. And there's a reason Clinton wanted to appear in an open setting, with the whole world watching.
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
The Conservative Reviews Are In: Benghazi Hearing a Bust
The Conservative Reviews Are In: Benghazi Hearing a Bust
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Elizabeth Harrington / Washington Free Beacon:
Feds Have Spent More on Origami Condoms, Fat Lesbian Studies Than on Benghazi Committee
Feds Have Spent More on Origami Condoms, Fat Lesbian Studies Than on Benghazi Committee
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Hillary Told Daughter Chelsea That Terrorists Were Behind Benghazi Attack The Night It Happened [VIDEO]
Hillary Told Daughter Chelsea That Terrorists Were Behind Benghazi Attack The Night It Happened [VIDEO]
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
GOP lands no solid punches while sparring with Clinton over Benghazi
GOP lands no solid punches while sparring with Clinton over Benghazi
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Hillary and Benghazi — When Americans are killed in a terror attack …
Hillary and Benghazi — When Americans are killed in a terror attack …
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The Moderate Voice
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan offers concession to House Freedom Caucus — <p>Rep. Paul Ryan has agreed to delay a discussion about reforming the procedural motion used to remove a House speaker, a major concession to the House Freedom Caucus.</p><p>The Wisconsin Republican, now the presumptive next speaker of the House …
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Lauren French / Politico:
The fragile marriage of Ryan and the Freedom Caucus — <p>One of Rep. Paul Ryan's conditions for running for House speaker was that he wanted to reform the "motion to vacate," a rarely-invoked legislative tool that's essentially a way to boot the speaker from his job.</p><p>His pitch …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan: I'm ‘ready and eager’ to be House speaker
Ryan: I'm ‘ready and eager’ to be House speaker
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
McConnell presses Paul to focus on Senate bid — <p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his allies are quietly ratcheting up pressure on Rand Paul to pay more attention to his Senate reelection next year — and less to his flagging 2016 presidential candidacy.</p><p> So far …
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama vetoes $612 billion defense bill in rebuke to GOP
Obama vetoes $612 billion defense bill in rebuke to GOP
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Obama to veto defense bill in high-stakes showdown over spending
Obama to veto defense bill in high-stakes showdown over spending
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Roxana Tiron / Bloomberg Business:
Obama Veto of Defense Bill Is Opening Shot in Budget Showdown
Obama Veto of Defense Bill Is Opening Shot in Budget Showdown
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama to hold photo op to veto defense bill
Obama to hold photo op to veto defense bill
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Lincoln Chafee drops out of Democratic race — <p>Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee, always a long-shot, dropped out of the race for his party's nomination on Friday morning. </p><p>"As you know I have been campaigning on a platform of Prosperity Through Peace," …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton emerges stronger for next phase of campaign — <p>After a difficult summer slog, Hillary Clinton appears to be back on top.</p><p>The week began with Bernie Sanders, her chief Democratic rival, getting devastatingly lampooned on Saturday Night Live, the stage where Hillary Clinton …
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Bloomberg Business
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Lincoln Chafee Plans Update to His Campaign
Lincoln Chafee Plans Update to His Campaign
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Pro-Trump super PAC shuts down — <p>The main super PAC backing Donald Trump is shutting down amidst increasing scrutiny of its ties to Trump's campaign.</p><p> Trump, who has made his independence from wealthy donors a cornerstone of his anti-establishment presidential campaign …
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Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, New York Times, Political Wire and Bloomberg.com news
Jon Herskovitz / Reuters:
Texas raids several Planned Parenthood facilities, group says — Texas officials raided several Planned Parenthood facilities on Thursday, the group said, in a move that comes days after the state's Republicans leaders barred the women's health group from receiving state Medicaid money.
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Surges Past Trump in Latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has moved into a dominant position in Iowa, surpassing former front-runner Donald Trump as evangelical Christians begin to coalesce around him in the state that will cast the first 2016 nomination ballots.
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Nancy A. Youssef / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Soldier Killed by ISIS, Pentagon Won't Call It Combat — A U.S. service member dies in combat in Iraq—for the first time in four years. But the military still insist this is a relatively risk-free “training” mission. — An American service member was fatally shot during …
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Faith Karimi / CNN:
Albuquerque road rage: Man confesses to killing 4-year-old, police say — (CNN)In Lilly Garcia's short life, her big brown eyes sparkled — just like her personality, her parents say. She swept into a room and filled it with laughter. — The 4-year-old died this week in a road rage shooting …
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German Lopez / Vox:
Watch: President Obama explains what “all lives matter” gets wrong — President Barack Obama on Thursday gave a strong defense of Black Lives Matter, arguing that the movement's concerns about racial disparities in the criminal justice system are legitimate.
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