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11:00 AM ET, October 25, 2015

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Associated Press:
Republicans Prefer an Outsider Candidate, AP-GfK Poll Finds  —  A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
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Shaquille Brewster / NBC News:
Ben Carson: I Would ‘Love’ to See Abortion Law Overturned  —  Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said he would “love” to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, making abortion illegal nationwide, with almost no exemptions.  —  “I'm a reasonable person and if people can come …
Adam Sneed / Politico:
Carson: I'm not super low energy, just soft-spoken  —  <p>Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says rival Donald Trump has him all wrong.</p><p>"I have plenty of energy.  But, you know, I am soft-spoken.  I do have a tendency to be relaxed," Carson said in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's “Meet The Press.”
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Donald Trump seeks a sharp contrast with Ben Carson's Seventh-day Adventist faith  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Donald Trump on Saturday contrasted his Presbyterian faith with that of Seventh-day Adventists, apparently attempting to draw attention to and raise doubts about Republican presidential rival Ben Carson's religious beliefs.
Discussion: Des Moines Register and Althouse
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Trump mocks Jeb, Rubio on their home turf in Florida
Discussion: ABC News and Associated Press
New York Times:
Bush at 91: Irritated and Invigorated by '16 Race  —  He has given up his “C.S.I.” reruns, consuming campaign coverage on Fox News — intently but fretfully — when he is perched in front of the television in his Houston home.  —  He reads three print newspapers daily …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
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Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
Team Bush in a Fog
Discussion: Raw Story and bradford-delong.com
Ashley Killough / CNN:
In shadow of campaign shakeup, Bush tears into Trump
Discussion: New York Times and Washington Post
Will Femia / MSNBC:
Jeb Bush on rumored campaign death spiral: ‘Blah, blah, blah’
Discussion: New York Times and Mediaite
Investor's Business Daily:
IRS' Lois Lerner Skates; An Ugly Precedent Is Set  —  The Law: The Justice Department declined to file charges against IRS enforcer Lois Lerner, who singled out Tea Party groups for scrutiny on political grounds.  With no accountability, it's now open season on dissidents.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Obama fuels the flames of the anti-cop movement  —  At a White House discussion about improving the  relationship between police departments and  black Americans, President Obama declared that “the moment is here.”  —  He meant a chance for big change, and that's the problem.
Discussion: BizPac Review
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Blasts Clinton Record on Gay Rights, Keystone, Free Trade  —  Senator Bernie Sanders delivered his sharpest criticism to date of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton tonight at the Iowa Democratic Party's historic Jefferson-Jackson dinner.  —  The Vermont senator …
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Maureen O'Hara, Irish-Born Actress Known as Queen of Technicolor, Dies at 95  —  Maureen O'Hara, the spirited Irish-born actress who played strong-willed, tempestuous beauties opposite all manner of adventurers in escapist movies of the 1940s and '50s, died on Saturday at her home in Boise, Idaho.
Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:
Helmet camera footage shows joint U.S. Delta Force-Kurdish raid to rescue Islamic State hostages  —  A video first posted Saturday by Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, purportedly shows footage of the joint U.S.-Kurdish raid that freed about 70 hostages from an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq early Thursday morning.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Daily Mail
Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
On duty, under fire  —  A Wisconsin trooper faced down a gunman who planned to go out fighting  —  Stopped in his patrol cruiser, Trooper Trevor Casper searched for a gray Toyota Corolla on a busy stretch of Highway 41.  Behind the wheel was Steven Timothy Snyder, a bank robber and killer on the run.
Ralph VartabedianContact / Los Angeles Times:
Special Report $68-billion California bullet train project likely to overshoot budget and deadline targets  —  The monumental task of building California's bullet train will require punching 36 miles of tunnels through the geologically complex mountains north of Los Angeles.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Moe Lane
The Advocate:
Man arrested after trying to record Jefferson Sheriff Newell Normand and his breakfast club; sheriff suspects David Vitter behind it  —  The arrest could have been ripped from a Hollywood script, playing out on the eve of a statewide election.  But was it a drama or a comedy?
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and RedState
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Vitter rivals pounce after private investigator's arrest
 
 
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Transcript: Rachel Maddow interviews Hillary Clinton
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Clinton: Veterans Affairs scandal not a ‘widespread’ problem
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