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Poll Watch: Ben Carson Edges Ahead Nationally in Times/CBS News Poll — Ben Carson has taken a narrow lead nationally in the Republican presidential campaign, dislodging Donald J. Trump from the top spot for the first time in months, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Tuesday.
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CBS/NYT Poll: Ben Carson edges out Donald Trump — Ben Carson has surpassed Donald Trump and now narrowly leads the Republican field in the race for the nomination in the latest national CBS News/New York Times Poll. — Twenty-six percent of Republican primary voters back Carson, giving him a four-point edge over Trump (22 percent).
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Ben Carson Erases Donald Trump's National Lead In New Poll — Monday it was Iowa. Now it's nationwide. — Just a day after Ben Carson blew open a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in the state of Iowa in a new Monmouth University poll, a new poll shows the New York real estate mogul's national advantage is now essentially gone.
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Ben Carson Pulls Ahead Of Donald Trump — NOTABLES —BEN CARSON ERASES DONALD TRUMP'S NATIONAL LEAD IN NEW POLL: Yesterday it was Iowa. Today it's nationwide. Just a day after Ben Carson blew open a double-digit lead over Trump in the state of Iowa, a new poll shows …
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Doug Ross and AMERICAblog News
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
3 sentences that explain just how clueless establishment Republicans are about 2016
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Vox Popoli, New York Times, The PJ Tatler and Bloomberg View
David Jackson / OnPolitics:
Jeb Bush and George W. Bush chide Donald Trump
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RedState and addictinginfo.org
Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Jeb: Brother's response to 9/11 was ‘awe-inspiring’
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Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Associated Press
Jeremy Turnage / WIS-TV:
Video shows confrontation between Spring Valley student and school resource officer — Spring Valley High School officials and Richland County sheriff's deputies are investigating after a video supposedly taken at the high school shows a confrontation between a female student and the school's resource officer.
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Aaron Johnson / Heavy.com:
Deputy Ben Fields: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — Email Follow — Deputy Ben Fields. — A South Carolina sheriff's deputy is in hot water after a video was posted online Monday showing him violently throwing a high school student from her desk in a classroom.
WLTX-TV:
Video Surfaces of Incident at Spring Valley High
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NPR, Ben Swann's Truth In Media and Talking Points Memo
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Conservatives already trashing new budget deal — <p>The ink isn't even dry on a tentative two-year budget agreement, but conservatives in Congress are already pouncing. </p><p>GOP leaders from both ends of the Capitol met privately with their rank-and-file Monday evening to outline …
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Congressional leaders, White House reach two-year budget deal — House Republican leaders introduced legislation just before midnight on Monday, finalizing a two-year budget agreement between Congressional leaders and the White House. The introduction sets up a vote as early as Wednesday …
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, Political Insider blog, Wall Street Journal and TaxVox
Candida Moss / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Feds Investigate Hobby Lobby Boss for Illicit Artifacts — One of America's most famously Christian businesses is amassing a vast collection of Biblical antiquities. The problem is some of them may have been looted from the Middle East. — In 2011, a shipment of somewhere between 200 …
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Talking Points Memo, addictinginfo.org, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, Raw Story and Daily Mail
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Takes Jab at Bernie Sanders's ‘Shouting’ Remark — Hillary Rodham Clinton has seized on remarks Senator Bernie Sanders made in the first Democratic debate that “all the shouting in the world” would not keep guns out of the wrong hands, suggesting that Mr. Sanders used those words because of Mrs. Clinton's gender.
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William Saletan / Slate:
Hillary Clinton Is Smearing Bernie Sanders as a Sexist
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CANNONFIRE, Balloon Juice and Washington Free Beacon
Diana Fakhouri / hillaryclinton.com:
Texts from Hillary and 4 other DIY Hillary Clinton costumes for Halloween — What's in Hillary's closet? A lifetime of looks. — From her simple beginnings in Park Ridge, Illinois, to her statement-making years as secretary of state, Hillary has always showcased her signature style.
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Featured News:
REI Closing its Doors on Black Friday - Invites Nation to OptOutside — $2.2 billion specialty outdoor retailer will pay 12,000 employees to not work on November 27 — SEATTLE - In a letter addressed to its 5.5 million members, REI, the nation's largest consumer co-op and specialty outdoor retailer …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Forbes
Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Newspaper Blames “Designer Error” For Calling OSU Homecoming Parade Deaths “Shootings” — On Saturday, a car plowed through a crowded intersection during Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade. Four people were killed and dozens were injured, and the driver of the car, Adacia Chambers …
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Fox News and Scared Monkeys
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Mother of Slain Benghazi American Explodes on Andrea Mitchell Reports: 'You Can't Understand!' — Last week we reported on a passionate CNN appearance by Patricia Smith, the mother of one of the American victims of the Benghazi attacks, Sean Smith. Today she made an appearance on MSNBC …
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Power Line, Independent Journal and The Daily Banter
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Ted Cruz's plan to pick off the competition — <p>GLENWOOD, IOWA — It was a rainy morning when Ted Cruz arrived for the first of five stops on his Iowa schedule. He could barely squeeze in the door. So many people were stuffed in the three-room coffee shop that some opted to stand outside …
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Political Wire and Towleroad
Hugh Forrest / South by Southwest 2016 Music …:
Strong Community Management: Why We Canceled Two Panels For SXSW 2016 — On Monday, October 26, SXSW Interactive made the call to cancel two sessions for the 2016 event: “SavePoint: A Discussion on the Gaming Community” and “Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Games.”
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Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, Engadget, Mashable, Guardian, The Verge and New York Times
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Prized Horse Is Led Out of Stall and Butchered in Florida — Just before 7 a.m. Sunday, Deborah H. Stephens, a renowned American equestrian, arrived at her horse barn in Palmetto, Fla., to check on some paperwork and prepare for the day's lessons. — Suddenly, one of the barn workers appeared …
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Washington Post and Daily Mail
Sarah Boseley / Guardian:
Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes - WHO — UN health body says bacon, sausages and ham are among top five most carcinogenic substances along with cigarettes, alcohol, asbestos and arsenic — Bacon, ham and sausages rank alongside cigarettes as a major cause of cancer …
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Kyung Lah / CNN:
Shifting the blue line: Why a black woman is joining LAPD — Police departments struggle to recruit new candidates — Los Angeles (CNN)Asia Hardy grips the training gun, her arms raised, edging slowly toward the suspect. “Slowly come down to your knees. Don't move!” she orders.
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Truth Revolt, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and NPR
Gus Bruno / Yahoo! News:
Melbourne siege: Man armed with meat cleaver holding up La Trobe St restaurant — Melbourne siege situation: Man armed with meat cleaver holding up La Trobe St restaurant - Yahoo7 — Video Melbourne siege accused: ‘My mum, my missus, my people’ — Up to a dozen armed police officers …
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The Age, Jihad Watch and Guardian
David Roberts / Vox:
The House science committee is worse than the Benghazi committee — Last Thursday, the nation watched with a mix of amusement and horror as the House Benghazi committee spent 11 hours grilling Hillary Clinton on a bizarre farrago of issues, many of which bore only tangential connection to the Benghazi attack.
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