memeorandum: The Note: Ben Carson Pulls Ahead Of Donald Trump (Michael Falcone/ABC News)

9:25 AM ET, October 27, 2015

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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.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, FITSNews, addictinginfo.org, Raw Story, Hit & Run, NBC News, The Week, FOX31 Denver, WTVR-TV and Mediaite

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.

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Jaeah Lee / Mother Jones:

Disturbing Video Shows School Cop Body Slam and Drag a Black Female Student — Authorities in Richland County, South Carolina, are investigating a video that surfaced Monday showing a uniformed officer aggressively confronting a high school student. Local station WIS-TV reports …

Discussion: FITSNews

WLTX-TV:

Video Surfaces of Incident at Spring Valley High — Richland County, SC (WLTX) - A video has surfaced online of an incident between a Spring Valley High School student and a school resource officer that occurred inside a classroom. — The video began spreading on social media sites Monday afternoon.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
New York City to Offer SAT Free to 11th-Grade Students

Discussion: Chalkbeat New York, New York Post and The Week

New York Times:

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.

Discussion: Political Wire, Guardian, Towleroad, Althouse, NBC News, The Week, The Hill, SaintPetersBlog and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

CBS News:

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).

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Weekly Standard, CNN, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, CBS New York, Daily Mail and Outside the Beltway

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 …

Discussion: Doug Ross and AMERICAblog News

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Poll: Carson opens up 14-point lead over Trump in Iowa

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, The Week and PoliticusUSA

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
3 sentences that explain just how clueless establishment Republicans are about 2016

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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

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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Congress and White House Reach Tentative Budget Deal

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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:

Jeb: Brother's response to 9/11 was ‘awe-inspiring’ — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says his brother George W. Bush responded in an “awe-inspiring” way to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and suggests he would learn from his sibling's leadership if he wins the presidency.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Hullabaloo and Associated Press

David Jackson / OnPolitics:
Jeb Bush and George W. Bush chide Donald Trump

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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
‘Supergirl’ Star Responds to Jeb Bush Calling Her ‘Pretty Hot’ (VIDEO)

Discussion: Mediaite

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Mail

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.

Discussion: Instapundit, Althouse, Daily Mail, Mediaite and OnPolitics

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.

Discussion: National Review, Washington Free Beacon, alicublog, NPR and Shakesville

William Saletan / Slate:
Hillary Clinton Is Smearing Bernie Sanders as a Sexist

Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Balloon Juice and Washington Free Beacon

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 …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Raw Story, Mediaite and Daily Mail

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.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Watchdog.org, Balloon Juice, Hullabaloo, The Daily Signal and PoliticusUSA

Cory Bennett / The Hill:

Facebook accused of ‘secretly lobbying’ for cyber bill — Facebook is “secretly lobbying” for a major cyber bill set for a final Senate vote Tuesday despite growing opposition to the bill among tech companies, according to a digital rights advocacy group fighting against the measure.

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 …

Discussion: Vox, Reuters, BBC, Mother Jones, NBC News, Cancer Research UK, NPR, Slantpoint, Wall Street Journal, Common Dreams, EcoWatch, Washington Post, ThinkProgress and The Verge

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.”

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Re/code, Guardian, Raw Story, Engadget, Mashable, The Verge and New York Times

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.

Discussion: Truth Revolt and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

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 …

Discussion: Fox News and Scared Monkeys

Washington Post:

What Americans blame most for mass shootings (Hint: it's not gun laws) — As Democrats look to make gun violence a core issue in the 2016 presidential campaign, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds wide agreement that gun violence is a problem but bitter and stark division on whether …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Pirate's Cove, Townhall.com, Hot Air and Liberty Unyielding

David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:

Melissa Harris-Perry Scolds Guest to Be ‘Super Careful’ About Saying ‘Hard Worker’ Because Of Slavery — MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry derailed a conversation about potential Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) Saturday to admonish a guest for calling him a “hard worker,” …

Discussion: NewsBusters, Liberty Unyielding, Patterico's Pontifications, Hot Air and Mediaite

Maxie Gardner / WHNT-TV:

Decatur City Schools addresses teacher's controversial Halloween costume — DECATUR, Ala. - A representative from Decatur City Schools called a news conference Monday morning in reference to a controversial picture on social media. During the conference, Superintendent Ed Nichols read a letter of apology from the teacher involved.

Discussion: al.com, Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo, Atlanta Buzz … and WTKR-TV