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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).
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: A temporary outbreak of sanity in Washington — Late last night, Congressional leaders and the White House reached a big deal to avert default and keep the government funded. Now it has to be sold to members of Congress in both parties, and conservatives are already revolting.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Donald Trump Explains Drop in Polls: They're ‘Not Very Scientific’
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Ben Carson Erases Donald Trump's National Lead In New Poll
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
Ben Carson Takes National Lead Over Donald Trump In NYT/CBS Poll
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David Jackson / OnPolitics:
Jeb Bush and George W. Bush chide Donald Trump
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
3 sentences that explain just how clueless establishment Republicans are about 2016
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Ben Carson Pulls Ahead Of Donald Trump
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Paul Ryan blasts Boehner over budget deal — <p>Rep. Paul Ryan on Tuesday blasted Speaker John Boehner, Senate leadership and the White House for the secretive process they used to negotiate a two-year budget and debt ceiling agreement that appears poised to pass Congress this week. </p><p>"I …
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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 …
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Congressional leaders, White House reach two-year budget deal
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Loren Thomas / WLTX-TV:
Student Arrested Says She Was Standing Up for Classmate — Niya Kenny was arrested at Spring Valley High School following the altercation between her classmate and School Resource Officer Ben Fields. — CONNECT — Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Niya Kenny, 18, is speaking out after she was taken …
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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.
CBS News:
FBI warns of possible “Halloween Revolt” by anarchists — The FBI has issued an alert to law enforcement about a possible “Halloween Revolt” by a dangerous anarchist group, an official has confirmed to CBS News. — Federal officials issued a bulletin to local police departments …
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Melkorka Licea / New York Post:
FBI warns of anarchist plot to ambush cops on Halloween — The FBI released an alert Monday warning the NYPD and police departments nationwide of a potentially dangerous anarchist group that says it plans to ambush cops on Halloween. — The extremist group - known as the National Liberation Militia …
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New York Times:
Political Lies About Police Brutality — Video recordings of police officers battering or even murdering unarmed black citizens have validated longstanding complaints by African-Americans and changed the way the country views the issue of police brutality. Police officers who might once …
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Kyung Lah / CNN:
Shifting the blue line: Why a black woman is joining LAPD
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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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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon chief unveils new plan for ISIS fight — Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday described new ways the U.S. military plans to increase pressure on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) after months of criticism that the administration is not doing enough to defeat the terrorist group.
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Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
Obama weighs moving U.S. troops closer to front lines in Syria, Iraq
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Daria Grastara / Jeb 2016:
Jeb Bush: My Plan to Preserve, Protect and Reform Medicare and Social Security — As a great, prosperous and compassionate nation, we must ensure access to health care and retirement income security for our seniors. But we must also face the fact that changes are needed to preserve and protect these programs for future generations.
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Rod Lamkey / National Review:
Paul Ryan Pledges: No Immigration Reform under Obama — Paul Ryan has signed off on a letter promising restless members of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) that he won't bring immigration-reform legislation to the House floor while President Obama remains in office.
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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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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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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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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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Daily Mail:
Vigilante justice: Father ties up the 50-year-old pervert who stalked and harassed his teenage daughter to a lamp post — Passers-by were shocked by the sight of a man being tied to a pole in the middle of a busy street in the city of Ningbo, eastern China.
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