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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Campaigns erupt over greenrooms at third GOP debate — <p>DENVER, Colo. — Just hours before GOP candidates take the stage here Wednesday night, tensions over the Republican National Committee's handling of the debates are flaring anew.</p><p>At issue this time: greenrooms.</p><p> During …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich lashes out: ‘What has happened to the conservative movement?’ — <p>Ohio Gov. John Kasich's first real foray into attacking his Republican rivals centered on him ticking off a list of critiques he has with the 2016 Republican presidential field. </p><p>Kasich, at a rally …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump: CNBC debate will be ‘unfair’ — <p>Donald Trump is already convinced the CNBC GOP primary debate on Wednesday night will be stacked against him. </p><p>Despite <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/ 2015/10/cnbc-was-trumps-home-turf- 215221">his long history with CNBC …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Paul Ryan will support budget deal — <p>After sharply criticizing how it came together, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan announced he would support the budget deal Wednesday.</p><p>" What I've heard from members over the last two weeks is a desire to wipe the slate clean, put in place a process …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House GOP nominates Ryan for speaker
House GOP nominates Ryan for speaker
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Is the GOP now Paul Ryan's party? Or is it still K Street's party?
Is the GOP now Paul Ryan's party? Or is it still K Street's party?
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Carson: I won't raise the debt ceiling as president
Carson: I won't raise the debt ceiling as president
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan says he will support budget deal
Paul Ryan says he will support budget deal
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Rand Paul vows to filibuster budget deal
Rand Paul vows to filibuster budget deal
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Ben Carson vs. Ben Carson
Ben Carson vs. Ben Carson
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David French / National Review:
The Spring Valley Arrest Video Isn't Disturbing: Here's Why — The latest viral video of alleged “police brutality” is remarkably short and devoid of context. According to cell-phone video - apparently shot by students at Columbia, S.C.'s Spring Valley High School - a “student resource officer …
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Craig Melvin / NBC News:
S.C. Deputy Who Slammed Student to Be Fired: Sources — South Carolina authorities will announce Wednesday that Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields, the school resource officer who was caught on camera violently flipping a high school student in her classroom, will be relieved of duty, sources told NBC News.
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Austin Wright / Politico:
How the Army's $3 billion spy blimp went from boondoggle to laughingstock — <p>The Army made clear last year that its pair of massive spy blimps designed to float at 10,000 feet and scan the skies for air and missile threats would “be tethered to the ground at all times.” …
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Baltimore Sun:
JLENS blimp has come free of its tether at APG, now floating over Pennsylvania; fighter jets monitoring … One of the two military surveillance blimps that has been watching the East Coast from Maryland has broken free of its mooring at Aberdeen Proving Ground and is now drifting over Pennsylvania, authorities said.
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John Heilemann / Bloomberg Business:
The Sanders Brain Trust's Plan to Beat Hillary Clinton — Top aides Tad Devine and Jeff Weaver lay out his path to victory. Step one: take the gloves off. — jheil — The pizzas ordered in by the Bernie Sanders brain trust had just been delivered to the DoubleTree hotel near …
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Bill Clinton Rallies Superdelegates as Hillary's Campaign Hints at Growing Roster
Bill Clinton Rallies Superdelegates as Hillary's Campaign Hints at Growing Roster
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
GOP Piles on Hillary Clinton Over VA Remark
GOP Piles on Hillary Clinton Over VA Remark
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry and her ‘hard work’ history — a snowstorm was crippling Ohio. On her eponymous MSNBC show, host Melissa Harris-Perry provided some coverage of the weather event, tossing to NBC News correspondent Kerry Sanders on location. “Yes, it's been coming down since early this morning.
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South Florida / Sun-Sentinel:
Marco Rubio should resign, not rip us off — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board … After five years in the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio does not like his job. A long-time friend told The Washington Post “he hates it.” Rubio says hate might be too strong a word, but he sure acts like he hates his job.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
ESPN's Tony Kornheiser asks whether Tea Party is like ISIS — ESPN personality Tony Kornheiser drew a connection between the Tea Party and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) during his radio show on Friday. — The “Pardon the Interruption” co-host was speaking …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How 4 Federal Lawyers Paved the Way to Kill Osama bin Laden — WASHINGTON — Weeks before President Obama ordered the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011, four administration lawyers hammered out rationales intended to overcome any legal obstacles — and made it all but inevitable …
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Louisiana man cashes in life savings in pennies — Ruston resident Otha Anders started saving his first penny more than 45 years ago when he found it on the ground. — The coin reminded him to pray and give thanks. — “I became convinced that spotting a lost or dropped penny …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: I'm not going to 'take everyone's guns away' — President Obama on Tuesday dismissed the notion that he is seeking to take away people's firearms as he delivered his latest call for stronger gun laws. — Speaking to police chiefs in Chicago, Obama sought to rebut the argument made by conservatives …
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Theodore R. Johnson / National Review:
Yes, Republicans Can Win Black Voters — From the November 2, 2015, issue of NR — In October 2012, just as presidential campaigning had reached fever pitch, I was raking leaves in the front yard of my northern-Virginia home when I noticed a pack of volunteers clad in “Romney 2012” …
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Sherrilyn A. Ifill / The Atlantic:
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Agency won't give GOP internal docs on climate research — The federal government's chief climate research agency is refusing to give House Republicans the detailed information they want on a controversial study on climate change. — Citing confidentiality concerns and the integrity …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. Household spending and business fixed investment have been increasing at solid rates in recent months …
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Pat Sullivan / BuzzFeed:
Rafael Cruz Says LGBT Activists Will Push To Legalize Pedophilia — Ted Cruz's father also warned against nondiscrimination ordinances, which he says promote the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. — SALT LAKE CITY — LGBT activists' next goal is legalizing pedophilia …
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Emily Kirschenheuter / KRON4.com:
Man shoots self in foot, bullet also hits 9-year-old neighbor — UPDATE: Forty-year-old Eric Smith will be arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm, felon in possession of a firearm, and felon in possession of ammunition, San Jose police said. — Smith and the boy were both taken …
Kathy Frankovic / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Trump leads GOP nationally ahead of third debate — Most Republican voters want someone from outside of the political establishment to win their party's nomination for the presidential election — Republicans haven't lost their appetite for presidential debates: two in three Republicans claim …
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