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1:25 AM ET, October 31, 2015

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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Rules of Next Republican Debate Are Unveiled  —  Republican presidential candidates will not give opening statements at the next debate, hosted by the Fox Business Network, but they will have more time to respond to questions — 90 seconds in their initial answer, and a 60-second rebuttal …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
RNC pulls out of NBC debate  —  The Republican National Committee has pulled out of a planned Feb. 26 debate with NBC News after widespread criticism of this week's CNBC debate from both the party and campaigns.  —  “We are suspending the partnership with NBC News for the Republican primary debate …
Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio Spox: We're Not Complaining About The CNBC Debate — Our Guy Won!
Discussion: Mediaite
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
RNC suspends partnership with NBC
New York Times:
Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President  —  One of the wealthiest and most influential Republican donors in the country is throwing his support to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a decision that could swing millions of dollars in contributions behind …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Republican ‘Insiders’ Shine
New York Times:
White House Aims to Stop Release of Obama-Clinton Emails  —  WASHINGTON — The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Obama drawn into Clinton email controversy  —  President Barack Obama found himself drawn into Hillary Clinton's email controversy Friday as the White House acknowledged the State Department is withholding a set of messages Obama and Clinton exchanged during her four years as secretary of state.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
More Hillary Clinton Emails Released, One Describes ‘Weirdest Exchange Ever’
Discussion: Mother Jones
Reuters:
U.S. to deploy small number of special forces to Syria in advisory role  —  U.S. President Barack Obama plans to deploy a small number of special operations forces to Syria to advise rebels Washington deems moderate, U.S. sources said on Friday, a step he has long resisted to avoid getting dragged into another war in the Middle East.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama seeks to intensify operations in Syria with Special Ops troops
Wall Street Journal:
Chief Operating Officer Leaves Jeb Bush Campaign  —  The highest-ranking official known to lose her job in Jeb Bush's flagging campaign is Christine Ciccone, the campaign's chief operating officer.  —  News of Ms. Ciccone's departure comes a week after the Bush campaign announced a re-organization …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush team bracing for cash crunch
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
‘Shell-shocked’ CNBC staffers had long flight home  —  For the CNBC employees who boarded a charter plane right after Wednesday's bruising GOP debate, the redeye flight was physically smooth but emotionally turbulent.  —  People were exhausted, but also rattled and worried.
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Obama to Boehner: 'Man, I'm gonna miss you'  —  President Barack Obama placed a call to John Boehner on his penultimate day as Speaker, telling the Ohio Republican he was sorry to see him go.  —  “He said, 'Boehner, man, I'm gonna miss you,' ” Boehner recalled in an interview broadcast Friday on Fox News.
Discussion: Fox News, Politico, The Week and Hullabaloo
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Black Lives Matter protesters interrupt Hillary rally  —  Protesters with the Black Lives Matters movement interrupted a Hillary Clinton rally in Atlanta on Friday, where she planned to unveil her criminal justice reform plan.  —  Members of the civil rights group in the crowd chanted …
Discussion: Politico and Power Line
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Margaret Newkirk / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Vows to Fight Profiling as Black Protesters Chant
Discussion: Politico
Alex Thompson / Politico:
America's Most Dangerous Political Taboo  —  Political taboos, campaign dealbreakers and electoral glass ceilings are crumbling.  Members of Congress are openly gay and bisexual, there's a black man in the White House, and a woman may be next.  Voters have accepted all sorts of behavioral warts …
KPNX:
Storm gusts blow giant, inflatable pumpkin through Peoria  —  Halloween came early for drivers and pedestrians as a giant, inflatable pumpkin emerged from a group of trees before bouncing through a Peoria intersection and down the roadway in video captured on Thursday.
New York Post:
Fatal collapse at NYC building  —  One person was killed and another seriously injured when a ceiling collapsed Friday in a building under renovation at West 38th Street, sources said.  —  The injured person was trapped in the rubble at 25 W. 38th Street, sources said.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Gothamist
Hugh Forrest / South by Southwest 2016 Music …:
SXSW Announces March 12 Online Harassment Summit  —  Earlier this week we made a mistake.  By cancelling two sessions we sent an unintended message that SXSW not only tolerates online harassment but condones it, and for that we are truly sorry.  —  The resulting feedback from the individuals involved …
Frank WarnerContact / Morning Call:
School district working with police to identify Allentown teens involved in brawl with officers  —  Of The Morning Call … The Allentown School District is working with city police Friday morning to help identify some of the youths involved in a melee after school Thursday …
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks  —  High in the skies over Kazakhstan, space-age technology has revealed an ancient mystery on the ground.  —  Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks — geometric figures of squares …
Discussion: The Diplomat, Daily Mail and Gizmodo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Policy and Character  —  David Brooks writes a pro-Marco-Rubio column, and in passing says this: … It won't surprise you to learn that I disagree deeply.  My experience is that the best way to figure out a candidate's true priorities — and his or her character — is to look hard at policy proposals.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio Moment
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Politico
 
 
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6 injured in chemistry classroom fire at Woodson High in Fairfax
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Happy P.C. Halloween!
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Desperate Law Schools Are Admitting Way Too Many Poorly Qualified Students
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mayor Bill de Blasio's slow, awkward march toward endorsing …
Discussion: Gothamist and Allen B. West
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Heroin Crisis, White Families Seek Gentler War on Drugs
Discussion: Unfogged
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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