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3:40 AM ET, November 4, 2015

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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Jeb Bush Says He Was Wrong about France's Workweek  —  “I really did a disservice to the French,” he joked  —  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush lightheartedly apologized to the people of France on Tuesday for making fun of their work week during last week's Republican debate.
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Brad Mielke / ABC News:
Here at a barn in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush was fired up.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Is Ben Carson Running for President?  —  Or is he running a clever marketing scam?  —  On February 7, 2013, Ben Carson appeared at a National Prayer Breakfast, where he visibly annoyed President Obama by delivering a right-wing speech denouncing Obamacare and cultural liberalism, and calling for a flat tax based on the biblical tithe.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Clinton, Carson in Dead Heat in 2016 Matchup, New Poll Finds  —  One year out before the 2016 general election, Hillary Clinton and Ben Carson are tied in a hypothetical matchup, but Clinton leads three other major Republican candidates, according to brand-new numbers from the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Erick Erickson / Erick on the Radio:
Ben Carson's Burn Rate
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and VodkaPundit
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Republican Bevin wins Kentucky governor's race  —  Republican Matt Bevin easily won Kentucky's governorship on Tuesday as the GOP made major inroads in a state that had stubbornly resisted the party at the state level even as it voted reliably Republican in federal contests in recent years.
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Megyn Kelly Ridicules GOP Debate Letter: Want A Foot Massage Too?  —  Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Monday night mocked the letter drafted by Republican presidential campaigns listing a series of rules and questions for networks hosting future debates.  —  After listing some of the demands …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
GOP campaigns fail to unite around debate demands
Discussion: The Week, ABC News and Mediaite
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republicans struggle with defections from debates plan
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Carson Blames Enemy ‘Submarine’ For Questions About Ties To Company (AUDIO)  —  Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday suggested that a rival presidential campaign had leaked information about his relationship to a medical supplement company to a conservative news outlet in order to discredit him.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson on Americans: “Many of Them Are Stupid.”
Gizmodo:
Hey Ted Cruz, You're Holding Your Gun Backwards  —  Staunch gun rights advocate Ted Cruz is here seen holding a shotgun while being interviewed by CNN.  Can you see what he's doing wrong?  That's right, he's violating the first two rules of gun safety.  —  When you learn to shoot …
Eitan Hersh / FiveThirtyEight:
How Democrats Suppress The Vote  —  In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers to participation.  But when it comes to scheduling off-cycle elections6 …
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos / The Atlantic:
A Feasible Roadmap to Compulsory Voting
Discussion: Hit & Run and Hullabaloo
Glenn WhippContact / Los Angeles Times:
Quentin Tarantino says police boycotts don't intimidate him: 'I'm not a cop hater'  —  Under fire from law enforcement groups across the country, director Quentin Tarantino said Tuesday that his remarks condemning police brutality have been misrepresented to “demonize” him and deflect attention away from the issue.
Hbo Pr / Medium:
JON STEWART AND HBO CONCLUDE EXCLUSIVE FOUR-YEAR PRODUCTION PACT  —  Deal Kicks Off With Creation Of Topical Short-Form Digital Content  —  Jon Stewart and HBO have concluded an exclusive four-year production pact, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.
fox13now.com:
Fight over Confederate Flag decal could be investigated as hate crime, police say  —  WARNING: Video above may be violent for some viewers.  Watch with discretion.  —  SALT LAKE CITY — A fight outside a Salt Lake City hotel early Sunday morning could possibly be investigated as a hate crime, authorities said Monday.
Denver Post:
Jefferson County Public Schools see new five-member board take over after election  —  LAKEWOOD — Voters overwhelmingly chose to recall three members of the Jefferson County school board Tuesday night and elected two others to form an entirely new board in Colorado's second-largest school district.
Peter Fricke / Campus Reform:
VIDEO: Administrators literally shred Constitution after reporter calls it ‘oppressive’ and ‘triggering’  — A reporter from Project Veritas covertly filmed administrators at Vassar College agreeing to shred the Constitution.  — Other profs. at Oberlin are shown in the video seemingly agreeing …
Ynetnews:
Sudanese citizen tried to kill Israeli on int'l flight  —  Israeli worker in Africa attacked by Sudanese citizen during an Ethiopian Airlines flight; crew members, Lebanese passenger save the Israeli and overpower attacker.  —  Itai Blumenthal  —  Ethiopian authorities arrested …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Jihad Watch
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Bygones: Israel and the U.S. Try to Move Beyond Iran  —  Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched his defense chief, Moshe “Bogie” Ya'alon, to Washington, to help smooth the way for his own visit next week, which will be his first since President Barack Obama defeated …
Rob Polansky / WFSB-TV:
Joe Ganim claims victory in Bridgeport mayor's race  —  According to unofficial results, the city of Bridgeport has a new mayor.  —  On Tuesday evening, Joe Ganim claimed victory in the race for mayor, as he received more than 59 percent of the votes.  —  “Tonight we won overwhelmingly …
Discussion: CBS New York and Political Wire
Jonathan Allen / Reuters:
U.S. Republicans ask IRS to audit Clinton charity's finances  —  The U.S. Republican Party filed a formal complaint against one of Hillary Clinton's family charities with the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday and is calling for an audit after the charity said this week it would not refile erroneous tax returns.
Discussion: Fox News and Politico
Heidi Beirich / Southern Poverty Law Center:
What's the Matter with Kansas' Kris Kobach?  —  On Oct. 25, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach was a featured speaker at a “writers' workshop” put on by the white nationalist The Social Contract Press (TSCP), according to a report from the Center for New Community.  For an elected official, this is a problem.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Texas man snaps up JebCanFixIt.com  —  Jeb Bush could fix this.  —  The former Florida governor apparently failed to secure the JebCanFixIt.com domain name when he rolled out the slogan as part of the relaunch of his sagging presidential campaign.  —  In the meantime, Jimmy Flannigan …
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
Larry Summers: Advanced economies are so sick we need a new way to think about them  —  Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard, is a former treasury secretary and director of the National Economic Council in the White House.
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran Ayatollah: ‘Death to America’ refers to US policies  —  1 photo  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The slogan “Death to America” is not aimed at the American people, but rather American policies, Iran's supreme leader said in comments reported on his official website Tuesday.
 
 
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Lauren French / Politico:
Freedom Caucus giving Ryan benefit of the doubt
Discussion: Hot Air and CNN
Breitbart:
Polish Football Fans Unfurl 50-Foot ‘Stand And Defend Christianity’ Banner At Premier League Match
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Rosalie Murphy / Desert Sun:
Police investigating LGBT leaders' attack as hate crime
Discussion: Towleroad and Raw Story
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Scandal, Explicit Emails, Behind The Most Expensive Supreme Court Race In American History
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
DNC chief to Trump: ‘Just keep talking’
Discussion: Mediaite
Andrew M. Duehren / Harvard News:
At Harvard Law School, Students Call for Change of Seal
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Margaret Cho tells Stephen Colbert white people ruined racist jokes: ‘White fragility is so annoying’
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
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David Roberts / Vox:
Staring at computers at night is frying your brain. Here's one easy fix.
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David French / National Review:
White Liberals Love Black Radicals — That's Why They Love Ta-Nehisi Coates
Discussion: Progress Pond
Akarshan Kumar / The Twitter Blog:
Hearts on Twitter  —  We hope you like what you see on Twitter and Vine today: hearts!
Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project:
U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious
 

 
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The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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