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8:20 AM ET, November 7, 2015

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point ‘scholarship’ but never applied  —  Editor's note: POLITICO stands by its reporting on this story, which has been updated to reflect Ben Carson's on the record response.  The original story and headline said that Carson's campaign had admitted he …
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Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
Team Carson: ‘Politico Story Is An Outright Lie’  —  “The campaign never ‘admitted to anything,’” a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told The Daily Caller News Foundation in response to a hit by Politico claiming his campaign admitted to “fabricating” a key point about his West Point story.
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Ben Carson's Past Faces Deeper Questions  —  In harsh light of presidential politics, parts of his inspirational biography are questioned  —  The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968, Ben Carson's black classmates unleashed their anger and grief on white students who were a minority at Detroit's Southwestern High.
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
No, Ben Carson Didn't Lie About West Point.  It's Another Media Hit Job.  —  Never underestimate the capacity of the media to propagandize against Republicans.  —  That's the theme of this morning's overwrought news coverage on Dr. Ben Carson's supposed “lie” regarding a “scholarship” to West Point.
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson Seems to Have a Serious Personal Honesty Problem
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Defends Claim That He Was Offered a Scholarship to West Point
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Video Proof: CNN's Attack On Ben Carson's Biography Is Racially-Motivated
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The West Point Flap: How Much Will It Hurt Carson? [With comment by Paul]
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Ben Carson's allies defend West Point story
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Ben Carson's Fall Is a Damning Indictment of Conservative Politics
Discussion: Washington Post
Bill McMorris / Washington Free Beacon:
Union: Obama Threw Workers Under the Bus  —  One of the nation's largest unions accused President Obama of betraying workers and the labor movement by blocking the Keystone Pipeline and is backing up its rhetoric with campaign donations to Republicans.  —  The Laborers' International Union …
Discussion: CNN and Moe Lane
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Rebecca Leber / New Republic:   Obama Rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline—And Secures His Environmental Legacy
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Citing Climate Change, Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
The Hill:
Obama rejects Keystone pipeline
Discussion: Politico and The PJ Tatler
Diana Moskovitz / Deadspin:
This Is Why NFL Star Greg Hardy Was Arrested For Assaulting His Ex-Girlfriend  —  Barefoot and frightened, Nicole Holder walked as fast as she could through the darkness, and the moment she saw the cops she ran.  She headed west on Fifth Street toward North Church, away from the Charlotte. …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Source: Key Clinton emails did not contain highly classified secrets  —  The U.S. intelligence community has retreated from claims that two emails in Hillary Clinton's private account contained top-secret information, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Leading Trump Supporter In Oklahoma Has Epically Offensive Facebook Page  —  An Oklahoma woman who has taken a prominent role with the Donald Trump campaign in the state has posted a variety of anti-Muslim, anti-transgender and other wildly offensive content to her public Facebook page.
Discussion: The Lost Ogle and Raw Story
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Reid, Pelosi pushing for repeal of ObamaCare's ‘Cadillac tax’  —  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are working behind the scenes to repeal one of the most controversial taxes in ObamaCare, multiple sources tell The Hill.
Discussion: Josh Blackman's Blog
Haley Hudler / FIRE:
Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email  —  Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus.  —  Students called for the resignation of Associate Master …
New York Daily News:
Donald Trump had an uncredited ghostwriter for his new book, ‘Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again’  —  Donald Trump's new book, “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again,” was written by a ghostwriter, two sources confirm to Confidenti@l.
Fox News:
Campus stabber's manifesto included ‘praise for Allah,’ plan for beheading  —  A handwritten manifesto carried by a California college student whose stabbing spree Wednesday left four wounded bore names of his targets, a vow “to cut someone's head off” and as many as five reminders to …
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Carly Fiorina Doesn't Correct Man Who Calls Obama a ‘Black Muslim’
Greg Hilburn / The News Star:
Edwards ad: Vitter chose prostitutes over patriots  —  Democrat state Rep. John Bel Edwards has cut a TV ad attacking Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter specifically about Vitter's prostitution scandal for the first time during the Louisiana gubernatorial campaign.
 
 
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