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1:30 PM ET, November 8, 2015

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James Hibberd / EW.com:
DONALD TRUMP GIVES SNL ITS BIGGEST RATINGS IN YEARS  —  Trump is still bringing the bump.  —  With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012.  —  According to NBC, SNL had a whopping 6.6 household rating on Saturday night …
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Hank Stuever Tv / Washington Post:
Trump's sorry night on ‘SNL’: An overhyped bummer for us all  —  Donald Trump's highly touted and almost certainly inappropriate hosting gig on NBC's “Saturday Night Live” turned out to be an anemic and halfhearted dud.  —  Once upon a time, not so long ago, there might be a lesson to learn …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Larry David yells 'Trump's a racist' during ‘SNL’ monologue  —  Comedian Larry David claimed a $5,000 bounty by calling Donald Trump a “racist” during his opening monologue on NBC's “Saturday Night Live” (SNL).  —  “You're a racist!” he yelled, interrupting Trump.
Discussion: Althouse, Slantpoint and Towleroad
John Santucci / ABC News:
Donald Trump Hosts ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Looks Ahead to 2018 in the White House  —  Donald Trump stepped into his role as host of “Saturday Night Live” telling the crowd he is hosting because “I really have nothing better to do.”  —  The GOP hopeful was greeted in his opening monologue …
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and Hot Air
William Leitch / Bloomberg Business:
Kind of Dead As Trump Hosts Saturday Night Live  —  The dancing and Larry David may have been the best bit as most cast members seemed not to want to be there.  —  williamfleitch  —  There's a certain look a cast member gets that longtime viewers of “Saturday Night Live” can instantly recognize.
Ana Marie Cox / The Daily Beast:
Ben Carson Thinks You're the Crazy One  —  The real reason we should mock Ben Carson's pyramid theory?  Because it reveals a very dim view of humankind.  —  Of all the gifts that Ben Carson has given comedy writers and Twitter wags in the past weeks, it's his stubborn belief …
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Bloomberg Business:
Donald Trump Says Ben Carson Has to ‘Explain a Lot of Things’  —  Carson says he's a threat to ‘secular progressive movement’  —  Inaccurate details possible in autobiography: Carson  —  Republican presidential contender Ben Carson “will have to explain a lot of things away” …
Discussion: Politico
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Carson thanks ‘biased media’ for $3.5M fundraising haul  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson claims his campaign has pulled in $3.5 million in fundraising dollars this week thanks to “biased media” coverage.  —  “We the People have made 10,000 donations each day this week, raising $3.5M this week alone.
Discussion: Mediaite
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Ben Carson and Donald Trump
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
James Murray Exclusive / Daily Express:
British extremists linked to jet bomb: London & Birmingham voices heard cheering disaster  —  BRITISH extremists were behind the bombing of a Russian jet over Egypt, intelligence experts believe.  —  GETTY  —  British extremists have been linked to the Russian jet bomb
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Reuters:
Exclusive - Investigators ‘90 percent sure’ of bomb on crashed Russian plane
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Dying of the Whites  —  STARTING around the turn of the millennium, the United States experienced the most alarming change in mortality rates since the AIDS epidemic.  This shift was caused, not by some dreadful new disease, but by drugs and alcohol and suicide — and it was concentrated …
Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Missouri football players to boycott until president Tim Wolfe resigns  —  More than 30 football players at the University of Missouri will not participate in any practices or games until Missouri System president Tim Wolfe resigns or is terminated.  Several black team members announced …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Fiorina defends not correcting ‘black Muslim’ remark about Obama  —  Carly Fiorina is defending her decision not to correct a man who characterized President Obama as a “black Muslim” at a diner in New Hampshire.  —  Fiorina said it wasn't her job to defend the president, noting that he “isn't on the ballot.”
Pauline Repard / The San Diego Union-Tribune stories:
Mystery light over ocean was missile test … A mysterious light that streaked across San Diego's night sky Saturday, visible as far away as Reno, was a Trident missile test-fired by the Navy.  —  Navy Strategic Systems Programs conducted the scheduled Trident II (D5) missile test flight …
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Jory Rand / abc7.com:
Secret military operations to divert LAX planes for a week
New York Times:
Marco Rubio's Use of Party Credit Card Reinforces a Picture of Messy Finances  —  Newly released credit card statements from the years when Senator Marco Rubio was a young Florida legislator on the fast track to leadership showed a pattern of falling behind on payments while he mingled …
Discussion: Fusion
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
New Rubio credit-card data show less spending
 
 
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Deroy Murdock / New York Post:
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