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1:25 AM ET, October 22, 2010

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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
In wake of NPR controversy, Fox News gives Juan Williams an expanded role  —  The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million.  Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network for its response to Williams' comments about Muslims.
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
NPR CEO: Williams' Views Should Stay Between Himself And ‘His Psychiatrist’  —  Update at 3:30 p.m. ET.  NPR CEO Vivian Schiller just released this statement:  —  “I spoke hastily and I apologize to Juan and others for my thoughtless remark.”  —  That follows, as you'll see below …
Juan Williams / Fox News:
I Was Fired for Telling the Truth  —  Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth.  The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims.  —  This is not a bigoted statement.
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Juan Williams: Going Rogue  —  At a time when our country is dangerously in debt and looking for areas of federal spending to cut, I think we've found a good candidate for defunding.  National Public Radio is a public institution that directly or indirectly exists because the taxpayers fund it.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
What about Mara Liasson?  —  News that Juan Williams' contract with NPR was terminated over comments he made about Muslims while appearing on Fox News shines a spotlight on the radio network's the sorta/kinda serious shows.  " The only way she'd really be able to defend her continued alliance …
Rodney Ho / Radio & TV Talk:
First interview with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller on Juan Williams firing  —  Call me lucky.  I had a pre-scheduled interview this morning with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller this morning before her speech at the Atlanta Press Club Newsmakers luncheon at the 191 Club in downtown Atlanta.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
One Comment, Two Takes at NPR and Fox
Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
While a Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American Islamic Relations …
Discussion: Hot Air and Hit & Run
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR Ends Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Juan Williams Calls Firing By NPR ‘Chilling Assault on Free Speech’
People-Press.org:
Ground War More Intense Than 2006, Early Voting More Prevalent  —  Democrats Stirring But Are No Match for Energized Republicans  —  As the midterm elections approach, there is every indication that voter turnout will be as high as in 2006, but unlike four years ago, Republicans …
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CBS News:
Strong Turnout for Democrats in Early Voting  —  1st Figures on Early Balloting Show GOP Gains on 2008 Numbers, But Democrats Hold Edge in Some Key States  —  (CBS/AP) Election Day is already over for more than 3 million Americans, and a surprising number of them are Democrats.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
A Closer Look at Early Voting in Colorado  —  Democrats are happy with early vote totals in general, but the news appears grim in Colorado, where Republicans have requested and returned more ballots than Democrats.  However, a look behind the numbers shows something slightly different.
Warner Todd Huston / Publius Forum:
AP Says Dem Early Voters Big Turnout in MD, But MD Early Voting Hasn't Started
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Hurricane Sarah  —  The election is two weeks away, but the campaign trail reviews of Sarah Palin are already in, and they aren't pretty.  —  According to multiple Republican campaign sources, the former Alaska governor wreaks havoc on campaign logistics and planning.
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msnbc.com:
Toxic powder sent to Arizona congressman  —  Office locked down after swastika-covered envelope discovered  —  TUCSON, Ariz. — White powder delivered in an swastika-covered envelope to the Tucson, Ariz., office of Rep. Raul Grijalva is a toxic substance, the Democratic congressman said the FBI told him Thursday afternoon.
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Toxic substance forces closure of Grijalva office
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Clinton: GOP banking on 'yesterday's America' showing up Election Day  —  BALTIMORE - Former President Bill Clinton singled out Karl Rove and the “secret committees” for causing a “crazy food fight” that's confusing voters during a rally for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D).
Discussion: CNN
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:   Rep. Cummings: Media wants Dems to ‘apologize’ for healthcare reform
Peter Wallsten / Washington Wire:
Cyber Attack Strikes FreedomWorks  —  A mysterious cyber attack apparently struck the computer servers at the pro-tea party group FreedomWorks this morning, just as it launched a major fund-raising drive.  —  FreedomWorks officials are investigating, but they suspect they were attacked deliberately …
Kenric Ward / sunshinestatenews.com:
West Winning Wild CD 22 Race, Poll Shows  —  In rematch, Republican holds slight lead over Rep. Klein in ‘referendum on the president’  —  Republican Allen West narrowly leads U.S. Rep. Ron Klein in a bruising battle for South Florida's 22nd Congressional District, a new Sunshine State News Poll shows.
Molly Ball / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell: Favorite Democratic punching bag  —  Christine O'Donnell is only on one state's ballot this year, but it would be easy for voters elsewhere to think otherwise.  Democrats in some of the nation's most competitive Senate races are invoking the Delaware Republican Senate …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Reuters
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Obama heading to four key states, including Illinois, final weekend
Discussion: The Hill, The Politico and The Note
NPR:
Nina Totenberg  —  Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent.  Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.  —  Totenberg's coverage of the Supreme Court and legal affairs has won her widespread recognition.
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Democrats accuse Rand Paul of ‘misogyny’  —  Down in the polls and running out of time in the Kentucky Senate race, Democrats are broadening their attack over the alleged “Aqua Buddha” prank from Republican Rand Paul's college days, saying it shows he's insensitive to women.
Fox News:
A Brief History of NPR's Intolerance and Imbalance  —  From calling Tea Party members “Tea Baggers,” to saying that “the evaporation of 4 million” Christians would leave the world a better place, to suggesting that God could give former Sen. Jesse Helms or his family AIDS from a blood transfusion …
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Reid: 'But For Me, We'd Be in World-Wide Depression'  —  Where would the world be without Harry Reid?  —  This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.
Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:
Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes  —  Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda.  —  Google's income shifting — involving strategies known …
Daily Mail:
Cafe owner ordered to remove extractor fan because neighbour claimed ‘smell of frying bacon offends Muslims’  —  A hard-working cafe owner has been ordered to tear down an extractor fan - because the smell of her frying bacon ‘offends’ Muslims.  —  Planning bosses acted against Beverley Akciecek …
Wall Street Journal:
Campaign's Big Spender  —  Public-Employees Union Now Leads All Groups in Independent Election Outlays  —  The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Newsalert
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
New study shows ObamaCare subsidies potentially five times higher in first year than predicted  —  In passing ObamaCare, Democrats argued that it would provide a net relief to the budget deficit in its balance of new taxes and fees, drastic cuts to Medicare Advantage, and the subsidies …
Discussion: Verum Serum
 
 
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Hardliners call for deaths of Surrey Muslims
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Andrew Lawton / Strictly Right:
BREAKING: Conference facility caves to pressure from Islamic groups …
Chicago Breaking News:
Bush speaks in Chicago, plugs new book
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 Earlier Items: 
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
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David Holthouse / Anchorage Press:
Duking it out - While Joe Miller declares war on the media …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
CDC finds stark regional disparities in teen-pregnancy rates
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John Donvan / ABCNEWS:
Did President Clinton Lose Nuclear Codes?
Matthew Cooper / National Journal Online:
Obama, McConnell Call For Humility After The Election
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