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10:00 AM ET, October 10, 2013

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Pressure Mounts, House G.O.P. Weighs Short-Term Debt Deal  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans, increasingly isolated from even some of their strongest supporters more than a week into a government shutdown, began on Wednesday to consider a path out of the fiscal impasse that would raise …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New GOP strategy: Offer deal on debt limit, but keep shutdown fight going  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL REPUBLICAN PARTY JOHN BOEHNER DEBT CEILING GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  Many House Republicans, including some key leaders, have decided they can live with a government shutdown but not with the threat of default.
Discussion: The Plum Line and Hot Air
U-T San Diego / utsandiego.com:
President Obama's shameful death-benefit theater  —  The Obama administration insisted Tuesday it had no choice but to withhold death benefits to relatives of 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno, a 25-year-old soldier born and raised in San Diego, and four other soldiers killed since the partial government shutdown began Oct. 1.
Wall Street Journal:
CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON—The partisan logjam that has paralyzed the capital showed signs of easing Wednesday, as conservative Republicans warmed to the idea of a short-term increase in the country's borrowing limit and House GOP leaders prepared for their first meeting with President Barack Obama since the government shutdown began.
Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Eleanor Holmes Norton confronts Obama on D.C. budget bill
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and WJLA-TV
Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
House Republicans Expect to Approve Short-Term Debt Deal
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Wolf Blitzer: White House Should Take GOP ‘Advice,’ Delay Obamacare Website
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low  —  Falls 10 percentage points from September's 38%  —  This article is part of an ongoing series analyzing how the government shutdown and the debate over raising the debt ceiling are affecting Americans' views of government, government leaders …
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New York Times:
Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown grinds toward a potential debt default, some of the country's most influential business executives have come to a conclusion all but unthinkable a few years ago: Their voices are carrying little weight …
Washington Post:
Key Republicans signal willingness to back down on effort to defund health-care law
Politico:
GOP quietly backing away from Obamacare  —  A fight over Obamacare?  That's so last week.  —  With the government shutdown firmly in its second week, and the debt limit projected to be reached next Thursday, top House and Senate Republicans are publicly moving away from gutting the health care law …
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Politico:
Mitch McConnell, Senate GOP search for way out
Justin Sink / The Hill:
House GOP ‘negotiators’ to meet Obama
Discussion: CNN, The Hill, The Impolitic and Taking Note
CNN:
Rebels kidnap Libyan PM Ali Zeidan, his office says  —  (CNN) — Armed men kidnapped Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan at dawn Thursday and took him to an undisclosed location, his office said.  —  The gunmen escorted the prime minister from the Corinthian Hotel in Tripoli into a convoy of waiting cars …
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Reuters:
Libyan PM briefly held by gunmen angry at U.S. Qaeda capture
Discussion: The Hill and Spectator
BBC:
Libyan PM Ali Zeidan detained by militia
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough: A NYT Editor Told Me Krugman's Column Is Newspaper's ‘Biggest Nightmare’  —  MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Thursday that a public editor at the New York Times considers liberal columnist Paul Krugman's work to be an ongoing “nightmare” for the newspaper.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize in Literature  —  Alice Munro, the renowned Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
James Hohmann / Politico:
Virginia governor election: Less money, more problems for Cuccinelli  —  Ken Cuccinelli is getting crushed on the Virginia airwaves, and it's probably only going to get worse - a major factor thwarting the Republican's hopes of a comeback in a governor's race that's been slipping away.
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Most Utahns disapprove of Sen. Mike Lee, want him to compromise  —  Public opinion » The senator says his position won't change.  —  | The Salt Lake Tribune  —  More than half of Utah voters now disapprove of the performance of Utah Sen. Mike Lee, with support for the junior senator …
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
When Does Wall Street Cast Its Vote?  —  NOTABLES  — A GLIMMER OF A DEAL?:  A House Republican leadership source says House GOP leaders are coalescing around a plan to provide a six-week extension of the debt limit - putting off the threat of default until early December and allowing …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and ABC News
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Ted Cruz poll shows GOP gained in fight over Obamacare despite shutdown  —  BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE REPUBLICAN PARTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLLS TED CRUZ PENNAVE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN  —  Sen. Ted Cruz during a closed-door lunch on Wednesday argued to his Republican colleagues that the campaign …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Let's Get Cynical  —  Why should we trust the government—especially now?  —  “An old friend who has been active in politics for more than 30 years tells me he's giving up,” claims Robert Reich in a Puffington Host post: " 'I can't stomach what's going on in Washington anymore,' he says.
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Yellen's Path From Liberal Theorist to Fed Voice for Jobs  —  BERKELEY, Calif. — When the economists Janet L. Yellen and George A. Akerlof hired a baby sitter for their son in the early 1980s, they decided to pay more than the going wage.  They reasoned that a happier baby sitter would provide better care.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Announcing Fed Nomination, Obama Praises Yellen
Rich Lowry / Reuters:
Train wreck: The Obamacare rollout  —  'I'm not yet ready to be tsar," Nicholas II reportedly said in 1894 when his predecessor died. “  I know nothing of the business of ruling.  The tsarina of Obamacare, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, must know how he felt.
Discussion: Politico
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Developments in Financial Markets and the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet  —  The Manager of the System Open Market Account reported on developments in domestic and foreign financial markets as well as the System open market operations during the period since the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met on July 30-31, 2013.
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  October 10, 2013 - Christie Holds Almost 2-1 Lead In New Jersey Gov Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Say Override Gov Veto On Same-Sex Marriage  —  Despite strong support for same-sex marriage, which New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie is blocking …
Discussion: msnbc.com and CNN
 
 
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Bill Hoffmann / NewsMax.com:
Rep. Louie Gohmert: White House Using ‘Al Capone’ Tactics
Harry Siegel / NY Daily News:
The pendulum swings left
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Alec Baldwin dishes on new show
Discussion: Deadline.com, NewsBusters and TVNewser
James Slack / Daily Mail:
Guardian has handed a gift to terrorists', warns MI5 chief: Left-wing paper's leaks caused …
Discussion: Guardian and Jihad Watch
Andrew Parker / Telegraph:
MI5 chief security speech
Discussion: National Review
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Florida Defends New Effort to Clean Up Voter Rolls
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Liberal Dem: EPA biofuel program ‘a flop’
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
 Earlier Items: 
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Holmes Norton: Obama is ‘a big boy’
Discussion: Politico
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Ohio's GOP Governor May Adopt Obamacare Via Executive Order
Discussion: The Columbus Dispatch
Ryan Dunn / Courier:
You're still legally dead, judge tells Fostoria man
Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register:
Updated: Ihlenfeld ID's Shooter as Former Wheeling Police Officer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland