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7:20 PM ET, October 1, 2014

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Owen Boss / Boston Herald:
Herald cartoonist apologizes for Obama cartoon  —  By:  —  Boston Herald cartoonist Jerry Holbert took to the airwaves this morning to apologize for a political cartoon that set off a social media firestorm after appearing on the paper's editorial page.  —  “I want to apologize to anyone …
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Boston Magazine:
EARLIER:  —  A political cartoon in Wednesday's Boston Herald is raising eyebrows and has people calling the newspaper “racist.”  —  The cartoon depicts President Barack Obama brushing his teeth in the bathroom of the White House, as the man recently accused of storming the building …
Bloomberg:
Secret Service Chief Pierson Resigns Amid Security Gaps  —  Embattled U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson, the first woman to lead the agency in charge of protecting the president, resigned amid mounting criticism over a series of security lapses.  —  Pierson stepped down only 18 months …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Showing Concern for the President, Even While Criticizing Him  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days.  As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
‘Morning Joe’ Piles On The ‘Politically Correct’ Secret Service (VIDEO)
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Hullabaloo
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:   NYT: Say, Why Don't Republicans Want President Obama to be Killed?
Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigns
Katherine Connell / National Review:
White House to Media: Sit Down and Don't Interview
CNN:
Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigns
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Dem on Secret Service director: ‘I think this lady has to go’
Ronald Kessler / Politico:
Something Is Rotten in the Secret Service
New York Times:   Secret Service Director Resigns in Scandal Over Security Lapses
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
College GOP: Democrats Are Like a Bad Wedding Dress  —  The College Republican National Committee launched on Wednesday a nearly $1 million digital ad campaign across 16 states, aiming to draw young voters to the GOP with what the group's chief calls “culturally relevant” ad campaigns.
Suffolk University:
Kansas Poll Shows Independent Greg Orman Leading Incumbent Pat Roberts in U.S. Senate Race  —  Independent businessman and political enigma Greg Orman (46 percent) is leading three-term Republican incumbent Pat Roberts (41 percent) in the race for U.S. Senate in Kansas, with 11 percent undecided …
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Susan Page / Associated Press:
Poll: For the GOP — What's the matter with Kansas?
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times Plans Cutbacks in Newsroom Staff  —  The New York Times plans to eliminate about 100 newsroom jobs, as well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations, offering buyouts and resorting to layoffs if enough people do not leave voluntarily, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
Liberian Officials Identify Ebola Victim in Texas as Thomas Eric Duncan  —  MONROVIA, Liberia — A man who flew to Dallas and was later found to have the Ebola virus was identified by senior Liberian government officials on Wednesday as Thomas Eric Duncan, a resident of Monrovia in his mid-40s.
Salon:
Gun nuts' tragic confusion: Why “open carry” groups don't get police brutality  —  To their credit, some gun groups were upset when John Crawford was shot by cops.  The problem is their odd reasoning  —  After finally being allowed to view the video of the police shooting of a man in an Ohio Wal-Mart …
Chris Cox / Facebook:
I want to apologize to the affected community of drag queens, drag kings, transgender, and extensive community of our friends, neighbors, and members of the LGBT community for the hardship that we've put you through in dealing with your Facebook accounts over the past few weeks.
Matt Campbell / Matt Campbell's Blue Hog Report:
BREAKING: Leslie Rutledge's Voter Registration Canceled; Candidacy Now In Question  —  And you thought the DHS rumors were troubling.  —  According to multiple reports — the veracity of which I have no reason to doubt, but the confirmation of which I will have to wait until 8am tomorrow to confirm …
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
The Obama administration warned Israel on Wednesday that plans for a controversial new housing project in east Jerusalem would distance Israel from “even its closest allies” and raise questions about its commitment to seeking peace with Palestinians.  —  The strikingly sharp criticism …
Discussion: Politico
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Joseph Miller / The Daily Caller:
Pentagon Official: The President Is Lying To America — About Us, And About ISIS
Discussion: Power Line, VodkaPundit and Hot Air
CNN:
Michael Dunn found guilty of 1st-degree murder in loud-music trial  —  Jacksonville, Florida (CNN) — Jurors found Michael Dunn guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2012 shooting death 17-year-old Jordan Davis.  —  Dunn's parents were in the courtroom for the verdict.
Discussion: Mediaite
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Hong Kong Government's Strategy on Protesters: Wait Them Out  —  HONG KONG — As crowds of pro-democracy protesters swelled further here on Wednesday, a national holiday, Hong Kong's chief executive and his inner core of advisers have decided, with support from China's leaders …
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Frances Eve / Chinese Human Rights Defenders:
[CHRB] Activists Across China Detained for Supporting Democracy Protests in Hong Kong (9/19-10/1/2014)
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Are Liberals Fund-Raising Hypocrites?  —  Let's imagine that Republicans swept the 2012 elections and were now in control not merely of the House but of the presidency and the Senate, too.  —  Now let's take it one step further and say that by using the filibuster the Democratic minority …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post
Stevie Poole / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
State Sen. Perry discusses morals in inaugural speech  —  Perry: ‘The biggest challenge we face is the spiritual battle for the spirit of this nation and the soul of its people’  —  After placing his hand on the Bible and taking the oath of office, state Sen. Charles Perry compared what he called the …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Thomas K. Lindsay / The Hill:
Two years after college, too many grads are still ‘adrift’  —  The higher-education world was rocked three years ago by the publication of the landmark study of collegiate learning, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa.
Discussion: National Review
Ari Phillips / ThinkProgress:
35,000 Walrus Converge On Alaska Beach As Sea Ice Retreats  —  In this aerial photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014, and provided by NOAA, some 35,000 walrus gather on shore near Point Lay, Alaska.  Pacific walrus looking for places to rest in the absence of sea ice are coming to shore in record numbers on Alaska's northwest coast.
USA Today:
Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola  —  DALLAS — Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday.
 
 
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Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News Nabs Historic Cable Ratings Victory
Discussion: Hot Air
Tallahassee Democrat:
Officer placed on paid leave in tasing incident
Jaime Fuller / Washington Post:
Here is a video of a congressman pretending to be Bruce Lee
Discussion: Business Insider and Mediaite
Sadie Gurman / Associated Press:
Federal Appeals Court to Mull Guns in Post Offices
Discussion: Instapundit
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking: 4th Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Partially Blocks NC Voting Changes: Analysis
Discussion: The Nation
Nathaniel Rich / The New Republic:
Louisiana Is Disappearing Into the Sea
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Pryor says he's working for ‘smaller’ government
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Lorenzo Zazueta-Castro / Monitor:
Man charged after he kills girlfriend while cleaning gun
Deirdre Shesgreen / Cincinnati.com:
Boehner: Bush has real shot in 2016 election
Discussion: Mediaite
Richard Wilson / Dayton Daily News:
Vandalia teen accidentally shoots herself and father
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
President Obama is winning on a foreign policy issue — for a change
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
GAO says Obama administration can't bail out insurers without Congress
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
This Is How Eva Longoria Is Trying to Win the Midterms
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
On Hobby Lobby, Ginsburg Was Right
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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