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Were YOU on the same flight as America's first Ebola victim?: United Airlines releases flight numbers for the planes Thomas Duncan caught from Liberia to Dallas — United Airlines revealed flight numbers for two out of three planes Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan reportedly traveled on during his trip to the US
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New York Times, The Hugh Hewitt Show, emptywheel and CBS Dallas
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Health Officials Say Up To 100 People May Have Been Exposed To Texas Ebola Patient
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Taylor Marsh, New York Times and USA Today
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
White House: No, We Don't Think We Should Ban Flights From Ebola Countries
White House: No, We Don't Think We Should Ban Flights From Ebola Countries
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Israel Matzav, RedState and Hot Air
Bill Hanna / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Wary of Ebola, Dallas parents pull kids from school
Wary of Ebola, Dallas parents pull kids from school
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Guardian, CNN, The PJ Tatler, American Thinker, NBC News, The Last Refuge and Mediaite
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
White House: No Ebola travel restrictions
White House: No Ebola travel restrictions
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Power Line, Wall Street Journal and National Review
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Republican Chances of Senate Takeover Are Improving — But Kansas race complicates matters — The race for the Senate is perceptively moving in the Republicans' direction, but not so dramatically that we're ready to call the race definitively for them. — While we've long said the 2014 map …
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The Moderate Voice, The Dish, Bloomberg View, Washington Post and Outside the Beltway
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Scott Bland / National Journal:
Why Women Are Democrats' Last Best Hope to Salvage the Senate
Why Women Are Democrats' Last Best Hope to Salvage the Senate
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Politico, Washington Post, InsideSources, Democratic Strategist, The Colorado Independent and ThinkProgress
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Ground game looms large in close Kansas Senate race
Ground game looms large in close Kansas Senate race
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Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Associated Press
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Neil Tyson's Final Words On His Quote Fabrications: “My bad” — After publishing an embarrassing non-apology on Facebook last week for repeated quote fabrications, planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Facebook again earlier this week to revise and extend his remarks. His full post can be found here.
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RedState, Ed Driscoll and National Review
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The Cult of Neil deGrasse Tyson — Neil deGrasse Tyson is a very famous and popular scientist. He even has a TV show. And wears a cool astronomical vest. Only he's not infallible. — Obama's life is at risk — FCC sacks NFL blackout rule — Liberal doves run as war hawks
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Cult of Neil deGrasse Tyson — Tyson could have said of the Bush quote, “You know, I might have messed that one up, and will check it out. Thanks for raising it.” Instead, he said he had an “explicit memory” of Bush saying it, and of “making a note for possible later reference in my public discourse.”
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Secret Service Director Julia Pierson Was a Victim of the “Glass Cliff” — On Wednesday, Julia Pierson, the first woman to ever lead the Secret Service in its nearly 150-year history, resigned her post amid heavy criticism over an intruder who was able to get as far as the East Room of the White House.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Althouse, New York Times, The Dish, Balloon Juice, Shakesville, Politico, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Instapundit, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
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Shawn McCoy / InsideSources:
IS Exclusive: Secret Service Agent Leaked President's Campaign Stops
IS Exclusive: Secret Service Agent Leaked President's Campaign Stops
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Guardian, Liberaland, Business Insider, Washington Post and The Hill
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
George W. Bush: I think Jeb wants it! — Former President George W. Bush says he thinks his brother Jeb wants to be in the White House and added that he is pushing his younger sibling to run for president in 2016. — “I think he wants to be president,'” George Bush said on Fox News on Thursday.
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Liberaland
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Why Boehner is wooing Jeb Bush — It's been a yearlong courtship, but no one quite knows if it will pay off. — For the past year, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has been wooing his longtime friend Jeb Bush to jump into the 2016 presidential race, even as he has shunned potential Tea Party rivals …
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Washington Post
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Bush on ISIS: America has learned ‘lesson’ about Iraq — Former President George W. Bush, who before leaving office warned against withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq too early, told Fox News that America has since learned the “lesson” that Iraqis are not yet capable of providing for their own security.
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New York Times and CBS DC
Politico:
Special Report: The Obama Paradox — BEYOND THE WHITE HOUSE BUBBLE — Obama's plans for a late night in Rome were shrouded in secrecy. — While American and Italian reporters chronicled his audience with Pope Francis and his tour of the Colosseum that day in late March …
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Washington Post
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The Supreme Court Just Took A Case That Could Make Partisan Gerrymandering Even Worse — The American people voted to make this woman Speaker of the House in 2012 — The Supreme Court of the United States may be poised to give the Republican Party a big gift — more seats in Arizona's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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SCOTUSblog and Constitution Daily
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What's Eating Nate Silver? — Nate Silver acknowledged that he was doing something a little unusual in a Sept. 17 blog post when he called out fellow forecaster Sam Wang of Princeton University. But it also appears to have been the culmination of a long-simmering — if largely under-the-radar — feud.
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Washington Monthly and Princeton Election Consortium
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Study: Good access to birth control prevents teen pregnancy, abortion — Birth control prevents teenage pregnancies and abortions — when teens know about it and are able to use it. — Of 560 young women deemed at high risk for pregnancy who were given free access to hormonal implants …
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The Atlantic Online, Al Jazeera America, Washington Post and Raw Story
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George Packer / New Yorker:
Two Speeches and a Tragedy — In his first year in office, President Obama gave two speeches—one in Cairo, the other in Oslo—that bear directly on the crisis in the Middle East today. The Cairo speech, in June, 2009, offered a message of peace and coöperation between America, the West, and the Muslim world.
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
George Zimmerman not expected to face civil rights charges in Trayvon Martin death — The Justice Department is not expected to bring civil rights charges against George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, according to three law enforcement officials, despite allegations that the killing was racially motivated.
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway, Shakesville, Hot Air, Mediaite and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion