memeorandum: Trump on Boehner resignation: 'It's a good thing' (Jonathan Easley/The Hill)

10:10 AM ET, September 26, 2015

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Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:

Pope Francis to Release Pop-Rock Album ‘Wake Up!’ — Hear uplifting, prog rock-inspired track, “Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!” — As Pope Francis embarks on his historic visit to the United States, His Holiness will spread his message of hope, faith and unity in the form of a prog-rock-infused album titled Wake Up! this November.

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Regina Medina / Philly.com:

Holy water: U.S. Rep. Brady helps himself to pope's glass — THE HEAVENS may know that Pope Francis on Thursday addressed a joint meeting of Congress, a glass of water by his side. It may not be as widely known that U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, D-Philadelphia, was keeping an eye on that glass of water.

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Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:

Holy water: Congressman steals Pope Francis' glass after White House address to sip remaining liquid with his wife - and then saves some to sprinkle on his grandchildren — Representative Bob Brady, a devout Catholic and Democrat from Pennsylvania took Pope Francis' water glass on Thursday

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Emma Green / The Atlantic: What Does It Mean to Lament the Poor Inside Panem?

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Meet the Congressman Who Drank From the Pope's Glass

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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:

Officials: More work emails from Clinton's private account — 1 photo — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has discovered a chain of emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to turn over when she provided what she said was the full record of work-related correspondence as secretary of state …

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Tim Mak / The Daily Beast:

State Department Hands Over ‘New’ Hillary Clinton Emails to Benghazi Panel — Foggy Bottom uncovers additional messages related to the oft-investigated attack. Why didn't they find the emails sooner? — The State Department has said over and over again that it turned …

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton may not have turned over all her emails

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Trump on Boehner resignation: 'It's a good thing' — Donald Trump said Friday it was time for Speaker John Boehner to go because he didn't fight hard enough for conservative principles. — Mobbed by reporters outside the main ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington ahead …

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Robert Costa / Washington Post:

What John Boehner told me the night before he said he was quitting — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights … It was late Thursday at the Capitol and the crowds had gone. Outside of House Speaker John A. Boehner's suite, the halls were empty and silent …

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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Standing O at Values Voter Summit as Rubio announces Boehner's resignation — Conservative voters roared in a standing ovation Friday at the Values Voter Summit in Washington after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) plans to retire.

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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Rush To Dance On John Boehner's Grave

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Sarah Kliff / Vox:

Stat check: No, women couldn't just “go somewhere else” if Planned Parenthood closed — The “defund Planned Parenthood” movement has a standard response to the question of where women would go if their local clinic closed: somewhere else. — “There are 13,000 community-based organizations …

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Boehner move all but assures no shutdown

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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Resignation triggers all-out leadership scramble

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whitehouse.gov:

FACT SHEET: President Xi Jinping's State Visit to the United States — On September 24-25, 2015, President Barack Obama hosted President Xi Jinping of China for a State visit. The two heads of state exchanged views on a range of global, regional, and bilateral subjects.

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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Obama raises trade, human rights in Xi's welcome

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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:

Bitter Truce: Fox News' Ailes ‘Furious’ at National Review's Rich Lowry for Forcing Fox to Cede ‘Moral High Ground’ to Donald Trump — The Fox News Channel's top executive, Roger Ailes, is “furious” at the National Review's editor Rich Lowry for using foul language in an attack …

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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:

Carly Fiorina's bogus ‘secretary to CEO’ career trajectory (Fact Checker biography) — Editor's Note: Every candidate running for president likes to highlight certain aspects of his or her biography. This is an occasional series taking a deeper look at 2016 candidates' claims about their personal, professional or political record.

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Katie Glueck / Politico:

GOP insiders: Jindal and Pataki quit next — <p>Bobby Jindal and George Pataki are the next two quitters in the Republican field.</p><p>That's the assessment of Republicans in the POLITICO Caucus, our weekly bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in Iowa …

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