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6:50 PM ET, September 29, 2015

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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Planned Parenthood Head Shuts Down GOP Chair Over Abortion Chart (VIDEO)  —  Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) stumbled near the start of a tense hearing on Tuesday when Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards told him to check his sources on a chart that he said showed a decrease in breast exams …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Chair Repeatedly Interrupts Planned Parenthood Head At Hearing (VIDEO)  —  Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) repeatedly interrupted Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards as she tried to answer his questions Tuesday in front of the House Oversight Committee.
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Missouri Finds Planned Parenthood Didn't Mishandle Fetal Tissue  —  An investigation by the attorney general's office in Missouri has found no evidence that a Planned Parenthood clinic in the state illegally handled fetal tissue.  —  The conclusions of the attorney general, Chris Koster …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep On Abortion: ‘The Last Issue That Tore Us Apart Like This Was Slavery’ (VIDEO)
Discussion: Mediaite
Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Carly Fiorina Doubles Down On Planned Parenthood Lies
Discussion: Jezebel
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz sternly rebuked by GOP  —  <p>Ted Cruz can't even get a protest vote in the Senate anymore. </p><p>On Monday night, Cruz's colleagues ignored his attempt to disrupt Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's efforts to fund the government without attacking Planned Parenthood.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Boehner open to raising debt limit
Discussion: RedState, Daily Kos and Hot Air
Politico:
Republicans try to draft Trey Gowdy for majority leader
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Chaffetz: Trey Gowdy could be next majority leader
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit  —  Twitter is building a new product that will allow users to share tweets that are longer than the company's 140-character limit, according to multiple people familiar with the company's plans.  —  It's unclear what the product will look like …
John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Says He's Been ‘Childish,’ Raises Possibility of Dropping Out  —  With summer over, so might be the “Summer of Trump” — and now the man himself appears to be accepting it might not be a kind Fall.  —  “This is going to be an ebb and flow, how can I continue to lead by such wide margins? …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Rand Paul super PAC goes dark  —  One of the three super PACs supporting the Kentucky senator's presidential bid has stopped raising money.  —  One of the three super PACs supporting Rand Paul's presidential campaign has stopped raising money, dealing a damaging blow to an already cash-starved campaign.
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Sanders: I won't be as naïve as Obama was with Congress
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
You Can't Handle the Trump!  —  Vox's Ezra Klein wrote a good piece of analysis Monday about how unpredictable politics has become.  He notes that the four surprising political developments we've seen in the last few months—Speaker of the House John Boehner resigning from Congress …
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Big Donors Seek Larger Roles in Presidential Campaigns
Discussion: Washington Post
Chris Tye / WKYC-TV:
Stepdad's Surprise: Stunning invite down wedding aisle  —  LaGrange, Ohio — Planning for wedding day joy often comes with pain, when you're the step-father of the bride.  —  “Every time we tried on tuxes — or did some planning — it crossed my mind that I'd be sitting in the crowd …
Discussion: WGN-TV
The Intercept:
Edward Snowden Is On Twitter: @Snowden  —  Edward Snowden isn't just a hashtag anymore.  The NSA whistleblower joined Twitter on Tuesday, using the @snowden Twitter handle.  —  Snowden, who has lived in Russia since turning over a trove of top secret documents to reporters more than two years ago …
Alan Cole / Tax Foundation:
Details and Analysis of Donald Trump's Tax Plan  —  By  —  Key Findings:  — Mr. Trump's tax plan would substantially lower individual income taxes and the corporate income tax and eliminate a number of complex features in the current tax code.  — Mr. Trump's plan would cut taxes …
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Daily Mail:
Is an ISIS top commander an AMERICAN jihadi?  —  A Yazidi slave girl has claimed the high-ranking ISIS commander who held her prisoner was a white American who directed the terror group's attacks and received personal letters from its leader.  —  Nada, 19, told MailOnline …
L. Todd Wood / Washington Times:
ISIS planning ‘nuclear tsunami’  —  Nuclear annihilation across the globe.  This is what a German reporter who successfully embedded with the Islamic State says the terror group is planning.  Jurgen Todenhofer released his findings in a book titled “Inside IS - Ten Days in the Islamic State,” reports the UK's Daily Express.
Jane J. Lee / National Geographic:
Exclusive Video: First “Glowing” Sea Turtle Found  —  Scientists diving recently near the Solomon Islands made an illuminating discovery: The first biofluorescent reptile ever recorded.  —  Yes, this sea turtle is glowing neon green and red.  No, it's not radioactive.
Randall Lane / Forbes:
Inside The Epic Fantasy That's Driven Donald Trump For 33 Years  —  FOR A MAN WHO HAS DRIVEN the national news cycle pretty much every day for the past four months with his disruptive presidential campaign, Donald Trump works out of an office suite that is shockingly calm.
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Louise Boyle For / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: 'I's just a n****r following orders around here, master - It's 12 Years a Whoopi!'  The View host Whoopi Goldberg uses slave dialect to voice her frustration during a rampage against ABC execs  — Whoopi acted out after the meeting for the Hot Topics segment was moved to an earlier time - outside of her contracted hours
 
 
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Propose Scrapping Health Law's ‘Cadillac Tax’
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
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Discussion: Reuters, Vocativ, Jezebel, abc7.com and The Week
Geoffrey Kabaservice / New York Times:
Anarchy in the House  —  REPUBLICANS aren't big fans of Karl Marx …
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Gallup:
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Guardian:
Referee pulls out gun during Brazilian football match - video
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Obama has turned Putin into the world's most powerful leader
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Pointless Cowardice of John Boehner
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