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11:25 PM ET, October 4, 2015

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Lauren French / Politico:
Boehner might postpone elections for majority leader, whip  —  <p>Speaker John Boehner is considering delaying the internal election for House majority leader and majority whip, leaving only the party vote for speaker to be decided on Thursday, according to multiple Republican sources …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Chaffetz enters speaker's race, pans McCarthy  —  <p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz has officially launched his dark-horse campaign for House speaker, arguing he's a better choice to unite the fractious Republican conference and that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy lacks the communication skills …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Benghazi panel talking point proven false
Discussion: Viking Pundit
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Chaffetz announces bid for Speaker
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway
New York Post:
Kinky Orthodox priest brought down by ‘cake porn’ sex tape  —  Fr. George Passias and Edith Bouzalas leaving St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church in 2013.  —  A high-ranking Greek Orthodox priest starred in kinky sex tapes with his much-younger parish-school principal and was forced to resign …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Polls: Trump Still Leads in IA and NH, But Loses Ground  —  Donald Trump remains ahead in the early Republican nominating contests of Iowa and New Hampshire, but his lead has shrunk from a month ago, according to brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these two states.
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Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Hussein and Gadhafi
Discussion: Daily Mail
James Pindell / BostonGlobe.com:
Sanders draws big crowds in Mass. campaign swing
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Democrats Find That Anti-Establishment Isn't Just a G.O.P. Theme
Daily Mail:
Philip Chism is charged with raping and killing teacher Colleen Ritzer  —  NEW The 9th grader charged with raping and murdering his teacher has told police he turned on 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer (left) when she ‘insulted’ him.  'After she insulted me, that's when I became the teacher …
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Carson: Pro-Islam nonprofit broke the law with political attack  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says a nonprofit Islamic advocacy group broke the law by calling for him to drop out of the presidential race.  —  “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) …
John Tierney / New York Times:
The Reign of Recycling  —  IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling.  It's likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal.  You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility.
Matt PearceContact / Los Angeles Times:
'Daddy, he began to shoot": A daughter's account of Oregon rampage  —  Randy Scroggins sat down on his porch as dusk fell Saturday, his eyes red with emotion and exhaustion.  He had a story to tell.  It was time to tell it.  —  Scroggins' story was about his 18-year-old daughter, Lacey …
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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Ore. Shooter's Dad: If He Hadn't Had Access To The Guns, It Wouldn't Have Happened
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Post:
Doctor ‘strangled to death’, left in doorway of Chelsea apartment  —  NYPD detectives at the scene of the crime.  —  A 38-year-old doctor from Long Island was found dead with bruising around her neck in the doorway of a Chelsea apartment building Sunday morning, law-enforcement sources said.
Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast:
‘Saturday Night Live’ Premiere Basically a Hillary Clinton Campaign Ad  —  Miley Cyrus may have hosted the SNL Season 41 premiere, but the show was all about applauding Hillary Clinton—and not just when she appeared.  —  Live From New York...it's a Hillary Clinton campaign ad.
Discussion: Liberal Values
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton mocks Trump in ‘SNL’ premiere
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Obama just jawboning on guns  —  So President Barack Obama is angry that America has done nothing to change its gun laws despite a series of mass shootings throughout his presidency.  He showed us that Thursday in yet another self-righteous, finger-wagging speech that he admits himself he's tired of giving.
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A New Way to Tackle Gun Deaths
Tommy Witherspoon / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Most of 177 Twin Peaks bikers no longer wearing ankle monitors  —  Of the 177 bikers jailed after the May 17 Twin Peaks shootout, none remain in McLennan County jails and 135 of those were fitted with GPS ankle monitors after negotiating reduced bonds.  —  Almost five months later …
Discussion: Guardian and Q13 FOX News
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Is Putin Winning?  —  ONCE again, Vladimir Putin is on the move in ways the Obama White House did not anticipate.  Once again, American foreign policy analysts can't agree on whether he's acting out of brilliance or desperation.  —  Is Putin's bombing campaign in Syria a geopolitical masterstroke?
Discussion: ParaPundit and Hot Air
WWL-TV:
4 students arrested for Calif. school shooting plot  —  Four students were arrested Saturday after police discovered a shooting plot involving Summerville High School in Tuolumne, Calif.  —  Among the evidence, deputies said they found a list of the names of the targeted victims.
The Times of Israel:
Breaking silence, PA condemns Israel for killing Jerusalem assailants  —  Palestinians urge world to intervene after ‘killing of 2 young men’ in capital, referring to terrorists who stabbed 2 to death, injured 3  —  After days of silence amid a string of terror attacks and skyrocketing tensions …
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Algemeiner.com
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The Times of Israel:
Thousands attend funerals for Jerusalem terror victims
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Biden Backs Transgender Military Service As US Considers Policy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is throwing his unequivocal support behind letting transgender people serve openly in the U.S. military, as the Obama administration considers whether and when to lift the longstanding ban.
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Biden celebrates gay rights activists for changing course of America
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Last Refuge
 
 
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Bon Jovi to Waters: Drop Dead!
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Silent Minority
Discussion: Red Alert Politics
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
In Putin's Syria Intervention, Fear of a Weak Government Hand
Discussion: Consortiumnews.com
Amy Clancy / KIRO-TV:
West Seattle woman, 20, suspected of kicking boyfriend's son to death
New York Post:
How 7 years of Obama brought the world from Kumbaya to chaos
 Earlier Items: 
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
McCain: GOPers' Use Of Derogatory Language Is Hurting The Republican Party
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Prepares to Take on Politically Charged Cases
Discussion: Bloomberg View
David Atkins / Washington Monthly:
Ignore the Angry Middle Class At Your Peril
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Hullabaloo
Jessica Contrera / Washington Post:
She was a conservative pundit. He was a liberal activist. At home, none of that mattered.
 

 
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