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9:05 AM ET, October 5, 2015

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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Stakes are high in GOP leadership fight  —  If Las Vegas posted odds on what Washington politics will look like after November 2016, the betting line would be ike this:  —  1-3 a Democrat wins the White House — simply because Democrats have won 5 of the last 6 popular votes for the White House …
Discussion: Politico
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Scalise says he has votes to win  —  House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said Sunday he has secured the votes to be elected majority leader, the No. 2 job in GOP leadership.  —  The Louisiana Republican held a conference call with backers Sunday evening during which he indicated he's locked …
Discussion: Political Wire
Lauren French / Politico:
Boehner might postpone elections for majority leader, whip
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Hill
Kay Hymowitz / The Atlantic:
The Breakdown of the Black Family  —  With the publication of “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” Ta-Nehisi Coates has added an elegant and forceful voice to the growing frustration with the inefficacy and injustice of America's criminal-justice system.
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hillary has long history of beating up Bill behind closed doors: book  —  President Bill Clinton with Hillary in 1998  —  She's on a mission to be a softer, warmer, funnier candidate — but according to a new book, the real Hillary Clinton is so volatile and prone to violent outbursts …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Edward Klein / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's legal adviser warns her — Time to lawyer up
Robert Samuels / Washington Post:
Carly Fiorina's first political campaign had a surprising problem: Money … Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010, surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina.
Discussion: Political Wire, Raw Story and The Week
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Biden eyes weekend decision  —  He's finally close.  Confidants of Vice President Joe Biden expect him to make a decision next weekend, or shortly thereafter, on whether to launch an epic battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: Political Wire
Susan Page / USA Today:
Ben Bernanke: More execs should have gone to jail for causing Great Recession  —  WASHINGTON — This season, Ben Bernanke was able to sit through an entire Nationals game.  —  During the financial meltdown in 2008, the then-chairman of the Federal Reserve would buy a lemonade and head …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The conservative evasion on guns  —  President Obama spoke some of the most important words of his tenure last week in response to the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. “This is something we should politicize,” the president said.  “It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic.”
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy  —  American Apparel, the one-time arbiter of edgy made-in-America cool, filed for bankruptcy protection early Monday, its business crippled by huge debts, a precipitous fall in sales, employee strife and a drawn-out legal battle with the retailer's ousted founder, Dov Charney.
Discussion: New York Magazine and The Week
New York Times:
A Conundrum for Jeb Bush: How to Use George W.  —  GREENVILLE, S.C. — With Jeb Bush struggling to connect with some Republican activists, his campaign has begun exploring whether to bring in the person it thinks may be best equipped to give him a boost with skeptical conservatives: his brother George W. Bush.
Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Carly Fiorina's Mystery Foundation  —  The Fiorina Foundation is run by an organization that has distributed funds to Planned Parenthood.  Oh, and the Fiorina Foundation doesn't appear to exist.  —  Carly Fiorina is so opposed to Planned Parenthood, which she believes is …
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached  —  ATLANTA — The United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations on Monday agreed to the largest regional trade accord in history, a potentially precedent-setting model for global commerce and worker standards that would tie together 40 percent …
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Syria is Obama's Watergate  —  What did he know and when did he know it?  The immortal question about Richard Nixon and Water­gate should be posed to Barack Obama about Syria.  What and when did he know about Vladimir Putin's axis-of-evil coalition?  —  The significance is not limited to Syria.
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Is Putin Winning?  —  ONCE again, Vladimir Putin is on the move …
Discussion: ParaPundit and Hot Air
Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Proposes New Gun Measures, Staking Claim Vs. Sanders  —  The front-runner is calling for repeal of a law that gives legal protection to gun manufacturers and dealers whose guns are used for criminal activity.  —  jeneps  —  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday …
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
 
 
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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
Charter schools suspend kids, public schools don't — which does better?
Discussion: Chalkbeat New York
Scott Campbell / Daily Express:
End of ISIS? Putin ‘sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State’
Sean Naylor / New York Post:
Delta Force secretly killed Iranian agents in Iraq — with IEDs
Discussion: Daily Mail
Nolan Finley / Detroit News:
Obama just jawboning on guns
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
In Putin's Syria Intervention, Fear of a Weak Government Hand
Discussion: Consortiumnews.com
Daily Mail:
Philip Chism is charged with raping and killing teacher Colleen Ritzer
WWL-TV:
4 students arrested for Calif. school shooting plot
Tommy Witherspoon / Waco Tribune-Herald:
Most of 177 Twin Peaks bikers no longer wearing ankle monitors
Ali Vitali / NBC News:
Trump: Middle East Would Be More Stable With Hussein and Gadhafi
Discussion: Daily Mail