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11:25 AM ET, October 5, 2015

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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 …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Bernie Sanders bashes trade agreement as ‘disastrous’  —  <p>It didn't take long for Sen. Bernie Sanders to bash the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal the United States reached on Monday alongside 11 other countries in the Pacific Rim.</p><p>"I am disappointed but not surprised by the decision …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and ABC News
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: How Hillary Clinton Would Tackle Gun Control
Discussion: Fusion and Taylor Marsh
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Deal reached on Pacific Rim trade pact in boost for Obama economic agenda
Discussion: The Week and CNBC
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: The Hill
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 …
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hillaryclinton.com:
Hillary Clinton Believes It's Time to Act on Gun Violence
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton to Unveil Plan for Major New Gun Restrictions
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
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.
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.
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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Enemies of the Sun  —  Does anyone remember the Cheney energy task force?  Early in the George W. Bush administration, Vice President Dick Cheney released a report that was widely derided as a document written by and for Big Energy — because it was.  The administration fought tooth and nail …
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 …
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.
Giles Hattersley / The Sunday Times:
To be blunt  —  She was the waspish PA in The Devil Wears Prada who recently made headlines after disparaging remarks about her new US citizenship.  Next up, she's the boozy Brit in The Girl on the Train.  Meet Emily Blunt  —  For many reasons, Emily Blunt has been top on my list of fantasy friends for years.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Hillary: I'm the Most Transparent Person in American History  —  Hillary Clinton believes she's the most transparent person in American history.  The Democratic presidential candidate made the claim in a town hall this morning, hosted by NBC's Today Show:  —  “I have gone further than anybody …
Discussion: 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.
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Benjy Sarlin / msnbc.com:
Marco Rubio vs. Jeb Bush: The inevitable GOP showdown arrives
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Pollsters: Don't trust us to winnow GOP field  —  <p>Pollsters surveyed by POLITICO have a unanimous warning for the Republican National Committee and the TV networks who are using public-opinion surveys to exclude presidential candidates from debates: Don't trust polls to detect often-tiny grades …
Discussion: Political Wire and Betsy's Page
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Hassan Will Run for Senate in New Hampshire  —  New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) announced she will challenge Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) for the U.S. Senate next year.  —  TwitterFacebookLinkedin  —  2016 CampaignNH-Sen
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.”
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Sanders Outperforms Clinton in General Election Matchups in IA, NH  —  Hillary Clinton has always been viewed as the Democrats' best general-election candidate.  But new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of Iowa and New Hampshire show that Bernie Sanders outperforms Clinton in those two general-election battleground states.
 
 
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Iris Salem / CBS Los Angeles:
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
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Edward Klein / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's legal adviser warns her — Time to lawyer up
Sean Naylor / New York Post:
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