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2:10 PM 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’
Discussion: Shakesville and ABC News
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: How Hillary Clinton Would Tackle Gun Control
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news and Fusion
Bloomberg Business:
TPP Trade Deal Strengthens Obama's Hand in Asia Strategy
Discussion: Politico
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Dems release closed-door Benghazi testimony  —  Democrats on the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Monday revealed portions of the transcript of previously secret testimony from a closed-door briefing with a former top aide to Hillary Clinton in an escalation of the partisan bickering on the panel.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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: Daily Kos and Politico
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: CNN, Roll Call, Daily Kos and Politico
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
House Democrats Push to Release Benghazi Investigation Transcripts
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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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
To Curb Gun Violence, Hillary Clinton Has a Plan for Possible Executive Action
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton to Unveil Plan for Major New Gun Restrictions
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.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Biden's Running! Unless He's Not Running!
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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.
Jordan OteroContact / Hartford Courant:
Police, Community React To Dunkin' Donuts Worker's Refusal To Serve West Hartford Cop … WEST HARTFORD — The day after a West Hartford police officer was refused service at a Dunkin' Donuts, people from Connecticut and across the country reacted on social media.
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Tom Miller / KQCA-TV:
4 students arrested in Tuolumne County school shooting plot  —  Investigators say plan was in early stages; no students, faculty hurt  —  An investigation into a planned shooting at a Tuolumne County school led to the arrests of four male students, deputies said Saturday.
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Los Angeles Times:
High school shooting plot foiled in Northern California, authorities say
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 …
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 …
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.”
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Yanan Wang / Washington Post:
‘Workers’ or slaves?  Textbook maker backtracks after mother's online complaint  —  Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn't about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.  —  It was about history.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Telegraph and Vox Popoli
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Donald Trump Sees a ‘Collapse’ in a G.O.P. Campaign Without Him  —  Donald J. Trump predicts a “major collapse” in the Republican campaign and a “depression” for the television industry should he prematurely exit the presidential race.  —  In a recent interview, Mr. Trump offered …
 
 
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama considering plan to leave significant force in Afghanistan
Daily Mail:
Pitched battle under the Channel as dozens of migrants storm the Eurotunnel and get TEN miles …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Scott Glover / CNN:
First on CNN: L.A. set to pay $3M to family of victim who died in police custody
Discussion: Daily Mail and Fusion
Ilya Somin / USA Today:
Column: Trump exploits rational political ignorance
Discussion: Althouse
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Carly Fiorina Says Medieval History Degree Will Help Her Defeat ISIS
Discussion: Political Wire
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Hassan Will Run for Senate in New Hampshire
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Sanders Outperforms Clinton in General Election Matchups in IA, NH
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Hillary: I'm the Most Transparent Person in American History
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