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2:50 PM ET, October 5, 2015

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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: Politico and Daily Kos
Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Visibly angry Hillary Clinton talks Benghazi on TODAY: Committee is ‘not appropriate’ … Hillary Clinton: GOP made Benghazi ‘a partisan political issue’  —  “The real issue here is what happened to four brave Americans,” the White House hopeful said from New Hampshire …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Scalise says he has votes to win
Discussion: CNN, Roll Call, Daily Kos and Politico
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
House Democrats Push to Release Benghazi Investigation Transcripts
Discussion: The Hill
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: 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
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  —  America simply cannot accept as “normal” 30,000 gun deaths every year.  The vast majority of the American people - including law abiding gun owners - believe we can and must do better.  Hillary Clinton lived in Arkansas …
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.
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.
Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Civilians ‘accidentally struck’ in Afghan hospital bombing, U.S. commander says  —  (CNN)A Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan was struck accidentally after Afghan forces called for air support from the American military, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan says.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Obama considering plan to leave significant force in Afghanistan
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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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 …
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 …
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.
Daily Mail:
Pitched battle under the Channel as dozens of migrants storm the Eurotunnel and get TEN miles down tracks before clashing with security guards in a ‘mass invasion co-ordinated by BRITISH anarchists’  —  Invading migrants who stormed the Channel Tunnel in a desperate bid to break into Britain …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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 …
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Carly Fiorina Says Medieval History Degree Will Help Her Defeat ISIS  —  For over three decades, Carly Fiorina's bachelor's degree from Stanford University in medieval history and philosophy has had little real-world application.  —  But as she mounts a presidential bid …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
On Guns, Fear Is Winning
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
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Hassan Will Run for Senate in New Hampshire
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Hillary: I'm the Most Transparent Person in American History
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Ben Bernanke: More execs should have gone to jail for causing Great Recession
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