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12:10 PM ET, October 5, 2015

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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: ABC News
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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 …
Bloomberg Business:
TPP Trade Deal Strengthens Obama's Hand in Asia Strategy
Discussion: Politico
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
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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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Sanders Outperforms Clinton in General Election Matchups in IA, NH
Monica Alba / NBC News:
Hillary Clinton to Unveil Plan for Major New Gun Restrictions
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
hillaryclinton.com:
Hillary Clinton Believes It's Time to Act on Gun Violence
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!  —  It figures that the penultimate Biden's Running! story comes from Mike “Win the Morning” Allen of Politico, who begins with the trumpet blare of a scoop: … Ah, but then Allen starts hedging, and before you know it, the confident trumpets become …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Scalise says he has votes to win
Discussion: Political Wire
Lauren French / Politico:
Boehner might postpone elections for majority leader, whip
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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: Political Wire and The Week
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.
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.
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
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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Ilya Somin / USA Today:
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Hassan Will Run for Senate in New Hampshire
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Budget talks: The Harry and Mitch show
Discussion: Washington Post
Iris Salem / CBS Los Angeles:
Valencia Woman Files Suit Alleging She Was Punched By Police In Front Of Her Kids
Discussion: Daily Mail and Raw Story
Lawrence K. Altman / New York Times:
3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Parasite-Fighting Therapies
Discussion: CNN, Hollywood Life and The Week
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Syria is Obama's Watergate
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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
Charter schools suspend kids, public schools don't — which does better?
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Scott Campbell / Daily Express:
End of ISIS? Putin ‘sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State’
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Hillary has long history of beating up Bill behind closed doors: book
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Edward Klein / New York Post:
Hillary Clinton's legal adviser warns her — Time to lawyer up
Sean Naylor / New York Post:
Delta Force secretly killed Iranian agents in Iraq — with IEDs
Discussion: Daily Mail