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8:40 AM ET, October 6, 2015

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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Obama's trade deal faces stiff headwinds  —  The White House's announcement Monday of an international trade deal covering 40 percent of the world's economy sets the stage for a bruising, months-long congressional battle that is already spilling into the 2016 presidential race.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Some Clinton allies see lost cause in New Hampshire  —  <p>MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton is losing in New Hampshire, and at least one small contingent of family allies thinks it's nearly time to cut bait.</p><p>The group — veterans of the family's old campaigns and people close …
Discussion: Political Wire
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Sanders blasts ‘disastrous’ Obama trade deal  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) labeled a new trade deal finalized by the Obama administration on Monday as “disastrous,” and said he would work to defeat it.  —  Sanders, the Vermont senator leading Hillary Clinton in polls of the early-voting state …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Fiorina: 'I'm distinctly horrifying to liberals'  —  <p>Carly Fiorina says that she thinks she is "distinctly horrifying to liberals" because of the prospect that she could beat Hillary Clinton in a general election, hours after a poll was released showing her besting …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton ad highlights McCarthy statement on Benghazi  —  <p>Hillary Clinton's campaign is making sure the name Kevin McCarthy stays in the 2016 headlines for as long as possible.</p><p> The Democrat's campaign is going up Tuesday with a new five-figure ad buy on national cable that will feature …
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Dems release closed-door Benghazi testimony
New York Times:
Scandal Erupts in Unregulated World of Fantasy Sports  —  A major scandal is erupting in the multibillion-dollar industry of fantasy sports, the online and unregulated business in which players assemble their fantasy teams with real athletes.  On Monday, the two major fantasy companies …
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Chris Grove / Legal Sports Report:
DraftKings Lineup Leak Rocks Daily Fantasy Sports Industry: Questions And Answers  —  The leaking of player lineup data at DraftKings has sparked a community-wide conversation spanning employee access to player data, game integrity, and the effectiveness of quasi-self-regulation in the DFS industry.
WBIR-TV:
Sheriff: 5th grade boy kills 8-year-old neighbor with shotgun  —  (WBIR - WHITE PINE) The Jefferson County sheriff said that an 11-year-old boy shot and killed an 8-year-old girl who lived next door.  —  Authorities were called to Robin Road in White Pine around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on a report of a shooting.
Noah Gray / CNN:
First on CNN: Trump sent prank care package to Rubio  —  Atlanta (CNN)Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on Sen. Marco Rubio with a special delivery for his rival: “Trump Ice Natural Spring Water.”  —  Trump has previously trained his fire on Rubio, claiming he has the worst voting attendance record …
Liber-T / John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
PissForEquality: Feminists Fall for Hoax Campaign, PEE on Themselves  —  Feminists have fallen for a hoax campaign that encourages them to pee on themselves in the name of equality.  They are using the hashtag #PissForEquality.  —  The troll hoax was created by 4chan.
Amy Davidson / New Yorker:
Five Questions About the Bombing of a Hospital in Kunduz  —  On Saturday, at 2:08 A.M. local time, an American AC-130 began to bomb a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), in Kunduz, Afghanistan.  According to accounts from doctors and nurses …
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / Washington Post:   Top U.S. general: Afghan forces requested airstrike that hit hospital in Kunduz
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Police in California Killed More Than 610 People Over 6 Years … The ACLU of Southern California has been working to understand how many people have been killed by law enforcement in America's most populous state.  What they found is alarming.  Over a six-year period that ended in 2014 …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Exclusive: Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish  —  <p>Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.</p><p>Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point …
Malcolm Hall / Repository:
Discussion: WKBN-TV and FOX2now.com
Lisa Camooso Miller / Washington Examiner:
Foreign governments ready cash grab on U.S. earnings  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Opposition to foreign taxes on American investment and hard work has been coded into our national DNA for almost 240 years.  Yet almost two and a half centuries after resolving …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Jeff Halverson / Washington Post:
The meteorology behind South Carolina's catastrophic, 1,000-year rainfall event  —  The rains are tapering off in South Carolina after a disastrous weekend that brought over two feet of rain and catastrophic flooding.  Dams have been breached, rivers are at record flood stage …
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New York Times:
Oregon Killer's Mother Wrote of Troubled Son and Gun Rights  —  ROSEBURG, Ore. — When a downstairs neighbor of Laurel Harper learned there was a gunman on the loose at Umpqua Community College here, he ran up to tell her, knowing that her son, Christopher Harper-Mercer, was a student there.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Marco Rubio's Chances Are Rising  —  A lot has changed since April, when Marco Rubio announced his presidential bid.  Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was the top candidate of mainstream conservative activists and donors.  Jeb Bush seemed like a fund-raising juggernaut with natural appeal …
Discussion: National Review and NBC News
CBS News:
Is Donald Trump right to call NAFTA a “disaster”?  —  Recently, Donald Trump made a strong claim about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in an interview on CBS 60 Minutes:  —  “It's a disaster. ...  We will either renegotiate it, or we will break it.  Because, you know, every agreement has an end. ...
Discussion: ABC, Bloomberg Business and EconLog
Charlie Spiering / BREITBART.COM:
White House: Obama Preparing More Executive Actions on Gun Control  —  The White House confirmed that President Obama was preparing a series of executive actions on gun control to match his recent passion on the issue after the latest mass shooting in Oregon.
Beena Raghavendran / Star Tribune:
Two Edina elementary schools hire recess consultant  —  Two Edina elementary schools, worried about the politics of the playground, are taking an unusual step to police it: They have hired a recess consultant.  —  Some parents have welcomed the arrival of the firm Playworks …
La-Keya Stinchcomb / WGCL-TV:
Road rage suspect points gun at car, police let him go free  —  A motorcycle driver who was caught on camera pulling out a gun and pointing it at another driver Sunday was allowed to go free, and a witness wants to know why.  —  It happened on State Highway 54 in Coweta County near the Fayette County line.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Mail
Patrick McGreevyContact / Los Angeles Times:
Gov. Brown signs controversial assisted-suicide bill  —  Caught between conflicting moral arguments, Gov. Jerry Brown, a former Jesuit seminary student, on Monday signed a measure allowing physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who want to hasten their deaths.
Andrew Harnik / BREITBART.COM:
Obama to Visit UCC Shooting Victims' Families in Roseburg, Oregon  —  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The latest on the deadly shooting at a community college in Oregon (all times local):  —  President Barack Obama will travel to Oregon this week to visit privately with families of the victims of last week's shooting at a community college.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC to Undergo More Changes, NBC News Chief Andrew Lack Says  —  Senior TV Editor @bristei  —  NBCUniversal isn't finished tinkering with MSNBC.  —  While the cable-news network's daytime schedule has largely been reworked since February, there are likely more changes to come …
Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Zellie Imani / Atlanta Blackstar:
Multiple Firings After Racially Charged Facebook Remarks Mocking a Black Child Go Viral  —  A viral Facebook post made by a man named Gerod Roth and its accompanying racists comments, has resulted in multiple firings.  —  Gerod Roth, who went as Geris Hilton on Facebook …
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Examiner:
Gun control and magical thinking  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  No television appearance elicits more angry comments from viewers than one in which the simple point is made that the “common sense gun control measures” (advocated petulantly by a president without …
Discussion: The Hugh Hewitt Show
 
 
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Ohio court upholds school suspension of 12-year-old black boy accused of staring at a white girl
Daniel Acker / National Review:
Trump Wrongs the Right
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
This Is What Voter ID Laws Looks Like When They Hit Real People
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Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings
Heather Clark / Christian News Network:
‘We Are Apes:’ Abortionist Blasts Atheist Recording to Drown Out Christians' Pro-Life Pleas
Discussion: Raw Story and Pharyngula
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Mike Huckabee: Mass shootings are ‘not so much a gun problem... we have a problem with sin’
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Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Kasich's War on Ohio Minorities
Mathieu Rosemain / Bloomberg Business:
Air France Workers Rip Shirts From Top Managers in Jobs Protest
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ABC News:
Boehner: House to Vote for Speaker Oct. 29, Other Jobs After
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