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2:30 AM ET, October 6, 2015

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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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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.
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.
Discussion: Power Line and Infowars
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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.
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.
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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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CNN:
South Carolina flooding: Death toll rises to 9
Discussion: Hollywood Life, The Week and Gothamist
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 …
ABC News:
Boehner: House to Vote for Speaker Oct. 29, Other Jobs After  —  With House Republicans in disarray over their leadership, Speaker John Boehner on Monday scheduled the House election to replace him for Oct. 29 and delayed votes for lower-level posts until after that.
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and Daily Kos
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Boehner sets Oct. 29 floor speaker vote, delays other leadership elections
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
Lee Stranahan / BREITBART.COM:
Obama Not Welcome In Roseburg, Says Local Newspaper Publisher  —  David Jaques, the publisher of the conservative newspaper the Roseburg Beacon, says he believes that President Obama would not be welcome to the town after making remarks politicizing the shooting that left nine dead and nine injured …
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Oregonian:
In 1968 Robert F. Kennedy called for gun control, in Roseburg (video)
Discussion: Slantpoint and The Trace
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
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Hollywood Life and Althouse
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 …
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: Daily Mail and Raw Story
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 …
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.
William Boston / Wall Street Journal:
Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes In on Two Engineers  —  Company investigation focuses on two men elevated after Winterkorn was made CEO  —  WOLFSBURG, Germany—Two top Volkswagen engineers who found they couldn't deliver as promised a clean diesel engine for the U.S. market …
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
Heather Clark / Christian News Network:
‘We Are Apes:’ Abortionist Blasts Atheist Recording to Drown Out Christians' Pro-Life Pleas  —  NORFOLK, Va. — An abortionist in Virginia recently blasted an atheist message from his facility to drown out the Christians who were preaching the gospel outside and pleading with women not to kill their children.
Discussion: Pharyngula and Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: Daily Mail and Raw Story
Edmund DeMarche / Fox News:
Bloody Baltimore: No end seen to post-Freddie Gray spike in homicides, shootings  —  Baltimore's bloody summer ended with a barrage of bangs, as the rate of homicides and gun crimes continued to spike in the wake of the racially charged case of Freddie Gray, whose death in police custody left citizens angry and cops demoralized.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Mike Huckabee: Mass shootings are ‘not so much a gun problem... we have a problem with sin’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee asserted on Monday that gun safety laws could not curb mass shootings because the real problem was “sin and evil.”
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Ohio court upholds school suspension of 12-year-old black boy accused of staring at a white girl  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  An Ohio court has upheld the suspension of a 12-year-old black boy for staring at a white girl at school in what he called a “staring contest,” Fox 19 is reporting.
 
 
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Daniel Acker / National Review:
Trump Wrongs the Right
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Ewen MacAskill / Guardian:
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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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Stephanie Allen Contact / Orlando Sentinel:
Football coach accused of punching referee over upsetting call, deputies say
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who defends NPR and accuses critics of “bad faith distortion” of her past comments about the First Amendment

 
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