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8:50 PM ET, October 13, 2015

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Daniel Tepfer / Connecticut Post:
8-year-old Westport boy on trial for exuberance  —  BRIDGEPORT — New York woman wants a jury to hold her 8-year-old nephew accountable for his youthful exuberance during his birthday party.  —  Jennifer Connell claims the boy, Sean Tarala of Westport, acted unreasonable when he leaped into her arms …
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Chelsia Rose Marcius / New York Daily News:
NYC aunt loses lawsuit against 12-year-old nephew over birthday hug that broke her wrist  —  The Auntie Christ gets nothing.  —  A Connecticut jury needed just 25 minutes Tuesday to decide against a Manhattan human resources manager who sued her own nephew for $127,000 in damages after he accidentally broke her wrist.
Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:
Upper East Side aunt sues 12-year-old nephew for $127G after breaking her wrist while leaping to greet her at birthday party  —  If only they could just hug it out.  —  A human resources manager from Manhattan is suing her nephew over a leaping greeting from the then-8-year-old that left her with a broken wrist, according to reports.
Daniel Tepfer / Connecticut Post:
Aunt loses lawsuit against her 8-year-old nephew  —  BRIDGEPORT - A Superior Court jury deliberated about 20 minutes Tuesday before ruling a New York woman is entitled to no money in her lawsuit against her 8-year-old nephew.  —  In a case that has suddenly burst onto the national news scene …
Discussion: Westport News and Mother Jones
Manu Raju / CNN:
Sources: McConnell floats entitlement changes in high-stakes fiscal talks  —  Ben Carson struggles to explain debt limit stance  —  (CNN)Mitch McConnell privately wants the White House to pay this price to enact a major budget deal: Significant changes to Social Security and Medicare …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The House Benghazi investigation is now thoroughly discredited as a partisan sham.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:   What The Big GOP Meltdown Reveals From A Guy Who Saw It All Coming
Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Busted !  CNN Uses Jeb Bush Staffer Planted In Audience To Frame Donald Trump Narrative/Hit Job....  During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Carson giving Trump a run for his money in GOP race  —  Ben Carson is giving Donald Trump a run for his money, according to the latest Fox News national poll.  —  Support for Carson in the race for the Republican nomination has nearly doubled in the last two months …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and OnPolitics
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
EXCLUSIVE: Records show Ben Carson became Republican less than one year ago
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Dem infighting erupts on eve of first presidential debate  —  Democrats are battling one another offstage ahead of the party's first 2016 debate, with a prominent lawmaker engaged in a fierce war of words with the party chairman.  —  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), a vice chairwoman …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
What to Watch For in the First Democratic Debate
Annie Karni / Politico:
A ‘Cancer’ on the Clinton Candidacy  —  <p>Halfway through her long and humbling summer, Hillary Clinton ran into an old friend who wanted to know how she was bearing up under the pressure of near-daily revelations about the use of her private email server during her time in the State Department.
Benjamin Markovits / Esquire:
The Gorgeous Balance of Emilia Clarke, Sexiest Woman Alive 2015  —  Friendly and fierce.  Kid sister and killer.  Movie star and girl next door.  —  VINCENT PETERS + ESQUIRE  —  Years ago, when I was a grad student, I worked at an ice cream shop in Oxford called George & Davis'.
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Donald Trump to Host ‘SNL’ November 7  —  Live from New York, it's Donald Trump!  —  The GOP presidential frontrunner and real estate magnate will host NBC's “Saturday Night Live” on November 7, the show announced Tuesday.  —  His appearance comes almost exactly a year before Election Day, which will fall on November 8, 2016.
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Katherine Krueger / Talking Points Memo:
Fox's Shep Smith Goes Off About NBC Taking Back Donald Trump (VIDEO)
Discussion: Raw Story
Hannah Hess / Roll Call:
Levin Staffer Arrested for Allegedly Beating Lover With Shovel  —  Baltimore City Police arrested an aide to Rep. Sander M. Levin, D-Mich., at around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 8 for criminal domestic violence charges.  —  Tim Foster, a native of Henderson, Ky., brutally beat his male lover …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Fox News
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's declining image numbers inch upward  —  This is the story of Hillary Clinton's favorability that's usually told: a steep and accelerating drop over time.  —  New polling data from The Washington Post and ABC News, though, paints a different picture.
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Daily Mail:
Ethel Kennedy abandoned Bobby Jr. and turned to JFK's gay best friend Lem Billings  —  After Robert F Kennedy was assassinated, Ethel booted her vexatious son Bobby Jr out of their Hickory Hill home..She sent him to boarding schools and entrusted his care to longtime JFK chum Lem Billings..Billings claimed …
Discussion: Independent Journal
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Republicans' Incompetence Caucus  —  The House Republican caucus is close to ungovernable these days.  How did this situation come about?  —  This was not just the work of the Freedom Caucus or Ted Cruz or one month's activity.  The Republican Party's capacity for effective self …
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
CNN Debate Moderator Was Member of Clinton Global Initiative  —  CNN host Anderson Cooper, who is set to moderate tonight's Democratic debate, was listed as a “notable past member” the Clinton Global Initiative's website along with a number of other big name journalists:
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Charlie Spiering / BREITBART.COM:
Susan Rice Blames Climate Change For Conflict in Syria  —  In her most dramatic speech to date about climate change, National Security Advisor Susan Rice suggests climate change was partially responsible for the conflict in Syria and represents a looming threat to the entire world.
Discussion: Jihad Watch
WCNC-TV:
Gun owner speaks out after toddler shoots grandmother  —  ROCK HILL, S.C. — The woman who owned the gun that a local toddler got his hands on and was able to fire and hit his grandmother, is speaking out, calling the storage of the weapon inside her vehicle a mistake.
Discussion: Daily Mail, Guardian and NBC News
Lucius McMannis / addictinginfo.org:
‘Not-Racists’ FURIOUS That MLK Memorial Will Be Built At ‘Confederate Mount Rushmore’ (SCREENSHOTS)  —  Look, by this point, we know conservatives aren't racist.  With every qualifier, preceding or following every statement we might otherwise interpret as bigoted, and sometimes completely randomly …
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Julianne Moore Launches Gun Safety Campaign: ‘This Is My Responsibility As a Parent’  —  Like many parents, Oscar-winner Julianne Moore was deeply affected by the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.  —  “I remember my daughter [Liv, 12] came to work with me that day.
Bret Easton Ellis / New York Times:
The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino  —  In the darkening light of the Hollywood Hills, Bret Easton Ellis bonds with the pulp filmmaker over their shared love of cinema and his crusade to continue telling stories that are both forward-thinking and timeless.
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
WaPo's Ignatius: Obama's Weird ‘I Told You So’ About His Own Failed Syria Policy  —  Share it Tweet it  —  Michelle might want to gently tap the president on the shoulder and remind him “umm, Barack, you're not in the faculty lounge any more.  You're actually, uh, President and Commander-in-Chief.
Discussion: RedState
Stephanie Armour / Wall Street Journal:
Planned Parenthood Stops Taking Reimbursements for Fetal Tissue  —  Affiliates will no longer accept any reimbursements for costs associated with procuring tissue from abortions  —  Planned Parenthood Federation of America said it is immediately stopping taking reimbursements …
KFOR-TV:
Families release shocking video of final moments of sons' lives to help others  —  Warning: Some viewers may find the video disturbing to watch.  —  SUSSEX, England - Two families in England are mourning the deaths of their sons following a fatal ‘mistake.’
Discussion: FOX2now.com and Mashable
 
 
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Colby Hamilton / Politico:
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