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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: Mother Jones
Daniel Tepfer / Westport News:
8-year-old Westport boy on trial for exuberance
Discussion: Raw Story and Guardian
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.
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
What to Watch For in the First Democratic Debate
Discussion: Politico, CNN and NBC News
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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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:   What The Big GOP Meltdown Reveals From A Guy Who Saw It All Coming
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The House Benghazi investigation is now thoroughly discredited as a partisan sham.
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'.
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 …
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
EXCLUSIVE: Records show Ben Carson became Republican less than one year ago
Discussion: Independent Journal and Liberaland
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.
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 …
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Planned Parenthood stops taking money for fetal tissue donations
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Nudes Are Old News at Playboy  —  Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.  —  In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine …
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: Guardian, Daily Mail and NBC News
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Clinton server's software had hacking risk  —  1 photo  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton's home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers …
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: Fox News
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.
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.
Colby Hamilton / Politico:
Appeals court revives suit over surveillance of N.J. Muslims  —  A federal appeals court revived a discrimination case against the New York Police Department over its surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the city, saying the plaintiffs have standing to sue …
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Rapper T.I.: 'World ain't ready' for female president  —  Rapper T.I. won't be picking a female White House hopeful for president, saying he “can't vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman,” though he later walked back the remarks.  —  In a recent interview with DJ Whoo Kid …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and The Week
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:
Discussion: Rush Limbaugh and Instapundit
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Rift in Obama administration over Putin  —  <p>Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria is creating new rifts inside an exhausted and in some cases demoralized Obama national security team, where officials pushing for bolder action see the president as stubbornly unwilling to assume new risk …
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.
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush Would Allow Corporations To Deny New Mothers Paid Leave  —  At a recent campaign stop in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush stood opposed to ensuring that American workers are offered paid family leave.  —  After being asked by an activist with the pro-family leave group …
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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