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6:20 AM ET, October 18, 2015

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Was George W. Bush President On 9/11?  An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart  —  On Friday, Donald Trump generated substantial controversy when he asserted that George W. Bush was president at the time of the 9/11 attacks.  —  “When you talk about George Bush, I mean …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Disarray has some Republicans talking about dealing with Dems  —  Without a viable alternative to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), some centrist Republicans say they'd have little choice but to seek Democratic help in electing a new Speaker.  —  The centrists have long chafed at House conservatives …
Discussion: Liberaland
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Huckabee finances challenge his future  —  Mike Huckabee faces the greatest challenge of the top 10 GOP presidential candidates in continuing his campaign, according to the latest fundraising reports released on Thursday.  —  While the former Arkansas governor is in no real danger of missing …
Discussion: Raw Story
Dambala / American Zombie:
David Vitter - Interview with Wendy Ellis, October 13, 2015  —  The following interview segments are with former prostitute, Wendy Ellis, also known as Wendy Cortez in original stories that surfaced from Hustler magazine back in 2007.  Ellis originally came forward with allegations …
Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor:
Kids rebel against bland foods in lunch line: Time for a ‘pasta exemption’?  —  A report from the General Accounting office finds students are sneaking salt shakers onto campus and creating a clandestine market for potato chips.  The age-old question remains: How do you get students to eat their peas?
Discussion: Moe Lane
Meg Wagner / New York Daily News:
Several Miss Iraq contestants drop out of 1st pageant since 1972 amid death threats  —  More than a dozen aspiring beauty queens have ditched their dreams of becoming the first internationally recognized Miss Iraq in more than 40 years, quitting the pageant amid a flurry of criticism and death threats.
Discussion: NBC News
Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Vice President Joe Biden made no explicit mention of his contemplation of a 2016 presidential campaign tonight at the Athenargoras Human Rights Awards, but he did speak about one of the things believed to be the chief sticking point to a run: grief over the death of his son, Beau, who passed away in May after a fight with brain cancer.
Discussion: Daily Mail
Daily Mail:
Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's ‘deal in blood’ with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started - despite claiming he wanted peace  — Leaked White House memo shows former Prime Minister's support for war at summit with U.S. President in 2002
Discussion: Guardian and The Last Refuge
Richard Read / Oregonian:
Borrower returns books 52 years late to Portland State University's library, with unsigned note  —  Memo to the person who anonymously returned two books to the Portland State University Library 52 years after borrowing them: … It's a fact.  Approximately 52 years after taking out a couple …
Discussion: Associated Press
Lawrence Lessig / The Atlantic:
Larry Lessig: I'm All In  —  I had an idea.  It proved right.  It proved wrong.  Can I act on the right bit, despite the wrong?  —  In July, I decided to try something that no one else had done: to launch a campaign for a “referendum president,” focused on ending the system of corruption that has crippled our government.
Nathan Rao / Reuters:
SHOCK CLAIM: World is on brink of 50 year ICE AGE and BRITAIN will bear the brunt  —  BRITAIN faces DECADES of savage winters driven by freak changes in global ocean conditions and a weakening of the sun.  —  GETTY  —  The world is on the brink of a 50-year ice age and Britain will bear the brunt
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
Hillary's gun confiscation proposal is going to backfire in a big way  —  Allahpundit wrote yesterday about Hillary Clinton's startling lurch to the left on guns.  The story dealt largely with her fascinating suggestion that the United States should look at a “buyback program” …
 
 
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Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz fundraising pitch: ‘Obama wants your guns’
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama's baffling passivity on Jason Rezaian
Discussion: Mother Jones and Moe Lane
Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
President Mitt Romney Lectures Frontrunner Donald Trump on How Republicans Win Elections
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Pushes Bernie Sanders to Face ‘Socialist’ Moniker Head-On
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
New York Times:
The Great ‘Sanctuary City’ Slander
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
What Bernie Sanders doesn't understand about economic equality
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Obamacare Delivers. Just Not Very Much.
Discussion: Moe Lane
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Marco Rubio's wake-up call
 

 
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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles

New York Times:
Sources: in a revised bid, Skydance offered Paramount shareholders a larger stake in the combined company and a $3B cash infusion to pay debt and buy back stock

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Sources: Nicholas Carlson, who has been the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider since 2017, is expected to leave the publication later this summer

 
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