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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
‘Supermajority’ of House Freedom Caucus to back Paul Ryan's speaker bid  —  Hard-line conservatives cleared a path late Wednesday for Rep. Paul Ryan to become House speaker, heralding a possible end to weeks of Republican leadership turmoil.  —  The decision to support Ryan …
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Lauren French / Politico:
Ryan to proceed with speaker bid  —  <p>Rep. Paul Ryan will proceed with plans to run for House speaker despite not securing the formal endorsement of the House Freedom Caucus.</p><p>Ryan's decision, which came after a high-stakes meeting with the group of hard-line conservatives earlier in the day …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
10 Freedom Caucus Members Publicly Reject Paul Ryan, Enough To Doom His Candidacy For Speaker
Discussion: The Slot
Ann Coulter / Official:
SAVE US FROM PAUL RYAN AND THE KEMP BOYS
Discussion: Liberaland and Vox Popoli
New York Times:
Freedom Caucus Majority Backs Paul Ryan for House Speaker
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Wants To Preserve His Work/Family Balance While Making It Harder For Poor Parents
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan refines pitch to conservatives
Nick Gass / Politico:
Conservative media mocks ‘Emperor Ryan’
Discussion: Salon
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Proof That The Benghazi Investigation Is Totally Unlike Any Other, In Two Charts  —  On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will testify in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where Republicans will try to prove that the former secretary of state mishandled …
Discussion: CNN, Latest, USA Today and Hullabaloo
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton enters Benghazi showdown on offense  —  Hillary Clinton is sailing into the Benghazi hot seat with the momentum in her favor.  —  The Democratic presidential front-runner's polling has rebounded over the last month, ever since House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Ever a Voracious Student, Prepares for Benghazi Hearing  —  For days, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been sequestered inside her red brick home in Washington, poring over events that happened more than three years ago and half a world away.  —  Her preparations for the hearing …
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton's Long-Awaited Benghazi Testimony Set to Begin
Discussion: abc7news.com and Truth Revolt
Lanny Davis / The Hill:
Three questions Benghazi Republicans should ask — and why they probably won't
Discussion: Politico
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Democrats Demand RNC Pay for Benghazi Probe
Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton-Sanders Fight Gathers Strength in Iowa: Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Poll  —  The top Democrats split Biden supporters.  Likely caucus-goers aren't fazed by Clinton's e-mail issue.  And Sanders has an Iowa problem—and it's not socialism.
Discussion: RedState, Politico and ABC News
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Carson surges past Trump in Iowa poll  —  <p>Ben Carson has surged past Donald Trump in Iowa, according to a Quinnipiac University poll of likely Republican caucus participants out Thursday. </p><p>The retired neurosurgeon leads the Republican field with 28 percent, while Trump has fallen behind with 20 percent.
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Still Loved by Republicans Who Call Him Divisive and Sometimes ‘an Idiot’
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. and Kurdish Commandos Said to Raid ISIS Prison in North Iraq  —  BAGHDAD — American and Kurdish commandos raided an Islamic State outpost near the northern Iraqi town of Hawija, freeing prisoners there and capturing some of the militants themselves, Iraqi officials said on Thursday.
Fox News:
Police say suspect confesses to road rage shooting that killed New Mexico 4-year-old  —  Albuquerque police said late Wednesday that a suspect had confessed to a road rage shooting that killed a four-year-old girl on Interstate 40.  —  Authorities said Tony Torrez, 32, had been charged with murder …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and JONATHAN TURLEY
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Jeb Bush: Supergirl is ‘pretty hot’  —  North Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN)After nearly an hourlong discussion on serious policy, Jeb Bush was thrown a softball Wednesday night while speaking at an event in Las Vegas:  —  Who is your favorite Marvel superhero?  —  25 photos: Badass women of sci-fi
Annie Karni / Politico:
How Clinton boxed out Biden  —  <p>Scratch Joe Biden off Brooklyn's list of worries. </p><p>The announcement Wednesday afternoon that Biden would not enter the presidential race removed another hurdle for Hillary Clinton, whose string of good fortune was kicked off by a strong Oct. 13 debate performance …
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New York Times:
Joe Biden Will Not Run for President in 2016
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Subordinate seduced me — then got me fired: executive  —  A lawsuit claims that Tila Azeem (main) set Citi's Head of Global Prime Finance, David James Murphy (inset) by telling her bosses that he sexually harassed her.  —  A former Citigroup executive says a young female underling set …
Discussion: Daily Mail
Gail Heriot / Wall Street Journal:
Why Aren't There More Black Scientists?  —  The evidence suggests that one reason is the perverse impact of university racial preferences.  —  Remember when Justice Sandra Day O'Connor predicted in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) that universities would no longer need race-preferential admissions policies in 25 years?
i24news:
Germany in response to Netanyahu: We are responsible for Holocaust  —  Israeli PM claimed then-Mufti of Jerusalem al-Husseini convinced Hitler to exterminate Jews  —  Germany on Wednesday said that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans, after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin …
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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Netanyahu Draws Broad Criticism After Saying a Palestinian Inspired Holocaust
 
 
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