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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 …
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RedState, Erick on the Radio and Talking Points Memo
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Hardline Republicans To Paul Ryan: Family Time Isn't In The Job Description For Speaker
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Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Kos, Liberaland, The Federalist and Taylor Marsh
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
10 Freedom Caucus Members Publicly Reject Paul Ryan, Enough To Doom His Candidacy For Speaker
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The Slot
The Hill:
GOP to elect Speaker next week; conservatives skeptical of Ryan
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Politico, SaintPetersBlog, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Wants To Preserve His Work/Family Balance While Making It Harder For Poor Parents
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan refines pitch to conservatives
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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 …
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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.) …
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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 …
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Lanny Davis / The Hill:
Three questions Benghazi Republicans should ask — and why they probably won't — South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy's Special Committee on Benghazi has been now thoroughly outed — not by Democrats but by his fellow Republicans. — First House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) …
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Democrats Demand RNC Pay for Benghazi Probe
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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.
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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.
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The Week
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Joe Biden Ran in the Invisible Primary, and Lost to Hillary Clinton
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Still Loved by Republicans Who Call Him Divisive and Sometimes ‘an Idiot’
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Talking Points Memo and The Last Refuge
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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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
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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?
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WikiLeaks:
CIA Director John Brennan emails — Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects.
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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 …
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Daily Mail
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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Al Jazeera English, Guardian, NPR, The Free Thought Project and Liberaland
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Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Netanyahu Draws Broad Criticism After Saying a Palestinian Inspired Holocaust
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