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12:55 AM ET, October 24, 2015

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Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush Orders Across-the-Board Pay Cuts for Struggling Campaign  —  Bush's advisers, under pressure from their donors and from falling and stagnant poll numbers, came to the conclusion that a course correction was essential.  —  michaelcbender  —  MarkHalperin
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Trump nomination looking more likely  —  <p>The odds that Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential nomination are going up.</p><p>Eighty- one percent of Republican insiders say the likelihood that Trump becomes their party's nominee is more today than it was a month ago, and 79 percent of Democrats said the same.
Gloria Steinem / CBS News:
Jeb Bush hunkers down with family to assess his candidacy
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Megyn Kelly to Jeb Bush: Will you drop out?
Taryn Luna / BostonGlobe.com:
Staples founder Thomas Stemberg dies at 66  —  Thomas G. Stemberg, who cofounded Staples Inc. and invented the office superstore, died Friday at his home in Chestnut Hill, two years after he was diagnosed with gastric cancer.  He was 66.  —  His death was confirmed by his son, Will Stemberg.
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Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: DOJ closes IRS investigation with no charges  — The Justice Department is closing its two-year investigation into whether the IRS improperly targeted tea party groups  — The IRS mishandled the processing of tax-exempt applications in a manner that disproportionately …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Lois Lerner will not face charges in Department of Justice investigation  —  The IRS did mishandle tea party and conservative groups' nonprofit applications, but their behavior didn't break any laws, the Justice Department said in a letter to Congress Friday that cleared the tax agency …
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Carson surges to 9-point lead; Trump slides  —  Donald Trump is the biggest loser in the new Iowa Poll.  —  The pious Ben Carson has plowed past the braggadocious New York businessman to take the front-runner crown, unseating Trump as the most popular choice for president among …
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Bloomberg.com news:
Ben Carson Reacts to His Lead in Iowa Polls
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
State Can't Verify Clinton Email Claim Made At Benghazi Hearing  —  The State Department said it can't confirm one of the assertions Hillary Clinton made at Thursday's House Benghazi Committee hearing from her tenure as Secretary of State.  —  One of the sticking points in Mrs. Clinton's testimony …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
She Knew All Along  —  The House hearing on Benghazi reveals …
Discussion: neo-neocon and The Federalist
The Weather Channel:
Catastrophic Landfall Expected in Mexico Friday; Patricia Becomes Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded  —  {{wxnodeVideo.video.current.description + " “}}  —  A potentially catastrophic landfall is expected Friday evening as a very powerful and dangerous Hurricane Patricia moves towards Mexico's Pacific coast.
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Greg Botelho / CNN:
Patricia, strongest hurricane ever recorded, menaces Mexico
NBC News:
Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Storm Ever Measured to Hit Mexico
TMZ.com:
Makeup Artist to the Stars — Dead From Apparent Suicide  —  The celebrity makeup artist who made a name for himself working with Katy Perry, Selena Gomez and Mariah Carey ... is dead after an apparent suicide in L.A.  —  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Jake Bailey's assistant found him Friday morning in his home and called the cops.
Discussion: Hollywood Life and Just Jared
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Long Twilight Struggle  —  The reviews appear to be unanimous.  For Republican committee members, yesterday's aggressively-billed, epic, hinge-of-history interrogation of Hillary Clinton was something ranging from a catastrophe to, as The Washington Examiner's Byron York put it, “a bust.”
John Fund / National Review:
Anatomy Of A Political Suicide: Lessons for the Right from Canada  —  Conservatives should pay attention to this week's defeat of Stephen Harper's government in Canada after a decade in power.  Despite presiding over genuinely solid economic performance - it weathered the 2008 recession far better …
Discussion: American Spectator
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Texans Owner Demands Houston's LGBT Opponents Refund His $10,000 Contribution  —  Earlier this month, billionaire Bob McNair, owner of the Houston Texans NFL team, donated $10,000 to the Campaign for Houston, a coalition working to defeat the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO).
New York Times:
F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police With Rise in Violent Crime  —  CHICAGO — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Friday that the additional scrutiny and criticism of police officers that has come in the wake of highly publicized incidents of police brutality may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.
Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Philadelphia 76ers Throw Shade at Presidential Candidate John Kasich After Insult
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Patrick Howley / BREITBART.COM:
High School Bans Pro-Trump Clothing For Supposed Racist, Offensive Theme … A high school in Arizona has banned pro-Donald Trump clothing at a Friday football game because it would be “racist” or “offensive.”  —  Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona - with a student body known as …
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Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Arizona High School Bans Patriotic Gear From Football Game
 
 
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A Whiter Shade of Candidate
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Free speech is flunking out on college campuses
Discussion: Hit & Run
New York Times:
Conservative PACs Attack Republicans, Including Paul Ryan, and It Pays
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