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1:30 PM ET, November 4, 2015

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Katherine Driessen / Houston Chronicle:
Houston Equal Rights Ordinance fails by wide margin  —  Houston's controversial equal rights ordinance failed by a wide margin Tuesday, with voters opting to repeal the law that offered broad non-discrimination protections, according to incomplete and unofficial returns.
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Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
Bathroom Fears Flush Houston Discrimination Ordinance
Lana Shadwick / Breitbart:
Perverts Lose in Houston as Voters Say No to Men in Ladies' Rooms
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Kyle Kondik / Politico:
How Democrats Could Win the House.  Really.  —  Whatever happens in the White House a year from now, it's an article of faith that not much will change in the House, where Republicans have a seeming lock on the majority.  —  But wait: the ascendancy of Donald Trump and Ben Carson just might have cracked the window open.
Discussion: The Week
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
McAuliffe's hopes for Senate majority dashed  —  Republicans held onto the Virginia Senate in fiercely contested elections Tuesday, leaving Gov. Terry McAuliffe without legislative leverage or political momentum as he works to deliver Virginia for his friend Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.
New York Times:
Matt Bevin, Republican, Wins Governor's Race in Kentucky  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Matt Bevin, a Republican political novice, wealthy Louisville businessman and Tea Party favorite, was elected Kentucky's next governor on Tuesday, a victory that could herald a new era in a state where Democrats …
Ian Simpson / Reuters:
GOP keeps control of Virginia state Senate despite gun control spending
Discussion: America Rising and Moe Lane
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
The meaning of Ben Carson's stunning rise  —  It's very meaningful that the surgeon Ben Carson appears to be taking the lead in the polling for the GOP nomination — but not in the ways you might expect.  —  First, it means Donald Trump has stalled out.  Given Trump's standing atop the polls …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Jeb Bush plummets in latest national poll  —  Jeb Bush's support among Republicans nationally has plummeted to the low single digits in the latest Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday, as the former Florida governor's campaign seeks to hit refresh with its “Jeb Can Fix It” tour.
Tampa Bay Times:
Marco Rubio spent lavishly on a GOP credit card, but some transactions are still secret  —  It has become legend in Florida political circles, a missing chapter in Marco Rubio's convoluted financial story: two years of credit card transactions from his time in the state House …
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Rubio knocks Trump for switching stances on immigration
Devin Henry / The Hill:
House panel approves climate rule resolutions  —  A House committee on Tuesday approved two resolutions to overturn the Obama administration's climate rule for power plants.  —  The Congressional Review Act resolutions, sponsored by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), are meant to block …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Chris Buckley / New York Times:
China Burns Much More Coal Than Reported, Complicating Climate Talks
CNN:   We're winning the war against coal
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Kelly Grills Cruz On Proposal That Only Republicans Moderate GOP Debates  —  Fox News Megyn Kelly, who has expressed skepticism of Republican candidates' demands following the CNBC debate, on Tuesday night quizzed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his pitch that only Republican journalists moderate the Republican primary debates.
Shaun Chaiyabhat / WKMG:
Oviedo middle school student gets detention for hug  —  Student's family fears principal taking policy too far  —  OVIEDO, Fla. -  —  A before-school hug between friends ended in detention for one local student, and now her parents are questioning the school's policy.  —  “I just like hugged them.
Paul Ryan / USA Today:
‘Get serious about enforcing our laws’  —  Passing immigration reform during the Obama presidency would render it meaningless.  —  The House of Representatives will not vote on comprehensive immigration legislation as long as President Obama is in office.  And the reason is simple …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and National Review
Ben Shapiro / Breitbart:
Feds Rule to Force High School Girls to Undress Next to Naked Boys Who Think They're Girls  —  On Monday, the federal government declared itself fit for the madhouse by mandating that a Chicago high school allow a full biological male into the girls' locker room for all purposes, including nudity.
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said he's been quietly watching his colleagues work during his first year as a senator, and nearly one year after his election — he wonders whether the U.S. Senate should even exist.  —  The Tea Party lawmaker said …
Discussion: Liberaland, Breitbart and NPR
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Can Washington's Most Interesting Egghead Save the Senate?
Discussion: Fox News, Hot Air and Weekly Standard
Alan Johnson / The Columbus Dispatch:
Ohioans reject legalizing marijuana  —  Ohioans pushed a monopoly marijuana-legalization proposal out the door Tuesday by a nearly 2-to-1 vote.  —  But the question is, will pot make a comeback?  —  Although Issue 3 was handily defeated, the debate and conversations about the issue …
The Hill:
Ryan refuses to rule out riders on spending bill  —  New Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday refused to rule out attaching legislative policy riders to an omnibus spending bill, foreshadowing a possible confrontation with President Obama next month.  —  “This is the legislative branch …
Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic:
The Chilling Regularity of Mass Extinctions  —  One thing we know for sure is that conditions on Earth were, shall we say, unpleasant for the dinosaurs at the moment of their demise.  Alternate and overlapping theories suggest the great beasts were pelted with monster comets, drowned by mega-tsunamis …
Denver Post:
Jefferson County Public Schools see new five-member board take over after election  —  LAKEWOOD — Voters overwhelmingly chose to recall three members of the Jefferson County school board Tuesday night and elected two others to form an entirely new board in Colorado's second-largest school district.
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business:
Steve Jobs Considered Building an Apple Car in 2008  —  The Apple co-founder kicked around ideas with longtime confidant and iPod co-creator Tony Fadell.  —  Count Steve Jobs among those curious about what an Apple car would look like.  In 2008, not too long after the Apple co-founder introduced …
 
 
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Conservative plan would boot chairmen off Steering panel
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Edward D. Murphy / The Portland Press Herald:
Voters reject city's $15 minimum wage
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Dale Carpenter / Washington Post:
Israeli academic shouted down in lecture at University of Minnesota
Discussion: Power Line and Fight Back!
The Hill:
Koch brothers seek softer image
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
School vs. Society in America's Failing Students
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump team says his retweet of a Nazi image was an accident
Fox News:
San Francisco sheriff known for ‘sanctuary city’ defense loses re-election bid
Yanan Wang / Washington Post:
‘Jeb Can Fix It’ backfires in the hands of Internet meme-makers and trolls
Roger Simon / Politico:
Why are the candidates so afraid of the press?
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
The Case for Bernie Sanders
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