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6:45 PM ET, November 7, 2015

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Haley Hudler / FIRE:
Yale Students Demand Resignations from Faculty Members Over Halloween Email  —  Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus.  —  Students called for the resignation of Associate Master …
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Ollie Gillman For / Daily Mail:
The moment Yale students encircled and shouted down professor who told them to just ‘look away’ if they were offended by Halloween costumes  — Dozens of Yale students encircled a professor after he said he would not stop people from wearing offensive Halloween costumes
Jencey Paz / yaleherald.com:   Hurt at home … As a Silimander, I feel that my home is being threatened.
Yale Daily News:
Students confront Christakis about Halloween email
Discussion: Business Insider
Detroit News:
Carson's Westmoreland story doesn't match records  —  Carlisle, Pa. — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's published account of having dinner with a top commander in the Vietnam War after marching in a Memorial Day parade in 1969 as a high school ROTC cadet in Detroit does not match historical records.
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Ben Carson's Past Faces Deeper Questions
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Candidates Stick to Script, if Not the Truth, in 2016 Race  —  “I only tell true stories,” Carly Fiorina assured employees during one of her first speeches as the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard in 2000.  —  But the stirring story that Mrs. Fiorina, now a Republican candidate for president …
Jory Rand / abc7.com:
Secret military operations to divert LAX planes for a week  —  Mysterious maneuvers over the Pacific are forcing a change in Los Angeles International Airport landings late at night, meaning noise for thousands of people in the flight path.  —  Instead of landing from the east over Inglewood …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
New Rubio credit-card data show less spending  —  Marco Rubio must have something to hide.  There was a reason the presidential candidate wasn't letting people see his long-secret Republican Party of Florida American Express bills.  He spent too lavishly and frivolously, and used his party card for personal business.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
al.com:
How far is too far?  Controversial Alabama-LSU sign decried on social media  —  It's our understanding that the banner was hung at an off-campus apartment complex and it has been removed.  —  This message was issued to UA students by UA Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. David Grady:
Evan Perez / CNN:
Hackers breach FBI-run site, email account of top bureau official  —  Person who claims to have hacked CIA chief talks to CNN  —  Washington (CNN)Hackers who breached the AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan have not only evaded arrest, but now are suspected of another embarrassing set …
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
As U.S. Escalates Air War on ISIS, Allies Slip Away  —  AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar — As the United States prepares to intensify airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria, the Arab allies who with great fanfare sent warplanes on the initial missions there a year ago have largely vanished from the campaign.
Ana Radelat / Hartford Courant:
Murphy Slams Pro-Cruz Ad Over Sandy Hook Reference  —  aradelat@ctmirror.org … WASHINGTON — Sen Chris Murphy said a third-party ad supporting Sen. Ted Cruz's White House bid “makes me want to throw up” because it said the GOP presidential candidate “stopped Obama's push for gun control laws” in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings.
Discussion: Raw Story and addictinginfo.org
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Reid, Pelosi pushing for repeal of ObamaCare's ‘Cadillac tax’  —  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are working behind the scenes to repeal one of the most controversial taxes in ObamaCare, multiple sources tell The Hill.
Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Maher: ‘Capt. Carnival Barker and Crazy McSleepy Pants’ are winning because US voters are dumb  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Real Time host Bill Maher closed his show out on Friday by ridiculing a Republican electorate demanding that their next presidential candidate have as little political experience as possible.
 
 
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Insiders: Carson can't win
Discussion: Gallup and Los Angeles Times
Raw Story:
Gun shop owner mutilated women and stored their genitals in his freezer: South African police
Anna Palmer / Politico:
House GOP's appetite for more votes shows limits
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court accepts challenge to health law's contraceptive mandate
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton refrains from attacks while bearing the brunt of her opponents'
Discussion: The Week
New York Daily News:
Donald Trump had an uncredited ghostwriter for his new book, ‘Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again’
 

 
From Techmeme:

Charlie Demerjian / SemiAccurate:
Sources: Qualcomm is cheating on Snapdragon X Plus and Elite benchmarks given to OEMs and the press; the numbers are not achievable with the claimed settings

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins rolling out Windows 11 Start menu ads that show app “recommendations” from “a small set of curated developers”; users can disable the ads

Meir Orbach / CTech:
Nvidia acquires AI infrastructure orchestration and management service Run:ai, a source says for ~$700M; Run:ai, founded in 2018, had raised $118M to date

 
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