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Thursday's Mini-Report, 10.1.15

Today's edition of quick hits.
Today's edition of quick hits:
 
* The latest from Oregon: "State police said they believed there was only one shooter, who they said 'is no longer a threat.'"
 
* Syria: "The United States and Russia will begin talks Thursday morning aimed at calming tensions between their opposing military operations in Syria, two senior defense officials told NBC News. The 'very high-level' discussions will begin at 11 a.m. ET, one official said."
 
* Related news: "In a second day of raids in Syria, Russian warplanes carried out a new round of airstrikes on Thursday that once again -- contrary to Moscow’s assertions -- appeared for the most part to be targeting not the Islamic State but a rival insurgent coalition."
 
* Afghanistan: "Afghan government forces rallied on Thursday for the first time in four days against Taliban fighters who had taken the city of Kunduz, engaging in heavy fighting near the city center, residents and government officials said. By nightfall, however, witnesses said the battle for the city was still undecided."
 
* Rough crowd: "People booed and hissed at House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.) on Thursday as she defended her party's ongoing Benghazi probe and its connection to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton."
 
* A dramatic mistake: "The Secret Service apologized Wednesday to Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a prominent critic of the agency, for violating federal privacy law by improperly accessing sensitive personal information about him dozens of times in little more than a single week."
 
* The Atlantic Coast is on alert: "East Coast states are alerting residents to prepare as potentially historic rainfall and flooding is set to wreak havoc into the weekend -- whether or not Hurricane Joaquin, which was upgraded to an 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 storm on Thursday afternoon, makes U.S. landfall."
 
* A year ago today, Americans woke up to some scary headlines: "On this day in 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States." Fortunately, nearly everything Republican officials said in the weeks that followed was wrong.
 
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