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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
11 days until disaster, three options to prevent it — (Andrew Harrer - BLOOMBERG) It always feels different in the room. In the room, everyone wants a deal. They want their name on legislation, in history books. They want to do the big things and make the hard choices.
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The President Is Actually Trying to Talk the Markets Into a Panic. — An enraged Barack Obama just took to the nation's airwaves to announce his effort to strike a deal with Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner has fallen apart. Perhaps for the first time in American history …
The Huffington Post:
Debt Ceiling Deadline Might Be August 10, Not August 2: Report … For months, markets have been girding themselves against the possibility that the U.S. will reach the limits of its borrowing ability on August 2 and default on its debts. But researchers at Barclays Capital think the real deadline may not be until a week later.
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New York Times:
Obama Should Raise the Debt Ceiling on His Own — PRESIDENT OBAMA should announce that he will raise the debt ceiling unilaterally if he cannot reach a deal with Congress. Constitutionally, he would be on solid ground. Politically, he can't lose. The public wants a deal.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Debt talks collapse between Obama, Boehner — House Speaker John A. Boehner abandoned talks with the White House on Friday about a landmark debt-reduction deal, throwing into chaos efforts to raise the legal limit on government borrowing just 11 days before the U.S. Treasury is due to run out of cash.
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Fox News:
Boehner Ends Debt-Limit Talks With White House, Turns to Senate Leaders — House Speaker John Boehner on Friday pulled out of negotiations with President Obama on raising the nation's legal limit to borrow money, just days before the Aug. 2 deadline when the Treasury says the government …
David Rogers / The Politico:
Debt talks between Barack Obama and John Boehner break down
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Rebecca Kaplan / The Atlantic Online:
Obama: Can They Say Yes to Anything?
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The Other McCain
The Politico:
John Boehner's move plays to House
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
John Boehner walks away from debt talks
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama blasts GOP, Boehner on debt: ‘We have run out of time’
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
How Congress put our credit rating at risk
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A plain blog about politics
New York Times:
Death Toll Rises to 91 in Norway Attacks — OSLO — The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a 32-year-old man, whom they identified as a Christian fundamentalist with right-wing connections, over the bombing of a government center here and a shooting attack on a nearby island that together left at least 91 people dead.
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CNN:
Who is the suspect in Norway's attacks? — (CNN) — As Norway struggles to come to terms with its greatest loss of life in decades, all eyes are on the man charged in the explosion in central Oslo and the deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp. — While police have not officially named him …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Washington Post Owes the World an Apology for this Item — Read it and weep. On the Post's site Jennifer Rubin first quotes the Weekly Standard, in a rushed item about the Norway horror: … Then she goes on to argue on her own: … No, this is a sobering reminder for those who think it's …
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Daily Mail:
Police dismiss initial fears Norwegian terror attacks were work of Islamist organisations — Police have said the Norwegian terror attacks do not appear to be linked to Islamist terrorism. — The 32-year-old Norwegian man arrested for gunning down children on the holiday island of Utoya …
BBC:
‘Eighty dead’ in Norway shooting — Anders Frydenberg of Oslo police describes the rescue operation on Utoeya island — At least 80 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bomb attack on the capital, Oslo, police say.
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Guardian:
Norway attack: at least 80 die in Utøya shooting, seven in Oslo bombing
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Damien McElroy / Telegraph:
Norway: dozens killed in terror attacks
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Terror Strikes Norway
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Oregonian:
Sources: Young woman accuses Oregon Rep. David Wu of aggressive, unwanted sexual encounter — By Charles Pope, Janie Har and Beth Slovic — A distraught young woman called U.S. Rep. David Wu's Portland office this spring, accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter, according to multiple sources.
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The Politico:
Wu at center of sex allegation — Rep. David Wu has been accused of an “unwanted sexual encounter” with the teenage daughter of a longtime friend, the latest scandal to engulf the troubled Oregon Democrat. — The Oregonian reported that the 56-year-old Wu “acknowledged a sexual encounter …
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The Hill:
FAA furloughs 4,000 workers after funding expires, congressional ‘inaction’ — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) partially shut down Saturday, as Congress failed to reauthorize the agency's funding. — “I'm very disappointed that Congress adjourned today without passing a clean extension …
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