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9:15 AM ET, November 14, 2011

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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Chelsea Clinton to Report for NBC  —  NBC is to announce on Monday morning that it has hired Chelsea Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent for NBC News.  —  The appointment is immediate.  Ms. Clinton will show up at the news division offices oon Monday morning, said Steve Capus …
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Capitol Gains  —  Are members of Congress guilty of insider trading—and does it matter?  —  IN 1995, WHEN Alan Ziobrowski was an associate professor of finance at Lander University, in South Carolina, he found himself at home one night watching “one of those 60 Minutes-type shows.”
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CBS News:
Congress: Trading stock on inside information?  —  Washington, D.C. is a town that runs on inside information - but should our elected officials be able to use that information to pad their own pockets?  As Steve Kroft reports, members of Congress and their aides have regular access …
The Politico:
Some Democrats refuse to back President Obama  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman was treated like an outcast back in 2008 when he broke from the Senate Democratic Caucus and openly opposed Barack Obama's bid for the White House.  —  Asked last week if he'd back Obama in 2012, the Connecticut independent said, “I don't know what I'm going to do.”
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Mr President, it's time to panic
Discussion: Washington Post
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Deficit Panel Seeks to Defer Details on Raising Taxes  —  WASHINGTON — With a little over a week left to reach a deal, members of the Congressional deficit reduction panel are looking for an escape hatch that would let them strike an accord on revenue levels but delay until next year tough decisions about exactly how to raise taxes.
Wynton Hall / Big Government:
REVEALED: Nancy Pelosi Blocked Credit Card Reform While Investing Millions in Exclusive Visa Stock Offering  —  Former Speaker of the House-and current Minority Leader-Nancy Pelosi apparently bought $1 million to $5 million of Visa stock in one of the most sought-after and profitable initial public offerings …
Mark Schultz / Raleigh News & Observer:
Police arrest Chapel Hill ‘Occupy’ protesters  —  KATELYN FERRAL - KATELYN.FERRAL@NEWSOBSERVER.COM  —  Police brandishing guns and assault rifles entered a vacant Franklin Street car dealership and arrested a group of demonstrators who had taken over the building Saturday night.
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Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
Wielding Assault Rifles, Police Arrest Chapel Hill Occupiers Of Building Left Derelict By Developer
Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
Foes: Elizabeth Warren bombs on Iran  —  GOP blasts candidate's ‘troubling’ stance on nukes  —  Hawkish Republicans opened fire on Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren yesterday, after the Harvard Law professor called for a “nuanced” response to Iran's purported nuclear weapons program.
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Hossein Jaseb / Reuters:   Iran says has detected Duqu computer virus
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Bachmann Says CBS News E-Mail Shows Bias  —  It is not exactly a state secret that the news media tend to lavish more coverage on perceived front-runners in presidential campaigns.  —  But CBS News's political director, John Dickerson, made the mistake of saying basically that in an e-mail …
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New York Post:
Ex-cop boots OWS heckler from congressman's swearing-in  —  Meet New York's newest hero.  —  Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he'd been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman's swearing-in ceremony.
Wall Street Journal:
The EPA's Reliability Cover-Up  —  Why did the agency erase its own doubts about the U.S. electrical grid?  —  Some 830,000 Connecticut customers are only now having their power restored after a snowstorm knocked out the state's grid last month—but the Environmental Protection Agency continues …
Karl Vick / Time:
Intel Source: Israel Behind Deadly Explosion at Iran Missile Base  —  Smoke rises from an explosion at a Revolutionary Guard ammunition depot outside Tehran, which, according to Iranian officials, killed at least 15 people on Nov. 12, 2011  —  Israeli newspapers on Sunday were thick with innuendo …
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Ynetnews:
US blog: Mossad behind Iran blast
Discussion: Israel Matzav and The PJ Tatler
Molly Hottle / Oregonian:
3 men claiming to be Occupy Portland protesters arrested in Marion County for possession of explosives  —  Marion County authorities arrested three men, who claimed to be Occupy Portland protesters, during a traffic stop after officers found fireworks and marijuana inside.
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Gloria Cain speaks out about sexual harassment allegations  —  In her first televised interview ever, Gloria Cain, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, sat down with her husband and said that the allegations of sexual harassment against him don't square with the man she knows.
Jeffrey D. Sachs / New York Times:
The New Progressive Movement  —  OCCUPY WALL STREET and its allied movements around the country are more than a walk in the park.  They are most likely the start of a new era in America.  Historians have noted that American politics moves in long swings.  We are at the end of the 30-year Reagan era …
Katie Roiphe / New York Times:
In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks  —  QUESTIONS about what Herman Cain did or didn't do after dinners years ago have carried the subject of sexual harassment back into the news.  —  After all these years, we are again debating the definition of unwanted sexual advances …
Luke Rosiak / Washington Times:
Fundraisers show little cash for Cain  —  A second group exploits his name  —  A felon once imprisoned for fraud is raising money in the name of Herman Cain and profiting off of it through a company he owns.  It is the second group raising large amounts of Cain cash that has a history …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
 
 
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Reuters:
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Battleground Poll: Economy drags on Obama
Discussion: Reuters and Business Insider
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Supercommittee needs to ‘bite the bullet,’ says President Obama
Discussion: The Politico
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Republicans return to the torture ‘debate’
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Debates take toll on Republican field
Jane M. Von Bergen / Philly.com:
Families say Sandusky had free rein
Discussion: Rod Dreher
Daniel Foster / National Review:
Will on Wife's New Job at Perry Campaign
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
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