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Associated Press:
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69. — Kim's death was announced Monday by state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
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BBC:
N Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies — North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced. — His death was announced in an emotional statement read out on national television. — The announcer, wearing black, said he had died on Saturday of physical and mental over-work.
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CNN:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead, state TV reports — (CNN) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is dead, North Korean state TV said Monday. — Kim, 69, died Saturday, state TV said. — South Korean news agency Yonhap — which based its reporting on its monitoring off North Korean state television …
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New York Times:
N. Korea Says Dictator, Kim Jong-il, Dies — SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family's dream of turning his starving country into a minor nuclear-weapons power even as the isolated nation sank further into despotism, died on Saturday of a heart attack …
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Bill Austin / Bloomberg:
Kim Jong Il, North Korea's ‘Dear Leader’ Dictator, Dead at 70 — Kim Jong Il, the second-generation North Korean dictator who defied global condemnation to build nuclear weapons while his people starved, has died, Yonhap News reported. He was 70. — The news came in a radio broadcast …
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Reuters:
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dead, son hailed as heir — (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported on Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Paul leads in Iowa — Newt Gingrich's campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa. He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson.
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Washington Examiner:
GOP will take off the gloves if Ron Paul wins Iowa — The Republican presidential primary has become a bit feisty, but it will get downright ugly if Ron Paul wins the Iowa caucuses. — The principled, antiwar, Constitution-obeying, Fed-hating, libertarian Republican congressman …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Payroll Tax Cut Rejected by House Republicans — WASHINGTON — The House Republican leader on Sunday flatly rejected a short-term, bipartisan Senate measure to extend a payroll tax break and unemployment insurance, setting the stage for a bitter year-end Congressional collision and the potential loss …
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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
John Boehner: House GOP Will Reject Extenders Bill
John Boehner: House GOP Will Reject Extenders Bill
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Keystone climbdown leaves Obama supporters scratching their heads
Keystone climbdown leaves Obama supporters scratching their heads
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House Republicans voice opposition to Senate payroll tax cut package
House Republicans voice opposition to Senate payroll tax cut package
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Speaker Boehner opposes Senate's two-month payroll tax cut extension
Speaker Boehner opposes Senate's two-month payroll tax cut extension
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E.J. Dionne / The Moderate Voice:
Newt and the Revenge of the Base — WASHINGTON — It is one of the true delights of a bizarrely entertaining Republican presidential contest to watch the apoplectic fear and loathing of so many GOP establishmentarians toward Newt Gingrich. They treat him as an alien body whose approach to politics they have always rejected.
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Gingrich: Gov't branches should rule 2 out of 3
Gingrich: Gov't branches should rule 2 out of 3
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Quote of the Day — At this week's debate for Republican …
Quote of the Day — At this week's debate for Republican …
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Alexander Bolton / Ballot Box:
Gingrich: Congress can send Capitol Police to arrest rogue judges
Gingrich: Congress can send Capitol Police to arrest rogue judges
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Inderdeep Bains / Daily Mail:
The brave women of the Middle East: Female protesters brutally beaten with metal poles as vicious soldiers drag girls through streets by their hair in day of shame — After being viciously beaten by a 10-strong mob of Egyptian male soldiers, this woman lies helplessly on the ground as her shirt …
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Michael Zennie / Daily Mail:
Vivid new Battle of the Bulge photos offer never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers braving the frigid weather as they fight off Nazi Germany's last major offensive of World War II — Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look …
New York Times:
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011: Vaclav Havel, Former Czech President, Dies at 75 — Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident whose eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept Mr. Havel himself into power, died on Sunday.
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Ted Mann / The Atlantic Wire:
Vaclav Havel is Dead
Vaclav Havel is Dead
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J.Y. Smith / Washington Post:
Vaclav Havel, dissident playwright and former Czech president, dies
Vaclav Havel, dissident playwright and former Czech president, dies
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