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New York Times:
Turmoil Spreads to U.S. Embassy in Yemen — SANA, Yemen — Turmoil in the Arab world linked to a contentious video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread on Thursday to Yemen, where hundreds of protesters stormed the United States Embassy, two days after assailants killed the American ambassador …
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
White House clarifies Obama's statement that Egypt is not an ‘ally’ — President Barack Obama didn't intend to signal any change in the U.S.-Egypt relationship last night when he said Egypt is not an “ally,” the White House told The Cable today. — In an interview with Telemundo Wednesday night …
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Wall Street Journal:
Romney Offends the Pundits — Doesn't he know he's not supposed to debate foreign policy? — Tuesday's assaults on the U.S. Embassies in Benghazi and Cairo have injected foreign policy into the Presidential campaign, but suddenly the parsons of the press corps are offended by the debate.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The American Media Beclowned Themselves Yesterday — Yesterday, as the American consulate in Libya was smoking and the rioters were returning in Egypt, the President of the United States flew off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser while his spokesman was telling the American press corps that yesterday wasn't really a normal political day.
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New York Post:
The media lash out — The murders of US diplomats in Libya and the attempted storming of the US Embassy in Cairo took place 56 days before the election of America's next president. — Apparently, it is the view of much of the mainstream media and foreign-policy establishment that discussing …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Mitt's Major Meltdown — Mitt Romney broke our deal. — Perhaps he didn't know he'd made it, although, really, I thought it was pretty clear. — He could do anything he wanted during this campaign as long as he sent out signals that once he got in the White House he was not likely to be truly crazy.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Inside the public relations disaster at the Cairo embassy — One staffer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was responsible for the statement and tweets Tuesday that have become grist for the presidential campaign, and that staffer ignored explicit State Department instructions not to issue the statement …
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First Read:
First Thoughts: A tricky situation — Obama now faces tricky foreign-policy situation... And he has new questions to answer... Why Romney went there... And why it backfired... Obama piles on... Conservatives blame the media... New NBC/WSJ/Marist polls coming out tonight at 6:30 pm ET …
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New York Times:
A Challenger's Criticism Is Furiously Returned
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
REPORTS: No Live Ammo for Marines
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
How the media turned Obama's foreign policy bungle into a Romney gaffe
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Mitt Romney won't stop attacking
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Pema Levy / Talking Points Memo:
Portman Comes To Romney's Defense On Libya But Concedes Lack Of Awareness Of Sequence Of Events
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Ahmed Al-Haj / Associated Press:
Protesters storm US Embassy in Yemen
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Roger Alford / The Republic:
APNewsBreak: US Sen. Mitch McConnell hires tea party strategist to lead re-election campaign
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Mark Thompson / U.S.:
What's Worse: No Marines, or (Possibly) Unarmed Marines?
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Liz Cheney / Wall Street Journal:
Cairo, Benghazi and Obama Foreign Policy
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in August suggests that economic activity has continued to expand at a moderate pace in recent months. Growth in employment has been slow, and the unemployment rate remains elevated.
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
FED ANNOUNCES UNLIMITED QE AND MARKETS ARE SOARING
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Federal Reserve Finally Working Expectations Channel With Open-Ended QE
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BuzzFeed:
Romney's Team Turns On The Press — A frustrating week in Boston. “The polls are close, and so the media starts cheering on their guy,” says one adviser. — DULLES, Va. — As Mitt Romney finishes his second week of dismal news coverage — with slipping polls and a combustible international crisis driving …
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Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Poll shows Obama up five on Romney in Colorado — DENVER - The first poll of Colorado voters since the Democratic National Convention shows President Barack Obama with a five point lead over Republican Mitt Romney, FOX31 Denver is first to report. — The new survey by OnSight Public Affairs …
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Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Obama echoes Carter with ‘shoot first’ criticism of Romney
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: Has Obama neutralized Romney's advantage on the economy?
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Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
Benjamin Netanyahu vs. Barack Obama — President Barack Obama's national security team had every reason to believe they'd be spared a Bibi eruption before Election Day. — Earlier this year, U.S. and Israeli officials had informally agreed to stop airing their well-documented disagreements …
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Chicago Tribune:
Hope spreads from bargaining table to teacher picket line — As talk of progress spread from the bargaining table to the picket line, striking Chicago teachers said this morning they hope their actions will be a good lesson not just for their students, but for other unions across the country.
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Christian Schneider / City Journal:
Beware of Backfire — If Wisconsin governor Scott Walker …
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Daniel Klaidman / The Daily Beast:
Mitt's Veep Tax Hypocrisy — MITT'S VEEP TAX HYPOCRISY — Romney asked at least some on his VP shortlist to submit 10 years worth of tax returns, a source says. Daniel Klaidman reports on the disconnect with Mitt's own public disclosures. — Jeff Haynes / Reuters-Landov
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Anthea Butler / USA Today:
Opposing view: Why Sam Bacile deserves arrest — Words have consequences. I know that because one of my tweets asking “when Sam Bacile would be arrested” drew wide attention on Wednesday. — My initial tweet about Bacile, the person said to be responsible for the film mocking the prophet Mohammed …
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Esquire:
Exclusive: Obama Up by 4 Points Among Likely Voters (58% of Americans Say He'd Take Romney in a Fight) — With fifty-four days to go, voter opinions are coming into focus, and Esquire and Yahoo! News have joined forces to examine how voters view the presidential candidates and how President Obama …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Health Board Approves Ban on Large Sugary Drinks — Seeking to combat rising obesity rates, the New York City Board of Health approved on Thursday a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, street carts and movie theaters, enacting the first restriction of its kind in the country.
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Reagan, Bush Refused To Politicize Iran Crisis During 1980 Presidential Election — Republicans love Ronald Reagan. Despite the fact that today's GOP is so far to the right that it probably would consider Reagan a radical leftist, whatever policy Republicans want to prescribe to a any particular issue …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Outside the Beltway
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
After ‘Today’ Criticism, NBC News Chief Apologies to Affiliates — As it promised, NBC did not apologize on the air Wednesday for its decision not to observe a moment of silence during the “Today” show on Sept. 11. — But Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, did send out a message …
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New York Post:
Lewinsky booked — Monica Lewinsky is shopping a top-secret book project, Page Six has exclusively learned. We're told Lewinsky has been making the rounds with major publishers, who were all asked to sign nondisclosure agreements to take the meetings. It's unclear who the front-runners are …
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