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3:15 PM ET, September 14, 2012

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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE - Romney on Debates: Obama Will 'Say Things That Aren't True'  —  With the first presidential debate less than three weeks away, Mitt Romney is spending lots of time getting ready behind closed doors.  In his first comments on that debate prep, he told me that Sen. Rob Portman …
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Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Full Transcript: George Stephanopoulos and Mitt Romney  —  The following is a full transcript of my interview with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.  —  GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor, thank you for doing this.  —  MITT ROMNEY: Thank you, George.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: Boy …
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Romney owes an apology  —  To a certain extent, no one should be surprised by Mitt Romney's decision to seize on — actually, make that exploit — the attack on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Egypt and Libya as ammunition in the presidential campaign.  —  After all, the Republican presidential nominee wrote …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney team sharpens attack on Obama's foreign policy  —  Advisers to Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his sharp criticism of President Obama and said that the deadly protests sweeping the Middle East would not have happened if the Republican nominee were president.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Poll: Obama Holds Narrow Edge Over Romney  —  President Obama holds a narrow three-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Americans most likely to vote in November, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.  —  With their back-to-back political conventions behind …
Katie Glueck / Reuters:
Mitt Romney: Barack Obama may lie in debates
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Bryan Fischer: Today's GOP Will Be ‘Dead’ If Romney Loses
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Mitt Romney Condemns Anti-Muslim Film, Echoing White House Position
Martin H. Simon / ABCNEWS:
Romney on Iran: Share Same ‘Red Line’ As Obama
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney And The Art Of The Double-Down (The Note)
Discussion: NationalJournal.com
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
A Map of Muslim Protests Around the World  —  If you can't keep track of all the Muslim protests erupting across the globe, you're not alone.  The uproar over a 14-minute anti-Islam YouTube video has sparked furious protests from Somalia to Egypt to Sudan to Tunisia to Libya to Bangladesh to Indonesia to Pakistan.
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Robert Wright / The Atlantic Online:
The Muslim Protests: Two Myths Down, Three to Go  —  Here is the narrative that pretty much everyone was buying into 36 hours ago: Crude anti-Islam film made by Israeli-American and funded by Jews leads to Muslim protests that boil over, causing four American deaths in Libya.
David Gordon Smith / Spiegel Online:
'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins'  —  US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film.  Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks.  Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
New York Times:
Egypt, Hearing From Obama, Moves to Heal Rift From Protests
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Shariah vs. the Constitution
Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination  —  Exclusive: America ‘was warned of embassy attack but did nothing’  —  NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.  PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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Beth Stebner / Daily Mail:
Bloody hand prints, stolen documents and shocking security failings: Harrowing pictures inside …
Jackie Vega / KXAN-TV:
University of Texas classes canceled  —  All other activities will resume at 5 p.m. Friday  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) - Classes at the University of Texas are canceled for Friday following a bomb threat from a caller claiming to be with al-Qaida who said he placed bombs all over campus.
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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Bomb threats clear Texas, N. Dakota State campuses
Amy Lavalley / Chicago Sun Times:
Threat made to Valparaiso University campus
Talking Points Memo:
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.
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Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
China commentary slams Romney's “foolish” China-bashing  —  (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's attacks on China and promise to name the country a currency manipulator if elected are foolish and hypocritical, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Matt Blake / Daily Mail:
Black flag of Islam flies over U.S. embassy in Tunisia as America is targeted by angry mobs across the globe in day of chaos  — 10,000 Muslims stage a noisy protest in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, burning and trampling American flags while chanting anti-US slogans
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Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Samuel's prez ad: Wake the f@#k up!  —  They picked the perfect actor for a political ad loaded with f-bombs.  —  Samuel L. Jackson will film a provocative spot supporting President Obama's re-election bid as early as tomorrow — telling voters to “Wake the f—k up, Vote for Obama.”
ABCNEWS:
Jennifer Granholm, DNC Firebrand, ‘Cute’ on '78 ‘Dating Game’  —  Here's Jennifer Granholm like you've never seen her.  The former Michigan governor and current liberal talkshow host, who gave the single most-fiery speech at the Democratic convention, was a contestant on “The Dating Game” in 1978.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 13: After Convention Bounce, Holding Obama's Polls to a Higher Standard  —  On Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, there was a deluge of comments in my Twitter feed when NBC News and Marist University released poll results showing President Obama with clear leads in three swing states.
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
‘Innocence of Muslims’: Administration asks YouTube to review video  —  Bangladeshi Muslims burn a U.S. flag in protest against the movie “Innocence of Muslims” in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday.  —  Administration officials have asked YouTube to review a controversial video that many blame …
Shayna Jacobs / NY Daily News:
NYPD identifies Jackie Barcliff, 44, as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrator who raped a fellow protestor in lower Manhattan earlier this week  —  After the sex attack, the 56-year-old woman was thrown from a second-story outdoor park; she fell 20 feet, breaking her pelvis and her right arm
Caroline Glick:
US-commanded MFO in Sinai under attack — dead reported in compound  —  Israel media - Channel 2 - just reported that the US-commanded Multi-National Force Observors headquarters in the Sinai is under assault.  Salafists laid seige to the building this afternoon and some 50 armed men stormed it.
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