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Twinkies Maker Hostess Going Out of Business, CEO Blames Union Strike — “It's over. This is it,” Gregory Rayburn tells “Today.” — Hostess, the makers of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business after striking workers failed to heed a Thursday deadline to return to work, the company said.
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Union: ‘Bain-style’ killing of Twinkie — The Bain attack is back. — This time it's being used against Hostess Brands, the Twinkies and Wonder Bread maker that announced Friday it was closing. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka drew the comparison in a public statement Friday.
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CNBC, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers and The Greenroom
CNNMoney.com:
Hostess Brands closing for good — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hostess Brands — the maker of such iconic baked goods as Twinkies, Devil Dogs and Wonder Bread — announced Friday that it is asking a federal bankruptcy court for permission to close its operations, blaming a strike by bakers protesting a new contract imposed on them.
Hostess Brands is Closed:
Hostess Brands is Closed. — We are sorry to announce that Hostess Brands, Inc. has been forced by a Bakers Union strike to shut down all operations and sell all company assets. For more information, go to hostessbrands.info. Thank you for all of your loyalty and support over the years.
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Weekly Standard, Outside the Beltway, BBC, The Hinterland Gazette and Washington Examiner
Rachel Feintzeig / Wall Street Journal:
Twinkie Maker Hostess to Close
Twinkie Maker Hostess to Close
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Deal Journal, American Power, Weekly Standard, Real Time Economics, Concurring Opinions, Law Blog and Roger Ailes
Patrick Rizzo / nbcnews.com:
Hostess, maker of Twinkies and Ding Dongs, says closing business
Hostess, maker of Twinkies and Ding Dongs, says closing business
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Firedoglake and msnbc.com
Alice Wolke / Dallas News:
Hostess going out of business; nearly 18,000 to be laid off
Hostess going out of business; nearly 18,000 to be laid off
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Hot Air, americanthinker.com, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Questions and Observations and The Greenroom
DealBook:
Hostess Brands Moves to Wind Down Operations
Hostess Brands Moves to Wind Down Operations
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Washington Monthly and Fork in the Road
AP Member Choice Limited / Reuters:
No more Twinkies? Hostess plans to shut down
No more Twinkies? Hostess plans to shut down
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aflcio.org, Washington Post, Washington Examiner and The Daily Caller
Fox News:
Petraeus testifies CIA's Libya talking points were changed, lawmaker says — Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that “Al Qaeda involvement” was suspected …
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Roger L. Simon, Riehl World News, The Right Scoop, Fox News Insider, National Review, Power Line and Jihad Watch
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
GOP Rep Admits CIA Approved U.N. Ambassador's Talking Points On Libya — Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has admitted that the CIA and intelligence community approved U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice's talking points before she made her much-derided Sept. 16 appearance on several Sunday news shows to discuss the attacks in Benghazi.
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Little Green Footballs, CNN and Wired
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
DOZEN HOUSE WOMEN DEFEND RICE OVER LIBYA COMMENTS — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators' angry criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her initial account of the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya smacks of sexism and racism, a dozen female members of the House said Friday.
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The Gateway Pundit, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers and Althouse
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
In testimony, Petraeus says he always saw Benghazi as terrorism — Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers at a closed-door briefing Friday the agency believed the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack from the beginning. — Petraeus also indicated …
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Politico, ABCNEWS and Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes'
Associated Press:
Petraeus Says C.I.A. Saw Libya Attack as Terrorism
Petraeus Says C.I.A. Saw Libya Attack as Terrorism
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FP Passport, New York Magazine and Mother Jones
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Petraeus ‘Knew Almost Immediately’ Al Qaeda-Linked Group Responsible for Benghazi
Petraeus ‘Knew Almost Immediately’ Al Qaeda-Linked Group Responsible for Benghazi
Kevin Dolak / ABCNEWS:
Ex-CIA Chief Petraeus Testifies for 90 Minutes Before House Panel
Ex-CIA Chief Petraeus Testifies for 90 Minutes Before House Panel
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Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, The Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Politico, Nice Deb and Taylor Marsh
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Audacity of 51% — Get ready for higher taxes and no spending reform.
The Audacity of 51% — Get ready for higher taxes and no spending reform.
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The Week, Betsy's Page, NationalJournal.com, Taylor Marsh and Power Line
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Views of Obama, Democrats Improve After Election — Favorable opinions of Obama highest in three years — PRINCETON, NJ — Now that the presidential election is over, Americans look a bit more positively toward both the winner (Barack Obama) and the loser (Mitt Romney) …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Taegan Goddard's …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Chris Christie unwraps Mitt Romney's ‘gift’ claim — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday joined the chorus of Republican governors and other officials criticizing Mitt Romney's assertion that “gifts” from President Barack Obama helped the Democrat win reelection.
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press and Daily Kos
Chris Moody / Associated Press:
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez: Comments like Romney's set ‘us back as a party’
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez: Comments like Romney's set ‘us back as a party’
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
At Republican governors' gathering, plenty of blame for Romney
At Republican governors' gathering, plenty of blame for Romney
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Crooks and Liars, Wall Street Journal and ABCNEWS
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Roger Ailes on Election Night: ‘Rove was wrong. He backed down. Our guys were right.’ — On election night, Fox News co-founder and chairman Roger Ailes watched election coverage in the News Corp. Sports Suite, down the hall from his second floor office.
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Politico, Mediaite, JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
Most Republican States Won't Build Exchanges and That Is a Good Thing — Map showing party affiliation by Governors, current — Now that we have approached what should have been the deadline for states to say whether or not they plan to build state exchanges to comply with the Affordable Care Act …
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Politico
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Reuters:
Erdogan: Israeli strikes a pre-election stunt — Turkish prime minister lays blame for conflict firmly on Jewish state, tells reporters ‘before this election they shot these innocent people in Gaza for reasons they fabricated’ — Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan decried
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Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
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Matthew Duss / American Prospect:
Israel's Airstrike Gamble
Israel's Airstrike Gamble
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Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Reuters, Haaretz, World News and Washington Monthly
BBC:
Gaza rocket fired at Jerusalem
Gaza rocket fired at Jerusalem
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New York Times, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
George Bennett / Post on Politics:
Judge denies Allen West's recount request; focus now on 4 p.m. canvassing board meeting — FORT PIERCE — A judge today denied U.S. Rep. Allen West's request that he order a recount of 37,379 ballots from early voting in St. Lucie County — effectively leaving the decision …
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Ballot Box, Politico and The Fix
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
When the Nerds Go Marching In — How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection — Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell (Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil).
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones and The Daily Dish
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Life, Death and Deficits — America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas — beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.
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msnbc.com and Connecting.the.Dots
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Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
How to sort out Social Security's finances while making it more generous
How to sort out Social Security's finances while making it more generous
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Hullabaloo and Mother Jones
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Broadwell, Kelley visited White House — Both women at the heart of the Petraeus scandal have visited the White House on multiple occasions, a White House official confirmed to POLITICO. — Petraeus's biographer Paula Broadwell attended an Afghanistan briefing, while Tampa socialite Jill …
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Weekly Standard and Business Insider
WWL-TV:
4 critical, 2 missing after fire and explosion on Gulf platform — OFF THE GULF COAST - Four people were in critical condition and two others were missing after a fire and explosion on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico south of Grand Isle Friday morning. — Coast Guard Incident Commander Ed Cubanski …
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WAFB-TV, Gizmodo and The Raw Story
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
John Boehner Lengthens The Fuse On The Austerity Bomb — In a White House meeting with President Obama and other Congressional leaders Friday, House Speaker John Boehner traced a procedural path for reaching deficit reduction targets next year, while avoiding immediate, and deeper, budget tightening in January.
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