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Politico:
Double trouble: House GOP eyes default, shutdown — House Republicans are seriously entertaining dramatic steps, including default or shutting down the government, to force President Barack Obama to finally cut spending by the end of March. — The idea of allowing the country to default …
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Washington Post:
Maryland Gov. O'Malley to push for tougher gun-control rules — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will seek to institute some of the nation's strictest gun-licensing requirements, ban assault weapons and restrict visitor access to schools in one of the most expansive government responses sought …
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The Week, Washington Examiner and ABCNEWS
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Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Bloomberg wants to change the GOP — Matt McClain/For The Washington Post - Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, poses for a portrait at New York City Hall on Friday January 11, 2013. He has been outspoken on the issue of gun control. — NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg …
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Booman Tribune and Taegan Goddard's …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Lies on Gun Background Checks Are a Focus Both Sides Agree On — WASHINGTON — Nearly 80,000 Americans were denied guns in 2010, according to Justice Department data, because they lied or provided inaccurate information about their criminal histories on background-check forms.
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Center for American Progress, The Maddow Blog and Right Wing News
Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
Newtown police chief adds voice to call for assault weapons ban
Newtown police chief adds voice to call for assault weapons ban
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National Confidential, Business Insider and The Raw Story
David Jackson / USA Today:
Biden to present gun package this week
Biden to present gun package this week
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Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', The Hill, Washington Post, msnbc.com, CBS New York and New York Times
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Maryland's Gov. O'Malley to push for new gun control
Maryland's Gov. O'Malley to push for new gun control
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Ballot Box, Hullabaloo and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist — Just days before he hanged himself, Internet activist Aaron Swartz's hopes for a deal with federal prosecutors fell apart. — Two years ago, the advocate for free information online, who was known to have suffered from depression …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
MIT president orders review of Aaron Swartz episode
MIT president orders review of Aaron Swartz episode
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emptywheel, Associated Press and Opinionator
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In California, It's U.S. vs. State Over Marijuana — STOCKTON, Calif. — Matthew R. Davies graduated from college with a master's degree in business and a taste for enterprise, working in real estate, restaurants and mobile home parks before seizing on what he saw as uncharted territory …
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The Atlantic Online, Hit & Run and Althouse
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Newsday:
Journal News gun permit map used by burglars to target White Plains home? — A White Plains residence pinpointed on a controversial handgun permit database was burglarized Saturday, and the burglars' target was the homeowner's gun safe. — At least two burglars broke into a home on Davis Avenue …
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Scarborough Apologizes To Mika Brzezinski For Rant On ‘Morning Joe’ (VIDEO) — Joe Scarborough on Monday apologized to his “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski for accusing her of hypocrisy over the lack of women in President's Obama's inner circle last week.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans' Dissatisfaction With Gun Laws Spikes to 38% — Close to four in 10 say gun laws should be stricter, up from 25% in 2012 — PRINCETON, NJ — In the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings, and as Vice President Joe Biden leads a federal task force that will recommend ways …
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First Read, Business Insider, Hot Air, CNN and Politico
George Packer / New Yorker:
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT — The New Year's Day vote in Congress that brought a temporary truce to the fiscal wars showed the Republicans to be far more divided than the Democrats, and the division broke along regional lines. House Republicans from the Far West and from the Northeast favored …
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Historiann, Prairie Weather and First Read
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
One Month After Newtown Shooting, NRA Releases Shooting Game App With Coffin-Shaped Targets — When 20 children and 6 adults were gunned down in Sandy Hook Elementary School exactly one month ago today, the National Rifle Association rushed to blame video games, not guns, for inspiring such mass murders.
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The Next Web and The Raw Story
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Cuts Orders for iPhone Parts — Apple Inc. has cut its orders for components for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand, people familiar with the situation said Monday. — Apple's orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half …
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National Confidential, The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch and Business Insider
Denise Smith Amos / Cincinnati.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Teacher claims discrimination over fear of kids — MARIEMONT — A longtime French and Spanish high school teacher is suing the Mariemont school district, alleging it discriminated against her because she has a disability - she has a phobia of young children.
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nation.foxnews.com, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The Raw Story
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period. — Exactly two years ago, Farhad Manjoo ranted against people who still type two spaces after a period. To this day, people are still talking about the article. And some of them make a point to leave two spaces after all of their periods.
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