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AP SOURCES: INTELLIGENCE ON WEAPONS NO ‘SLAM DUNK’ — You are here — Home » United States government » AP sources: Intelligence on weapons no ‘slam dunk’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack …
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President Obama: ‘I Have Not Made a Decision’ on Syria — President Barack Obama said he had not yet made his decision regarding a U.S. strike on Syria during an interview with Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.
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New York Times:
U.S. Facing Test on Data to Back Action on Syria
U.S. Facing Test on Data to Back Action on Syria
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Latest developments on Syria
Latest developments on Syria
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Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?
Reports of Syria Chemical Attack Spur Question: Why?
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The Agonist, National Interest, americanthinker.com and The PJ Tatler
Telegraph:
Kim Jong-un's ex-lover ‘executed by firing squad’ — Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days go, according to South Korean reports. — Hyon Song-wol, a singer and rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader …
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Digital Chosunilbo:
Kim Jong-un's Ex-Girlfriend ‘Shot by Firing Squad’ — Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, reports said Wednesday. — Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin …
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AL.com and Business Insider
Clara Ritger / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Affordable Care Act Looking a Bit Unaffordable — Independent National Journal analysis finds premiums higher under Obamacare as employers weigh dropping coverage. — Republicans have long blamed President Obama's signature health care initiative for increasing insurance costs, dubbing it the “Unaffordable Care Act.”
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Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
States find new ways to resist health law — Several Republican-led states at the forefront of the campaign to undermine President Obama's health-care law have come up with new ways to try to thwart it, refusing to enforce consumer protections, for example, and restricting federally funded workers hired …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Balloon Juice
Allison Benedikt / Slate:
If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person — A manifesto. — You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation's-most- essential-institutions-in-order-to-get- what's-best-for-your-kid bad.
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
OBAMA OFFERS NEW GUN CONTROL STEPS — You are here — Home » United States government » Obama offers new gun control steps — WASHINGTON (AP) — Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control …
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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Obama imposes new limits on guns through executive action
Obama imposes new limits on guns through executive action
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Politico
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘The Most Dangerous Negro’ — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” so disturbed the American power structure that the F.B.I. started spying on him in what The Washington Post called “one of its biggest surveillance operations in history.” The speech even moved the head …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Donald Rumsfeld to W.H.: Justify Syria attack — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the Obama administration has not yet justified an attack on Syria. — “There really hasn't been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect …
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Rumsfeld says administration hasn't justified Syria attack
Rumsfeld says administration hasn't justified Syria attack
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Republicans absent from March on Washington — Not a single Republican elected official stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday with activists, actors, lawmakers and former presidents invited to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington — a notable absence …
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Jessica Parks / Philly.com:
State: Montco same-sex marriage licenses meaningless — The Corbett administration said its lawsuit seeking to halt same-sex marriage licenses in Montgomery County “would have no direct effect” on the couples who have already received them. — In a brief Wednesday, state attorneys …
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Reuters:
U.S. fast-food workers plan nationwide strikes over wages … Atossa Araxia Abrahamian — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fast-food workers across the United States are expected to stage their largest strike to date on Thursday in an almost year-long campaign to raise wages in the service sector.
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Chris Brennan / Philly.com:
First Term Troubles - Corbett's numbers continue to drop — PENNSYLVANIA governors typically encounter trouble in their first terms and the polls reflect that with dipping popularity. — It happened to Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican, in the late 1990s. — It happened to Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, in the mid-2000s.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama is talking America into a war — Barack Obama's foreign policy dream — cordial relations with a Middle East tranquilized by “smart diplomacy” — is in a death grapple with reality. His rhetorical writhings illustrate the perils of loquacity. He has a glutton's, rather than a gourmet's …
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Brenda Bernet / ArkansasOnline.com:
School districts hoping to keep security licenses — 3 chiefs to talk to state board — Clarksville Superintendent David Hopkins said he plans to appeal if a state board decides Sept. 11 to revoke the license it granted his district to have staff members act as private security guards.
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Douglas McIntire / Bangor Daily News:
Sabattus man says ‘shoot’ posting wasn't a threat against Obama, defends using racial slur — SABATTUS, Maine — David Marsters said Tuesday night that the wording of his Facebook post was a mistake, but he defended it, anyway. — “(The Secret Service) didn't see no pictures of Obama with bullet holes in his head,” Marsters said.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama in Los Angeles for Labor Day — President Obama will travel to Los Angeles for Labor Day to recognize organized labor. — Obama will mark Labor Day with an appearance at the AFL-CIO convention, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday.
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Food parasite probe hindered by budget deficiencies — Federal authorities are struggling to explain why 600 people in 22 states have fallen ill from a foodborne parasite rarely seen in the United States. — But some officials are ready to finger one culprit that has hindered their investigation: the sequester.
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