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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Obama Rejects Criticism of Shifting Syria Policy: 'I'm Less Concerned About Style Points' — WASHINGTON — President Obama says a tumultuous month as commander in chief, when his policy toward Syria took a number of unexpected turns, may not have looked “smooth and disciplined and linear,” but it's working.
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Margaret Wente / Globe and Mail:
Barack Obama, the 98-pound weakling — So, let me get this straight. Some red lines cannot be crossed, and gassing Syrian children is one of them. That's what Barack Obama told us Tuesday evening. “The images from this massacre are sickening,” he said.
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Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
Obama Obliterates The Republican Myth That Putin Saved Him on Syria — On ABC's This Week, President Obama destroyed the Republican created myth that Putin saved him on Syria, and obliterated the GOP talking points on the issue. — Transcript via This Week:
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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Obama Calls GOP Debt Ceiling Demands an Assault on US ‘Constitutional Structure’ — WASHINGTON — On the eve of another fiscal showdown with congressional Republicans, President Obama is outright refusing to negotiate over an increase to the nation's debt limit, saying doing so would alter …
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Full Transcript: President Obama Speaks Exclusively to George Stephanopoulos on ‘This Week’ — Alexander Vilf/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images … GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: — Mr. President, thank you for doing this. — PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: — Great to see you. — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS:
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Obama on Syria criticism: Washington grades on style, not substance
Obama on Syria criticism: Washington grades on style, not substance
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Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Former Football Player Who May Have Been Seeking Help After A Car Crash — The wreckage of the car that Jonathan Ferrell, 24, had pulled himself out of before seeking help, only to be shot fatally by police. — Officer Randall Kerrick, 27 …
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The Charlotte Observer:
CMPD officer charged in fatal shooting — lruebens@charlotteobserver.com htrenda@charlotteobserver.com — A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who was involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man early Saturday has been charged with voluntary manslaughter and is in custody …
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Pamela Falk / CBS News:
Syrian chemical weapons agreement bound for United Nations Security Council — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — The U.S. and Russia shook hands on a groundbreaking framework agreement Saturday to identify Syria's chemical weapons, place them under control of the Chemical Weapons Convention and its compliance body …
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David Rose / Daily Mail:
Global warming is just HALF what we said: World's top climate scientists admit computers got the effects of greenhouse gases wrong — A leaked copy of the world's most authoritative climate study reveals scientific forecasts of imminent doom were drastically wrong.
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Power Line, Wall Street Journal and Watts Up With That?
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Angry House Republicans want better communication from leaders — Republican lawmakers are growing increasingly frustrated with what they say is a lack of communication from their leaders. — Both centrist and conservative members in the House believe that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) …
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Big U.S. banks keeping door open to another financial crisis — Big banks have watered down rules aimed at keeping them from fobbing bad loans off on investors and ensured loopholes in transparency rules. ‘Fundamentally not that much has changed,’ an analyst says.
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Frank Phillips / The Boston Globe:
Coakley's entry will add to crowded gubernatorial field — Attorney General Martha Coakley, who only three years ago appeared to be finished politically, will join the race for governor with an announcement in her home town of Medford on Monday followed by an 18-city barnstorming tour for the next three days, a top political aide said.
Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:
3 Democrats Say They Will Oppose Summers for Fed — Lawrence H. Summers' prospects to become chairman of the Federal Reserve have turned murkier after three key Democratic senators signaled in recent days that they would oppose his nomination. — Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana …
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