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10:10 AM ET, September 17, 2013

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Jonah Spangenthal-Lee / SPD Blotter:
Suspect In Navy Yard Attack Previously Arrested In Seattle For “Anger-Fueled” Shooting  —  Aaron Alexis, the man identified by Washington D.C. police as a suspect in this morning's tragic attack on a US Navy Yard, was previously arrested by Seattle police in 2004 for shooting out the tires …
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Washington Post:
Navy Yard massacre should move Americans to more than sorrow  —  FOR ALL the unknowns about Monday's mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, there was a nauseating familiarity to the unfolding events: the witness accounts of chaos and fear; the plea from officials for the public's help …
Deanna Boyd / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Fort Worth man, 34, accused of shootings in Navy Yard  —  FORT WORTH — The man suspected of killing 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard, identified as Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth, left the Navy in 2011.  —  Alexis, 34, was fatally shot after a gunbattle with police at the site …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
After shooting, talk turns to gun control  —  President Barack Obama on Monday stepped onto a podium and lamented the deaths of a senseless mass shooting — just as he did after Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn.  —  This time, his remarks came as office workers scrambled for cover …
Investigations:
Alleged Washington shooter served as Navy reservist, may have recently lost job  —  The man accused of killing 12 people in a gun rampage at the Washington Navy Yard was described by mystified friends and family as a Buddhist and Thai speaker who, in the words of one friend, “could not be the shooter.”
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
D.C. Navy Yard gun attack kills 12, wounds 14; alleged shooter dead, ID'd as Aaron Alexis  —  A gunman killed a dozen people as the workday began at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, creating an improbable moment of horror at a military facility with armed guards at every gate …
Associated Press:
Washington Navy Yard shooting: Aaron Alexis was treated for “serious mental illness”
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
One Conservative's Provocative Rules For Covering Mass Shootings
Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press:
MAN ARRESTED IN FRONT OF WHITE HOUSE
Discussion: Mediaite, Associated Press and The Hill
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Navy Yard shooting hits home
Justin Sink / The Hill:   Obama blasts GOP ‘irresponsibility’ on budget, debt ceiling
NBCNews:
At least 12 killed in shooting rampage at Washington Navy Yard, chief says
Los Angeles Times:
Navy Yard shooter ‘had a pattern of misconduct’
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
This Time There Really Will Be a Government Shutdown  —  And that's not all bad  —  Suffice it to say, it's hard to do a deal when the only thing the other guy wants is the one thing you can't give him.  This null set scenario is, unfortunately, precisely where we find ourselves in the debate …
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Powerful Senate Conservatives Fund Expands To Focus On House Races
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Get Ready for the Status Quo
Discussion: Yahoo! News and First Read
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
House GOP moves forward with $40 billion cut to food stamps
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Robert Costa / National Review:
The Movement Strikes Back  —  As the deadline to fund …
Discussion: The Plum Line
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
About That Other Debacle  —  For ObamaCare, it's only the end of the beginning.  —  If you're the kind of driver who can't help but gawk at the wreckage when you pass an accident—and honestly, who isn't?—you'll enjoy today's lengthy account in The Wall Street Journal of the runup to last week's Putin-Assad triumph.
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Wall Street Journal:
If House Republicans can't hold together, they have no leverage at all.  —  Perhaps the only war strategizing more inept than President Obama's on Syria are GOP plans for the budget hostilities this autumn.  Republicans are fracturing over tactics, and even over the nature of political reality …
Fox News:
Fox News poll: 68 percent concerned about their health care under new law  —  Nearly 7 out of 10 voters are concerned about their personal health care under the Affordable Care Act and a majority wants to take the health care system back to 2009, according to the latest Fox News national poll.
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL BARACK OBAMA SYRIA TERRORISM ISLAMIC JIHAD AL QAEDA BOB CORKER BASHAR ASSAD  —  President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups …
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Exclusive: Bill Daley drops bid for Illinois governor  —  In this raw Sept. 16, 2013 interview, Bill Daley explains to Chicago Tribune reporter Rick Pearson why he is dropping out of the Illniois governor's race.  (WGN-TV)  —  Bill Daley abruptly ended his bid for the Democratic nomination …
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Alan Simpson: 'Don't use our names'  —  The bipartisan co-chairmen of the president's fiscal commission, former Sen. Alan Simpson and former White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, said Tuesday they stand ready to help Congress figure out the nation's budget — but they don't have to attach their names to it.
New York Times:
Push for Yellen to Lead at Fed Gathers Steam  —  WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen told friends in recent weeks that she did not expect to be nominated as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve.  Although she had been the Fed's vice chairman since 2010 and would make history as the first woman to hold the job …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Backs Diplomatic Approach in Syria, But Distrusts Syria and Russia  —  Just 26% Think Syria Will Give up Chemical Arms  —  As U.S. and Russian diplomats reached an agreement over the weekend to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles, the public expresses support for a diplomatic approach …
Associated Press:
Costa Concordia pulled completely upright off Italy  —  Uprighted Costa Concordia is seen in waters just off Italy on Sept. 17, 2013 / CBS  —  The crippled Costa Concordia cruise ship was pulled completely upright early Tuesday after a complicated, 19-hour operation to wrench it from its side …
Discussion: The Week
Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story:
Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn't ‘represent American values’  —  The crowning of Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, as Miss America should have been, to paraphrase her platform, a celebration of diversity through cultural competency.  But in the hours after her victory …
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant
 
 
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Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
EU policy on climate change is right even if science was wrong, says commissioner
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Facebook and Twitter Blocked Again in Iran After Respite
Coral Davenport / NationalJournal.com:
New Study Says Fracking Doesn't Contribute to Global Warming
Discussion: DeSmogBlog, Firedoglake and Hot Air
Douglas J. Feith / Wall Street Journal:
A Very Productive Chemical-Weapons Attack
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Franchise owners come to Washington to plead for ObamaCare relief
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The National Interest:
America's Middle East Policy Collapses
Discussion: The Hill and Daniel W. Drezner
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Andrew Breitbart's Sweet, Sweet Victories
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Hugh Jackman breaks Hollywood silence on Syria: ‘No wonder Presidents go gray’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Dianne Feinstein: Congress ‘shirking’ duty on guns
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