memeorandum: Kenya mall attack: About 30 hostages still inside, sources say (CNN)

9:05 AM ET, September 22, 2013

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Ellie Buchdahl / Daily Mail:

‘All Muslims leave... we only want to kill non-Muslims’: Gunmen massacre at least 22 in Kenyan shopping mall after releasing anyone who could prove they were Islamic by reciting a prayer — Kenyan police and soldiers have pinned down the remaining gunmen who opened fire at a shopping centre earlier today …

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Haaretz:

Conflicting reports emerge about exact role Israelis are playing; Kenya attack death toll rises to 59, as standoff with Qaida-linked group continues. — Israeli advisers are helping Kenya formulate a strategy to end a siege at a Nairobi shopping mall where Islamist militants have killed …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch

New York Times:

Gunmen Kill Dozens in Terror Attack at Kenyan Mall — NAIROBI, Kenya — Masked gunmen stormed into a fancy, crowded mall in Nairobi on Saturday and shot dead at least 39 people and wounded more than 150 in one of the most chilling terrorist attacks in East Africa since Al Qaeda blew up two American embassies in 1998.

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CNN:

Kenya mall attack: About 30 hostages still inside, sources say — A rescue worker helps a child outside the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, September 21. Gunmen burst into the mall and opened fire in a deadly attack. According to a senior Kenyan government source …

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CNN:
At least 20 killed when gunmen attack Nairobi shopping mall, Red Cross says

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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Gunmen Open Fire at Nairobi's Most Upscale Mall

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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press: KENYA RED CROSS: 22 DEAD IN UPSCALE MALL ATTACK

Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:

Obama: Negotiating with Republicans over debt ceiling ‘is not going to happen’ — President Obama gave a rousing speech at the annual Congressional Black Caucus dinner on Saturday, pledging not to negotiate with Republicans over raising the debt ceiling. — Obama said Republicans in Congress …

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Joe Picard / The Hill:

Obama calls Boehner, says he won't negotiate on debt ceiling — President Obama phoned Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday to tell him he will not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling, according to a readout provided by the Speaker's office. — Boehner told the president he was …

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Politico:
Obama to Boehner: No debt talks

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Mark Knoller / CBS News:
Republicans “trying to mess with me” on budget, Obama says

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Sarah Palin / BREITBART.COM:

EXCLUSIVE: PALIN — BOMBS AWAY ON OBAMACARE; CRUZ IS OVER THE TARGET — Americans who are fed up with Obamacare won a victory yesterday. The House voted to defund Obamacare while still funding the federal government to avoid a “devastating” shutdown. (I shall not digress …

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Adam Sneed / Politico:

Rand Paul: GOP 'probably can't defeat' Obamacare — Sen. Rand Paul conceded Saturday that congressional Republicans have little chance of stopping Obamacare. — “We probably can't defeat or get rid of Obamacare,” the Kentucky senator told reporters at a gathering of Michigan Republicans, according to the Associated Press.

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Hugh Hewitt Goes Off on ‘Whiny’ Republicans Trashing Ted Cruz: ‘Get In The Game!’

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Paul Krugman:

More SNAP Judgments — Thanks to the commenter who suggested this title. I want to say some more about the SNAP program, and how utterly unjustified the attack on the program really is. — First, another look at trends in the program over time, this time in terms of spending as a share of GDP:

Discussion: Marginal Revolution

Associated Press:

Declassified document: US narrowly escaped nuclear blast in 1961 H-bomb accident — LONDON — A U.S. hydrogen bomb nearly detonated on the nation's east coast, with a single switch averting a blast which would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that flattened Hiroshima, a newly published book says.

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BBC:
US plane in 1961 ‘nuclear bomb near-miss’

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Los Angeles Times:

Transgender teen crowned homecoming queen at O.C. high school — Cassidy Lynn Campbell, 16, of Huntington Beach was named homecoming queen on Friday night at Marina High School. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / September 20, 2013) — Cassidy Lynn Campbell broke down in tears Friday night …

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Heather Ginsberg / Townhall.com:

Connecticut School Takes Children on Field Trip to Reenact Slavery and Called Them the N-Word — It was revealed this week that a school from Connecticut took their students on a field trip last November where the students reenacted slavery and had their teachers call them the N-word.

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