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Wall Street Journal:
White House's Hard Line on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Has Risks Attached — President Barack Obama is sticking to his stance that he won't negotiate with Republicans over the government shutdown or the higher-stakes fight over the federal debt ceiling. — The question, for Republicans …
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Politico:
Bad blood: Four feuding leaders — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid privately told fellow Democratic senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner. — “He's a coward,” Reid angrily said, referring to Boehner's private push for federal health care contributions for lawmakers and their staff.
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Talking Points Memo, NPR, Reuters, CNN and NBCNews
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
G.O.P. Elders See Liabilities in Shutdown — WASHINGTON — The hard-line stance of Republican House members on the government shutdown is generating increasing anger among senior Republican officials, who say the small bloc of conservatives is undermining the party and helping President Obama …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
What the White House fears most about the debt limit fight — Right now, the primary fear among senior Obama administration officials is that John Boehner and the GOP leadership don't grasp just how damaging Obama believes it would be to the remainder of his tenure — and the office …
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Talking Points Memo, Fix the Debt, Wonkblog, American Prospect, PoliticusUSA and Washington Monthly
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped! — Obama's ironclad resolve not to negotiate over the debt limit appears to finally be sinking in among GOP leaders — After struggling for weeks and weeks in stages one through four, Republicans are finally entering the final stage …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Fortune, The Mahablog, Hullabaloo and NPR
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight
How the White House sees the shutdown (and debt ceiling!) fight
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New York Times, Hullabaloo, The Hill, Post Politics and Washington Monthly
Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Obama hammers Boehner on shutdown, debt ceiling
Obama hammers Boehner on shutdown, debt ceiling
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Taegan Goddard's …
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Begins Search for Broad Deal on Budget
GOP Begins Search for Broad Deal on Budget
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The Plum Line, NBCNews, NPR, Politico and Wonkblog
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Rattled Congress Seeks Way Out of Its Standoff
Rattled Congress Seeks Way Out of Its Standoff
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Prairie Weather
New York Times:
Boehner Pledges to Avoid Default, Republicans Say
Boehner Pledges to Avoid Default, Republicans Say
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New York Times, Fortune, americanthinker.com, Business Insider, msnbc.com, The Week, Campaign for America's Future, NPR, Guardian, Hot Air, Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway, CNN, The Plum Line, Washington Post, Yahoo! News, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, Taegan Goddard's …, Slate, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Examiner and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Police suspect dental hygienist Miriam Carey was behind the wheel of Capitol chase — She had a toddler with her, confounding everyone who watched the car crash through barriers and lead police through the heart of high-security Washington. — Law enforcement officials said the black Infiniti …
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Business Insider, theGrio, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, NBCNews, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NewsBusters and New York Times
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NBCNews:
Woman in DC chase may have thought Obama was stalking her, sources say — Investigators have found indications that the woman who led authorities on a chase from the White House to the Capitol before she was shot to death by police thought that President Barack Obama was stalking her, law enforcement sources told NBC News.
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msnbc.com, NBC Politics and VodkaPundit
NY Daily News:
U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol 'seemed …
U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol 'seemed …
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Business Insider, Althouse, theGrio, The Gateway Pundit, Politico and Scared Monkeys
ABC News:
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression
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The PJ Tatler, NPR, The Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger
In shooting near Capitol, government workers rush into danger
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The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Right Wing News and The Fix
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
Driver killed after car chase from White House to Capitol
Driver killed after car chase from White House to Capitol
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ABC News, The Hill, WJLA-TV, The PJ Tatler, The Democratic Daily, NBCNews, Talking Points Memo, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Fox News
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dem spending concessions ‘lost in the news’ on shutdown — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday dismissed the notion Democrats have been unwilling to negotiate with Republicans in the government shutdown fight, saying President Obama's concessions have been “lost in the news.”
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
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Brett Taylor / Twitchy:
Surprise: Media's Obamacare health insurance exchange poster boy is OFA volunteer — Despite a huge number of reports of technical failures that kept people from creating accounts at HealthCare.gov the last three days, Mediaite notes that one lucky winner of the health insurance exchange lottery …
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americanthinker.com
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Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Chad Henderson Signed Up for Obamacare and Every... Single... Media Outlet Is on It!
Chad Henderson Signed Up for Obamacare and Every... Single... Media Outlet Is on It!
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Adobe Blogs:
Important Customer Security Announcement — Cyber attacks are one of the unfortunate realities of doing business today. Given the profile and widespread use of many of our products, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from cyber attackers. Very recently, Adobe's security team …
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Guardian, Nextgov, BBC, New York Times, Mashable, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Daily Caller and The Raw Story
ThinkProgress:
How A Rand Paul Republican From Alabama Learned To Love Obamacare — Joshua Pittman is a 31-year-old self-employed videographer from Montgomery, Alabama. A libertarian Republican who voted for Ron Paul in 2012 and believes that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the future of the GOP …
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Booman Tribune
John Bohannon / sciencemag.org:
Who's Afraid of Peer Review? — A spoof paper concocted by Science reveals little or no scrutiny at many open-access journals. — On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It was the official letter …
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Vox Popoli, The Raw Story, NPR, Medical Xpress and The Verge
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cory Booker's lackluster campaign — Cory Booker is all but certain to win the New Jersey special election for U.S. Senate. — But as polls show Republican rival Steve Lonegan tightening the race, Booker is getting an uncomfortable reminder that he will have to campaign hard to defend …
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Wrong Side of History — Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House. In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials …
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Balloon Juice
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
The September jobs report: Here's what it would have been — Thanks to the partial government shutdown, the US Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics will not be releasing the September jobs report today. This is a huge bummer for economic data junkies everywhere …
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Weekly Standard
Jessica Ravitz / CNN:
'I'm the original voice of Siri' — Sandy Springs, Georgia (CNN) — For the past two years, she's been a pocket and purse accessory to millions of Americans. She's starred alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. She's provided weather forecasts and restaurant tips …