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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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American Prospect, 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 …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Senior Admin. Official: 'We Are Winning...It Doesn't Really Matter to Us' When Shutdown Ends — Although the government shutdown continues, it appears President Barack Obama and the White House are not getting any closer to negotiating with Republicans. A quotation from an unnamed senior …
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Heritage Action for America, The Heritage Foundation and National Republican …
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 …
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped!
Republicans finally confronting reality: They're trapped!
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, The Week, Fortune, americanthinker.com, NPR, Hot Air, The Plum Line, The Mahablog, Hullabaloo, Yahoo! News and Daily Kos
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Experts See Potential Ways Out for Obama in Debt Ceiling Maze
Experts See Potential Ways Out for Obama in Debt Ceiling Maze
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Brad DeLong and Wonkblog
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, Outside the Beltway, Post Politics, Washington Monthly and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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, Prairie Weather, The Reaction and CNN
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, Wonkblog, Washington Post and Slate
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, The Gateway Pundit, NBC Politics, VodkaPundit and Business Insider
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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, NBCNews, theGrio, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NewsBusters and New York Times
ABC News:
Miriam Carey, Capitol Suspect, Suffered Post-Partum Depression … A woman killed by police today after a high-speed chase through Washington, D.C., that led to a lockdown of Capitol Hill suffered post-partum depression following the recent birth of her daughter, the suspect's mother told ABC News.
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CNN, Business Insider, Taylor Marsh, DCist, The PJ Tatler, NPR, The Daily Caller, The Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
NY Daily News:
U.S. Capitol shooting: Brooklyn neighbor says Connecticut woman shot dead outside Capitol ‘seemed like a nice young lady, stable’ — Relatives of Miriam Carey converged in Bushwick to try to make sense of the events that unfolded in Washington, where the 34-year-old dental hygienist …
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Business Insider, Althouse, theGrio, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys and Politico
Larry Celona / New York Post:
DC attacker a dental hygienist, shot dead after chase
DC attacker a dental hygienist, shot dead after chase
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Weasel Zippers, NBCNews, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette, The Other McCain, The Lonely Conservative and ABC News
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, Right Wing News, Daily Kos 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, NBCNews, The Democratic Daily, Talking Points Memo, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Fox News
Gerard Magliocca / Washington Post:
Why Obamacare isn't ‘settled’ — Gerard Magliocca is a professor of constitutional law at Indiana University. His latest book is “American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment.” — The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress, signed by President Obama …
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Balkinization
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Pelosi: Dem spending concessions ‘lost in the news’ on shutdown
Pelosi: Dem spending concessions ‘lost in the news’ on shutdown
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
CBS News:
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans displeased with Washington, poll says
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans displeased with Washington, poll says
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The Fix, Washington Post and Politico
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 Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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
Washington Post:
We need climate-change risk assessment — Michael Bloomberg, an independent, is mayor of New York. Hank Paulson, a former chairman of Goldman Sachs and Treasury secretary in the George W. Bush administration, is chairman of the Paulson Institute, which promotes sustainable economic growth.
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E2-Wire, EcoWatch and National Review
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 …