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6:55 AM ET, January 4, 2014

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Senator Bernie Sanders / Senator Sanders's Feed:
Is the NSA Spying on Congress?  —  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today asked the National Security Agency director whether the agency has monitored the phone calls, emails and Internet traffic of members of Congress and other elected officials.  —  “Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying …
Discussion: PandoDaily and Hullabaloo
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bernie Sanders to NSA: Spying on Hill?  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a letter Friday to the director of the National Security Agency asking if the agency is spying or has ever spied on members of Congress.  —  The Vermont independent said he was “deeply concerned” about the NSA's collection …
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:   Paul to file class action suit against NSA ‘soon’
Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers dies at 74  —  This post has been updated.  See note below for details.  —  Phil Everly, who with his brother, Don, made up the most revered vocal duo of the rock-music era, their exquisite harmonies profoundly influencing the Beatles, the Beach Boys …
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Fox News:
Phil Everly, of Everly Brothers fame, dies at 74, wife says  —  Sept. 7, 2011: Late musician Buddy Holly's wife Maria Elena Holly, left, looks on as musician Phil Everly speaks during a ceremony posthumously awarding Buddy Holly with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood.Reuters
David Weigel / Slate:
Ruth Marcus, David Brooks, and Reefer Madness  —  Whoever's been drugging the tap water in the Acela, please just stop.  Your efforts have resulted in complementary columns in the Washington Post from Ruth Marcus and in the New York Times from David Brooks.  Unless ... did they come up with these columns all by themselves?
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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq  —  BEIRUT — A rejuvenated al-Qaeda force asserted control over the western Iraqi town of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Iraqi Troops Besiege Fallujah, Try To Wrest City From Al-Qaida
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
IMF Says: By the Way, There's a Debt Crisis  —  Two summers ago, we ran the Power Line Prize contest to try to focus attention on the exploding national debt.  The contest was successful, in that it incentivized the production of many high-quality videos, songs, pictures …
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
IMF paper warns of ‘savings tax’ and mass write-offs as West's debt hits 200-year high
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Why Snowden Won't (and Shouldn't) Get Clemency  —  He went too far to be considered just a whistleblower.  —  I regard Daniel Ellsberg as an American patriot.  I was one of the first columnists to write that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be fired for lying to Congress.
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Brian Carlson / 4Utah.com:
Utah man fasting to stop same sex marriages  —  SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - A Utah man is vowing to go without any food until the state stops allowing same sex marriages.  He claims if Utah wants to protect traditional marriage, it has an option it's not using, and he's fasting until it does it.
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James Nichols / The Huffington Post:   Trestin Meacham, Utah Man, On Hunger Strike To Halt Gay Marriage
The White House:
FACT SHEET: Strengthening the Federal Background Check System to Keep Guns out of Potentially Dangerous Hands  —  Today, the Administration is announcing two new executive actions that will help strengthen the federal background check system and keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Discussion: BizPac Review, AL.com and TalkLeft
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: Obama Issues New Executive Actions on Background Checks for Gun Purchases
Discussion: protein wisdom
Fox News:
Rude and Crude: Why MSNBC keeps getting into trouble  —  Is there something in the water over at 30 Rock?  —  Whether you love or detest MSNBC, the network has had a rough few months, and I'm wondering whether a series of embarrassing episodes is more than a coincidence.
Discussion: NewsBusters, Mediaite and TVNewser
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Max Fisher / WorldViews:
No, Kim Jong Un probably didn't feed his uncle to 120 hungry dogs  —  If you've been on the Internet at all today, you've almost certainly seen the story claiming that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had his uncle executed last month by stripping him naked and feeding him to 120 hungry dogs.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Administration faces tough fight on contraception cases  —  As a new round of religion-based challenges to President Barack Obama's health care law head to the Supreme Court, advocates on both sides of the issue say the administration's arguments are likely facing a chilly reception.
Discussion: The Hill
ThinkProgress:
900 Rich People Won't Pay Into Social Security For The Rest Of The Year  —  While almost all working Americans will pay into Social Security through their paychecks throughout the year, the 900 wealthiest people in the country won't.  That's because the highest-earning 0.0001 percent of the U.S. …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Hullabaloo
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Access to Abortion Falling as States Pass Restrictions  —  A three-year surge in anti-abortion measures in more than half the states has altered the landscape for abortion access, with supporters and opponents agreeing that the new restrictions are shutting some clinics …
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why the Senate Will Only Get More Polarized  —  As party-line voting between presidential and congressional races steadily increases, so will gridlock.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., (left) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
 
 
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Jesse Lichtenstein / New York Times:
Ronan Farrow, Reluctant TV Star
Discussion: NewsBusters and TVNewser
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Raising The Minimum Wage To $10.10 Could Lift Nearly 5 Million Out Of Poverty
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Michael Auslin / Politico:
America Needs a King
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Esquire and Hot Air
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama's Job Approval Declined Steadily Throughout 2013
Steve Lonegan / New Jersey Online:
Lonegan says he'll run for Congress in South Jersey
Washington Free Beacon:
Mother of Five Told by Healthcare.Gov She Faces ‘Worst Case’ of Obamacare Glitches
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Swallow campaign filed fake tax papers, new warrants show
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Advocate
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Henry K. Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Hospital agrees to let Jahi McMath family take girl
Discussion: LifeNews.com
Jason Beaubien / NPR:
Overweight People In Developing World Outnumber Those In Rich Countries
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Althouse
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
This Might Be The Most Bizarre Campaign Video Of 2014 So Far
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Post:
Public advocate caught in lie over Times homeless story
Jill Colvin / Politicker:
Video: Bill de Blasio Threatens to Strip During Storm Briefing
Discussion: USA Today and Talking Points Memo
 

 
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft releases the first beta preview of its Recall AI feature for Copilot+ PCs, including Click to Do, a feature similar to Google's Circle to Search

Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
SCOTUS dismisses Meta's appeal of a lower court order reviving a shareholder lawsuit for allegedly misleading investors on the 2015 Cambridge Analytica scandal

 
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