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10:00 AM ET, September 16, 2014

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Jeremy Rogalski / KHOU-TV:
New accusations: Peterson injured another son while disciplining 4-year-old  —  The four-year-old is by a different mother than the alleged victim in the Montgomery County case, in which Peterson is charged with felony injury to a child.  —  CONNECT  —  Photos and text messages obtained …
Chemi Shalev / Haaretz:
Bill Clinton strays from Hillary's Israel script and knocks Netanyahu  —  In a conversation with pro-Palestinian activists in Iowa, the former president agrees: the Israeli PM won't make peace 'unless he's forced to.'  —  Former Senator Hillary Clinton has turned into a staunch defender …
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Why Hillary hates Iowa
CBS DC:
Harkin: Hillary Clinton's ‘Fingerprints Are All Over’ Obamacare
Discussion: Telegraph
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dem Sen. Harkin: Hillary Clinton's fingerprints ‘all over’ ObamaCare
Discussion: The Daily Banter and BuzzFeed
David Clegg / dailyrecord:
Three party leader's promise to Scotland  —  The joint statement also rubbishes claims from the SNP that the Barnett Formula for calculating Scotland's budget could be changed to leave us less money for public services.  —  It pledges: “Because of the continuation of the Barnett allocation for resources …
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Niall Ferguson / New York Times:
Scots Must Vote Nae  —  GLASGOW — To most Americans, Scotland means golf, whisky and — if they go there — steady drizzle.  Even to the millions of Americans whose surnames testify to their Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry, the idea that Scotland might be about to become an independent country is baffling.
Washington Post:
U.S. military will lead $750 million fight against Ebola in West Africa  —  President Obama will announce Tuesday that the U.S. military will take the lead in overseeing what has been a chaotic and widely criticized response to the worst Ebola outbreak in history, dispatching …
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New York Times:
U.S. to Commit Up to 3,000 Troops to Fight Ebola in Africa
Discussion: USA Today, Hot Air, Gawker and Reuters
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Kirsten Gillibrand: I Couldn't Tell My Harasser ‘To Go F*** Himself’  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) said Monday that when a male labor leader harassed her about her weight several years ago after she'd had a baby, she had a few choice words she couldn't say at the time.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand drops f-bomb on video
Discussion: RedState and Booman Tribune
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: Democrats Draw Almost Even.  Is It The Money?  —  When we officially launched our forecast model two weeks ago, it had Republicans with a 64 percent chance of taking over the Senate after this fall's elections.  Now Republican chances are about 55 percent instead.
Allie Jones / Gawker:
Limbaugh on Sexual Assault: “No Means Yes If You Know How to Spot It”  —  The sweaty armpit of talk radio now fancies himself to be a “seduction” expert.  On his show today, Rush Limbaugh decried Ohio State's new policy instructing students to get explicit, verbal consent before having sex …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Nick Anderson / Washington Post:
Ohio State accord on sexual assault ends federal investigation
Dan Joseph / CNSNews:
Video: College Students Sign Petition in Support of ISIS  —  Despite one's feelings on how the U.S. government should deal with the growing threat that ISIS poses to the world, it's safe to assume that Americans across the political spectrum agree that the terror group is pretty odious.
Washington Post:
The U.S. strategy to defeat the Islamic State is underpowered  —  IN LAUNCHING two previous wars in Iraq, the United States assembled formidable coalitions of dozens of countries.  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Oman were among the Arab states that deployed substantial ground forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Discussion: Associated Press, Hot Air and CBS News
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The New Republic:
Feminism Has Conquered the Culture.  Now Comes the Hard Part  —  A debate on this unprecedented opportunity  —  Hi Judith,  —  I don't think that in my lifetime (I'm 39) I've ever seen public, popular feminist discourse more robust than it is now.  When I was in high school, college …
Discussion: The Week
Yale Daily News:
Hirsi Ali addresses over 300  —  Hirsi Ali's talk has generated a large amount of controversy on Yale's campus in recent days.  —  In spite of controversy surrounding her invitation to campus, Ayaan Hirsi Ali delivered her speech Monday night without significant interruption or disturbance.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Mike Huckabee gears up for 2016 run  —  2016 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS MIKE HUCKABEE  —  Mike Huckabee is leading the Republican presidential race in Iowa.  And not by just a point or two: in a new CNN survey, the former Arkansas governor, winner of the 2008 Iowa caucuses, is at 21 percent …
Discussion: ABC News
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
The Great Unraveling  —  It was the time of unraveling.  Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen?  —  It was a time of beheadings.  With a left-handed sawing motion, against a desert backdrop, in bright sunlight, a Muslim with a British accent cut off the heads …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Good election year for bad boys of Congress  —  For the bad boys of Congress, 2014 is shaping up to be an awfully good year.  —  As they endure humiliating headlines, damaging federal investigations and tough scrutiny of their personal lives, scandal-tarred lawmakers aren't just surviving this midterm year.
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Bipartisan Support for Obama's Military Campaign Against ISIS  —  Dems Concerned about ‘Going Too Far,’ Reps ‘Not Far Enough’  —  President Obama's plan for a military campaign against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria is drawing public support.  And, in a rare display of bipartisanship …
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Administration threatens to cut off ObamaCare subsidies to 360,000  —  The Obama administration announced Monday it will cut off tax subsidies to about 360,000 people if they do not offer proof of their income in the next two weeks.  —  Officials will send final notices this week to individuals …
Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone:
China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet  —  A red-alert smog day in China last year.  Pollution has become a public-health hazard.
DeAnn Smith / KCTV:
FBI launches excessive force probe of Independence police  —  The FBI announced Monday afternoon that it has launched an investigation of the Independence Police Department after a teen was left in a coma following an arrest.  —  The FBI made the announcement as the Independence Police Department promised …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
 
 
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John Fund / National Review:
Swedish Surprise  —  Sunday's election in Sweden was supposed …
Discussion: Vox Popoli, Raw Story and The Local
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Controversial DHS Adviser Let Go Amid Allegations of Cover Up
Discussion: Power Line and Pat Dollard
Associated Press:
ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools
Tim Sifert / Arizona GOP:
AZGOP's 1st Vice Chairman Resigns
Jason Stein / JSOnline:
Absentee ballot mailings halted in push to restart voter ID law
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
US Labor Board Orders CNN to Rehire Fired Workers
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Please—Let's Not Destroy ISIS
Discussion: Liberaland and Fox News
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Abby Simons / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: Franken leads McFadden by double digits
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Lobbyist, lawyer Thomas H. Boggs Jr. dead at 73
Marissa Evans / Morning Consult:
The Three Words That Shift Views On Medicaid
Discussion: Firedoglake and The New Republic
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
This Is What's Truly At Stake In The Battle For Senate Control
Discussion: Daily Kos
Urban Outfitters / TwitLonger:
TwitLonger  —  Urban Outfitters sincerely apologizes for any offense …
Sarfraz Manzoor / New York Times:
Multiculturalism and Rape in Rotherham
Discussion: Daily Mail
 

 
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James Warrington / Telegraph:
Almost 93% of 600 Guardian and Observer staff organized by the NUJ vote in favor of strike action over the proposed sale of The Observer to Tortoise

CNBC:
Comcast confirms plans to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO; the separation may take about a year

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction

 
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