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1:40 PM ET, September 20, 2014

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Steve Kenny / New York Times:
Intruder Made It Through White House Doors, Secret Service Says  —  WASHINGTON — A Texas man who scaled the White House fence made it through the North Portico doors on Friday night before being apprehended, the Secret Service said.  —  The intruder, Omar J. Gonzalez, 42 …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and RedState
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Associated Press:
Security scrutinized in White House breach  —  WASHINGTON — The Secret Service is coming under intense scrutiny after a man who hopped the White House fence made it all the way through the front door before being apprehended.  —  President Barack Obama and his daughters had just departed …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and ABC News
Fox News:
White House security breach prompts search due to fears intruder left something on lawn  —  The Secret Service, under intense scrutiny after a man jumped the White House fence and got through the front doors, on Saturday morning conducted a full sweep of the crime scene, in a search for evidence.
Discussion: Fox News Insider
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Joe Green Pushed Out at FWD.us  —  Joe Green, the president of FWD.us, has resigned from the political organization that is backed by a coterie of tech luminaries, most prominently Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.  —  And, according to a “confidential” email that Zuckerberg sent …
ESPN:
Rice case: purposeful misdirection by team, scant investigation by NFL  —  The seven-month scandal that is threatening Roger Goodell's future as NFL commissioner began with an unexpected phone call in the early morning hours on a Saturday in February.  —  Just hours after running …
Rebecca Nelson / National Journal:
Why Joe Biden's Gaffes Don't Matter  —  Though the vice president has a long history of blunders, they've rarely impacted his career.  —  Joe Biden misspeaking, or going too far, isn't news.  The vice president's gaffe history is legendary; mistakes are expected.  But three slips in the space of a mere 24 hours?
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Praises Packwood at Women's Issues Forum
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post
Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic Online:
Financial Criminals Have Been Fined Billions, but They Rarely Pay  —  On a plane earlier this week, I watched The Wolf of Wall Street.  The film's outsized antics—public masturbation, the tossing of little people, lots and lots of Quaaludes—seemed too big for a seatback screen, or, for that matter, reality.
Steven E. Koonin / Wall Street Journal:
Climate Science Is Not Settled  —  We are very far from the knowledge needed to make good climate policy, writes leading scientist Steven E. Koonin … The idea that “Climate science is settled” runs through today's popular and policy discussions.  Unfortunately, that claim is misguided.
Discussion: Power Line
Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Putin ‘privately threatened to invade Poland, Romania and the Baltic states’  —  German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung reports that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told European Commission that Putin made the threat in a recent conversation  —  President Vladimir Putin privately threatened …
Scott Pelley / CBS News:
Shares  —  ISIS seized a third of Iraq that the U.S. secured with ten years of sacrifice.  In an interview for 60 Minutes, Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said ISIS flourished because the U.S. got involved in Syria too late and left Iraq too soon.  On the 47th season premiere Sunday …
app.com:
NBC says it was wrong on Chris Christie report  —  NEWARK - NBC says a report by Brian Williams on the network's Nightly News that federal charges have been ruled out for Gov. Chris Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal was incorrect.  —  Is Christie off the hook?
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States  —  Rep. Tim Bishop (D., N.Y.) warned during a recent speech that up to 40 radicalized U.S. citizens who have fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have already returned to the United States …
 
 
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Cathy Young / Slate:
Crying Rape  —  False rape accusations exist, and they are a serious problem.
Discussion: Bloomberg View
David Brooks / New York Times:
There Are Social and Political Benefits to Having Friends
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A. Hope Jahren / New York Times:
Science's Sexual Assault Problem
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Pharyngula
Sangwon Yoon / Bloomberg:
Kerry Says Iran Has Role in Defeating Islamic State
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Report: Obama to personally sign off on any Syria airstrikes
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Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Financial Times:
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