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Mother Jones:
BREAKING: The US and China Just Announced a Huge Deal on Climate—and It's a Game Changer — The surprise agreement aims to double the pace of carbon pollution reduction in the United States. — In a surprise announcement Tuesday night, the world's two biggest economies and greenhouse gas emitters …
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John Kerry / New York Times:
Our Historic Agreement With China on Climate Change — BEIJING — The United States and China are the world's two largest economies, two largest consumers of energy, and two largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Together we account for about 40 percent of the world's emissions.
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Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Post, Shakesville, Guardian and BuzzFeed
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. and China Reach Climate Accord After Months of Talks — BEIJING — China and the United States made common cause on Wednesday against the threat of climate change, staking out an ambitious joint plan to curb carbon emissions as a way to spur nations around the world to make their own cuts in greenhouse gases.
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Politico:
The coming climate onslaught — President Obama readies a sweeping list of executive actions. — The Obama administration is set to roll out a series of climate and pollution measures that rivals any president's environmental actions since George H.W. Bush signed a rewrite of the Clean Air Act in 1990 …
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The Hill, Washington Monthly, RedState, BillMoyers.com and “The Lid”
Washington Post:
China, U.S. agree to limit greenhouse gases
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
Meet the Mild-Mannered Investment Adviser Who's Humiliating the Administration Over Obamacare — A “nobody” named Rich Weinstein keeps digging up damaging clips about the ACA. — Rich Weinstein is not a reporter. He does not have a blog. Until this week, the fortysomething's five-year …
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
ObamaCare architect: I regret ‘stupidity’ of voter comment — An architect of ObamaCare on Tuesday said he regretted his 2013 comment that a “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” helped Congress pass the healthcare law. — Massachusetts Institute …
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Politico, Weekly Standard, Liberal Values and Townhall.com
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Republican Dan Sullivan wins Senate race in Alaska — 5 photos — JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican Dan Sullivan won Alaska's U.S. Senate race, defeating first-term incumbent Democrat Mark Begich. — Sullivan led Begich by about 8,100 votes on Election Night last week and held …
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Alaska Win Gives GOP Another US Senate Seat
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Politico and Conservatives4Palin
Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Democratic Party Favorable Rating Falls to Record Low — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — After the midterm elections that saw the Democratic Party suffer significant losses in Congress, a record-low 36% of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the party, down six percentage points from before the elections.
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Majority in U.S. Want GOP in Congress to Set Nation's Course
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Little Enthusiasm, Familiar Divisions After the GOP's Big Midterm Victory — Most Expect Obama to Get Little Done Over Next Two Years — After a sweeping midterm election victory on Nov. 4, the Republican Party retook full control of Congress. But the public has mixed reactions to the GOP's big win …
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American Prospect, CBS DC, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog and Prairie Weather
Ethan Epstein / Weekly Standard:
Anti-Military Anthem Played at ‘Concert for Valor’ — Who would have thought that that Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, and Zac Brown, accomplished musicians all, would be so, well, tone-deaf? But how else to explain their choice of song—Creedence Clearwater's famously anti-war anthem …
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Politico:
Pelosi: 'It wasn't a wave' — An exclusive interview with an unbowed Nancy Pelosi. — House Democrats ended Election Day controlling fewer seats than they have in nearly 80 years, but Nancy Pelosi isn't conceding anything. — “I do not believe what happened the other night is a wave …
James Hohmann / Politico:
The 10 states that could decide the next Senate — The Republican map may not look so bad after all. — The Senate map for 2016 might not be as bad for Republicans as it looks. — The GOP has a bigger cushion than expected for its new majority, probably 54 seats.
New York Times:
The Worst Voter Turnout in 72 Years — The abysmally low turnout in last week's midterm elections — the lowest in more than seven decades — was bad for Democrats, but it was even worse for democracy. In 43 states, less than half the eligible population bothered to vote, and no state broke 60 percent.
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Fox News:
Man who shot Usama bin Laden speaks out in exclusive Fox News interview — The former Navy SEAL who shot and killed Usama bin Laden told Fox News' Peter Doocy in an exclusive interview that the elite team who took out the terrorist believed that it was “going to be a one-way mission,” but it would be “worth it to kill him.”
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Politico:
Jon Stewart, Sean Hannity trade barbs — Jon Stewart has dubbed Sean Hannity “loathsome.” Sean Hannity thinks Jon Stewart “has his head so far up Obama's ass he cannot see clearly.” — The latest tiff between Stewart and Hannity blew up Tuesday after the “Daily Show” …
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Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
Jamie Crawford / CNN:
U.S. sailors attacked in Turkey, have bags placed over heads — (CNN) — Three U.S. Navy sailors were assaulted and had bags placed over their heads during a stop in Istanbul, Turkey, according to U.S. military officials. — The incident, captured on video, happened Wednesday when sailors …
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Rise of the Republican Pragmatists — Expect the new GOP majorities in Congress to press forward with a governing agenda, avoiding the intra-party conflicts of years past. — In Washington, narratives last long past their sell-by date. One of the most common tropes is that Republicans …
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Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Tampa Bay Times and CNN
Washington Post:
The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet — Hours after President Obama called for the Federal Communications Commission to pass tougher regulations on high-speed Internet providers, the agency's Democratic chairman told a group of business executives that he was moving in a different direction.
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Stephen Lurie / The Atlantic Online:
The Only Man Who Can Fix Mass Incarceration Is Barack Obama — Skeptics will protest that the president doesn't have the right or power to so drastically change the outcomes of funds that originate from congressional appropriations. Not so: The authority to administer grants well within the rights, and practice, of the executive.
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Curtis Skinner / Reuters:
U.S. nurses to protest, strike over Ebola measures — (Reuters) - Nurses across the United States will stage protest rallies and strikes on Wednesday over what they say is insufficient protection for health workers dealing with patients possibly stricken with the deadly Ebola virus.
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