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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Governor Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Ferguson Grand Jury Decision — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a state of emergency Monday, preempting a grand jury decision in the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown that is expected to be delivered any day.
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Governor Jay Nixon and Outside the Beltway
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Dana Ford / CNN:
Missouri governor declares state of emergency in Ferguson — (CNN) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday ahead of an expected grand jury decision in the case of Michael Brown. — In his executive order, Nixon cited the “possibility of expanded unrest.”
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New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Ferguson Cop Supporters Crowdfunded a “Pants Up, Don't Loot” Billboard — Spurred on by a Tennessee resident who is concerned about the Ferguson protesters and their catchy chants, supporters of police officer Darren Wilson have donated more than enough money to post a billboard in the heart …
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Supporters Of Ferguson Cop Plan 'Pants Up, Don't Loot' Billboard
Amityshedd / CBS St. Louis:
Nixon Activates Missouri National Guard in Response to Potential ‘Period of Unrest’
Nixon Activates Missouri National Guard in Response to Potential ‘Period of Unrest’
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BuzzFeed:
Uber CEO: Obamacare Has Been “Huge” For Business — Health care frees drivers from “The Man.” — Handout / Reuters — The CEO of Uber said Friday that Obamacare has played a crucial role for his army of drivers, an unusual, partial endorsement of the president's signature policy …
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New York Magazine, Washington Post and New York Times
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David Klein / Wall Street Journal:
Another ObamaCare Deception — As Jonathan Gruber knows, the health-care law is a tax machine. The ‘Cadillac’ levy will hit the middle class. — Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist, is making himself a household name, and not in a good way.
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New York Magazine, Bloomberg Politics and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers As Obama Allies
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers As Obama Allies
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Prairie Weather, Hit & Run and Newsalert
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The worst two paragraphs about American politics you'll read today — Ron Fournier, like many of us, is frustrated with the state of American politics. And like a moth driven to the flame, Ron Fournier knows that what's wrong is a lack of bipartisanship. — How else to explain …
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US News, Bloomberg View, New York Times and Hullabaloo
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
The Extraordinary Smallness of Washington — Institutional shrinkage marks the politics and governing of the Bush-Obama era. — President Obama is shrinking before our eyes. Squint and you might see his rivals running Congress: itsy-bitsy John Boehner and minute Mitch McConnell.
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Gawker, Daily Kos, The Incidental Economist, New York Times and BizPac Review
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37% — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare
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FOX News Radio, ThinkProgress, National Review, Washington Post and Daily Signal
Chris Moody / CNN:
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws — Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
Kaci Hickox / Guardian:
Stop calling me ‘the Ebola nurse’ — I never had Ebola, and politicians who lie do nothing to protect your health — I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie's private prison in Newark.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Hot Air, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Daily Mail:
SAUDI HUSBAND DIVORCES WIFE AFTER SHE FAILS TO REPLY TO HIS WHATSAPP TEXT MESSAGE — A Saudi husband has divorced his wife after she failed to reply to a WhatsApp text message. — The man, who got married two years ago, sent the message from his office and waited for a response from his wife.
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Liberaland and FOX News Radio
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
California Tells Court It Can't Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor — Out of California's years-long litigation over reducing the population of prisons deemed unconstitutionally overcrowded by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, another obstacle to addressing …
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Booman Tribune
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Resistance to Obama order on immigration — WASHINGTON — President Obama's plan to sign an executive order on immigration, expected as early as this week, will meet more resistance than support, a new USA TODAY Poll finds. Close to half of those surveyed, 46%, say he should wait …
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Political Wire, Washington Times and The PJ Tatler
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare repeal is more likely, and now GOP needs an alternative — CONGRESS OBAMACARE SUPREME COURT HEALTH CARE LAW MAGAZINE — This month, two developments have shaken the conventional wisdom that repealing President Obama's healthcare law is an impossibility.
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Don Surber and Newsalert
Washington Post:
Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games — Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league. The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.
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CNN, The PJ Tatler, Hit & Run, Bloomberg View, Hot Air, ThinkProgress, NPR, ESPN, Taylor Marsh and Bloomberg Politics
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The Marshall Project:
Eric Holder on His Legacy, His Regrets, and His Feelings About the Death Penalty — Bill Keller and Tim Golden of The Marshall Project spoke with Holder in Brooklyn, where he was visiting a widely praised drug court. The transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Firedoglake and Mediaite
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
World's Worst Cop Dad Pulls over School Bus Because Son Forgot Lunch — An Indiana police officer is under investigation for the most embarrassing cool-dad move ever: Using his police vehicle to pull over a school bus to deliver his son's lunch. — According to a police report …
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FOX News Radio
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Rick Santorum Wishes Obama Would Be A Racial Uniter Like Segregationists Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms — Potential Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum had an opportunity to speak at length to Iowa conservatives last week, when he guest hosted Steve Deace's radio show on Veterans Day.
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FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Protesters SWARM Mary Landrieu's Capitol Hill Home — SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare — VIDEO — Explosive New Gruber Video Uncovered — Issa Out! Republicans To Pick New Oversight Chairman — POLITICS | PATRICK HOWLEY
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Power Line
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Why Hillary 2016 Thinks She Can Expand Obama's Electoral Map — The top minds in the proto-Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign infrastructure are already gaming out Electoral College scenarios. What they think they have is a candidate who could compete in a handful of traditionally red states …
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Washington Post and Hot Air
Katie Nguyen / Yahoo! News:
Nearly 36 million people are slaves, Qatar in focus: global index — Reuters 7 hrs ago — LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Almost 36 million people are living as slaves across the globe with an index on Monday listing Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti, Qatar and India as the nations where modern-day slavery is most prevalent.
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Liberaland and FOX News Radio
New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces — WASHINGTON — When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, it was perhaps the president's …
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NBC News and Washington Free Beacon
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
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Power Line and NPR