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2:47 AM ET, November 18, 2014

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ABC News:
FBI Warns Ferguson Decision ‘Will Likely’ Lead to Violence By Extremists Protesters … As the nation waits to hear whether a Missouri police officer will face charges for killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the FBI is warning law enforcement agencies across the country that the decision …
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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.
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:   Supporters Of Ferguson Cop Plan 'Pants Up, Don't Loot' Billboard
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Ferguson Cop Supporters Crowdfunded a “Pants Up, Don't Loot” Billboard
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Amityshedd / CBS St. Louis:
Nixon Activates Missouri National Guard in Response to Potential ‘Period of Unrest’
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for revealing Obamacare deception  —  Democrats are desperately distancing themselves from Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.  He “never worked on our staff,” President Obama said this weekend in Brisbane, Australia, (even though Gruber was paid almost $400,000 …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is This Bush Official Flip-Flopping on Obamacare?  —  Smellin' of Troy.  —  Shares  —  Jonathan Gruber's candid video commentaries have unleashed the latest in a never-ending round of conservative denunciations of Obamacare, the evilest, sneakiest, failing-est, and most unconstitutional assault of freedom ever.
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David Klein / Wall Street Journal:   Another ObamaCare Deception
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Su Wu / New York Times:
Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School is Overrated  —  One of the gifts of being young is that particular blend of self-confidence and self-consciousness.  Jaden and Willow Smith have managed to turn this form of heady teenage introspection into expression instead of ennui.
Adam Serwer / BuzzFeed:
California's Attorney General Thinks Legal Weed Is Inevitable  —  In an interview with BuzzFeed News, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a rising star in the Democratic Party, said she had “no moral opposition” to marijuana legalization.  But there are a lot of details to figure out.
KSDK-TV:
Ferguson corrections officer accused of sex with inmate  —  ST. LOUIS COUNTY - A 29-year-old Ferguson corrections officer is accused of having sex with an inmate at the city jail, whom he later allegedly allowed to escape.  —  Jaris Hayden is charged with public servant acceding to corruption …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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 …
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.
Discussion: Newsalert
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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Andy Cush / Gawker:
Son Allegedly Chopped 350-Pound Dad Into Pieces, Used Body as a TV Stand  —  Nathan Robinson, 28, stands accused of murdering his 350-pound father, chopping the body into small pieces, placing those pieces into a set of stacked storage boxes, and using the assemblage as a TV stand.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Federal Investigation Into Painkillers Targets N.F.L. Teams' Medical Staffs  —  Federal drug enforcement agents questioned medical-staff members from the San Francisco 49ers and several other teams on Sunday as part of a continuing investigation into the distribution of painkillers in the N.F.L.
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Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
World's Worst Cop Dad Pulls over School Bus Because Son Forgot Lunch
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
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Discussion: Liberaland and FOX News Radio
The Marshall Project:
Eric Holder on His Legacy, His Regrets, and His Feelings About the Death Penalty
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Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Associated Press:
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Direct new challenges to Bakke ruling (UPDATED)
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Protesters SWARM Mary Landrieu's Capitol Hill Home
Discussion: Power Line
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37%
Chris Moody / CNN:
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