memeorandum: On Keystone and the N.S.A., Clinton Remains Quiet (Ryan Lizza/New Yorker)

9:50 AM ET, November 23, 2014

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Marion Barry dies at 78; 4-term D.C. mayor was the most powerful local politician of his generation — Marion Barry Jr., the Mississippi sharecropper's son and civil rights activist who served three terms as mayor of the District of Columbia, survived a drug arrest and jail sentence …

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Ben Nuckols / Associated Press:

Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, whose four terms were overshadowed by his 1990 arrest after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine, died Sunday morning. He was 78. — Barry D.C. council spokeswoman LaToya Foster …

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Newspaper ‘Erred’ In Publishing Cartoon Of Immigrants Crashing Thanksgiving — The Indianapolis Star on Saturday said it “erred” in publishing a cartoon that depicted undocumented immigrants crashing a white family's Thanksgiving dinner. — The cartoon by Gary Varvel showed …

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Jeff Taylor / The Indianapolis Star, Indystar:

We erred in publishing cartoon — On Friday, we posted a Gary Varvel cartoon at indystar.com that offended a wide group of readers. — Many of them labeled it as racist. Gary did not intend to be racially insensitive in his attempt to express his strong views about President Barack Obama's decision …

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Ferguson grand jury fails to reach decision on Darren Wilson indictment — 'Just don't burn my shop down. Don't destroy it'

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Matt Rourke / ABC News:

President Obama: American People Want ‘New Car Smell’ in 2016 Campaign — President Obama, acknowledging he's taken some political “dings” during his time in the White House, said in an exclusive interview with ABC News that the American people will want that “new car smell” …

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The anxieties of the GOP majority — Even after a historic midterm win, Republican confusion over how to respond to Obama on immigration is evidence of a changing party. — It was a quiet meeting on the eve of a political explosion. — At 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 30 or so members …

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Afghan mission for U.S. to continue under new authorities — The American military will have an expanded response to insurgents even after combat operations end. — The United States will remain in an armed conflict in Afghanistan — essentially at war — after the end of this year under rules …

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In a Shift, Obama Extends U.S. Role in Afghan Combat

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Jonathan Gruber / Boston Herald:

House panel to quiz Gruber on health law ‘deceptions’ — Photo by: — The controversy over Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's “stupidity of the American voter” comments reignited yesterday, as a powerful Congressional panel summoned the embattled MIT professor to testify in Washington next month.

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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:

On Keystone and the N.S.A., Clinton Remains Quiet — On Friday, Ready for Hillary, a super PAC that has been described as “a make-work program for former Clinton hands,” and that is busy building a database of donors and volunteers that the group will eventually sell or rent to an official Clinton campaign …

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Michael Allen / Opposing Views:

Ex-Deputy Accused Of Killing Wife Over Her Smoking Marijuana (Video) — Tom Fallis, a former sheriff's deputy in Weld County, Colorado, was recently indicted for allegedly murdering his wife in 2012 in Evans, Colorado. — Fallis was arrested in Bloomington, Indiana, where he had moved with his three young children, on Tuesday.

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