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11:25 PM ET, November 24, 2014

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Washington Post:
Ferguson police officer won't be charged in fatal shooting  —  Barbara Jones, joined by other protesters, raises her hands, on Nov. 24, in Ferguson, Mo., more than three months after an unarmed black 18-year-old man was shot and killed there by a white policeman.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
LEAKED>>> Prosecutor's Office: NO INDICTMENT in #MikeBrown Case  —  NO INDICTMENT IN MIKE BROWN CASE—  From a source inside the Prosecutor's Office - NO INDICTMENT in the Michael Brown case.  —  Heard from a SEPARATE NEWS SOURCE same news - No Indictment.
Discussion: Mediaite and Vox Popoli
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Live Updates From Ferguson on the Grand Jury Decision in Michael Brown Shooting  —  Journalists with The New York Times in Ferguson, Mo., and around the country are following the work of the grand jury in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot Aug. 9 by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.
Discussion: Gawker and Riehl World News
New York Times:
Grand Jury Does Not Charge Darren Wilson in Ferguson Case  —  CLAYTON, Mo. — A St. Louis County grand jury has brought no criminal charges against Darren Wilson, a white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, more than three months ago in nearby Ferguson.
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Darren Wilson issues statement reacting to grand jury decision  —  • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8087  —  FERGUSON  • Lawyers for Darren Wilson issued a public statement Monday night after learning he would not be indicted, saying, in part, that Wilson …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ben Casselman / FiveThirtyEight:
It's Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson's Just Did  —  A St. Louis County grand jury on Monday decided not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police Officer Darren Wilson in the August killing of teenager Michael Brown.  The decision wasn't a surprise — leaks from the grand jury …
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Poll finds racial divide over Wilson charges  —  Washington (CNN) — Americans are sharply divided along racial lines as to whether Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson should be charged with murder in the shooting death of Michael Brown, a new CNN/ORC poll out Monday finds.
Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air and Liberaland
Erin McClam / NBC News:
Ferguson Erupts: Shots Fired After Grand Jury Decision Sparks Rage
Discussion: Gawker
Joe Concha / Mediaite:
Concha: Announcing Grand Jury Decision at Night a Needlessly Reckless One
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Viking Pundit
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Ferguson Grand Jury Does Not Indict Officer Darren Wilson in Death of Michael Brown
Discussion: abc7news.com
FOX2now.com:
LIVE Updates: Grand jury reaches decision in Michael Brown case
Discussion: Colorlines
CNN:
Grand jury decision today
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Darren Wilson has married his girlfriend
Discussion: Gawker, Philly.com and New York's PIX11
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Giuliani: Ferguson debate misdirected
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Hagel Said to Be Stepping Down as Defense Chief Under Pressure  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down under pressure, the first cabinet-level casualty of the collapse of President Obama's Democratic majority in the Senate and a beleaguered national security team …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
With Chuck Hagel's departure, Obama is turning into George W. Bush  —  When Barack Obama looks in the mirror these days, he must see a terrifying visage staring back at him: that of George W. Bush.  —  In a cruel echo of history, Obama is morphing into the president whose foreign policy he campaigned to overturn.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Moderate Voice
Kevin Lamarque / The Daily Beast:
Hagel Takes a Bullet for Obama: Inside the Defense Secretary's Sudden Firing  —  The Secretary of Defense is stepping down after less than two lackluster years inside the Pentagon walls and disastrous developments around the world.  —  From practically the day he took office as the 24th Secretary …
Discussion: Liberaland
Mark Landler / New York Times:
A Shake-Up Stops at One  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Obama announced the resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at the White House on Monday, he went to a meeting of his entire National Security Council staff, where he told the embattled group that they were critical to an ambitious foreign policy agenda.
David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
John McCain: Chuck Hagel ‘Was Up to the Job’
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
How Do You Spell Scapegoat? H-A-G-E-L
Discussion: NBC News, US News and CNN
BBC:
Turkey president Erdogan: Women are not equal to men  —  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said women cannot be treated as equal to men, and has accused feminists of rejecting motherhood.  —  “You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” he told a meeting in Istanbul.  “It is against nature.”
David Carr / New York Times:
Calling Out Bill Cosby's Media Enablers, Including Myself  —  Amid the public revulsion at the news that Bill Cosby, a trailblazing black entertainer, allegedly victimized women in serial fashion throughout his career, the response from those in the know has been: What took so long?
George Packer / New Yorker:
The Quiet German  —  The astonishing rise of Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world. … “We're finding that the ones we tested perfume and makeup on are extremely attractive to me.”  —  BUY OR LICENSE » … “All right, buddy, that'll be a ten-dollar corkage fee.”
Discussion: The Dish
Erin Alberty / Salt Lake Tribune:
Killings by Utah police outpacing gang, drug, child-abuse homicides  —  1. Officer Bron Cruz' body camera shows him beginning to raise his gun toward Dillon Taylor as Taylor walks away.  2. Taylor continues to face away from Cruz.  Cruz can be heard ordering Taylor, “Get your hands out, now.”
 
 
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James Hohmann / Politico:
DNC: Convention finalist cities are Philadelphia, NYC and Columbus
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama spurns lame-duck label
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media
Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
Bill Cosby accuser Louisa Moritz plans class lawsuit over alleged sex assaults: report
Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
McCain encouraging Graham to run for president
Discussion: ABC News
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Al Sharpton: Rand Paul's outreach to blacks could hurt Democrats in 2016
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