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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.
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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.
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CNN:
Grand jury decision today — Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — While protesters chanted late Monday for an indictment in the shooting death of Michael Brown, officials called for calm as the world awaits word of the grand jury's decision. — “No matter what is announced, people will be emotional.
Joe Concha / Mediaite:
Concha: Announcing Grand Jury Decision at Night a Needlessly Reckless One — When it comes to the grand jury decision regarding Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, the decision on when to announce the decision is a borderline reckless one.
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USA Today:
Reports: Ferguson grand jury has made decision
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Darren Wilson has married his girlfriend
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney.com:
Exclusive: Why TV anchors met secretly with Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Giuliani: Ferguson debate misdirected
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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.
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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 …
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
John McCain: Chuck Hagel ‘Was Up to the Job’ — John McCain wasn't going to let the administration get away with its spin. Early Monday morning, before daylight in Arizona, Helene Cooper reported that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel would be stepping down, and that he was pushed.
Max Boot / Commentary Magazine:
Is a National-Security Shakeup Coming?
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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.”
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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?
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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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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Police: Woman Saying She's ‘Ready For Ferguson’ Shoots, Kills Self By Accident — St. Louis police were investigating an incident in which a woman waving a gun inside a vehicle and saying she was “ready for Ferguson” apparently shot herself in the head by accident, CNN reported Sunday.
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Mediaite and Booman Tribune
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Shimon Prokupecz / CNN:
Police: Woman allegedly kills herself with gun bought to prepare for Ferguson unrest
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PoliticusUSA, Gawker, Time, Liberaland and Raw Story
John McCormick / Bloomberg Politics:
Rand Paul Shows Early Strength in New Hampshire Poll — Republican Rand Paul is showing early strength for a possible 2016 presidential bid in the first primary state, where a Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm New Hampshire Poll shows him running slightly ahead of more established names.
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Rand Paul Declares War on ISIS—and Allows Boots on the Ground
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rand Paul Calls for a Formal Declaration of War Against ISIS
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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.”
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William H. Frey / The New Republic:
The Suburbs: Not Just for White People Anymore — The new racial dynamics of the American dream, in three eye-opening graphics — The classic image of an American metropolis was that of a polyglot city surrounded by mostly white suburbs—the “chocolate city/vanilla suburbs” of the 1950s and 1960s …
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