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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Giuliani: Wilson Case Never Should Have Gone to Grand Jury — A comparatively muted Rudy Giuliani told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that Attorney General Eric Holder's federal investigation of Ferguson officer Darren Wilson would go nowhere, as anyone who had read the transcripts would conclude.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Darren Wilson resigns from Ferguson Police Department — • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8087 — Citing security fears, Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown Aug. 9, has resigned from the police department.
Michael Eric Dyson / New York Times:
Where Do We Go After Ferguson? — WASHINGTON — WHEN Ferguson flared up this week after a grand jury failed to indict the white police officer Darren Wilson for killing the unarmed black youth Michael Brown, two realities were illuminated: Black and white people rarely view race in the same …
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Steve Rose / Kansas City Star:
A 2016 ballot without Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush? You heard it here — Charlie Cook, one of the most respected political experts in the country, believes Hillary Clinton has only a 25-30 percent chance of running for president, and in any case he thinks she is either “rusty” or “she has lost her fastball.”
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Former Clinton pollster: Hillary lacks ‘new car smell’ — Hillary Clinton has lost the “new car smell” she might need to win the presidency in 2016, said Democratic pollster Doug Schoen on Sunday. — “The president said [last week] that the next president needs ... a new car smell …
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Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
Obama calls Chuck Todd ‘sad’ — The commander in chief doesn't think much of the man who labeled him “The Stranger.” — Shopping at a Washington, DC, bookstore Saturday, President Obama spotted a copy of “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd's new book about his presidency. — “Oh, Chuck Todd!”
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
When Whites Just Don't Get It, Part 5 — WE Americans are a nation divided. — We feud about the fires in Ferguson, Mo., and we can agree only that racial divisions remain raw. So let's borrow a page from South Africa and impanel a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine race in America.
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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Former al Qaida hostage recounts nightmare - of dealing with FBI — WASHINGTON — The only thing as bad as being tortured for months as a captive of jihadists in Syria was dealing with the U.S. government afterward, according to one former American hostage.
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Hudson Hongo / Gawker:
GOP Staffer Calls Obama Daughters Classless, Dressed for the “Bar” — For most people, Sasha and Malia Obama's spiritless appearance at this year's White House turkey pardon was a lesson about humility, showing how even the world's most powerful man is still just “ugh, Dad” to his teenage daughters.
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
GOP congressional majority likely to change way it crunches numbers — The incoming Republican majority in Congress is preparing to give number-crunching a controversial twist, and the new math could make it easier for the GOP to cut taxes. — For years, leading GOP lawmakers have wanted …
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Washington Monthly
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dark days ahead for ObamaCare — The Obama administration is facing a slew of healthcare challenges as the winter holidays approach. — While this fall has been a far cry from last year, when HealthCare.gov was melting down, 2014 has brought wholly unexpected problems to the fore for federal health officials and the White House.
Simon McCormack / The Huffington Post:
Off-Duty Cop Allegedly Shoots Woman In Head During Road Rage Incident — An off-duty Texas cop got upset at a woman for cutting him off and allegedly fired his gun into her window, hitting her in the head. — Now Precinct 6 Deputy Constable Kenneth Caplan is charged with aggravated assault …
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Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Off-Duty Cop Charged With Shooting Woman For Cutting Him Off In Traffic
Off-Duty Cop Charged With Shooting Woman For Cutting Him Off In Traffic
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Ohio Republicans push law to keep all details of executions secret — HB 663 would bar courts from access to essential information — State has experienced four botched executions in eight years — Republican lawmakers in Ohio are rushing through the most extreme secrecy bill yet attempted …