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James Hohmann / Politico:
Dems' final insult: Landrieu crushed — Cassidy trounces incumbent with Republicans set to control 54 Senate seats in the next Congress. — AP Photo — In the final insult of a devastating 2014 election for Democrats, Sen. Mary Landrieu, the party's last remaining statewide officeholder …
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Alexandra Jaffe / CNN:
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her Senate runoff race Saturday night, felled by the red tide that's swept the South and ties to an unpopular President that she couldn't shake. — CNN called the race for her Republican opponent Rep. Bill Cassidy a little over a half hour after the polls closed.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP group seizes on Landrieu's ‘I did not vote for Obama’ remark — Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) slipped and told a conservative radio host on Friday that she did not vote for President Obama. — It was a heated exchange and a source close to the Landrieu campaign said the Louisiana Democrat meant …
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Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
Louisiana's Senate Race Down to Runoff Saturday — In the last election of the 2014 midterms, Louisiana voters Saturday decide the political fate of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, who is struggling to win a fourth term against a wave of GOP gains across Southern states.
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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Forecast: Landrieu Headed Toward Historic Defeat In Louisiana Runoff
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Power Line, Scared Monkeys and The PJ Tatler
New York Times:
2 Hostages Killed in Yemen as U.S. Rescue Effort Fails — SANA, Yemen — United States commandos stormed a village in southern Yemen early Saturday in an effort to free an American photojournalist held hostage by Al Qaeda, but the raid ended badly with the kidnappers killing the American …
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Statement by the President on the Death of Luke Somers
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Phil Stewart / Reuters:
U.S. to keep more troops in Afghanistan as violence spikes
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Washington Post:
Hagel: U.S. hostage ‘murdered’ in Yemen
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New York Times, Mashable and The PJ Tatler
ABC News:
American Hostage Luke Somers Killed in US Rescue Attempt
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Mohammed Ghobari / Reuters:
U.S., South African hostages in Yemen killed in rescue attempt
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Scared Monkeys, Hot Air and NO QUARTER USA NET
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
NYTimes Fails to Disclose Clinton Paid for Interviews About Administration — In a five year span, the William J Clinton Foundation gave five grants totaling $851,250 to the University of Virginia's Miller Center. One year in particular, 2007, the Clinton gift was specifically marked: “Oral history project of Clinton presidency.”
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Cassandra Rules / The Free Thought Project:
Arizona Cop Caught on Cam Brutally Attacking Teen Girl While Mother Begs Them to Stop — Mesa, AZ- A video was uploaded to Facebook on Friday of a Mesa, Arizona police officer repeatedly punching and attacking a 15 year old girl as her mother begged them to stop.
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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Los Angeles Police Shoot, Kill Man Amid Crowd Of Tourists On Hollywood Walk Of Fame — Police taped off the scene of a fatal shooting on Los Angeles' Walk of Fame on Friday night. — CREDIT: KTLA — Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man Friday night at a busy intersection …
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Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed:
Police Shoot Man In Front Of Tourists On Busy Hollywood Street Corner — Police shot the man at the busy intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. — instagram.com — LOS ANGELES — Police in Hollywood shot a man Friday night. — The shooting occurred about 7 p.m …
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Los Angeles Times and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Arizona county mulls not hiring smokers — Associated Press 3 hrs ago — TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Pima County will consider later this month whether to no longer hire smokers and put a price on workers who do smoke. — The Pima County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Dec. 16 …
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Zerlina Maxwell / Washington Post:
No matter what Jackie said, we should generally believe rape claims. — Incredulity hurts victims more than it hurts wrongly-accused perps. — In last month's deep and damning Rolling Stone report about sexual assault at UVA, a reporter narrated the story of “Jackie,” …
Emily Badger / Washington Post:
There is a second Eric Garner video. It may be more disturbing than the first. — Post by Taisha Allen. — There is a second Eric Garner video. It shows not the now-infamous scene that ultimately led to his death — the confrontation with New York Police Department officers …
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