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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Rolling Stone Publishes Updated Apology over UVA Rape Story — Last Friday Rolling Stone published a brief and, to many, unsatisfactory Readers Note retracting a large part of its story on a UVA gang rape, which was falling apart in the face of the Washington Post's re-reporting.
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Yvonne AbrahamGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Rolling Stone's UVA story a disaster for all
Rolling Stone's UVA story a disaster for all
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
If You Were An Early Reader Of the WaPo UVA Rape Expose...
If You Were An Early Reader Of the WaPo UVA Rape Expose...
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Julia Horowitz / Politico:
Why We Believed Jackie's Rape Story
Why We Believed Jackie's Rape Story
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Raw Story, The College Fix and Ed Driscoll
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors
The Rolling Stone Fiasco Is Terrible News for Rape Survivors
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Mashable, Althouse and Washington Post
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP pins hopes of dismantling ObamaCare on the courts — The GOP is refocusing its attention on the courts as it searches for any way to weaken President Obama's signature healthcare law while he continues to wield a veto pen. — Twenty-five Republicans asked the Supreme Court …
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Massive spending bill kicks off 113th Congress' final chapter — GOP riders on funding bill could bring veto threat. — Don't worry, Washington. Congress will give you your Christmas and New Year's back this year — right after some more deadline-induced drama.
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Limbaugh on Eric Garner: The Left Wanted a Powerful State, ‘Here It Is’ — Rush Limbaugh appeared on Fox News Sunday to bemoan the “grievance industry” that is “literally ripping our fabric apart.” — Limbaugh said that the aftermath of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases called …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Not a parody — Columbia Law School is permitting students claiming to be impaired due to the emotional impact of recent non-indictments in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner matters to postpone taking their final exams. Here is the text of a message from interim dean Robert Scott to the law school community:
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Don Babwin / Associated Press:
Chlorine gas sickens 19 at furries convention — 5 photos — ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention …
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Chicago Tribune:
19 hospitalized, thousands evacuated in ‘intentional’ gas leak at Rosemont hotel — Several thousand people, some dressed as animal characters, were evacuated from a Hyatt hotel in suburban Rosemont when an “intentional” chlorine gas incident at the Midwest FurFest convention led to 19 people being hospitalized early Sunday morning.
Sean Kelly / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
12-Year-Old Girl Discovers She's Eight Months Pregnant By 54-Year-Old Man — A 54-year-old Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged for impregnating a 12-year-old girl, according to WickedLocal.com. — Elbert Richardson, of Brockton, MA, pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated rape …
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Redditt Hudson / Washington Post:
Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There's only one fix. — Redditt Hudson, a former cop, works for the NAACP and chairs the board of the Ethics Project. The views expressed here are his own. — Police officers drag away a protester to take him into custody during …
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John Harwood / New York Times:
For Obama, a Go-It-Alone Push Fits the Times — WASHINGTON — To the surprise of both allies and adversaries, President Obama has declined to humble himself following another midterm election bludgeoning. — To the contrary, his recent immigration action made clear his determination …
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General — The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.
Daily Mail:
Punched in the face while handcuffed in a police car - but her cop attacker will NOT be charged: Prosecutors say officer who left woman, 23, with a broken eye socket ‘acted professionally’ — Prosecutors claim he ‘acted professional’ even though he fractured her eye socket during the incident
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