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Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney Says CIA Torture Report Is ‘Full of Crap’ … Former Vice President Dick Cheney says a declassified Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 CIA interrogation program is “full of crap.” — “I think it is a terrible report, deeply flawed,” …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Cheney: Bush wasn't in the dark on CIA
Cheney: Bush wasn't in the dark on CIA
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CANNONFIRE, ABC News and Informed Comment
Fox News Insider:
Dick Cheney Sounds off on Report on Interrogation Methods
Dick Cheney Sounds off on Report on Interrogation Methods
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Washington Times and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Cheney on torture report: ‘Full of crap’
Cheney on torture report: ‘Full of crap’
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Political Wire, Los Angeles Times and Guardian
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Warren, left fume over deal — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday sought to rally opposition to the $1.1 trillion government funding bill, spearheading a revolt on the left that has put her influence in the Democratic Party to the test. — The Massachusetts liberal pleaded for House Democrats …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Elizabeth Warren to Dems: Kill the bill
Elizabeth Warren to Dems: Kill the bill
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The Hill, The PJ Tatler and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Spending Bill Hits Snags, but Congress Thinks It Can Avoid Shutdown
Spending Bill Hits Snags, but Congress Thinks It Can Avoid Shutdown
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Washington Post, RedState and Prairie Weather
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
All Senate GOP staff going on ObamaCare — Senate Republican staffers will be required to obtain health insurance through ObamaCare's exchanges under a rule passed Wednesday by the GOP Conference. — The proposal from Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) means that Senate Republicans will designate their staff as …
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Humberto Sanchez / Roll Call:
Senate GOP Wrestles With Whether to Undo the Nuclear Option — After crying foul when Democrats used the nuclear option to essentially eliminate the filibuster for most nominations, Senate Republicans are wrestling with whether to change it back. — Republicans, who will take over the …
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Top military official calls for ‘review’ of transgender ban — A top military official is calling on the Obama administration to end the Department of Defense's ban on transgender troops. — Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James signaled Wednesday that transgender people may be allowed …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Air Force secretary supports lifting transgender ban
Air Force secretary supports lifting transgender ban
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The PJ Tatler and Advocate
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Scott Rudin On Obama's Favorite Movies: “I Bet He Likes Kevin Hart” — An exchange between Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin turned into a riff on films they thought the president liked. — Danny Moloshok / Reuters — Before Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal attended …
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Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon and Althouse
Nancy Gibbs / TIME.com:
They risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved. Editor Nancy Gibbs explains why the Ebola Fighters are TIME's choice for Person of the Year 2014 — Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, says the proverb, but rather the hero's heart. — Maybe this is true in any battle …
Mike Giglio / BuzzFeed:
ISIS Is Trying To Sell The Body Of U.S. Hostage James Foley For $1 Million — Middlemen in touch with ISIS or its associates say the group has turned a grim new page in its deadly hostage trade âÂ" by trying to sell the remains of at least one of the U.S. citizens it has executed in Syria.
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Lanny Davis / The Hill:
Why I am ready for Hillary — Last week, on Dec. 4, I helped organize a Ready for Hillary fundraiser in Montgomery County, Md., in the immediate suburbs of Washington, D.C. The organization, an independent grassroots committee, has been at work for the past year gathering millions of names …
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PLOS ONE:
Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea — Abstract — Plastic pollution is ubiquitous throughout the marine environment, yet estimates of the global abundance and weight of floating plastics have lacked data …
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Guardian, BuzzFeed, The Verge, Scientific American Content, Washington Post, New York Times, Raw Story and Firedoglake
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Growing Public Support for Gun Rights — More Say Guns Do More to Protect Than Put People at Risk — For the first time in more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, there is more support for gun rights than gun control. Currently, 52% say it is more important to protect …
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Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Pew poll: Support for gun rights exceeds gun control
Pew poll: Support for gun rights exceeds gun control
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CBS News:
Americans remain divided in views on race relations — Shares - — Americans are divided in their assessments of race relations in the U.S, a new CBS News poll shows. — Some 45 percent think they are generally good, but 43 percent think they are generally bad.
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Fox News Insider, Washington Post, Hot Air and CBS DC
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration — Even if Republicans shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) next year, President Obama could still carry out his executive actions giving legal status to up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.
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New York Times and Political Wire
Catherine Keefe / Washington Post:
I'm an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family. — Obamacare has been far more frustrating than I'd ever dreamed. — At the moment President-elect Barack Obama proclaimed that “change has come to America,” I stood at the foot of my husband's bed in the cardiac ICU of Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.
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The Hill, Hot Air and BREITBART.COM
Miles Weiss / Bloomberg Politics:
Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem — Over the last several months, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has been giving speeches, campaigning for candidates, appearing at public forums, and meeting with wealthy donors, which has led many people to believe that he may soon enter the race to become the next Republican presidential nominee.
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