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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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Roll Call:
Lacking Sufficient Support, House GOP Leaders Delay ‘Cromnibus’ Vote — Unsure whether they have the votes to pass a trillion-dollar federal spending package, House GOP leaders on Thursday afternoon delayed a final vote on the “cromnibus.” — They did so with mere hours to go until …
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New York Times, PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
Pelosi / Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Dear Democratic Colleague on CRomnibus — It is clear from this recess on the floor that the Republicans don't have enough votes to pass the CRomnibus. This increases our leverage to get two offensive provisions of the bill removed: the bank bailout and big money for campaigns provision.
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RedState, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos and Business Insider
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown — House Republican leaders are staking on thin ice with the government funding bill, facing stiff opposition from the left and the right that threatens passage just hours before a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.
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Washington Monthly
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Progressives caucus urges ‘no’ vote on spending bill
Progressives caucus urges ‘no’ vote on spending bill
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The PJ Tatler
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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Kasie Hunt / msnbc.com:
Rick Perry: Presidency is ‘not an IQ test’ — “Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.” — GOV. RICK PERRY — In January, he's moving out of the governor's mansion he and his wife Anita have called home for nearly 14 years, longer than any other Texas governor.
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Hot Air, FishbowlDC, American Spectator, Bloomberg Politics and The Huffington Post
Kasie Hunt / NBC News:
Rick Perry: Presidential Campaign's ‘Not an IQ Test’
Rick Perry: Presidential Campaign's ‘Not an IQ Test’
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
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. UPDATE: Both Rudin and Pascal have apologized for the emails. — Danny Moloshok / Reuters
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Alex Stedman / Variety:
Leaked Sony Emails Reveal Jokes About Obama and Race — In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony this week, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin riff on what President Barack Obama's favorite movies could be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Open Carry Activist Charged With Shooting Ex-Husband And Stepdaughter Dead — A woman charged with shooting and killing her ex-husband and stepdaughter has strong connections to groups advocating for expanding open carry gun laws in Texas. — Local news outlets on Wednesday reported …
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Julie Fancher / Dallas Morning News:
Woman charged with capital murder after 2 found dead in Arlington home
Woman charged with capital murder after 2 found dead in Arlington home
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Oliver Milman / Guardian:
Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time — Over five trillion pieces of plastic are floating in our oceans says most comprehensive study to date on plastic pollution around the world — More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes …
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The Strata-Sphere, Firedoglake and Althouse
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Why The Media's Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone — George Packer argues in The New Yorker that journalism's big crisis is just a business crisis. In the very first paragraph, noting the collapse of Rolling Stone's story about a violent gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity …
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Reuters:
Psychologist says U.S. Senate's CIA report makes false charges — (Reuters) - One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects “took things out of context” and made false accusations.
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National Review:
Defeat the Omnibus — The federal government's funding authorization expires tonight at midnight, and the Republican plan to renew it bodes poorly for the GOP's leadership of Congress next year. — The proposal: Pass an omnibus spending resolution that funds most of the federal government …
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration
Government shutdown would not stop Obama on immigration
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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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Beverly Johnson / Vanity Fair:
Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story. — Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, a show my family in Buffalo, New York, always watched.
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Gawker and TMZ.com
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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Channel 4 News:
Unmasked: the man behind top Islamic State Twitter account — The most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account to be followed by foreign jihadis - Shami Witness - is shut down after a Channel 4 News investigation uncovers the identity of the man behind it — Please wait while this video loads.
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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 …