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Politico:
Conservatives rage against the machine — Opponents of Obama's immigration action hoped the GOP would use budget to push back harder on issue — Conservatives began the lame-duck session enraged over President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration and hell-bent on unraveling …
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The Hill:
Funding bill struggles for votes as government shutdown nears — A $1.1 trillion bill to keep the government open appeared to be teetering Thursday after House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) announced her opposition and the package narrowly survived a procedural vote.
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Washington Monthly, Politico, Washington Post and PoliticusUSA
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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The Daily Beast, Roll Call, CANNONFIRE, The Hill, RedState, Daily Kos, Politico, The Daily Caller and Business Insider
The Hill:
House approves $1.1T bill to fund government despite Dem uprising — The House on Thursday approved a $1.1 trillion bill funding most of the government through September despite an outcry from Democrats and significant defections in both parties. — By a vote of 219-206 …
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Bloomberg Politics, Daily Signal, Daily Kos and Hit & Run
Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made calls to lawmakers on Thursday urging them to support the “cromnibus” spending bill, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told reporters. — Dimon's involvement came amidst progressives enraged …
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Prairie Weather
New York Times:
House Narrowly Passes Bill to Avoid Shutdown; $1.1 Trillion in Spending — WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion spending package that would fund most government operations for the fiscal year after a rancorous debate that reflected the new power held by Republicans …
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Roll Call and New Economic Perspectives
Joel Gehrke / National Review:
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
Sources: Leadership Promised to Pull Cromnibus
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The Gateway Pundit, RedState and Hot Air
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama
Dem: Don't be intimidated by Obama
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Hot Air, Fox News, Taylor Marsh, Ed Driscoll and Hinterland Gazette
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown
Bipartisan Revolt Imperils House Bill To Avert Government Shutdown
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Shakesville and Washington Monthly
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans seek to cripple IRS
William McGurn / New York Post:
Tortured tantrums: Feinstein's fake fury — Angus King raises an excellent point about torture. It's just not the point he probably intended. — This week on CNN, Maine's Independent senator was asked about the Senate Democrats' release of a scathing report saying the CIA interrogation program …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report
Charles Krauthammer: A travesty of a report
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Guardian
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Torture Is Who We Are — A country, like a person, is what it does. — Torture, declared President Obama this week, in response to the newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation, is “contrary to who we are.” Maine Senator Angus King added that, “This is not America. This is not who we are.”
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The Moderate Voice and The Dish
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Ed Rendell trash-talks ‘pathetic’ Chris Christie's Cowboys loyalty — (CNN) — Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Gov. Chris Christie's unapologetic love for the Dallas Cowboys is “pathetic,” adding that it's rooted in a “basic inferiority complex.” — “If you are a Jerseyite …
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New Jersey Online, Political Wire and Booman Tribune
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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Todd Unger / WFAA-TV:
Woman in custody after two found dead in Arlington home
Woman in custody after two found dead in Arlington home
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Daily Kos, Liberaland and Raw Story
Politico:
Backers: Romney more open to 2016 run — He has sounded unimpressed with the emerging GOP field, associates say. — For most of the past year, Mitt Romney supporters have publicly said he should consider running again. And for most of the past year, Romney has seemed uninterested. — Until recently.
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Will Carr / Fox News:
Veteran Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale dead at 43 — Dominic Di-Natale, a globetrotting journalist whose work at Fox News Channel and other news organizations took him to Usama bin Laden's compound, demonstrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square and, more recently, to the scene of racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., has died.
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Talking Points Memo, Gawker and Mediaite
CBS News:
ISIS issues guidelines for sex slavery — Shares - — Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq. — Many of the captives are believed to be sold …
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Liberty Unyielding and “The Lid”
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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Politico:
Tea party fumes over campaign finance plan — Activists see high dollar limits as a power grab by GOP establishment. — Tea party activists are attacking a campaign finance rider in the $1.1 trillion spending bill that they view as a sneaky power grab by establishment Republicans designed to undermine outside conservative groups.
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Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Scott Rudin Apologizes After Leak Of Sony's Hacked Racially Insensitive E-Mails On Barack Obama — EXCLUSIVE: Producer Scott Rudin has issued a public apology for the racially insensitive comments that surfaced last night in an exchange of hacked private e-mails between him and Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman Amy Pascal.
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Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Sony Pictures Tries to Disrupt Downloads of Its Stolen Files
Sony Pictures Tries to Disrupt Downloads of Its Stolen Files
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Washington Post, Mashable, Hollywood Reporter and The Verge