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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
The Week Elizabeth Warren Decided to Run for President — Or may have decided. We won't know for a few months whether the Massachusetts senator will challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, but if she chooses to run, we're going to look back at this week as a pivotal moment in Warren's decision-making.
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Wall Street's Win on Swaps Rule Shows Washington Resurgence
Wall Street's Win on Swaps Rule Shows Washington Resurgence
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes
JPMorgan CEO helped whip votes
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Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
‘Crominbus’ Passes, But Did Anyone Win?
‘Crominbus’ Passes, But Did Anyone Win?
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Sabrina Erdely Was Once Disciplined By Stephen Glass For Fabrication — And you thought this whole story couldn't get more bizarre. According to “Penn In Ink,” a collection of essays about the University of Pennsylvania by author Samuel Hughes, Sabrina Erdely (Sabrina Rubin at the time) …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The full demise of Rolling Stone's rape story — Even as Rolling Stone's Nov. 19 story “A Rape on Campus” unraveled last week, the magazine claimed that writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely did her due diligence in investigating an alleged gang rape on Sept. 28, 2012, at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director defends rectal rehydration — Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Thursday defended revelations from Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats that the agency used rectal rehydration on detainees. — “These were medical procedures,” Hayden said during a tense interview on CNN's “The Lead with Jake Tapper.”
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inSourceCode / Committee on Oversight & …:
Issa Subpoenas ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber — Last night, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., subpoenaed ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber for all documents and communications with federal, state, or local government employees related …
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
More Videos: Gruber Talks About Writing Obamacare; Said Under Oath He Didn't Write It — When MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber testified in front of Congress earlier this week about the lack of transparency used to deceive the American people about the Affordable Care Act …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Inside the Collapse of The New Republic — Last Friday morning, Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and Guy Vidra, the magazine's C.E.O., presided over a meeting at the publication's Penn Quarter offices in Washington, D.C. It had been a busy twenty-four hours: a day earlier …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Torture Party: Why Republicans Defend the Most Sadistic Government Program in Recent History — The allegation that the Bush administration used torture had gone from outrageous smear to tired news without ever having passed through the stage of acceptable topic of discussion. — Shares
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Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Cop Shows Up At Penn Student's Room To Question Her About Activist Facebook Post — If only they were this diligent about investigating right-wing domestic terrorists. — Activists also report that the day after the town hall was held at Calvary United Methodist Church …
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Claudia Lacy / Guardian:
Was my 17-year-old son lynched, in the year 2014? The police still won't tell me — It's hard to think such a thing could still happen in the United States. This is justice? Tell us what happened to Lennon. Tell me what happened to my son — Friday 12 December 2014 10.41 EST
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Olivia Nuzzi / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden: 'I'll Kill Your Son' — In a speech Wednesday, the vice president recalled a moment from childhood when he ‘smashed [the] head’ of local bully—and then threatened to kill him. — Vice President Joe Biden said he once chased down a bully on his bicycle, physically assaulted him …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
In New Election, Another Bush Stakes Out the Middle Ground — WASHINGTON — When former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida quietly visited Senator John McCain in his Capitol Hill office this fall, discussion turned to a subject of increasing interest to Mr. Bush: how to run for president without pandering to the party's conservative base.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
“Blow Me” Domain Registered To Republican Congressman — The website could have been registered by Farenthold, or possibly as a prank by someone not associated with the Texas conservative. — Whoisology.com / Via whoisology.com — The website Blow-me.org is registered to Republican Texas …
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School shooting reported in North Portland; at least two victims — At least two people were shot at Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland on Friday. — A Portland Fire and Rescue officials said three people were transported to the hospital. Two of them are confirmed gunshot victims.
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
Leaked Emails Suggest Maureen Dowd Promised To Show Sony Exec's Husband Column Before Publication — The end result: kudos at the studio and an email from Dowd after it published saying, “you're amazing.” Update: Dowd says she didn't send an advance copy of the column.
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Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Michel du Cille, Post photojournalist who won Pulitzer three times, dies at 58 … Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients …
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Nonemployed: The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind — The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind — Many men aged 25 to 54 have decided that low-wage jobs will not improve their lives. Their absence from the work force has consequences for the nation.
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Geraldo's Latest Slogan Idea For Black Protesters: 'We're The Problem' — Fox News senior correspondent Geraldo Rivera advised black protestors on Friday to abandon the popularized “I can't breathe” slogan in favor of a new one: “We're the problem.” — Geraldo's comments were made during …
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
McCain says “most likely” running for re-election — Washington (CNN) — John McCain says he is “most likely” running for re-election in 2016, but is aware that he will be a top target for conservative groups gunning for establishment Republicans in primaries.
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Unease in New York After Garner Case; Challenge for de Blasio — Mayor Bill de Blasio rose to power promising a new era of cultural comity in New York City, generating big expectations that he could heal longstanding urban divisions over ethnicity, money and class.
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