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11:25 AM ET, December 15, 2014

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CNN:
Sydney gunman reportedly demands ISIS flag as some hostages escape  —  Sydney (CNN) — Australia, and the world, looked on with dread Monday as a gunman holding hostages inside a darkened Sydney cafe demanded an ISIS flag and a phone call with Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
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USA Today:
Sydney siege: Gunman issued demands, threats  —  A hostage crisis at a central Sydney cafe dragged deep into the Australian night with a lone gunman issuing demands and claiming to have bombs scattered around the city, multiple media outlets were reporting Monday.
Michelle Innis / New York Times:
Police Storm Sydney Cafe in Attempt to End Hostage Crisis  —  Credit: Dean Lewins/European Pressphoto Agency  —  SYDNEY, Australia — Heavily armed police in Sydney stormed a cafe early Tuesday where an armed man said to be a self-proclaimed sheikh held hostages for more than 16 hours.
Matt Siegel / Reuters:
Hostages held in Sydney cafe, Islamic flag seen in window: local TV  —  (Reuters) - Hostages were being held inside a central Sydney cafe where a black flag with white Arabic writing could be seen in the window, local television showed on Monday, raising fears of an attack linked to Islamic militants.
Bridie Jabour / Guardian:
Sydney siege: hostages held inside Martin Place cafe - live
Discussion: Gawker and The Huffington Post
Fox News:
Five hostages escape siege by suspected jihadist in Sydney cafe
CNN:
Sydney on alert as hostages held at cafe in heart of city
Discussion: American Spectator
Daily Mail:
Terror in Sydney as gunman takes at least 13 hostages at Lindt cafe, forces crying women …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Daniel Fallon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lindt Chocolat Cafe hostage drama in Martin Place, Sydney
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Steve Inskeep / WBUR:
Sen. Warren Warns That Spending Bill Sets Dangerous Precedent  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. (right), a member of the Senate banking committee, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the House financial services committee, express their outrage to reporters …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Dodd-Frank Damaged in the Budget Bill  —  On Wall Street, 2010 was the year of “Obama rage,” in which financial tycoons went ballistic over the president's suggestion that some bankers helped cause the financial crisis.  They were also, of course, angry about the Dodd-Frank financial reform …
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:   What does Warren want?  —  She has a spot in Democratic leadership …
The Huffington Post:
The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and Philly.com
CBS News:
Most Americans consider waterboarding to be torture: poll  —  A barbed wire fence surrounds a military area is in the forest near Stare Kiejkuty village, close to Szczytno in Northeastern Poland, in this January 24, 2014 file photo.  Poland threatened to halt the transfer of al Qaeda suspects …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Torture and the Truth  —  It's hard to describe it as a positive development when a branch of the federal government releases a four-hundred-and-ninety-nine- page report that explains, in meticulous detail, how unthinkable cruelty became official U.S. policy.
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New York Times:
Brennan Draws on Bond With Obama in Backing C.I.A.
Discussion: New Yorker
Aaron Sorkin / New York Times:
Journalists Shouldn't Help the Sony Hackers  —  “Jolie a ‘Spoiled Brat’ From ‘Crazyland,’ ” says The New York Post.  —  “Shocking New Reveals From Sony Hack,” says The Daily Beast.  —  “Sony's Hacked Emails Highlight Hollywood's Problems With Diversity,” says The Huffington Post.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sen. Thune: Not closing door on 2016 run  —  Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) isn't ruling out a 2016 bid for the White House.  —  Republicans have an enormous field of potential candidates who are already making moves ahead of 2016.  But Thune told The Hill he hasn't been focused on building …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
The great campus rape hoax: Column  —  The truth - that rape on campus is becoming less common - doesn't fit the left's narrative.  —  Americans have been living through an enormously sensationalized college rape hoax, but as the evidence accumulates it's becoming clear that the entire thing …
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Rove: CIA's Waterboarding Not Torture Like Japanese War Crimes Because We Raised Detainee's Legs  —  Republican strategist and former senior advisor to President George W. Bush argued on Sunday that the CIA's use of waterboarding on detainees could not be considered torture because it was “designed” to let the victim live.
Discussion: Booman Tribune and FOX News Radio
Mark Bittman / New York Times:
Is It Bad Enough Yet?  —  THE police killing unarmed civilians.  Horrifying income inequality.  Rotting infrastructure and an unsafe “safety net.”  An inability to respond to climate, public health and environmental threats.  A food system that causes disease.  An occasionally dysfunctional and even cruel government.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
 
 
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