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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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Michelle Innis / New York Times:
Police Storm Cafe to End Sydney Hostage Siege — SYDNEY, Australia — Heavily armed police officers ended a hostage siege in Sydney early Tuesday, storming a downtown cafe where an armed man said to be a self-proclaimed sheikh had held employees and customers for more than 16 hours.
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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.
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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Uber intros surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks after user outcry
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Matt Siegel / Reuters:
Hostages held in Sydney cafe, Islamic flag seen in window: local TV
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Nicholas McCallum / 9news.com.au:
LIVE STREAM: Hostages held up by armed gunman in Sydney cafe
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CBS News:
Sydney on tenterhooks as gunman holds hostages
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Fox News:
Five hostages escape siege by suspected jihadist in Sydney cafe
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Dan Good / ABC News:
5 Hostages Flee Sydney Cafe, Standoff Drags On
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BBC:
Sydney siege: Gunman takes hostages in Lindt cafe
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Bridie Jabour / Guardian:
Sydney siege: hostages held inside Martin Place cafe - live
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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 …
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Steve Inskeep / NPR:
‘Warning Shot’: Sen. Warren On Fighting Banks, And Her Political Future — Listen to the Story — Sen. Elizabeth Warren failed to stop a change in bank regulations last weekend, but she raised her profile yet again. — The Massachusetts Democrat tells NPR that her fight over a provision in a spending bill was a “warning shot.”
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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 …
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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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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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Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
NBC's Brian Williams stays true to news, with a new contract expected — Riding an Amtrak train from Washington, D.C., to New York last week, Brian Williams gets the greetings and nods of recognition from passengers expected for someone who has spent 10 years in the anchor chair at “NBC Nightly News.”
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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 …
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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.
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