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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 who was 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
Sydney siege: Gunman issued demands, threats
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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Uber intros surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks after user outcry
Uber intros surge pricing during Sydney hostage siege, then backtracks after user outcry
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ABC News:
Sydney Hostage Taker Identified as Man Haron Monis
Sydney Hostage Taker Identified as Man Haron Monis
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9news.com.au:
Hostage-taker named as radical Muslim cleric Man Haron Monis
Hostage-taker named as radical Muslim cleric Man Haron Monis
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Matt Siegel / Reuters:
Hostages held in Sydney cafe, Islamic flag seen in window: local TV
Hostages held in Sydney cafe, Islamic flag seen in window: local TV
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Daily Mail:
Terror in Sydney as gunman takes at least 13 hostages at Lindt cafe, forces crying women …
Terror in Sydney as gunman takes at least 13 hostages at Lindt cafe, forces crying women …
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ABC News, American Spectator and The Gateway Pundit
Nicholas McCallum / 9news.com.au:
LIVE STREAM: Hostages held up by armed gunman in Sydney cafe
LIVE STREAM: Hostages held up by armed gunman in Sydney cafe
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Bridie Jabour / Guardian:
Sydney siege: hostages held inside Martin Place cafe - live
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
‘Warning Shot’: Sen. Warren On Fighting Banks, And Her Political Future
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The Huffington Post:
The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States
The Speech That Could Make Elizabeth Warren the Next President of the United States
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Shakesville, AMERICAblog News and Philly.com
Washington Post:
Democrats divided on their path to 2016
Democrats divided on their path to 2016
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
What does Warren want? — She has a spot in Democratic leadership …
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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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Cleveland Cops Demand Apology For Browns Player's Tamir Rice Protest Shirt — A Cleveland police union has demanded that the Cleveland Browns football team apologize for a player who wore a T-shirt before Sunday's game protesting the police shootings of two black people.
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Plain Dealer, Business Insider and Hullabaloo
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Dick Cheney Defends the Torture of Innocents — When I was growing up, Americans thought of torture as a tactic used by history's villains. A brutal dictator might keep a depraved regime in power with torture. People in foreign countries might suffer inside torture chambers.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
2014 Answer of the Year — I hereby nominate Dick Cheney's answer …
2014 Answer of the Year — I hereby nominate Dick Cheney's answer …
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Power Line and No More Mister Nice Blog
John Bacon / Associated Press:
Report: Shooting spree leaves up to 5 dead in Philly suburbs — WPVI-TV reports that a gunman is barricaded in a house in Souderton, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Police were called after two people were found dead in a home. Three others were found shot to death in two other locations.
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Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit and FOX News Radio
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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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.
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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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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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Political Wire, The Dish, Wall Street Journal and Mike the Mad Biologist
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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