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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:
Sydney Hostage Siege Ends as Police Storm Cafe — 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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Nick Ralston / Sydney Morning Herald:
Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Haron Monis
Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Haron Monis
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New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, NBC News, Jezebel, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, Gawker and Business Insider
ABC News:
Gunman Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis, Standoff Comes to an End
Gunman Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis, Standoff Comes to an End
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UPROXX, Washington Post and Hot Air
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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The Dish, Informed Comment, The Verge, NPR, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press and Guardian
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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ABC News:
Sydney Hostage Taker Identified as Man Haron Monis
Sydney Hostage Taker Identified as Man Haron Monis
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Fox News, Mediaite, National Review, The PJ Tatler and The Daily Caller
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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Washington Post, Daily Mail, BBC, Reuters, Gawker, Sydney Morning Herald, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Hot Air and BuzzFeed
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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Washington Post and Financial Times
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Elizabeth Warren poses a challenge to Hillary in 2016
Elizabeth Warren poses a challenge to Hillary in 2016
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CNN and Washington Post
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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Washington Post, OnPolitics and The Daily Caller
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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AMERICAblog News, Shakesville and Philly.com
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
What does Warren want? — She has a spot in Democratic leadership …
Washington Post:
Democrats divided on their path to 2016
Democrats divided on their path to 2016
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Power Line, The Hill, American Prospect, New York Post, The Daily Beast, Fox News, The Federalist and Hullabaloo
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
It's (Still) a TARP!
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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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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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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Washington Monthly, New Yorker, The Intercept, No More Mister Nice Blog, NBC News, New York Magazine and Hit & Run
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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Betsy's Page, The Daily Caller and The College Fix
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Randi Weingarten / Jezebel:
Rape Is Part of My Truth, and the Truth of Many Other Women
Rape Is Part of My Truth, and the Truth of Many Other Women
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Talking Points Memo and Capital New York
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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CBS Philly, thereporteronline.com, The Gateway Pundit, Liberaland 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.
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CANNONFIRE and The PJ Tatler
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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Washington Times, Hot Air, NBC News, Politico and Bloomberg Politics
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
Marquis Moore.jpg / PennLive.com:
Harrisburg man insulted by racial slur found on Zembie's receipt — Marquis Moore displays a Zembie's receipt containing a racial slur a bartender used to identify him with after he placed a to-go order at the Harrisburg bar Saturday night. … Marquis Moore was about to eat an order …
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Liberaland and Raw Story