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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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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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Washington Post, UPROXX 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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Telegraph, Informed Comment, The Dish, Associated Press, The Verge, Talking Points Memo, Featured stories, NPR and Guardian
Fox News:
Jihadist in Sydney standoff ID'd as Iranian sex assault, murder suspect as ordeal enters 15th hour
Jihadist in Sydney standoff ID'd as Iranian sex assault, murder suspect as ordeal enters 15th hour
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NBC News, CNN, Hot Air, Fox News Insider and The PJ Tatler
Nicholas McCallum / 9news.com.au:
LIVE STREAM: Eerie quiet settles over dramatic Sydney hostage scene
LIVE STREAM: Eerie quiet settles over dramatic Sydney hostage scene
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Washington Free Beacon
USA Today:
Sydney siege: Gunman issued demands, threats
Sydney siege: Gunman issued demands, threats
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The Daily Beast, Associated Press, NBC News, Michael J. Totten's blog, Guardian, ABC News, WTVR-TV, The Federalist, KFOR-TV, Hot Air, BBC, Scared Monkeys and American Spectator
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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JustOneMinute and ABC News
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
Dodd-Frank Damaged in the Budget Bill
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Washington Post and Financial Times
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, The Daily Caller and OnPolitics
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
Nick Ralston / Sydney Morning Herald:
Martin Place, Sydney siege gunman identified as Man Haron Monis — Siege hostage taker identified as Man Monis — The man who held more than a dozen people hostage, placing Sydney's CBD into lockdown is no stranger to the NSW police or the judiciary. — Self-described cleric …
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Michelle Innis / New York Times:
Sydney Hostage Siege Ends With Gunman and 2 Captives Dead 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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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, Prairie Weather, 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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The Daily Caller, The Dish, Slate, Mediaite, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Deadline, The Daily Beast, Guardian and Screen Rant, more at Mediagazer »
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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
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Tmrickert / CBS Philly:
Multiple People Reportedly Dead After Montgomery County Shootings
Multiple People Reportedly Dead After Montgomery County Shootings
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The Gateway Pundit, thereporteronline.com and Shakesville
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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Raw Story, Mediaite, Liberaland and Jezebel
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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Salon, Washington Monthly, NBC News, New Yorker, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog and Hit & Run
Randi Weingarten / Jezebel:
Rape Is Part of My Truth, and the Truth of Many Other Women — When Rolling Stone issued its retraction, my greatest fear was that we would once again have a curtain of silence, where young women feel too afraid to share their truth. And while I have no interest in reliving the experience …
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Talking Points Memo and Capital New York
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
The great campus rape hoax: Column
The great campus rape hoax: Column
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Betsy's Page, The Daily Caller and The College Fix
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
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Scalia and Cruel and Unusual Interrogation — In keeping with his recent habit of defiant ideological gestures, Justice Antonin Scalia has weighed in on the torture debate with an angry defense of “enhanced interrogation” as both constitutional and as within the American moral consensus …
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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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Washington Times, Hot Air, Politico, NBC News 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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press.nbcnews.com, New York Post, AOL Jobs, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Mediaite and FTVLive
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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The Dish, Wall Street Journal, Political Wire and Mike the Mad Biologist