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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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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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The Other McCain, ABC, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Shakesville, Outside the Beltway, Liberaland and Reuters
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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LeakSource, 9news.com.au, Washington Post, CNN, UPROXX, Hot Air, Mediaite and JustOneMinute
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, Associated Press, The Verge, Talking Points Memo, The Dish, Featured stories, NPR and Guardian
BBC:
Australia commandos end Sydney cafe siege
Australia commandos end Sydney cafe siege
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Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon, NPR and New York Magazine
NSW Police Online:
Critical incident established following Martin Place siege
Critical incident established following Martin Place siege
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Talking Points Memo
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
Russell Berman / The Atlantic Online:
Finally, a New Surgeon General — President Obama nominated Vivek Murthy to be U.S. surgeon general on November 13, 2013. The Senate health committee signed off on him in February. On Monday, one year, one month, and two days after his selection, the Senate is poised to confirm him to a post that has been vacant since July.
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Daily Kos and Capital New York
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Erik Telford / Washington Examiner:
Senate Republicans need to decide who their leader is
Senate Republicans need to decide who their leader is
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Washington Post, The Daily Caller and The Dish
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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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, Mediaite, 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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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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Mediaite, 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, Shakesville and thereporteronline.com
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, Jezebel and Liberaland
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, Outside the Beltway, NBC News, New Yorker, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Hit & Run and The Intercept
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
A Shooter, His Victim and Race — TAMPA, Fla. — IAN MANUEL is a black man who has spent most of his life in prison. Yet he still has a most unusual advocate calling for his release: a white woman whom he met when he shot her in the face. — Manuel fired the bullet when he was barely 13 …
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Guns.com and Joanne Jacobs
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
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Bill would require data on police killings — Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has introduced legislation requiring the Justice Department to collect data on how many people are killed by police officers. — Reliable data on police shootings due to “excessive force” is not available …
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Talking Points Memo
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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Wall Street Journal, The Dish, No More Mister Nice Blog and Mike the Mad Biologist
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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